It’s no secret that many (most) conservatives were anxious to see Rep. John Boehner replaced with a more effective and conservative House Speaker to stand up to the executive branch this year. No one wished harm on the Speaker, though, or so we thought.
Major media outlets are reporting tonight that Michael Hoyt, formerly a bartender at Wetherington Country Club in West Chester, Ohio, has been indicted for threatening to murder Boeher, perhaps by poisoning one of his drinks or shooting him.
Bartender indicted for threats against Rep. Boehner http://t.co/frfHqeU2GQ
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 14, 2015
CBS News reports that Hoyt certainly had at his disposal other means of doing harm than poison.
… After he was fired from his job at the country club, Hoyt claimed he began hearing voices from the devil from the radio in his car and at his home. The voices, he said, were telling him that John Boehner was evil.
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The criminal complaint states that Hoyt had several weapons in his possession including a .380 Baretta automatic pistol, knives, and an ax. Court documents show that Hoyt’s mother had previously removed an SKS assault rifle from her son’s home.
Isn’t a death threat above politicizing? Boehner could have been murdered.
@CNN A for effort! LOL!
— Anne (@niakeeg) January 14, 2015
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@CNNSitRoom @CNN It shouldn't be funny… But it is. pic.twitter.com/3bJxmOcrL7
— ? (@ItsOnlyIke) January 14, 2015
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What's the big deal about the Boehner death threat. Obama gets multiple threats each week. The new speaker is wuss.#UniteBlue— Tom Gray (@tomgray56) January 14, 2015
@PoliticsNation but all the threats against the president and nothing
— Pia Jackson (@samkarlus01) January 14, 2015
@ABC @happyloner @WCPO Boehner is the poison killing the middle class of the united states.
— Yours Truly (@DanBeThyName) January 13, 2015
@ABC @WCPO The bartender probably makes $4 an hour w/ no health insurance… GOP better open their rigid minds to working class?
— SheilaChicago (@ChicagoSheila) January 13, 2015
@HuffingtonPost Seems @SpeakerBoehner needs to find a new venue for his alcoholism. One without immigrants, unions, min wage or liberal bias
— ALL MIGHT (@llmight) January 14, 2015
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@ABC @WCPO Why? His is drinking himself to death. Lol liver gone all to hell. Another Merlot please is his 3 words.
— truth (@whodatnick) January 13, 2015
I’m glad they caught this would be Boehner assassin. If he’d done it Obama would have been a prime suspect on FOX News. #maddow
— sjglass ?????? (@UrquhartMP) January 14, 2015
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