Why John Kless made Death Threats in a Voicemail to 3 Democrats?
Listen to this articleA 49-year-old man, John Kless charged with making threats to 3 prominent Democrats in a series of voicemail messages. The suspect from Florida was allegedly ranted about gun control and Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar after phoning the offices of U.S senator Cory Booker and representatives Rashida Tlaib and Eric Swalwell in Washington DC. The threats were made on April 16, a few days after Donald Trump criticized Ilhan Omar over her comments made about the 9/11 terror attacks.
Kless is said to have told Tlaib in one voicemail: “Tell your Taliban friend to shut the f*** up about 9/11. This ain’t Trump’s fault, b****. It’s all your people’s fault. You’re the mother-f***ers who drove the planes into the buildings, b****.”
In the voicemail left for Swalwell, Kless allegedly said: “The day you come after our guns, mother-f***er, is the day you’ll be dead. You’re gonna die. You’ll be your deathbed mother-f***er along with all the rest of you Democrats. So if you want death mother-f***er, keep that s*** up.”
Kless also allegedly targeted Booker with racist abuse, he said, ” We need to kill all you mother-f***ers man, every f****ing one of you, man.” He said in another apparent reference to Omar, the voicemail continued: “Tell your f***ing colleague with the towel on her head to shut the f*** up about 9/11, you f***ing monkey.”
John Kless was arrested on Friday and appeared in court after being charged with making threatening communications. The office of the U.S attorney for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement, “According to allegations in the complaint, on April 16, 2019, Kless made multiple threatening communications to the Congressional offices of members from California, Michigan, and New Jersey”. Ilhan Omar responded to the tweet of Donald Trump earlier this week regarding 9/11 by vowing that she wouldn’t be silenced.