Texas police has arrested last week the woman who allegedly made death threats against the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s court fight over national security documents the FBI seized from his Florida resort.
A federal criminal complaint says that Tiffani Shea Gish of Houston left a series of threatening messages left on the voicemail of the US District Judge Aileen Cannon, telling her she was marked for assassination and that she planned to shoot her in front of her family.
The criminal complaint says that US marshals identified Gish by tracing her cellphone number.
Judge Cannon is presiding over Trump’s court case in Florida against the Justice Department and is handling Trump’s request for a special master to review documents and other items from Mar-a-Lago the FBI seized last month.
Gish admitted to federal marshals that she had left the threatening voicemails in which she also claimed to be in charge of nuclear for the US and that she has a license to kill working for Trump as his hitman, identifying herself as a federal agent named “Evelyn Salt”, as the spy character played by Angelina Jolie in the 2010 movie “Salt.”
She also claimed to be an Army Ranger, a CIA agent, and a Navy SEAL and threatened public officials such as former State Secretary Hillary Clinton while back in 2021, she offered the CIA on several occasions un-credible, nonsensical information related to nuclear weapons.
Back in March, Gish’s mother told Secret Service agents that she is borderline schizophrenic with a history of delusional conduct and also suffers from severe bipolar disorder.
Gish is due in court in Houston today for a hearing on the government’s request for a mental competency exam.
Despite Gish’s attorney arguing that she hadn’t acted on any of her threats, US Magistrate Judge Peter Bray of Houston ordered that she’d be held pending trial on charges of influencing a federal official by threat and one count of interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure.
Judge Bray found the threats themselves to be harmful because they’ve placed the victim in fear and caused distress and apprehension.
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