Alabama man who told Fani Willis to ‘look over his shoulder’ over Trump’s impeachment claims he ‘didn’t know’ he was threatening anyone, could face prison time

An Alabama man recently pleaded guilty to sending threatening voicemails to Fulton County officials every week before Georgia announced an election interference indictment against former President Donald Trump.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on August 6, 2023, Arthur Ray Hanson II, 58, called the Fulton County government hotline and left voicemails with District Attorney Fani Willis and Sheriff Pat Labat. These conversations took place as news began to emerge that the county was preparing to drop the indictment against Trump and a number of other co-conspirators.

According to court records, in voicemails to Willis he said, “When you’re accusing Trump of the fourth indictment, whenever you’re alone, look over your shoulder.”

In a message to Labat, Hanson said: “If you’re taking an image of the president and you’re the explanation, something bad (expletive) will occur to you.

Willis is the lead prosecutor in a sweeping RICO indictment that accuses Trump and greater than a dozen others of trying to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

The Labat Sheriff’s Office recorded and processed Trump and his alleged co-conspirators and took a mugshot of him. Labat publicly commented that anyone charged within the indictment could be jailed and have their mugshot taken, per standard protocol.

“I didn’t know I was threatening anyone,” Hanson told a federal judge on Tuesday. – reports AJC.

A federal grand jury indicted Hanson in October 2023 on charges of creating interstate threats by telephone. He pleaded guilty in court this week and told the judge overseeing his hearing that the Trump investigation made him offended, then made phone calls hoping authorities would back down.

“I made a stupid call,” an insurance salesman from Huntsville, Alabama, said in court. “I’m not a violent person.”

Prosecutors said they’d seek leniency for Hanson because he expressed remorse and took responsibility for his actions. The verdict will probably be delivered at a later date.