Judge In Trump’s Election Interference Case Reportedly Targeted With ‘Swatting’ Call

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal election interference case in Washington, D.C., appears to have been targeted by a “swatting” call, in which police were falsely led to believe there was a shooting at her home.

At about 10 p.m. Sunday, the Metropolitan Police Department responded to a report of an active shooting at a house in Washington. Officers quickly “determined no shooting took place,” according to a police report obtained by HuffPost.

NBC News revealedon Monday that the home belongs to Chutkan. The judge was at home alone when officers arrived but “was not injured” during the police response, according to the MPD report.

It remains unclear who made the emergency call. The incident appears to be an act of “swatting,” or falsely reporting a crime to prompt a heavy and tactical police response (such as by a SWAT team) to a specific location, putting everyone involved at risk.

Although police didn’t identify a motive for the call, it came not long after Chutkan denied Trump’s request for immunity in the election interference case that’s set to begin March 4 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability,” she wrote in her ruling last month .

Trump has repeatedly taken public jabs at Chutkan in front of more than 6 million followers on Truth Social, his own social media platform. He called her a “true Trump hater,” in all capital letters, in October and claimed that she would not be able to preside over a fair trial against him, according to ABC News .

Judges across the nation have faced a deluge of threats since the 2020 election, when Trump began spreading