Sam Amico
A New Hampshire man is facing federal charges for allegedly sending text messages in which he threatened to kill Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, authorities said.
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Tyler Anderson, 30, allegedly was responding to a promotional text from Ramaswamy’s campaign team when making the threat. The message was alerting those who received it of a Ramaswamy political event taking place in Portsmouth, N.H. Anderson resides in Dover, N.H., per reports.
“Great, another opportunity for me to blow his brains out!” Anderson’s texted response read, according to the US Attorney’s office. “I’m going to kill everyone who attends and then [expletive] their corpses.”
Per Boston 25 News: “Ramaswamy was the only candidate with a listed at the event in Portsmouth at the Roundabout Diner. He was also scheduled to make stops in Nashua and Manchester on Monday.”
Anderson is facing up to five years in prison and a fine that could reach $250,000, according to the US Attorney’s office.
Boston 25 News added:
“Court paperwork indicates investigators searched his phone and found the messages in question in the ‘deleted’ items folder.
“Agents say Anderson admitted to sending the threatening text messages and that he also “sent similar threatening messages to multiple other campaigns.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, 38, founded pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences in 2014. He announced he would be running for president in February.
