A Texas woman who allegedly left a series of threatening messages on the voicemail of a federal judge overseeing one of former President Donald Trump’s Florida court battles was arrested last week, according to court documents.
Tiffani Shea Gish, of Houston, left three voicemails for Aileen Cannon, a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida who was nominated by Trump in 2020, according to court documents. Cannon is handling the former President’s request for a special master to review documents and other items the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month.
In the voicemails, Gish threatened to kill Cannon in front of her family for “helping” the former president, court documents state.
“Donald Trump has long been impeached and framed for murder. You’re helping him, ma’am,” Guice reportedly said in one of the voicemails.
“He’s marked for murder and so are you,” he said, according to court documents, telling Cannon to “stand down or be shot.”
In other messages, Gish, who identified herself in the messages as “Evelyn Salt,” said she was “in charge of nuclear for the United States government” and claimed Trump had some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Gish faces two federal charges, including influencing a federal official by threat and interstate communications with the threat of kidnapping or injury. He has yet to enter a formal plea, and an attorney for Gish did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Investigators traced Gish’s cellphone number and interviewed her from the window of her Houston home, and she admitted to leaving the voicemails, according to court documents.
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of previous threats Gish had made toward Trump, prosecutors say.
Federal officials have seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats since the Mar-a-Lago investigation last month, CNN reported. Violent threats have surfaced online against Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the biography and contact information of the federal judge who signed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago had to be removed from a Florida court’s website because of threats.
FBI officials also reported an “unprecedented” number of threats and that individual agents involved in the investigation faced doxing attempts, law enforcement sources told CNN.
