A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly threatening the lifetime of Lauren Boebert, the far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado.
Authorities arrested Matthew Lee Comiskey of Palm Beach county, Florida, on Friday and charged him with 5 felony counts of creating interstate threats.
Starting on 31 August 2021, Comiskey allegedly made a number of Twitter posts threatening Boebert’s life, as was first reported by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
According to courtroom paperwork that had been unsealed on Friday, Comiskey posted about hurting the US House consultant a number of occasions. In one tweet posted on 31 August 2021, Comiskey wrote: “If I ever see Lauren I’d be glad to take her out and go to prison. Would be job well done.”
In different posts, Comiskey inspired others to hurt Boebert, tweeting on 15 September 2021: “Someone needs to put Lauren down like a sick dog. She is a true waste of life! Someone exercise their second amendment right to her face! Since the [CIA] is a failure and [FBI] is incompetent at charging her for being a terrorist it’s time to do it ourselves! Pew pew Lauren.”
In a last publish on 17 September 2021, Comiskey wrote: “[D]on’t come to Florida us libs have big guns here and we stand our ground. Take you down like Trayvon,” referring to the 2012 taking pictures of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, in Florida.
On Friday, a federal Justice of the Peace set Comiskey’s bond at $50,000. His arraignment is scheduled for 8 June.
If indicted, Comiskey may face a most penalty of 5 years’ imprisonment.
Boebert couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.