This is terrifying... DOJ won't charge person who threatens Swalwell

[Takket]

Apparently they are hoping these MAGA terrorists kill.

DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

— Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” (@ryanjreilly.com) 2025-10-21T21:34:05.755Z

[Celerity]

1. Trump supporter charged with making threats against U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-supporter-charged-with-making-threats-against-us-lawmaker-2025-07-24/

https://archive.ph/UGXmk

July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. federal authorities have arrested a man accused of sending dozens of threatening and violent messages to public officials he viewed as hostile to President Donald Trump’s agenda, charging him with threatening a member of Congress. Geoffrey Giglio, a Trump supporter who has previously been questioned by at least four federal law enforcement agencies over similar conduct, was charged this week with threatening a member of U.S. Congress, transmitting interstate threats and making anonymous harassing communications, according to a federal complaint.

The charges stem from violent and profane messages Giglio allegedly left for U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat and frequent Trump critic. According to the complaint, Giglio left a voicemail for Swalwell in March warning, “If you want to keep fighting, then we will come get you.” He referenced a .308 caliber rifle, saying, “I’ll just set up behind my .308 and I’ll do my job,” and ended the message with sexually explicit remarks about Swalwell’s wife. In a follow-up call to Swalwell’s office in mid-June, after already being questioned by the FBI, Giglio told a staff intern, “Tell Eric Swalwell that we are coming and that we are going to handle everyone. We are going to hurt everyone,” according to the complaint.

The complaint also details threats Giglio made to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, and to an FBI agent investigating the matter. In a message to Benson, he said, “We are coming for you,” using explicit language and threatening to “put her in a hole.” Giglio acknowledged sending the message during a June 3 interview with the FBI, the complaint said. On June 26, the day before his arrest, Giglio sent several hostile messages to the FBI agent, writing, “Now I’m coming for you.” the complaint said. Giglio was arrested in California but was not charged over the threats to Benson or the FBI agent, the complaint said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, which is prosecuting the case, and the FBI declined to comment. A public defender listed in court records as representing Giglio did not respond to requests for comment. The offices of Swalwell and Benson also did not immediately respond.

The White House condemned the threats against Swalwell. "As a survivor of multiple assassination attempts, the president takes these matters extremely seriously,” said White House spokesperson Harrison Fields. “Anyone engaging in such behavior will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law." The complaint cites a 2024 Reuters investigation that identified Giglio as a persistent source of threats against public officials, including judges, lawmakers and state election officials. Despite multiple investigations by federal agencies, including the FBI and the Secret Service, Giglio had not previously been charged, as his messages often stopped short of the legal threshold for prosecution under the First Amendment, according to the Reuters report.

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[malaise]

4. WTF?

That is all

[raccoon]

3. This country has gone to hell.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. This Country's voters

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Need to send Trump and all his sycophants to hell! They need to suffer a rhetorical bloodbath in the midterms so our country can avoid an actual one.

[Vinca]

6. Can the California AG step in? It seems it's state charges or no charges for the MAGA cult.

[Joinfortmill]

7. I am so pissed. Contacted both my Senators this morning about all the shit going on...

We should bombard them with letters, EVERY DAMN DAY.

[spanone]

8. Orders from the dictator.

[IronLionZion]

9. MAGA thinks terrorism is wearing inflatable costumes and not hurting anyone

When MAGAts use violence and intimidation against civilians to pursue a political agenda, it's excused as mental illness or we're snowflakes, or they find some vague BS written on bullets proving it's leftist.

From their actions during 2020/COVID/George Floyd, we know they want to kill us. There's no doubt.

[Seinan Sensei]

10. "I'm going to start handing out pictures of you with instructions"

So … what would happen, do you think, if WE began handing out pictures of these two?
Why, we would be visited by Kash, charged by Pam, then jailed, of course.

(Well, maybe jailed first. And then charged)

[Wednesdays]

12. They wouldn't even jail us

They would shoot us and call it "suicide by cop."

[hadEnuf]

11. When the law is arbitrarily being enforced and is used as a weapon by criminals, it's no longer the law.

We must be prepared to defend ourselves against those who abuse the law and especially their minions who feel they are empowered to enforce it.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. And they dared to condemn us over the Kirk murder.

Hey, saying the truth about the things that you see are going wrong is this country, isn't like threatening people's lives. If you hold all the power and refuse to take action against those who threaten people's lives, then you are criminally complicit.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. MaddowBlog-Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter charged with threatening Hakeem Jeffries, adding to pattern

With his Jan. 6 pardons, the president let a bunch of criminals back out onto American streets. Quite a few of them have ended up in legal trouble again.

When Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters, he let a whole lot of criminals back out onto American streets.

Quite a few of them got arrested again — including one who threatened to assassinate Hakeem Jeffries. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-21T15:57:34.099Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-charged-threatening-hakeem-jeffries-adding-patte-rcna238891

Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were wildly unpopular and controversial for a great many reasons, including a straightforward, practical consideration: The president let a bunch of criminals, including felons convicted of violent crimes, back out onto American streets.

Those concerned about these individuals committing other crimes were right to worry. The New York Times reported:

An upstate New York man pardoned by President Trump after taking part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was charged last week with a new crime: threatening to assassinate Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, at an event in New York City. The man, Christopher P. Moynihan, 34, sent text messages to an unknown associate on Friday threatening Mr. Jeffries’s life, according to a criminal complaint issued by local prosecutors in Dutchess County, N.Y.

According to the evidence presented by local prosecutors, the man texted, in reference to the House minority leader, “I cannot allow this terrorist to live. Even if I am hated he must be eliminated. I will kill him for the future.”

The man who wrote the text was among the first group of rioters to break into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and was later sentenced to 21 months in prison. Moynihan did not, however, serve his full term behind bars — because he was among the rioters the president pardoned......

According to the evidence presented by local prosecutors, the man texted, in reference to the House minority leader, “I cannot allow this terrorist to live. Even if I am hated he must be eliminated. I will kill him for the future.”

The man who wrote the text was among the first group of rioters to break into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and was later sentenced to 21 months in prison. Moynihan did not, however, serve his full term behind bars — because he was among the rioters the president pardoned.