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Trump supporters attack U.S.-based Nigerian Esther Udoji for serving on grand jury that indicted ex-president

Mr Trump’s supporters have not taken the news of his indictment well since it was handed down on Wednesday.

• August 18, 2023
Trump and Esther Udoji
Trump and Esther Udoji

Donald Trump’s supporters have unleashed vitriol against Esther Udoji, a Nigerian-American radiologist, who was among 23 jurors that indicted the former U.S. president on felony racketeering related to his efforts to reverse Georgia’s results in the 2020 presidential election.

Mr Trump’s supporters have not taken the news of his indictment well since it was handed down on Wednesday, as they have begun doxxing the jurors whose majority votes favoured the indictment.

Doxxing is a situation where a person’s private information is released on social media without their consent, and since the list of the grand jury was made public in accordance with Georgia law, it didn’t take the ex-president’s supporters too long to dig up its members’ addresses.

“MAGAs posting the grand jurors addresses online,” The Hill quoted a Truth Social user on Thursday. “I see a swift bullet to the head if, and when, somebody shows up at their homes.”

Purported addresses of all 23 jurors were posted on an online platform with threats to attack them.

“Everyone on that jury should be hung,” another social media user wrote on an online forum.

The racial slurs and threats directed towards Ms Udoji, an Atlanta-based radiologist, came from diehard supporters who aren’t considering the possibility that the Nigerian-American may have even voted against the indictment.

No one knows how she voted on the jury, which only required a majority to return an indictment, rather than a unanimous decision.

But since she’s number 22 of the 23 jurors who decided that there was probable cause to charge Mr Trump, the former president’s supporters thought all members of the grand jury were fair game in the politically-charged case.

That Mr Trump is turning a blind eye to the dangerous threats has only emboldened his rabid supporters to keep bullying jurors and anyone perceived as his political adversary.

Law enforcement agents are already on top of the threats and have begun tracing their origins, according to Natalie Ammons, communications director for the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

“We take this matter very seriously and are coordinating with our law enforcement partners to respond quickly to any credible threat and to ensure the safety of those individuals who carried out their civic duty,” The Hill quoted Ms Ammons as saying.

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