Dem Rep Deluged With Threats After Fox Segment

CBS News reports:

Rep. Angie Craig has received a deluge of politically violent and vulgar messages following her attack in her Washington, D.C., apartment building, messages her office says came after a Fox News segment criticizing Democrats for their policing policies.

Audio released by Craig’s office includes vulgar and violent messages, including, “I hope the f*****s get you again,” and, “I am so glad that you were attacked.” Craig’s office released eight examples, with audio, of the messages she has received. They’re reporting the messages to U.S. Capitol Police.

Craig’s office identified a Fox News “The Five” segment that criticized the congresswoman, and it said included opposition research from the National Republican Congressional Committee, or NRCC. Craig’s office noted her support for the police and police funding.

The Hill article.

“I’m listening to your story on ‘The Five,’” one person says in one of the recordings shared with CBS. “Well that’s what you get for turning that what, five or six time felon, crack-smoking, fentanyl-eating, counterfeit money-passing, armed robber holding guns on fetusus, n****r (George) Floyd as a public hero,” the caller stated.

Craig’s office is drawing a link between the messages and an episode of “The Five.” Host Jeanine Pirro said, “Whenever you call them, you don’t get the police. If you want to defund the police, we’ll tell the P.D. dispatch, you don’t go to that person’s address, you know. That’s what they want. That’s what they should get.”

“But now that the Congresswoman has been victimized, now she feels your pain? Nonsense. And for those who say ‘at least now she’s on our side’ – baloney … You’ve done your damage, stick with it. Defund the police as it relates to you.”

Rep. Angie Craig has received a deluge of politically violent and vulgar messages following her attack in her Washington, D.C., apartment building, messages her office says came after a Fox News segment criticizing Democrats for their policing policies. https://t.co/7dpjk4qqe5

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 17, 2023