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A President Donald Trump pardoned the January 6 rioter House Minority Leader arrested for allegedly making death threats Hakeem JeffriesAccording to a report.
Christopher Moynihan, 34, was arrested Sunday after sending a message saying he planned to “finish off” Jeffries while he was speaking at the Economic Club. new york According to court documents obtained Monday CBS News.
Moynihan, who was pardoned by Trump in January, reportedly wrote in the message, “Hakeem Jeffries will be giving a speech in NYC in a few days, I can’t let this terrorist live.”
He reportedly wrote, “Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the sake of the future.”
Moynihan was one of many 1,500 Trump supporters charged with crimes Is related to the attack on America on January 6, 2021 capitolHe was found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding in August 2022 and convicted of five misdemeanor charges. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison in February 2023.
Prosecutors said Moynihan was one of the first Trump supporters to break through police barricades and enter the Capitol.
in those days At his sentencing, prosecutors said that inside the Capitol building, Moynihan “flipped through a notebook sitting on top of a senator’s desk, saying, ‘There has to be something in here we can use against these scoundrels.'”
Prosecutors said Monday that Moynihan has been charged with a new felony count of making a terroristic threat.
He was arrested by New York State Police in Clinton, a small town in the Hudson Valley about two hours north of Manhattan. According to CBS, an investigation into the incident was launched by the FBI.
Moynihan was remanded to the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center “in lieu of $10,000 cash bail, $30,000 bond or $80,000 partially secured bond.” State police said.
He is scheduled to make his first court appearance in Dutchess County on Thursday.
While Moynihan is not the first rioter pardoned on January 6 who was later arrested on unrelated charges, according to CBS, he is the first person to face charges of making violent threats against a member of Congress.
Trump’s first official act as president after returning to office this January changing sentences Many of the hundreds of rioters on January 6 were convicted of violent crimes against members of law enforcement.
One police officer was killed and about 150 other officers were injured in the attack.
Rioter Ashli Babbitt, 35, was shot and killed, while Benjamin Phillips, 50, of Ringtown, Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, of Athens, Alabama; and Rosanne Boylan, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, died from a medical emergency during the attack.
The White House and Jefferies office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Independent,