Man pardoned in U.S. Capitol riot pleads guilty to threatening Hakeem Jeffries

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Source: ABC News/AP

February 5, 2026, 10:01 PM


CLINTON, N.Y. -- A New York man accused of threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pleaded guilty Thursday, a year after President Donald Trump pardoned him for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Christopher P. Moynihan, 35, also agreed to serve three years of probation. During a hearing in the town court in Clinton, New York, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge, and sentencing was set for April 2.

Moynihan's public defender did not immediately return an email seeking comment Thursday night. A message also was left at an email address in public records for Moynihan. A phone number for Moynihan in public records was not in service.

Moynihan, of Pleasant Valley, New York, was accused of sending a text message to another person in October about Jeffries' appearance in New York City that week. “I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” Moynihan wrote, according to a report by a state police investigator. Moynihan also wrote that Jeffries “must be eliminated” and texted, “I will kill him for the future,” the police report says.

Moynihan was originally charged with a felony, making a terrorist threat, but pleaded to a lesser crime. “Threats against elected officials are not political speech, they are criminal acts that strike at the heart of public safety and our democratic system," Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi said in a statement.

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[Chasstev365]

1. He'll get a slap on the wrist because Jefferies is a Democrat

[bucolic_frolic]

2. They can't give him a real sentence because he would be pardoned?

Just a guess. Or was this state charges?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

4. Seeing as it was a county DA I would guess NY state is pressing charges.

[Bluetus]

11. It must be. DoJ would never prosecute that.

[lark]

3. Another part of krasnov's push to kill any Americans who oppose him.

He LOVES MURDER.

[Icanthinkformyself]

5. No doubt

most of the J6 insurrectionist were and continue to be criminals. Just as the recent ICE recruits are sexual predators, pedophiles and otherwise criminals, the right is heavily populated by them.

[Jacson6]

6. This is a NY State Crime, so Tumpster can't pardon him. n/t

[Emile]

7. Hopefully NY gives him the maximum sentence.

Guy that hid behind a bush in Florida stalking Trump got a life sentence. The same justice should be applied here too. Life in prison

[PSPS]

9. The state is asking only for probation.

[Emile]

10. That's ridiculous

[riversedge]

8. The creep obviously did not learn his lesson.

[electric_blue68]

12. Just probation? Screw that!

[BaronChocula]

13. Those people are literally out of control

They can't control their rage.
(And we should refer to them as "those people" as a way of marginalizing and belittling them)