‘You are in our sights’: Woman who threatened to kill Trump Jan. 6 judge won’t be sitting ‘on her couch daily watching the news’ for a while

Donald Trump and Tanya Chutkin and Abigail Jo Shry

Inset: Abigail Jo Shry (Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office). Left: President-elect Donald Trump speaks as he arrives for a meeting with the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon). Right: This undated photo provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shows U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts via AP, File).

Abigail Jo Shry and her roughly 1,600 co-defendants received a pardon from President Donald Trump for their roles in the Jan. 6 riots. But Shry, 44, is not out of the woods yet as she’s still facing sentencing for threatening the federal judge who handled Trump’s Jan. 6 case as well as a U.S. Representative in a racist voice message, according to authorities.

In November, Shry pleaded guilty to transmission in interstate commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Court records show she is slated to be sentenced on May 5 in the Southern District of Texas. Her lawyer declined to comment to CBS News.

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On Aug. 5, 2023, Shry called the chambers of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was in charge of former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C., for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election, and left a message on the voicemail, according to a federal complaint. Per the feds, Shry started by saying, “Hey you stupid slave n—-” and proceeded to threaten anyone who went after Trump along with all Democrats in Washington, D.C., and all LGBTQ people. She also threatened Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died earlier this year.

Shry made the following statements:

  • “You are in our sights, we want to kill you.”
  • “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b—-.”
  • “You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it.”

Since she used her cellphone, Department of Homeland Security agents easily tracked her to her home in Alvin, which is the Houston area, a couple of days after the call. Shry admitted to leaving the message on Chutkan’s voicemail. But she said she had no intention of traveling to Washington, D.C., or Houston to carry out any of her threats. But she said if Lee would travel to Alvin, then “we need to worry.” Cops then took her into custody.

During her plea hearing, she reportedly said she thought the statements she made in the message were protected by the First Amendment.

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