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Texas woman arrested for threatening judge in Trump, DOJ search dispute

Federal agents Monday arrested a Texas woman for allegedly calling and threatening US District Court for the Southern District of Florida judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon currently oversees former President Donald Trump’s legal disputes around documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence and appointed a special master to review documents in the case on September 5. According to an FBI affidavit, Tiffani Shea Gish of Houston, Texas, called and left several threatening Cannon’s chamber telephone while posing as an “Evelyn Salt.”

Gish is charged with influencing a federal official by threat and interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure. The affidavit details three voicemails left on Cannon’s chamber phone on September 1. Only days before Gish left the voicemails on Cannon’s phone, Cannon ordered the DOJ to respond to Trump’s motion to appoint a special master to oversee the seized material. Through a public internet search and phone records, the FBI located Gish. FBI agents went to Gish’s residence, where Gish admitted to leaving the voicemails from a phone which no one else had access to.

The DOJ alleges that the documents seized from the Mar-a-Lago residence were classified and should not have been in Trump’s personal possession. On September 9, the department filed a notice to appeal Cannon’s decision to appoint a special master to the case.