{"id":103080,"date":"2025-11-13T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103080"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:01:00","slug":"woman-gets-over-2-years-in-prison-for-threatening-call-to-judge-in-trumps-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103080","title":{"rendered":"Woman gets over 2 years in prison for threatening call to judge in Trump\u2019s criminal case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Texas woman who made violent threats in a voicemail left with the federal judge who oversaw the since-dismissed criminal election subversion case against President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0was sentenced on Wednesday to 27 months in prison.<\/p>\n

Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison in Houston after admitting last year she had threatened to kill anyone who went after Trump in a 2023 voicemail left with the chambers of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that in her voicemail, Shry, 45, used a racist slur to address Chutkan, who is Black, and threatened to kill U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat who subsequently\u00a0died\u00a0in July 2024, other Democrats and members of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump doesn\u2019t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, bitch,\u201d Shry said in the voicemail, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

WOMAN PLEADED GUILTY<\/h2>\n

She placed her call on August 5, 2023, just days after Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s election-subversion case was unsealed, charging Trump with conspiring to obstruct the collection and certification of votes following his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020\u2019s presidential election. Trump denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The effort by Trump and his allies to reverse his electoral loss culminated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol following a fiery speech by Trump near the White House.<\/p>\n

The case was assigned to Chutkan, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama. After Trump was reelected in November 2024, she\u00a0dismissed\u00a0the case at the request of prosecutors, who cited a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.<\/p>\n

Shry\u2019s call was not the only threat Chutkan faced while overseeing Trump\u2019s case. In January, she was the victim of an\u00a0apparent \u201cswatting\u201d call\u00a0falsely reporting a shooting at her home, prompting a police response.<\/p>\n

Shry, in pleading guilty, acknowledged making the threat but said she thought it constituted freedom of speech and that she had no intention of carrying through with her threats.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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