The campaign against French and his family was vicious. Twitter trolls bombarded him with death threats. They flooded the internet with messages accusing French’s wife, Nancy, an outspoken survivor of sexual assault, of sleeping with groups of Black men during his deployment to Iraq. They photoshopped images of his youngest daughter, who’d been adopted from Ethiopia, inside a gas chamber (Trump, depicted in a Nazi SS uniform, was shown with his finger on the ignition button). The specter of physical violence was inescapable.
