Radio Host Who Threatened To Shoot Clinton Is Spokesman For Oregon Militia

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Right wing radio host Pete Santilli acted as a spokesman Monday for the armed militia movement in rural, eastern Oregon in an interview with Fox News.

“They’re here to enforce the supreme law of the land, which is the U.S. Constitution,” Santilli said an episode of Fox News’ afternoon program “Happening Now.”

Santilli came under fire, including an investigation by the Secret Service, after he threatened to shoot former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “in the vagina” in 2013.

Armed militia members, took over an unoccupied building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon’s eastern desert near the town of Burns.

h/t Media Matters

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  1. I don’t suppose anyone on FOX asked him where the Constitution condones insurrection. Until someones says “hey buddy…just throwing the word Constitution in to a shit storm doesn’t make it a sunny day” and demand he cite the language in the Constitution that supports them and explain why all the language that doesn’t should be qualified…these assholes are going to use the “Constitution” to take away the Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness the Declaration of Independence says we all deserve.

  2. Avatar for bkmn bkmn says:

    Go ahead and make that threat again. Now that she is a candidate for POTUS the Secret Service would love to talk to people like him.

  3. Wow, they really rolled out their all-star team for this one!

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