{"id":440,"date":"2026-05-26T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:37:22","slug":"mob-boss-trumps-threats-to-mobilize-his-mob-are-escalating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Mob boss Trump&#8217;s threats to mobilize his mob are escalating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\tShortly after the 2016 election, I spoke with a Republican friend who had retired from the Senate years before. I asked him why so many Republican lawmakers remained silent in the face of Trump\u2019s vile lies and bigotry.<br \/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=438\">Supercut shows \u2018dumbest man on the internet\u2019 making one failed Iran prediction after another<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter a pause, he said, \u201cSome of his supporters are nuts, and they have guns.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI laughed, thinking he was joking. He was dead serious. \u201cThey\u2019re a dangerous mob, and Trump\u2019s the mob boss,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI remember thinking he should call them out and denounce their threats of violence, as well as Trump. But I didn\u2019t feel I had a right to ask him to put himself and his family in harm\u2019s way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYet in retrospect, perhaps I was wrong. If all Republican lawmakers had denounced Trump and his supporters\u2019 tactics right from the start, maybe we wouldn\u2019t be where we are today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA failure to condemn political violence when it begins invites more of it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn January 6, 2021, Trump\u2019s armed mob stormed the Capitol. Trump waited more than three hours before calling them off.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTrump\u2019s threats continue to this day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCNN recently aired<br \/>\n\taudio of the kind of threats faced by Republican lawmakers who opposed Jim Jordan, Trump\u2019s original pick for House speaker before Mike Johnson. In the audio, the caller can be heard threatening to harass an unnamed lawmaker\u2019s wife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSome Republican lawmakers voted against Jordan nonetheless, but we will never know how many others caved in to intimidation. Nor will we know how many ultimately voted for Mike Johnson because they were afraid not to.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRetiring Sen. Mitt Romney recounted (in McKay Coppins\u2019s new Romney biography) that during Trump\u2019s January 23, 2021, impeachment for incitement of insurrection, a member of the Republican Senate leadership was leaning toward voting to convict Trump. But after several other senators expressed concern about their personal safety and that of their children, the senator in question voted to acquit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFormer Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney<br \/>\n\tsaid that in that impeachment vote, \u201cthere were members who told me that they were afraid for their own security \u2014 afraid, in some instances, for their lives.\u201d She cited how \u201cmembers of Congress aren\u2019t able to cast votes, or feel that they can\u2019t, because of their own security.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen announcing his retirement, former Republican congressman Anthony Gonzalez<br \/>\n\tcited threats to him and his family after his vote in favor of Trump\u2019s impeachment. Gonzalez was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. In September 2021, Gonzalez announced he would not seek another term.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFormer Republican congressman Peter Meijer, another of the 10, stated the day after the vote that he had purchased body armor and made changes to his daily schedule due to threats against his life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMeijer also noted that his colleagues who voted not to certify the 2020 election \u201cknew in their heart of hearts that they should\u2019ve voted to certify, but some had legitimate concerns about the safety of their families.<br \/>\n\tThey felt that that vote would put their families in danger.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=436\">Trump fuels mental health speculation after appearing to post private message<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania state Senate explained why he signed a letter backing Trump\u2019s attempt to overturn the results in that state: \u201cIf I would say to you, \u2018I don\u2019t want to do it,\u2019<br \/>\n\tI\u2019d get my house bombed tonight.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTrump has been analogized to the leader of a cult. A better analogy would be a mob boss.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe lackeys of mob bosses commit crimes on their behalf so the bosses aren\u2019t held responsible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLast week, on his first day of testimony in the case underway in Manhattan accusing Trump of civil fraud, Trump\u2019s former fixer, Michael Cohen, recounted committing crimes on the former president\u2019s behalf.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThree of Trump\u2019s lawyers in the Georgia criminal case against him have already pleaded guilty to racketeering charges \u2014 that is, committing the crimes on Trump\u2019s behalf.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMeanwhile, Trump continues to hurl invective against judges, prosecutors, and prospective witnesses in his pending criminal trials \u2014 gag orders notwithstanding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn seeking such gag orders, prosecutors have shown a pattern of death threats following Trump\u2019s outbursts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor example, on August 4, Trump posted, \u201cIF YOU GO AFTER ME, I\u2019M COMING AFTER YOU!\u201d The following day, a Texas woman left a voicemail for Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the election conspiracy case against Trump,<br \/>\n\tthreatening that \u201cIf Trump doesn\u2019t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe next day, a man left a voicemail<br \/>\n\tthreatening the lives of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Sheriff Patrick Labat for their roles in the Georgia criminal election interference case against Trump.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThreats and intimidation are hallmarks of mob bosses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMob rule is incompatible with democracy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRep. Liz Cheney<br \/>\n\twarned a few weeks ago that if Trump is reelected, \u201call of the things he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people around him \u2026 he will do. There will be no guardrails \u2026 . He will unravel the institutions of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=434\">People can\u2019t stop skewering dubious Trump claim that war is \u201995 percent done\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the 2016 election, I spoke with a Republican friend who had retired from the Senate years before. 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