1/6 rioter pardoned by Trump arrested for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
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Susan Collins must find this kind of thing truly inexplicable:
A New York man who was convicted of charges related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack was arrested Sunday on a charge that he threatened to kill Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
According to New York State Police, an anonymous source told the FBI that the man, Christopher Moynihan, had said on Friday that “in a few days, he would kill Congressman Jeffries in New York City for ‘the future,’” court records say.
Moynihan was previously sentenced to nearly two years in prison for his participation in the Capitol attack after being convicted of obstructing an official proceeding, disorderly conduct in a restricted area, and other, similar charges.
President Donald Trump pardoned Moynihan — along with others convicted of January 6 offenses — earlier this year. . . .
The anonymous source told the FBI they suspected Moynihan of recent drug abuse as well as an “increase” in “homicidal ideations,” according to New York State Police.
Prosecutors say that Moynihan, in a text message sent to an anonymous source on Friday, wrote that “Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live” and “Even if I am hated he must be eliminated.” He is also accused of sending a text that said, “I will kill him for the future.”
On January 6, 2021, Moynihan entered the Senate chamber and rummaged through pages in a notebook on one of the senator’s desks, taking photos of the pages with his phone. He was not accused of attacking police or acting violently that day.
Before being sentenced in the Capitol attack case, Moynihan’s attorneys told the Washington, DC, judge presiding that their client “has struggled with addiction to opiates” and that past misdemeanor convictions of possessing a controlled substance and petty larceny “all stem from a time when he was in the throes of that addiction.”
It’s probably going to take either the murder of a prominent “leftist” — this means any opponent of Trump — or the massacre of quite a few less famous people, to put some sort of end to the whole “I’m not familiar with that/He was just being sarcastic/He’s being serious but not literal” reaction of both the Republican establishment and much of the legacy media to the Trump regime.
This is all of a piece with the classic framing of fascism as buffoonery until it becomes sufficiently deadly on the home front (needless to say murdering lots of random Venezuelan fishermen in a phony war on “narcoterrorism” doesn’t count).