Man Charged with Sending Death Threat to Conservative Commentator

“This was a coward hiding behind a keyboard who thought he could get away with this.”

In his own statement at the news conference, Johnson outlined the rash of recent incidents of political violence by what he called “left-wing extremists,” including the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative activist and “generational leader” Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah, the attempted assassination of now-President Donald Trump in June 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the deadly Sept. 24, sniper attack on an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas.

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“If it’s happening every single week, is it that extreme?” he asked.  “Or has the Democrat Party mainstreamed violence as a political tool?

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“This individual described orphaning my four beautiful children and widowing my wife,” Johnson said.

And he demanded accountability for Democrats.

“Violence has been mainstreamed by the Democrat Party,” he said. “It’s not extremist. It is mainstream. And we need a moment of reckoning here. This has to stop.”

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“I want unity in this nation. I want to be able to agree on more than we disagree on. But for that first to happen, we must understand the battle we are fighting: Good versus evil. Darkness versus light. And good must conquer evil.

“Do not make peace with evil.”

Bondi sounded a note of determination that the federal government would use all its power to smother leftist violence. The apprehension of Isbell showed that, she said.

“We cannot allow this political violence to continue any longer,” she said. “This arrest will serve as a reminder to many: Do not do this. We will find you.”