A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffriesaccording to the report.
Christopher Moynihan, 34, was arrested Sunday after he tweeted that he planned to “eliminate” Jeffries during his appearance at the Economic Club. New York Monday, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.
“Hakeem Jeffries will be speaking in New York in a few days. I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” Moynihan, who was pardoned by Trump in January, reportedly wrote in the message.
“Even if they hate me, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future,” he allegedly wrote.
Moynihan was one of more than 1,500 Trump supporters charged with crimes associated with the attack on the United States on January 6, 2021. Capitol. In August 2022, he was found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding and pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges. In February 2023, he was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Christopher Moynihan pictured at the US Capitol during the January 6 riot. He was arrested after texting that he was going to “eliminate” top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries during a public event on Monday in New York (DOJ).
Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Prosecutors said Moynihan was one of the first Trump supporters to break through police barricades and enter the Capitol.
At that time After the sentencing, prosecutors said that while in the Capitol building, Moynihan “was looking through a notepad on the senator's desk and said, 'There must be something here that we can use against these scumbags.'
Moynihan faces a new charge of making a terroristic threat, prosecutors said Monday.
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, the FBI has opened an investigation into the incident.
Moynihan was remanded to the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center “in lieu of $10,000 bail, $30,000 bail or $80,000 partially secured bail.” state police said.
He is scheduled to make his first court appearance in the case Thursday in Dutchess County.
Christopher Moynihan, 34, was arrested Sunday after tweeting that he planned to “eliminate” Hakeem Jeffries during a speech at the Economic Club of New York on Monday (A New York man was arrested after tweeting that he planned to “eliminate” top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries during a public event on Monday in New York).
While Moynihan is not the first rioter pardoned on Jan. 6 to later be arrested on unrelated charges, he is the first to be charged with threatening violence against a member of Congress, CBS reported.
After returning to office in January of this year, one of Trump's first official acts as president was replacement of sentences hundreds of rioters on January 6, many of whom were convicted of violent crimes against law enforcement officers.
The attack left one police officer dead and about 150 other officers injured.
Rioter Ashli Babbitt, 35, was shot and killed, and Benjamin Phillips, 50, of Ringtown, Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, of Athens, Alabama; and Roseanne Boylan, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, died from medical emergencies during the attack.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Independent.
