Federal authorities charged a New Hampshire man for threatening to kill Republican used car salesman and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and executing a mass murder at one of his rallies, the Washington Post reports. In a series of text messages responding to mass texts from the campaign to local Ramaswamians to hype an upcoming local gig, 30-year-old Tyler Anderson of Dover responded, “Great, another opportunity for me to blow his brains out!” and “I’m going to kill everyone who attends.”
The same man also threatened the life of another unnamed candidate, texting, “Fantastic, now I know where to go so I can blow that [person’s] head off.” Anderson admitted to sending the texts to Ramaswamy’s campaign and said he sent similar messages to other campaigns instead of the more traditional “STOP.” He now faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three additional years of supervised release.
“I’m grateful to the people on the front lines who work hard every day to make sure people like me and other Americans are kept safe,” Ramaswamy told reporters in New Hampshire adding, “I think that we are very well protected,” and stopping before he went into a tirade about how those federal agencies that protected him were responsible for the attacks on 9/11 or somesuch nonsense.