BOISE (Statesman of Idaho) Republican politicians in Idaho have received threatening letters in recent days, according to the party’s chairman.
According to a statement she made on Friday, Dorothy Moon, the chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party, received a message on her home phone pledging a personal visit after a post on X threatened violence against party members.
The threats were made weeks after two Democratic congressmen from Minnesota were shot dead in their homes in what Moon described as a “horrible assassination.”
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Moon remarked, “It was a tragedy that highlights just how seriously we must treat acts of political violence and intimidation.”
Aaron Snell, a state police spokesperson, informed the Idaho Statesman that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and Idaho State Police are looking into the threats against lawmakers in the state.
Citing the ongoing police investigation, Anthony Tirino, executive director of the state party, declined to comment.
On June 20, an X user from Boston said that someone should be sent to assassinate Idaho Republicans. Although Idaho State Trooper Lt. Kenny Walker confirmed the post’s contents, it has subsequently been removed. According to Walker, Moon later got a menacing voicemail on her home phone from someone she thought was either related to or the same person. According to him, ISP has no proof to support that suspicion.
According to the user’s biography on X, she is anti-fascist and pro-LGBTQ, and she claims pronouns get rid of the anti-woke gamer bro snowflakes. According to Walker, the investigation has not uncovered any further details on this individual’s political views or intentions beyond how she displays herself on X. The individual did not immediately respond to a message sent by the Statesman on Wednesday.
Although Walker told the Statesman over the phone that the threat to Idaho politicians is actually quite minimal, Moon described the X user’s claims as plausible in her statement. He claimed that the same individual threatened lawmakers in different states on multiple occasions.
“I wouldn’t suspect that we would have any kind of issues from this individual in particular,” Walker said, referring to the individual who made the threats, which were covered by the Gem State Chronicle. It was, in my opinion, more of a worldwide (thing), directed at various states with which this individual either disagreed or had a specific problem.
He claimed that after the FBI contacted the user, the threats ceased. He stated that no enforcement action has been taken against the individual.
While members have the ability to reinstate their home addresses if they so choose, Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle, R-Star, instructed administrators to remove all legislators’ addresses from the Idaho Legislature’s website following the shooting in Minnesota, he told the Statesman.
According to Moyle’s text message, we had lawmakers who were worried.
