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In the twisted theater of Washington hypocrisy, where one side's threats are "hyperbole" and the other's are felonies, a pardoned January 6 defendant stares down charges for words whispered in private.
Freed January 6 defendant Christopher Moynihan, 34, was arrested Sunday in New York's Hudson Valley for allegedly texting plans to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ahead of the Democrat's Monday speech at the Economic Club of New York.
Prosecutors detailed Moynihan's threats in court filings.
"Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live." he wrote, adding, "Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future."
Moynihan also allegedly vowed to "eliminate" the Democrat during his speech at the Economic Club of New York on Monday.
Arraigned Tuesday in Clinton, New York, Moynihan pleaded not guilty to making a terroristic threat.
Judges remanded him to Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center.
Bail options included $10,000 cash, $30,000 bond, or $80,000 partially secured bond.
Convicted in August 2022 of obstructing an official proceeding, he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanors.
Sentenced to 21 months in February 2023, he protested on the Capitol grounds early on January 6, 2021.
He then walked into the Capitol building and demonstrated on the Senate floor, grabbed a senator's notebook, and snarled, "There's gotta be something in here we can f*cking use against these scumbags."
President Trump pardoned him nine months ago alongside over 1,500 rioters on inauguration day.
The new charges against Moynihan mark against the first such charge against a pardoned rioter threatening Congress.
Jeffries, undeterred, warned Tuesday, "many of the criminals released have committed additional crimes throughout the country."
He vowed, "threats of violence will not stop us from showing up, standing up and speaking up for the American people."
Yet in the same breath Jeffries decries peril, he's all-in on Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, whose 2022 texts fantasized murdering GOP ex-Speaker Todd Gilbert and his kids — texts now scorching the AG race against incumbent Jason Miyares.
"Three people, two bullets. Hitler, Pol Pot, Gilbert. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Jennifer [Gilbert's wife] cries as her fascist children die in her arms,"Jones texted then- Virginia state delegate Carrie Coyner. "Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy."
Jones mused pissing on GOP graves and called it "cathartic."
Jeffries, October 16 outside the Capitol insisted, "The attorney general candidate has appropriately apologized for his remarks, and I know his remarks have been condemned across the board by Democrats in the commonwealth [of] Virginia and beyond... And that’s the right thing to do."
No waver, no withdrawal demand,pure partisan armor, as Jones clings to the ballot amid bipartisan revulsion.
Moynihan rots in cuffs for solitary texts to no one, while Jones's public bloodlust gets a Jeffries hug and a campaign trail.
Democrats preach unity, then shield their own death-wish dealers. If words are weapons, why do blues get a free pass to load up?
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