Texas woman charged with threatening judge in Trump special master case

A detailed property inventory of documents and other items seized from former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is seen after the document was released to the public by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in West Palm Beach, Florida, September 2, 2022.

A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge presiding over the dispute between Donald Trump and the Department of Justice.

An FBI special agent said that a woman from Houston left three threatening voicemails on the phone of a judge in Florida.

According to excerpts of the calls included in the complaint, Gish claimed to be in charge of nuclear, a federal agent and a Trump hitman.

The name Gish is similar to that of the main character in the filmSalt.

The complaint shows that Gish said that Trump and you are both marked for assassination. I'm going to have you shoot yourself. Gish is accused of saying in the voicemails that he had ordered a bomb to the house.

The complaint said that Gish only spoke through a balcony window when the agents came to her house. According to the complaint, Gish admitted in the interview that she left the voicemails on her cellphone and that she had a Facebook account with posts that echoed the language of the voicemails.

Gish was charged with one count of influencing a federal official by threat and one count of interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or harm.

The judge said that Gish appeared to suffer from severe mental impairments with symptoms including paranoia and delusions.

A federal prosecutor had asked for a competency examination of Gish, writing in a court filing that her "past conduct shows delusional conduct where she claimed to be a CIA agent, a Navy Seal, an Army Ranger, and someone familiar with nuclear weapons or war."

According to the court filing, a U.S. Secret Service agent called Gish's mother in March and claimed that her daughter was suffering from Bi-Polar disorder.

Although she did not feel that Gish would hurt the Former President, she was still afraid of her daughter and refused to see her.

There will be a competency hearing on Tuesday. CNBC asked attorneys for Gish if they would respond.

The former president's lawyers and the DOJ argued about whether the judge should appoint a special master to review the thousands of government records seized from Trump's Florida home. The seized records would be examined by a court-appointed independent third party.

Cannon gave the go-ahead for the appointment of a master. The DOJ is appealing Cannon's ruling that a special master is unnecessary. Cannon's order blocking the government from further reviewing documents that were taken in the raid has been requested by the department.

Cannon was urged to reject that request.