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False right-wing reports about Trump trial jury instructions fuel threats against judge

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The full jury instructions are up verbatim on the New York Courts website for the People v Donald J. Trump (Criminal) case.
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People%20v.%20DJT%20Jury%20Instructions%20and%20Charges%20FINAL%205-23-24.pdf
If you are one of the people believing stupid rightwing misinformation over reading the actual document, I don’t know what to tell you.
- If I'm one of those people, I'm too lazy to read contrary information and possibly not smart enough to understand it anyway. I just think what the people entertaining me tell me to think.
  
  Are you the fucking moron I argue with on my Facebook? Cause that's exactly what he does.
  
  No you don't have to go that far. They'll just claim it's false news. I've had these conversations before. Every single source is unreliable and biased. Every single video is altered. Everything is fake. That's their bread and butter.
- Too dumb to read about it themselves and also too dumb to consider false instruction would actually help Trump.
This is what happens when we no longer give sanctity to Truth. Everyone gets to just make up and believe whatever nonsense they want. It’s a shame so many are so stupid
- Agreed. If someone provides proof that I’m wrong, I’ll thank them for the correction. Many treat correction as a personal attack, likely from building their identity around their political alignment.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — False reports about the jury instructions in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial have been spreading across right-wing media, leading to threats against the judge overseeing the case.
In response to inaccurate reporting that Trump could be convicted without unanimous agreement that he committed a crime, one user on Gab, a site popular with far-right extremists, said Wednesday it was "time to find out where that judge lives and protest as the left calls it."
Another user who identified himself as a Marine replied: "Let me handle the Justice System & be judge & Prosecutor, Immediate trial & Justifiable Punishments handed out, Funeral Directors get ready for a lot of Democratic Socialist Elites coming your way.”
Trump continued making social media posts about the jury instructions on Thursday morning, quoting a Fox News commentator who called the Trump prosecution "an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ case with a Mad Hatter judge" where the "cherished principles of fairness" had been turned upside down.
Even right-wing former FBI special agents who have called for the bureau to be abolished pushed back on the false narrative, calling the FBI use of force language "boilerplate" and showing frustration that viral misinformation on the right had forced them to be in the position of looking like they were defending the bureau.
Attorney General Merrick Garland last week called the lies about the use-of-force policy "false" and "extremely dangerous" and pointed out that the same standard operations plan was used in the search of Biden's own home (yet did not lead to conspiracy theories that Biden planned to have himself assassinated.)
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