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Media Matters has the transcript: REP. ERIC SWALWELL (GUEST): We receive hundreds of threats. What was specific about this was the caller identified he had just been watching Tucker Carlson. Now, we get a lot of threats that come in as Tucker Carlson attacks me, but this person identified he had just heard from Tucker Carlson. He was now calling …

The Des Moines Register reports: Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump, he told the Des Moines Register. Wilburn, a state representative from Ames, is the first Black chair of the Iowa Democratic Party. Wilburn authored an opinion piece titled “Iowa Republicans …

CNN reports: A California man who was accused of sending threats to a congressman and multiple journalists has pleaded guilty to one count of making threatening interstate communications. At his change of plea hearing Friday, Robert Lemke pleaded guilty to the count related to a threat he made to a family member of a New York City-based journalist, saying in …

The Baltimore Sun reports: A Texas man has been charged in federal court with making threats to former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen because of her support of COVID-19 vaccines. An indictment against Scott Eli Harris, 51, was unsealed Tuesday in Maryland U.S. District Court, charging Harris with using a cellphone to send threatening messages to Wen in July. …

The Washington Post reports: Only a few weeks after President Biden and Vice President Harris were sworn into office, Niviane Petit Phelps recorded a video of herself. “Kamala Harris, you are going to die,” Phelps said into the camera, according to an affidavit. “Your days are numbered already.” Phelps said someone had paid her $53,000 to kill Harris, adding: “I’m …

Law & Crime reports: A New Yorker pleaded guilty on Monday to threatening Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) online the day Democrats regained control of both branches of Congress. Eduard Florea, 41, also pleaded guilty to illegally possessing ammunition that the FBI found in his Queens County home on Jan. 7. The evening before the Jan. siege of the U.S. Capitol, …

Via press release from the Justice Department: Ryder Winegar, 34, of Amherst, pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to six counts of threatening members of Congress and one count of transmitting interstate threatening communications, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced. In February 2021, Winegar was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with six counts of …

Law & Crime reports: A New York man who threatened to kill a federal judge presiding over the criminal case of President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn must spend 18 months in prison, a federal judge ruled on Monday. “Your threat against Judge Sullivan and his staff was a very serious offense,” U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden …

Law & Crime reports: A felon accused of threatening Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) online the day Democrats regained control of both branches of Congress failed to secure his release from jail pending trial, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. “I am not releasing him. He represents a threat to the community,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom said of 40-year-old Eduard …

Via press release from the Justice Department: James Dale Reed, age 42, of Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of threats to a major candidate for President or Vice President—specifically, making threats against then-former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. A federal criminal complaint for the same charge was filed against Reed on October 21, …

The Tulsa World reports: A Tulsa man faces federal charges on allegations that he sent a local television station emails threatening to kill President Joe Biden and unnamed members of Congress. John Jacobs Ahrens, 58, was charged by criminal complaint in Tulsa federal court on Monday with making threats against the president after he allegedly admitted to sending the emails …

Politico reports: A little-known GOP candidate in one of Florida’s most competitive congressional seats was secretly recorded threatening to send “a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad” to a fellow Republican opponent to make her “disappear.” During a 30-minute call with a conservative activist that was recorded before he became a candidate, William Braddock repeatedly warned the activist to not support …

Via press release from the Justice Department: A man who called a United States Congressman’s office and told a staffer that he was going to find someone to assassinate the Congressman was sentenced today to more than a year in federal prison. Kenneth Brown, age 57, previously living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, received the prison term after a December 4, …

Last night Reuters publishing a grim deep dive into the death threats being rained down upon election workers by Trump supporters across the country. The piece has already garnered widespread attention, with Rachel Maddow devoting a segment of her show to it. Here’s how it opens: Late on the night of April 24, the wife of Georgia’s top election official …

NBC News reports: A Michigan man was sentenced to one year in prison Thursday for sending an email threatening to hunt down and bleed out like a “pig” an attorney for the whistle-blower who set in motion then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. Brittan Atkinson, described his arrest and prosecution as a “blessing in disguise.” “I’m now on the right medication …

The York Daily Record reports: A Pennsylvania woman, who had allegedly forced her way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, demanded that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers be handed over to insurrectionists, shouting: “Bring them out now. They’re criminals. They need to hang.” According to the FBI, Pauline Bauer, of Kane, went on to tell Metropolitan police …

Courthouse News reports: After three hours of deliberation, a jury found Brendan Hunt guilty of threatening to murder members of Congress in online posts before and in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the United States Capitol. Hunt, 37, faces up to 10 years in prison for the threats, which targeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader …

The New York Daily News reports: A former New York state court employee said “a few bong rips” and months in isolation factored in his decision to send death threats to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and prominent Democrats. Brendan Hunt added at his Brooklyn Federal Court trial on Tuesday that he didn’t think anyone would take seriously his social media directive …

The Daily Beast reports: A Florida woman sent videos to her incarcerated spouse in which she threatened to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a complaint filed in South Florida federal court. “If I see you in the street, I’m gonna kill your ass Kamala Harris,” Niviane Petit Phelps of Miami Gardens allegedly said in one. “I’m going to …

The Guardian reports: A senior Saudi official issued what was perceived to be a death threat against the independent United Nations investigator, Agnès Callamard, after her investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In an interview with the Guardian, the outgoing special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings said that a UN colleague alerted her in January 2020 that a senior …