Trump Supporter Arrested After Allegedly Threatening To Kill Members of Congress

[DesertRat]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested on accusations he threatened to kill members of Congress during a three-year stretch with more than 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol and profanity-laden tirades about Democrats threatening the presidency of Donald Trump.

In one call last month, Scott Brian Haven dialed the office of an unnamed U.S. representative and purported to be standing right behind him and ready to “shoot him in the head” because “the Russians want him taken out because he is trying to remove a duly elected President,” according to charging documents unsealed Wednesday.

Haven, 54, said, “I’m going to do it now, are you ready?” before hanging up, prosecutors allege.

Haven threatened to cut off the heads of two senators in another call and in yet another one identified himself as Hitler and yelled repeatedly he would “put a bullet” in the head of the senator, the documents said.

He was arrested Tuesday in his hometown of Kaysville, Utah, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City. He is charged with interstate transmission of threats to injure. State online records indicate he has no criminal history in Utah.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-man-arrested-threatening-kill-congress_n_5cf97deee4b0b08cf7eb3fb9?52l

[samnsara]

1. lock him up!

[sheshe2]

2. Cold dead eyes.

Soulless.

Typical tRump supporter.

[DesertRat]

3. I noticed that too, sheshe

[sheshe2]

4. I am scared too, DesertRat.

[real Cannabis calm]

12. That fool should be afraid! Do you know how many people of color - who hate Trump - are in prison?

[smirkymonkey]

18. Why do they all look like they are related?

Seriously, they all look pretty much the same. Must be all that inbreeding.

[47of74]

10. Where I live in Iowa it took years of complaints for the fuzz to get off their asses...

...and arrest a former police captain who spent his retirement mailing invective to half the city.

It was only after he threatened more well connected individuals they finally felt the need to arrest him. This was after years of complaints to the fuzz.

[Aristus]

13. Unless the complaint is "innocent, unarmed young black man making racist old lady nervous"

it can be impossible to get the fuzz off their asses to do anything...

Not when there are so many doughnuts that need eating...

[Scurrilous]

6. ...

[safeinOhio]

7. Pardon is in the works.

Would not be shocked.

[DesertRat]

8. Oh gawd, I hadn't thought of that

But it wouldn't surprise me.

[47of74]

11. Along with a cabinet position

[walkingman]

29. Probably a Presidential Medal of Freedom

[Cha]

9. Culture of Violence and Stupid.. this is what

have to beat out of our WH in 2020.

[ooky]

14. Good to get him off the streets.

Obviously anyone having such thoughts should never again be walking around loose.

[DesertRat]

31. It's not about thoughts

He can have whatever kinds of thoughts he wants. It’s his behavior that’s the problem.

[ProudLib72]

15. because "the Russians want him taken out because he is trying to remove a duly elected President,"

This says it all. These fuckwads are more invested in mother Russia than the USA. Send him to Russia. Just fly him over Siberia and drop him off via parachute. Revoke his US citizenship.

[Initech]

16. Trump's brand of stochastic terrorism is going to get people killed.

Oh wait, it already has.

[gratuitous]

17. And it only took a couple thousand calls to set the cops on him

White privilege? What's that?

[Maru Kitteh]

19. They could see his race on the telephone? Weird.

I kid! I kid!

Doesn't take a genius to put that puzzle together. Hates Democrats. Trump supporter. Especially if they knew the calls were coming from Utah. And let's go ahead and get back to that whole, "if they knew" thingy while we're at it, shall we?

Lookie here! It Utah, he's not even a "Trump supporter," he's a Utahn "frustrated by Democrats, liberals" for "mistreating President Donald Trump."

Utahn frustrated by Democrats, liberals threatened senator, charges state
https://www.ksl.com/article/46567772/utahn-frustrated-by-democrats-liberals-threatened-senator-charges-state

OH! And in this Utah article, not only is he not identified as a Trump supporter, we find out the FBI has known about this fucking fascist boot-licking psycho for YEARS.

Kaysville man charged with threatening members of Congress, made more than 2,000 calls
The complaint accuses Haven of calling in to congressional offices in Washington, D.C., hundreds of times over a year.

snip

The first threat was made to a senator’s office on May 17, 2018, the complaint states. The caller said “he would like to slice [Senator 1]’s head off and [Senator 2]’s head, too,” the complaint states, adding it was one of 32 times Haven called the Capitol Switchboard on that day. Two more threats were recorded, on Sept. 18 and Oct. 18, 2018, before FBI agents in Utah went to Haven’s house to talk to him on Nov. 13, 2018, the complaint states. <snip> He later told the agents his calls were “just meaningless threats that were made out of frustrations,” and told the agents he would stop calling Congress. He also told the agents he owned a .22 caliber firearm.

snip

On April 25, the complaint said, a threat was made to a fourth senator. Another representative got a threatening call May 15, in which the caller said he would “use his 2nd Amendment Right to blow the head off” the congressperson. Yet another representative got a threatening call on May 23. And the first senator’s office received a threatening call — the seventh overall — on May 28, which referred to a fifth senator and Kerry.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/06/06/kaysville-man-charged/

So, yeah. Just another psychotic white Trump supporter with a gun making graphic threats of murder and violence . . . Why bother this fine person? He's busy. He's got things to do.

[gratuitous]

20. He just acted out of frustration

I think we've all been there, right? You make a couple thousand harmless telephone calls, threatening some random violence, and the next thing you know the cops are all up in your grill! How is that even fair to poor misunderstood Mr. Haven?

[NastyRiffraff]

21. Another fine person

We must understand his anger and encourage him to seek help. He's a victim after all.

[trueblue2007]

22. If a person was saying this about TRUMP he would have been arrested immediately!!!

If a person was saying this about TRUMP he would have been arrested immediately!!! Why didn't they arrest him YEARS AGO !!!!!

[peggysue2]

23. Gee, he looks like a . . .

friendly fellow. This is why words matter. If you incite the crazies, you shouldn't be surprised when they act . . . crazy, threaten to blow the joint up and/or punish perceived opponents trashed on a daily basis by the Squatter-in-Chief.

Trump might as well be drawing 'X's' on every Democratic member's back. His attacks are obscene! And so is this guy.

[MineralMan]

24. I can see that he's someone I would avoid any contact with.

Dead eyes. Permanent frown, and that chin beard and mustache I see all to often on right wingers. It's almost a trademark. When I see someone who looks like that, I move off in a different direction. That overall look spells danger to me.

I hope they can lock his ass up, but he'll probably get kicked loose by a judge.

Here's another one:

[jberryhill]

26. Didn't know that about the "circle beard" style

The things I learn on DU.













I sort of suspected Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Will Smith to be right wingers, but Jeff Bridges was a surprise to me.

[DBoon]

28. when I'm looking for parking

and I see a car festooned with Trump bumper stickers, Infowars sticker, "Lock her up", etc, I find a space at the other end of the garage, ideally a few levels removed

I don't see these as people with different opinions, I see them as a violent act waiting to happen

[durablend]

25. He's just economically anxious

We really need to start reaching out to these people

[sop]

27. This is the very definition of terrorism

Trump's followers are known as "the base" and the translation of Al-Qaeda is "the base."

[Vinca]

30. He's got the weird, cultish expression that many of Don's followers do.

Trump is like Jim Jones with weirder hair.