Bondi said it was a "left-wing radical" who had sent the letter threatening to kill Johnson.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced federal charges against a left-wing radical who threatened to kill political commentator Benny Johnson.
Pam Bondi announced the charges against the man, George Isbell Jr, who sent the threatening letter, and said, "He hated Benny because of his views, and he wanted Benny dead.”
"We are going to catch you if you think you can do something like this. We don’t care if you’re across the country in California. We will find you. We will arrest you, and we will extradite you and bring you to justice," Bondi added. "We cannot allow this political violence to continue any longer."
When she later answered questions about what the ideology of the person was who sent the letter, she responded saying that it was a "left-wing radical" who had sent the letter threatening to kill Johnson.
Bondi said that the threats against Johnson were similar what happened to Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated by a far-left radical in Utah one month ago. US Attorney General Greg Kehoe said that the letter addressed to Johnson had said that the suspect wanted to "strangle [Johnson] with an American flag" as well as orphan his children.
Johnson spoke about the letter, calling back to the left-wing violence that killed Charlie Kirk, the attempted assassination of Doanld Trump last year in Butler, Pennsylvania, as well as the shooting of Christian children who were praying at a church.
The letter claimed, among other things, that Johnson was the "Charlie Kirk Jr" who was "spewing hate while hiding under the veneer of legitimate debate." The letter went onto say that Johnson, along with his "millions of racist subscribers ... need to be exterminated."
Letter sent to Johnson, source: criminal complaint
According to the criminal complaint, FBI agents were able to "attain two fingerprints from the letter that came back as matches to George Russell Isbell Jr."
"If it's happening every single week. Is it that extreme? Or has the Democrat Party mainstreamed violence as a political tool?" Johnson added.
"The individual who wrote me, described why he wanted me dead. I was a white, cis, Christian Trump supporter. They described in great detail how I would be killed in an open field, just like Charlie, how much blood would come out of my head and neck when it was blown off. This individual described orphaning my four beautiful and widowing my wife," Johnson said.
He then pointed to the Virginia Attorney General race, where it has been revealed that Democrat candidate for state attorney general Jay Jones called for the assassination of former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert as well as talked about the killing of Gilbert's children, who Jones called "little fascists." Multiple well-known Democrats, including Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, have refused to pull their endorsements for Jones.
"Democrats have nominated and are about to vote for the chief law enforcement officer in that state, a man who has done the exact same thing. An individual who's calling for the assassination, by bullets, of Republicans that he disagrees with the killing of their children, the slaughtering of as he says, 'little fascists.' Are my four innocent, beautiful children little fascists?"
"Violence has been mainstreamed by the Democrat party. It is not extremist, it is mainstream. And we need a moment of reckoning here. This has to stop. This cycle must end," Johnson added.
Pam Bondi announced the charges against the man, George Isbell Jr, who sent the threatening letter, and said, "He hated Benny because of his views, and he wanted Benny dead.”
"We are going to catch you if you think you can do something like this. We don’t care if you’re across the country in California. We will find you. We will arrest you, and we will extradite you and bring you to justice," Bondi added. "We cannot allow this political violence to continue any longer."
When she later answered questions about what the ideology of the person was who sent the letter, she responded saying that it was a "left-wing radical" who had sent the letter threatening to kill Johnson.
Bondi said that the threats against Johnson were similar what happened to Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated by a far-left radical in Utah one month ago. US Attorney General Greg Kehoe said that the letter addressed to Johnson had said that the suspect wanted to "strangle [Johnson] with an American flag" as well as orphan his children.
Johnson spoke about the letter, calling back to the left-wing violence that killed Charlie Kirk, the attempted assassination of Doanld Trump last year in Butler, Pennsylvania, as well as the shooting of Christian children who were praying at a church.
The letter claimed, among other things, that Johnson was the "Charlie Kirk Jr" who was "spewing hate while hiding under the veneer of legitimate debate." The letter went onto say that Johnson, along with his "millions of racist subscribers ... need to be exterminated."
Letter sent to Johnson, source: criminal complaint
According to the criminal complaint, FBI agents were able to "attain two fingerprints from the letter that came back as matches to George Russell Isbell Jr."
"If it's happening every single week. Is it that extreme? Or has the Democrat Party mainstreamed violence as a political tool?" Johnson added.
"The individual who wrote me, described why he wanted me dead. I was a white, cis, Christian Trump supporter. They described in great detail how I would be killed in an open field, just like Charlie, how much blood would come out of my head and neck when it was blown off. This individual described orphaning my four beautiful and widowing my wife," Johnson said.
He then pointed to the Virginia Attorney General race, where it has been revealed that Democrat candidate for state attorney general Jay Jones called for the assassination of former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert as well as talked about the killing of Gilbert's children, who Jones called "little fascists." Multiple well-known Democrats, including Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, have refused to pull their endorsements for Jones.
"Democrats have nominated and are about to vote for the chief law enforcement officer in that state, a man who has done the exact same thing. An individual who's calling for the assassination, by bullets, of Republicans that he disagrees with the killing of their children, the slaughtering of as he says, 'little fascists.' Are my four innocent, beautiful children little fascists?"
"Violence has been mainstreamed by the Democrat party. It is not extremist, it is mainstream. And we need a moment of reckoning here. This has to stop. This cycle must end," Johnson added.
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