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Florida Man Arrested for Threatening Members of U.S. Congress
(REUTERS) - U.S. officials arrested a South Florida man on Friday for leaving racist and obscenity-laden voicemails with three Democratic members of Congress that defended U.S. President Donald Trump and directed ire at U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar.
John Kless, 49, of Tamarac, Florida appeared before a magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida, charged with making threatening communications. Bail was set at $25,000.
Kless is suspected of recording threatening messages on Tuesday on the phones of U.S. Senator Cory Booker, U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, according to a criminal complaint filed by prosecutors.
Booker is African-American and Tlaib a Palestinian-American who were referred to on the recording with racist slurs. Booker and Swalwell are seeking the Democratic nomination for president to challenge Trump in 2020.
The arrest took place amid other incidents of racial tension in the United States and a more extreme political discourse. Another Florida man is facing prosecution in New York on charges of mailing 16 apparent pipe bombs to Trump rivals including Booker and former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Tuesday's caller directed invective at Omar without naming her. The Somali-American first-term representative, along with Tlaib and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has drawn frequent criticism from conservatives.
The caller referred to recent comments by Omar about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that Trump and other conservatives seized upon, framing them as dismissive.
Omar was speaking about repression against Muslims in America following the attacks when she referred to 9/11 as "some people did something." Trump later tweeted a video of the comment interspersed with images from the events that killed 3,000 people. Liberals in turn criticized Trump's tweet as Islamophobic and endangering Omar.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2019-04-19/florida-man-arrested-for-threatening-members-of-us-congress
no but I was on here for 12 hours from 7 am. Caught this post at the end of a bread and when I posted it to show the file name, and that I ran tineye, and it was an original, I got slammed by shills….just sharing with the night crowd.
Think we had a special visitor today. (see filename user gave the picture. I was accused of altering it…)
it was the poster's only post in that particular bread (and I had also noticed MANY posts by whitehats earlier today too). They named it AF1Q.
Trump to nominate Shanahan as permanent defense secretary: sources
President Trump is expected to formally nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be his permanent defense secretary as soon as next week, two administration officials tell Fox News. This, after an internal Pentagon investigation concluded that the acting defense secretary did not show any bias in favor of his former employer, aerospace giant Boeing.
Shanahan worked at Boeing for over 30 years before coming to the Pentagon as then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s deputy at the start of the Trump administration.
Shanahan’s nomination had been held up by the White House since the Pentagon inspector general opened an investigation into Shanahan’s conduct following a report in Politico days after taking over for Mattis alleging Shanahan called Boeing-rival Lockheed Martin’s advanced F-35 program “f—ed up” and said the company didn’t know how to run a defense program following years of cost overruns and delays to the fifth-generation fighter jet.
Shanahan has been serving as acting defense chief since the president forced Jim Mattis to leave the job early following his resignation in December.
Shanahan faces a potentially contentious confirmation hearing in the Republican-controlled Senate in order to assume the role as defense secretary.
President Trump found an early supporter and point man in Shanahan for the creation of a sixth branch of the military, the Space Force.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Shanahan spoke about his urgency in developing the new branch.
“We have a $19 trillion economy that runs on space. Our military runs on space. It is vitally important,” said Shanahan. “[The] Chinese and Russians are deploying capability to put our economy and our military at risk in the time of crisis.”
Asked for comment a spokesman for the acting defense secretary would not answer the question directly if Shanahan was expecting to be nominated next week.
"Acting Secretary Shanahan remains focused SOLELY on the Department, on our global military options, on our servicemembers, civilians, and their families," said Army Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino.
A defense official added Shanahan will be “ready for a confirmation hearing, should he be nominated.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-to-nominate-shanahan-as-permanent-defense-secretary-sources