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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are receiving death threats after the House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot at during a congressional baseball practice Wednesday.
During a security briefing, California lawmaker Nanette Diaz Barragán said Democratic representatives have been receiving threatening calls on their personal mobile phones, with the caller saying, “You guys are next,” and “You Democrats, you Democrats,” Buzzfeed reported. The threats came shortly after Scalise was admitted to the hospital with fatal injuries.
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Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan tells me that multiple Democratic members of the House have gotten calls saying "you guys are next."
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Claudia Tenney, a Republican representative from New York, received an email with the subject line, “One down, 216 to go…” The email further stated: "Did you NOT expect this? When you take away lives of the ordinary people in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance.”
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. @RepRubenGallego just came out of meeting, said members raised security concerns. "Everyone's getting a bunch of death threats right now."
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The gunman who was responsible for fatally injuring Scalise and wounding three other lawmakers has not been ruled as a part of any organized gang by the FBI. Tim Slater, a special agent of the FBI, said it is still early to state anything affirmatively when asked whether the gunman made an attempt to assas
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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are receiving death threats after the House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot at during a congressional baseball practice Wednesday.
During a security briefing, California lawmaker Nanette Diaz Barragán said Democratic representatives have been receiving threatening calls on their personal mobile phones, with the caller saying, “You guys are next,” and “You Democrats, you Democrats,” Buzzfeed reported. The threats came shortly after Scalise was admitted to the hospital with fatal injuries.
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Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan tells me that multiple Democratic members of the House have gotten calls saying "you guys are next."
Claudia Tenney, a Republican representative from New York, received an email with the subject line, “One down, 216 to go…” The email further stated: "Did you NOT expect this? When you take away lives of the ordinary people in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance.”
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. @RepRubenGallego just came out of meeting, said members raised security concerns. "Everyone's getting a bunch of death threats right now."
twitter;875021219539689474]https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/875021219539689474"
The gunman who was responsible for fatally injuring Scalise and wounding three other lawmakers has not been ruled as a part of any organized gang by the FBI. Tim Slater, a special agent of the FBI, said it is still early to state anything affirmatively when asked whether the gunman made an attempt to assas
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