A Nebraska woman says the Secret Service showed up at her door after she posted what many interpreted as a call for the televised execution of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
As reported by Gateway Pundit, self-described left-wing activist Jamie Bonkiewicz took to X on Thursday and wrote, When Karoline Leavitt gets what she deserves, I hope its televised.
Commenters quickly flagged the post as a threat or an incitement to violence, reading it as a wish for Leavitts death rather than mere political hyperbole. According to Bonkiewicz, that online rhetoric drew federal attention almost immediately.
The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet, she posted on X the following day, adding, No threats. No violence. Just words. Thats where we are now. Bonkiewicz also shared video of her interaction with agents, in which she insisted she was only advocating for public trials and declined to elaborate under questioning. In the footage, she portrays herself as a victim of government overreach, yet her own words suggest something far more extreme than a simple call for accountability.
The officer speaking with Bonkiewicz and her husband sought to clarify the legal line between protected speech and criminal threats. Obviously, you have freedom of speech. Everybody has that. Crossing the line is when youre going like a direct threat, like I will go kill the President, or statements like that, he explained, underscoring that explicit threats remain outside First Amendment protections. He continued, Something like this, veiled threat, its is it a threatening nature? Now that I know you didnt mean anything by it, its basically a non-issue. So, itll basically end here.
Yet Bonkiewicz openly acknowledged she envisioned something far darker for Leavitt than a routine court proceeding. She admitted she wanted a public Nuremberg-style execution, stating, Like the Nuremberg trials, invoking the post-World War II tribunals where Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity and 12 were sentenced to death. When all of this sh*t is over, I want to see all of them go to trial, and I want it to be televised, she added, making clear that her fantasy of justice ends at the gallows.
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At a time when leftists have repeatedly trafficked in violent rhetoric against Republican officialsmaking threats, attempting to kill President Trump, and celebrating or excusing political violence against prominent conservatives like Charlie Kirksuch statements cannot be brushed aside as harmless venting. The Bonkiewicz episode underscores a growing double standard in which incendiary language from the left is too often minimized, even as conservatives are relentlessly scrutinized, raising serious concerns about selective enforcement and the real-world dangers of normalized calls for political bloodshed.
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