Capitol riot Jeffries death threat.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on day 17 of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Man pardoned after storming Capitol is charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries

A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Police say Christopher Moynihan sent text messages Friday conveying death threats against Jeffries, a New York Democrat. Moynihan is charged with a felony count of making a terroristic threat. It’s unclear if Moynihan has an attorney representing him in the New York case. Jeffries says investigators apprehended “a dangerous individual who made a credible death threat” against him. Moynihan was among hundreds of convicted Capitol rioters who received pardons from Trump on the Republican president’s first day back in the White House.

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