House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Saturday condemned threats to Democrats in the lower chamber that were signed off with the message “MAGA.”
A slew of Democratic lawmakers from Connecticut reportedly received bomb threats in their mailboxes signed with “MAGA” at the conclusion of the message on Thursday according to an announcement from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Friday. The news came after President-elect Donald Trump’s top Cabinet nominees received similar threats this week.
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As the top House Republican, Johnson condemned the threats to Democrats.
“This is dangerous and insane behavior. Regardless of what party you belong to, your political opponents are not your enemies. This is not who we are in America,” he said in a post to X.
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Six of the seven members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation, including Reps. Jim Himes, Jahana Hayes, Joe Courtney, and John Larson Rosa DeLauro, as well as Sen. Chris Murphy were targeted with by the threats.
President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the FBI was looking into the incident.
The news comes as political violence reached historic highs during the 2024 election cycle.
President-elect Donald Trump survived at least two assassination attempts. He took a gunshot wound to the ear, narrowly averting death during the first attempt on July 13. Another would-be assassin was charged with trying to kill the president-elect as he played golf in Florida in September.
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Multiple of Trump’s nominees to serve in top Cabinet posts during his second term in the White House have also received bomb threats or been swatted.
Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), CIA nominee John Ratcliffe, defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, and Howard Lutnick, the president-elect’s commerce secretary nominee, have all reportedly been threatened with violence in the past few weeks.
