An upstate New York man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for his actions on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 allegedly threatened to kill Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, New York State Police mentioned.
Christopher Moynihan, 34, of Clinton, was arrested Saturday and charged with making a terroristic risk, police mentioned. He’s the primary pardoned Capitol rioter to be arrested over alleged political violence.
He appeared within the City of Clinton Courtroom the place he was remanded to the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Middle in lieu of $10,000 money bail, police mentioned.
He’s scheduled to make his first look in Dutchess County State Supreme Courtroom on Thursday. It was not instantly clear whether or not he had employed a lawyer.
Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries waits for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese throughout a photograph alternative on the Capitol, Oct. 21, 2025.
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Jeffries, D-N.Y., mentioned in a assertion Tuesday that he’s “grateful to state and federal legislation enforcement for his or her swift and decisive motion to apprehend a harmful particular person who made a reputable demise risk in opposition to me with each intention to hold it out.”
Moynihan was convicted of obstructing an official continuing in 2022 after he broke by way of a safety perimeter and entered the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Photos included in a federal criticism present Christopher Moynihan within the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Prosecutors mentioned he entered the Senate Gallery and paged by way of a pocket book on prime of a senator’s desk and took photographs along with his cellphone. Throughout the riot he mentioned, “There’s received to be one thing in right here we will f—ing use in opposition to these —-bags,” in response to prosecutors. Courtroom filings from when he was charged included screenshots from a video displaying Moynihan within the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Moynihan was sentenced to almost two years in jail in February 2023 earlier than he and greater than 1,500 others who had been convicted or in any other case charged in reference to the Jan. 6 riot acquired a pardon hours after Trump took workplace.
