Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has made some dangerous enemies in the past. In August, she saw her stalker sentenced to three months in prison, and last year she was the victim of a false police report last year.
Now, Greene said that she’d closed her district office after death threats against her family.
“I’m going to kill her next week. I’m going to murder her,” the caller said, according to a video obtained by local media. “You don’t think you’re going to get payback? You’re going to die. Your family is going to die.”
Greene has shared another recording of the phone call.
“I’m going to murder her; I’m going to shoot her in the (expletive) head and kill her, OK,” the caller said, according to a recording shared with CNN. “Tell the FBI.”
Greene had recently introduced the successful resolution to censure the “anti-Zionist” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
However, it remains unclear whether the caller had a political motivation or whether he was simply deranged.
Greene’s office has reportedly identified the caller as Sean Patrick Cirillo, a 34-year-old from a different district in Georgia. Greene’s office also said in a statement that Cirillo had been arrested.
“I want to thank every single member of law enforcement who acted swiftly in response to this murderous threat. From Rome City Police, the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Capitol Police, the House Sergeant at Arms, and ultimately the FBI who made the arrest, every official acted quickly to put this man behind bars,” Greene said in the statement, shared with CNN.
Federal prosecutors told CNN that they’d charged Cirillo with using communications devices to make threats, a felony.
Greene used the incident as an opportunity to raise awareness about threats against lawmakers.
“I’m not the only victim with this threat of violence,” Greene told CNN in a statement. “My family is threatened. My staff is threatened. I even had to close my district office due to the potential of violence. It’s wrong and never should happen.”
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., also said that he’d closed his district office due to threats. McCormick had recently introduced a separate resolution to censure Tlaib, although his resolution failed.
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I take the safety of my team seriously. I am temporarily closing my physical district office location in Cumming, GA due to serious threats of violence against my staff. These threats have been reported to Capitol Police and will be investigated fully.
We will still be working…
— Congressman Rich McCormick, MBA MD (@RepMcCormick) November 7, 2023
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