“The New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation at Poughkeepsie (BCI), in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Force (FBI-JTTF), announces the arrest of Christopher Moynihan, 34, of Clinton, New York, for Making a Terroristic Threat, a Class D felony.”

“On October 18, 2025, the State Police were advised by the FBI-JTTF that Moynihan had made threats to kill a member of Congress. Following a thorough investigation, Moynihan was arrested and arraigned before the Town of Clinton Court. He was remanded to the Dutchess County Justice Center in lieu of $10,000 cash bail, a $30,000 bond, or an $80,000 partially secured bond. Moynihan is scheduled to appear in court on October 23,” says the New York State Police in a press release.

According to CBS News, the member of Congress was House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Moynihan texted someone to say “Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live” and “Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future.”

Moynihan, who entered the Senate chamber during the January 6th, 2021 insurrection, was found guilty in August 2022 of obstructing an official proceeding, and pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges. He was sentenced in February 2023 to 21 months in prison. Thus, unless there was some extraordinary and extremely unlikely delay in his sentence, it’s a near certainty he was not one of the ones who would have still been in prison at this point if not for Trump pardoning him in January.