Category: Anna Paulina Luna

Former Florida Congressional Candidate Charged After Threatening To Kill Opponent Rep. Ana Paulina Luna

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OAN Staff Abril Elfi
10:40 AM – Sunday, September 29, 2024

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A former Republican congressional candidate has been charged after allegations of threatening to kill his political opponent in 2021. 

William Braddock has been accused of making the alleged threats on June 8th, 2021, which include threatening to “call up [his] Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” to take out his rival, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.).

Prosecutors stated that the Republican candidate had been caught on audio calling Luna a “dead squirrel” and “a f—ing speed bump in the road.” 

A conservative activist recorded Braddock where he can be heard making threats against Luna.

“I really don’t want to have to end anybody’s life for the good of the people of the United States of America,” he was heard saying in the audio, as reported by Politico.

“That will break my heart. But if it needs to be done, it needs to be done. Luna is a f—ing speed bump in the road. She’s a dead squirrel that you run over every day when you leave the neighborhood.”

Braddock then went on to deny making any threats and insisted that the audio may have been altered. A judge later green-lit a restraining order against him.

After leaving the U.S., Braddock went to the Philippines and was eventually extradited there. The Justice Department said he was charged with one count of interstate transmission of a true threat to injure another person. 

On Thursday, he appeared in federal court in Los Angeles.

After winning the election, Luna was sworn into Congress for the first time in January 2023. 

Luna disclosed earlier this month that a “very serious shooting threat” was received by her office. She was vague about the specifics of the threat due to an ongoing investigation into it by law enforcement.

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BREAKING: Anna Luna shooting threat, predicts that Donald Trump will be attacked again

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) said she was the subject of a “very serious shooting threat,” and she blamed “rhetoric” coming from “the left.” “Over the last few weeks, I have received an increasing number of threats and doxxing attacks." "An online page was encouraging strangers to send threatening packages to my home,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “This weekend, it escalated to a very serious shooting threat, and we are taking every necessary step to ensure the safety of my family, staff, and our district.” It comes just days after Luna claimed she had been doxxed and had threatening packages sent to her St. Petersburg, Fla. home after her former Democratic opponent labeled her a “threat to democracy.” The congresswoman, who stopped short of naming her Democratic challenger, Whitney Fox, said her rival’s “irresponsible rhetoric” has led her to suffer an unhinged harassment campaign. “When you label people a threat to democracy and attempt to dehumanize/lie about them, violence occurs,” Luna penned in the lengthy X post. She accused Fox, a former Pinellas County transportation official who has centered her campaign on reproductive rights, of allowing her Democratic supporters to use the comments section of her campaign’s social media pages to dox the lawmaker. “The fact that this went on for weeks is not only abhorrent, but it is shameful,” Luna said, adding that she’d contacted local law enforcement.

'VERY SERIOUS': Florida Republican receives shooting threat at home