A rioter who was pardoned by Donald Trump for the felony he was convicted of in the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 has pleaded guilty to a harassment charge over threats to kill the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries.

Christopher Moynihan, 35, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge in a hearing in Clinton, New York, prosecutors said, and will be sentenced in April. His representative could not immediately be reached.

“Threats against elected officials are not political speech, they are criminal acts that strike at the heart of public safety and our democratic system,” the district attorney for Dutchess county, Anthony Parisi, said in a statement.

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    14 hours ago

    Wasn’t just swept along in the crowd either, he was looking for the secret pedo documents (no, wait, not THOSE secret pedo documents!) in the binders and taking pictures of whatever boring administrative bullshit was really in there.

    Between you all and me, I think he’s just trying to find his chin.

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah but this guy thinks Jeffries sucks for all the wrongest and dumbest reasons.

      “Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live … I will kill him for the future,” the text messages read, according to the complaint.

      These people think Hakeem Jeffries is a terrorist and ICE are not. They have a chronic and apparently incurable case of wrong-about-every-damn-thing.