Fanone was abducted by the mob on Jan. 6 and nearly killed when a MAGA-hatted rioter who believed Trump's lies about the 2020 election drove a stun gun into his neck.

Fanone was abducted by the mob on Jan. 6 and nearly killed when a MAGA-hatted rioter who believed Trump’s lies about the 2020 election drove a stun gun into his neck.

Michael Fanone, a former police officer who was nearly killed by a mob during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, spoke outside the courthouse during closing arguments in Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday, calling Trump “an authoritarian” with “a violence fetish.”

Hours later, Fanone’s mother was “swatted” at her home in Virginia.

On Tuesday, a fake “manifesto” attributed to Fanone was sent to a number of email addresses, including some associated with a high school that Fanone attended for a year more than two decades ago. The “manifesto,” viewed by NBC News, claimed that the writer had killed their mother and planned to go to the recipient’s school Wednesday and shoot more people. It provided Fanone’s mother’s home address.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
    43·
    6 months ago

    The other day, at the libertarian convention, some MAGA hats went and harassed other participants who were calling Trump authoritarian. It’s amazing how they’ll just go and take denunciations of their nature as a challenge to enact it, unable to see that they’re actually harming themselves.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      A libertarian convention sounds like it would have been so chill before like 2016. Maybe my views of the past are a little naive though.

      EDIT: I thought they said librarian…