Nancy Pelosi has been the target of several disturbing threats in recent years, as threats against members of Congress have been on the rise overall, police data shows.
Concerning statements and threats against members of Congress have more than doubled since 2017, to 9,625 cases in 2021, according to statistics from U.S. Capitol Police. In the first three months of this year alone, the U.S. Capitol Police opened roughly 1,820 cases over these types of threats.
Cleveland Grover Meredith, 53, of Hayesville, was in Washington, D.C., to attend rallies when he sent a text message to a relative that said he was thinking about heading to Nancy Pelosi's speech and "putting a bullet in her noggin on Live TV [purple devil emoji]," according to an indictment. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 30, 2022 in Washington, D.C.This past spring, a Florida man admitted to making threatening phone calls to the speaker, as well as New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.in April to threatening to behead the two congresswomen on separate calls. In March 2019, he called Nancy Pelosi's D.C.
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