Frank Carillo has been charged after threatening to murder Vice President Kamala Harris and others, Just the News reported. The Virginia man used an alias to post at least 19 threats against the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate to the conservative social media platform GETTR.
Carillo began his hostile tirade against Harris after President Joe Biden stepped out of the presidential race and endorsed his vice president to take his place in the campaign. "Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive," he wrote, according to the affidavit.
"I will do it personally if no one else does it I want her to suffer a slow agonizing death," the post said. Carillo also said that he would stab or shoot her should she get elected president in November.
Carillo threatened other officials, including Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and FBI Director Christopher Wray. He also posted about committing violence against Muslims and illegal immigrants.
According to the New York Times, the suspect was arrested Friday and made his first court appearance Monday. If convicted, Carillo could face up to five years in prison.
Authorities say he made "4,359 posts/replies made by ‘joemadarats1’ targeting various public officials" in the course of a year. He targeted Democrats and other people like Richer, whom he believed was part of the effort to steal the 2020 presidential election from former President Donald Trump.
The FBI launched an investigation after being notified about the posts and figured out that Carillow was behind them. One of the posts said he had an AR-15 rife that was "LOCKED AND LOADED."
The FBI's search of Carillo's home turned up that model rifle and another handgun as well as several thousand rounds of ammunition. After his arrest, Carillo seemed not to grasp the gravity of his unhinged remarks.
Legal documents quoted him as saying to the FBI, "This is all over a comment, huh?" Carillo is unemployed and disabled and began posting to the account in June 2023.
If the charges are correct, Carillo was adding more fuel to the contentious and dangerous political climate. Still, the treatment of these threats further underscores the disparate way political violence is handled depending on the target.
The establishment media is covering Carillo's alleged crime with the gravity it deserves while they try to downplay the actual assassination attempt against former Trump. The GOP presidential candidate was struck in the ear with a bullet from the gun of a would-be assassin at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13, Fox News reported.
Rather than express outrage about the security failure that led to the shooting, the left-leaning publication Politico took the opportunity to compare Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Because Trump used it as a moment to show strength and courage, Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned about the "danger" the incident presented, not in the wound to Trump's head but because it made him more popular.
"With that gesture, Trump tended to his personality cult, reassuring millions of his devoted followers that he had survived and was unbeaten — just as Mussolini did with his photo almost 100 years before. The danger is what comes next," Ben-Ghiat added.
Violence is never the answer to political rivalry, and people who engage in it deserve to be punished. Unfortunately, it seems the left doesn't agree with that when the target is someone they also happen to dislike.
