Threatening the judge in the 2020 federal elections subversion case. Also, georgia d a fani willis, as a trial date for donald trump, it is alleged coconspirators. How will it fit with the other three criminal trials hes facing in the middle of a president ial campaign . Plus, a live report from maui, where the governor says the death toll has risen in probably over 1000 people could still be missing. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin with two pieces of Breaking News tonight. The first, weve just learned, of charges in texas connected with alleged threats against judge chutkan, obviously presiding over the 2020 Election Subversion Trial of the former president. According to the court filing, the woman who lives in alvin, texas left a threatening, racist, bigoted voice mail for judge chutkan on august 5th. Allegedly saying if trump doesnt get elected, quote, were coming to kill you, tread lightly. And then a curse. She allegedly continued, quote, youll be targeted personally
mccarthy for- us to get contributions desantis s campaign in 2021. according to the indictment, letter to santos, the campaign, it wrote, quote, faking my identity to a big donor, high risk, high reward and in everything i do. cnn s omar jimenez. i don t know how dumb you have to be to actually put that into a text into a letter. a letter. so, how did this fund-raiser for congressman santos allegedly impersonate kevin mccarthy? this is someone who worked for congressman santos in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles. his name is sam neely. he allegedly sought a contributions from over a dozen potential contributors, pretending to be a top aide to house speaker kevin mccarthy. and as you just talked about, and he likely was bragging about it, sending a letter to santos saying, i m taking my name to a big donor, i am a high risk high reward kind of guy, now here we are with an indictment, seems like he got cocked up in the high risk part of.