Alaska man threatened to hunt down Lisa Murkowski, skin the senator, wear her flesh 'like clothes': Feds



An Alaska man threatened to skin a Republican senator and wear her flesh "like clothes," according to federal authorities.

Arther Charles Graham – from Kenai, Alaska – was arrested on Monday. Graham, 46, was charged with knowingly and willfully transmitting interstate and foreign commerce communications containing a threat to kidnap and injure a United States senator.

On Sept. 28, Graham is accused of sending a threatening email to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) through the senator's website.

"Until I get new information [United States Senator 1], my plan is ima' hunt you down, cut the flesh off your body and wear your skin like clothes," according to a federal complaint unsealed this week. "I'll live inside of YOU [United States Senator 1]."

In the email, Graham allegedly said that he was being evicted and he was "in the dark here."

Graham reportedly said he "ain't got nowhere else to live" and that he would "inevitably become a homeless person" like when he was a "little boy."

He allegedly added, "Also, I'm gonna cut off your skin and wear it as clothes. Oops I said that already. Someone call the police."

Congressional staff members notified the United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section on Oct. 3.

On Oct. 10, FBI special agents interviewed Graham at his home in Kenai, Alaska.

FBI agents said that Graham confessed to sending the threatening emails to Murkowski. Graham told the agents that he knew that sending the message was against the law, according to the criminal complaint.

The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.

Murkowski was the target of another murder threat. In April 2022, Jay Allen Johnson was sentenced to 32 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty to two counts of threatening to murder Alaska’s two U.S. senators.

Johnson, 65 and from Alaska, threatened to murder Republican Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan. He left 17 threatening voicemails for Alaska's two U.S. senators over a five-month period, according to court documents.

The Department of Justice stated:

On September 2, 2021, Johnson left a voicemail at the Washington D.C. office of Senator Lisa Murkowski containing several threats, including a threat to "burn" the Senator’s properties. Johnson then asked if the Senator knew what a .50 caliber shell "does to a human head." On September 29, Johnson left another voicemail threatening to hire an assassin to kill the U.S. Senator. Johnson also left threatening voicemail messages for Senator Dan Sullivan between April 2021 and September 2021, including one in which he threatened to get his “.50 caliber out,” hold a “GoFundMe page for the …shells,” and to come “with a vengeance mother****er.”

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Rep. Jeff Van Drew releases audio of columnist's threats over his switch to GOP from Democrat Party to support Trump



A Republican congressman who switched parties in 2019 over former President Donald Trump released audio of a threatening voicemail left by a columnist who also penned lurid and vitriolic columns against him and his family.

Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey held a media briefing on Monday where he demanded that action be taken against the columnist who threatened him and his family.

"For far too long, calls for violence have gone unchallenged, but today, right here in Cape May County, we are drawing a line in the sand," Van Drew said. "You can come after me with loud words and threats, but if anyone, let alone a member of the press, thinks they can threaten my wife and my family, they've got another thing coming."

Van Drew posted the audio of the call from Ocean City Sentinel guest contributor John McCall to his YouTube account.

"Since your betrayal of our party and your treasonous loyalty to the worst degenerate who has ever occupied the presidency in United States history, I can only say that I would swear to your demise as a politician, and I believe that you personally are a degenerate," McCall said on the recording.

"As a member of the New Jersey Press Association, I will do everything in my power to ensure that you are deposed if not dead," he added. The press association has denied that he was ever a member.

"Anything I can do to basically get you out of office, I will do," McCall added. "You are a traitor Jeff Van Drew, and you deserve the fate of all traitors."

McCall had also written a disturbing column fantasizing about the wife of the congressman being sexually assaulted.

"Van Drew's mentor has said it's cool to greet women by grabbing them between the legs," McCall wrote, referring to the notorious comments by Trump captured on a hot microphone in 2005.

"Should we test the acceptability of this remark and get the direct response of a prominent GOP female by greeting Van Drew's wife with the Republican high-five, lifting her over the hood of her car and objectively recording her physical reaction to the tickle when she lands?" McCall continued.

He also called for Van Drew to be executed for treason.

"Accountability is all-important in politics," he wrote in January. "Like all Trump loyalists, Van Drew and [Michael] DeVlieger are guilty of subverting the peaceful and equitable functioning of our government. This is not just a moral failing. This is treason. And the penalty for treason is execution. That applies to the great and the small, to presidents, congressmen and smalltown councilmen. It's the trickle down theory of responsibility."

The editor and the publisher of the McCall opinion column said that the outlet should not have published the acerbic column and printed an apology.

Here's the audio of the threatening call:

Jeff Van Drew Threatened by Radical Leftwww.youtube.com

Woman charged for allegedly making death threats against Republican election official in Michigan and her daughter



A woman was charged with making threats against a Republican election official in Michigan who had refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Details of the charges against 23-year-old Katelyn Jones were documented last week in an FBI court filing.

Prosecutors say that Jones sent a photos of a dead body and a threat to the family of Monica Palmer, a member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers.

The Wayne County Board became one of the centers of contention in the 2020 presidential election when two members refused to certify the results that claimed former Vice President Joe Biden was the winner.

"Based on what I saw and went through in poll books in this canvass, I believe that we do not have complete and accurate information in those poll books," said Palmer, the Republican chairwoman of the board, at the time.

The Republican members were publicly excoriated until they relented and later voted to certify the results.

Part of that public outrage included threats from Jones, said prosecutors.

Screenshots of the text messages allegedly sent by Jones showed photos of corpses blurred out. One of the messages asks Palmer to imagine the dead person is her daughter. Another calls her a terrorist for interfering in the election.

"The allegations in this case should make all of us disgusted," U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said. "There is simply no place in Michigan, or in the United States, for chilling threats like this to people who are simply doing what they believe is correct."

Schneider said there are other investigations into separate incidents of threats made against election officials.

Jones was charged with making threats of violence, and she faces up to 20 years of prison if found guilty of the charges.

After voting to certify the results, Palmer signed an affidavit saying she rescinded her vote because she was bullied and lied to by the Democrats.

Here's more about the threats against Palmer:

New Hampshire woman accused of sending threatening texts to Wayne County canvasserwww.youtube.com