{"id":141,"date":"2023-12-26T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/26\/protests-threats-and-swatting-bring-politics-to-homes-of-us-public-figures\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T16:55:04","slug":"protests-threats-and-swatting-bring-politics-to-homes-of-us-public-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/26\/protests-threats-and-swatting-bring-politics-to-homes-of-us-public-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests, threats and swatting bring politics to homes of US public figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene said hoaxer tried to trigger police response while Colorado justices who ruled against Trump face threats<\/p>\n<p>The political became personal over the Christmas holiday as the homes of politicos and judges were targeted by threats, protests and \u201cswatting\u201d hoaxes by pranksters who call in fake emergencies to authorities in the hopes of prompting a forceful police response.<\/p>\n<p>A swatting hoax targeted the Republican congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/nov\/26\/marjorie-taylor-greene-mtg-book-review\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>. Authorities said they were investigating threats against the Colorado supreme court justices who ruled that Trump could not appear on the state\u2019s ballots in the 2024 presidential election because he incited an insurrection on the day of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/26\/politician-threats-protest-marjorie-taylor-greene-supreme-court-colorado\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene said hoaxer tried to trigger police response while Colorado justices who ruled against Trump face threats The political became personal over the Christmas holiday as the homes of politicos and judges were targeted by threats, protests and \u201cswatting\u201d hoaxes by pranksters who call in fake emergencies to authorities in the hopes of &#8230; <a title=\"Protests, threats and swatting bring politics to homes of US public figures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/26\/protests-threats-and-swatting-bring-politics-to-homes-of-us-public-figures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Protests, threats and swatting bring politics to homes of US public figures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}