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so just hours before closing arguments, the judge overseng donald trump's new york fraud trial was targeted and what is called a swatting incident, and if you are unfamiliar with that term, swatting is a type of harassment where a person makes a false report to authorities, oftentimes the police or local law enforcement, in order to bait those police, or perhaps even a s.w.a.t. team, to respond to someone's house. judge arthur engoron is now the third figure who has tied to donald trump's to legal case to be targeted by swatting in recent days. police responded last week to a false report of a shooting at the home of u.s. district court judge tanya chutkan, who's over seeing trump's election interference case. on christmas day, the special counsel, jack smith, he was

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CNN This Morning Weekend

and that they had somebody else tied up. >> reporter: and burt jones, both police say targs of a dangerous trend on the rise called swatting. it is a hoax where a caller makes a call triggering a large police response with armed officers. like the one georgia state senator clint dixon experienced when he was swatted on christmas day. >> i went to the front door and answered the door and was met by six officers that were carrying ars. >> reporter: marjorie taylor greene was targeted the same day. the police report said the caller told an emergency dispatcher he shot his girlfriend and greene's home was the scene of the crime. >> the intent is to harass the individual subject of the swatting call but there are

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Alex Wagner Tonight

letitia james, alvin bragg, and fani willis, over a narration about the final battle against the marxists. all of those people have received threats, and yet donald trump continues to rile his supporters up against them. special counsel, jack smith, was swatted on christmas day. that means someone called 9-1-1, and on this call, they said that jack smith had shot his wife. it was, of course, not true. this sunday, judge tanya chutkan was swatted. she was the judge overseeing the federal election interference case. yesterday, news broke that someone had called in a bomb threat to the home of judge arthur engoron, the judge overseeing trump's new york civil fraud case. over and over and over again, repeated rhetoric, repeated threats, and the danger just keeps increasing. that is the pot we have all been slowly boiling in. after donald trump's repeated exhortation's about violence,

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Alex Wagner Tonight

special counsel, jack smith, was swatted on christmas day. that means someone called 9-1-1, and on this call, they said that jack smith had shot his wife. it was, of course, not true. this sunday, judge tanya chutkan was swatted. she was the judge overseeing the federal election interference case. yesterday, news broke that someone had called in a bomb threat to the home of judge arthur engoron, the judge overseeing trump's new york civil fraud case. over and over and over again, repeated rhetoric, repeated threats, and the danger just keeps increasing. that is the pot we have all been slowly boiling in. after donald trump's repeated exhortation's about violence, the threat of violence has followed. and now, we just sort of expect, i guess, that holding people in accountable for their actions that doing that is fundamentally risky. especially when one of those people is donald trump which is why i think this next story

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Alex Wagner Tonight

rushing to judge engoron's house. someone had called and a bomb threat. there wasn't actually a judge -- bomb in that judges home. that is something known as swatting. calling and a fake crime to illicit massive police response, in order to secure someone. you might remember the same thing happened to the judge overseeing trump's federal election indifference case. police and fire trucks swarmed her house on sunday night after someone called in a fake shooting. someone tried to every thing to jack smith on christmas day. but still, donald trump lashes out at all of them. he vilifies them. and he believes that he is above the law. he is not. and today's case, the attorney general, look at james, is calling for donald trump to pay at 370 million dollar fine so he doesn't keep any of the profit from his fraud.

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Alex Wagner Tonight

in order to secure someone. you might remember the same thing happened to the judge overseeing trump's federal election indifference case. police and fire trucks swarmed her house on sunday night after someone called in a fake shooting. someone tried to every thing to jack smith on christmas day. but still, donald trump lashes out at all of them. he vilifies them. and he believes that he is above the law. he is not. and today's case, the attorney general, look at james, is calling for donald trump to pay at 370 million dollar fine so he doesn't keep any of the profit from his fraud. >> at the end of the day, the point is simple. no matter how powerful you are, no matter how rich you are, no one is above the law. and the law applies to all of us. equally and fairly.

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Alex Wagner Tonight

someone. you might remember the same thing just happened to the judge overseeing trump's federal election interference case. police and fire trucks swarmed her house sunday night after someone called in a fake shooting. someone tried to do the very same thing to special counsel jack smith on christmas day. but still donald trump lashes out at all of them. he vilifies them. and he believes that he is above the law. he is not. in today's case the attorney general, letitia james, is calling for donald trump and his business to pay a $370 million fine so that he doesn't keep any of the profit from his fraud. >> at the end of the day the point is simple. no matter how powerful you are, no matter how rich you are, that no one is above the law and that the law applies to all of us

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CNN This Morning

police say the threat was unfounded and it was a swatting incident. you're hearing that a lot more these days. swatting is the dangerous practice where fake emergency calls were made, that cause s.w.a.t teams to show up at homes. they have seen an uptick in the disturbing trend. cnn's rene marsh has more. >> they claimed that i had shot my wife. >> ohio's attorney general dave yost. >> they had shot their spouse and that they had somebody else tied up. >> and georgia lieutenant governor burt jones, both police say, targets of a dangerous trend on the rise called swatting. it's a hoax where the caller makes a panicked false report to 911 about a violent crime in progress at their target's home. triggering a large police response with armed officers like the one georgia state senator clint dixon experienced when he says he was swatted on christmas day. >> i went to the front door and opened the door and answered the door and was met by six officers

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it's been seeing a huge spike in this trend. rene marsh has more. >> they claimed that i had shot my wife. >> ohio's attorney general -- >> they had shot their and the lieutenant governor both targets of a dangerous trend on the rise called swatting. it's a hoax where they make false reports to 911 about a violent crime in progress at their target's home triggering a large police response with armed officers. like the one dixon experienced says he was swatted on christmas day. >> i opened the door and they threw the door and was met by six officers that were carrying

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All In With Chris Hayes

hostages. in tennessee, a six-year-old grandfather died of a heart attack one another one of these hoax swatting calls led police to his home with guns drawn. and now two of the most prominent figures in osecution of donald trump, the judge overseeing his federal election interference case, tanya chutkan, and special counsel jack smith, have been targets of this swatting. on sunday night, police and fire trucks showed up at the home of judge chutkan in response to a false report of a shooting that was called there. on christmas day, it happened to jack smith, when someone called 9-1-1 and said that he had shot his wife. police were on the way to smith's home when u.s. marshals who are protecting smith's family, told police it was a false alarm that everyone inside the home was safe. so, luckily, no one was hurt in other incidents. but even if everyone was safe, this type of targeting results in a certainty of intense disruption of the lives of not only individuals involved, but

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