A New Hampshire man was indicted this week for making a death threat against Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.
According to WMUR, authorities charged 23-year-old Allan Poller with threatening to assault and murder a federal official.
As The Free Press reported earlier this month, the Fort Walton Beach Republican played the voicemail allegedly left by Poller on his “Firebrand” podcast.
Poller actually left his name in the message, in which he told Gaetz, “I just want to let you know, Rep. Matt Gaetz, that if you keep on coming for the gays, we’re gonna strike back — and I guarantee you that you do not want to f–k with us.”
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“We will kill you if that’s what it takes,” Poller added. “I will take a bullet to your f–king head if you f–k with my rights anymore.”
Poller reportedly left the threat after Gaetz made remarks about the transgender man who massacred six people, including three children, at a Christian school in Nashville in March.
On his broadcast, Gaetz argued that the Democrats “are purposefully riling up their nutty shock troops in the hopes they will terrorize normal Americans into submission. And more will come.”
He also said it was time to reopen insane asylums.
“There are severely mentally ill people who do not have a right to wander our streets, seeking who they are going to terrorize,” he said.
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“It does not make us more just or more compassionate to have them walking among the rest of us.”
Following due process under the Constitution, he added, “We have to put some people away. … Good people have a right to exist in the country without wondering if some crazy leftist or some mentally ill individual lurking around the corner is about to post up and kill you.”
WMUR reported that Poller told police he was drunk when he called Gaetz’s office and didn’t really plan to hurt anyone.
Still, Poller faces “several years” in prison, if convicted.
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