A candidate for the Democratic nomination in a competitive congressional district celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk and said the United States deserved the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
Samuel Smeltzer, an IT specialist who identifies as a honey badger and goes by the name “Elyon Badger,” has a history of violent posts on BlueSky, a left-leaning competitor to X, formerly known as Twitter, the Washington Free Beacon reported. He is running for the House of Representatives in Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District, currently represented by Republican Rep. Tom Barrett, according to the outlet.
Smeltzer, who has also praised the assassinations of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk and United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, once posted to BlueSky about being banned from X for saying the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks carried out by the radical Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda.
“Well that’s gone for good I think,” Smeltzer posted on BlueSky on Oct. 25, 2024, showing a screenshot of the notice he had been banned from X for saying “America deserved 9/11 I agree.”
On the day Kirk was assassinated, Smeltzer posted an image of a skeleton wearing a Nazi hat.
“I for one, celebrate the death of every Nazi,” he said.
Smeltzer also said that Thompson’s killing was helping to “cure my depression.”
He also appeared to call for using the guillotine to execute very wealthy people.
“We need to find their mansions, yachts and jets and they all need to be burned,” he posted Friday in a thread about the $1 trillion compensation package Tesla shareholders offered CEO Elon Musk. “Then we can drop the guillotine on them.”
Smeltzer also targeted United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on multiple posts on the social media site, vowing to send them to “gulags.”
ICE facilities in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have been the scene of multiple riots as opposition to the agency’s operations targeting illegal immigrants has intensified. Some of the rioters in Chicago called for the ICE agents to be arrested or shot in a video posted online during one of the riots.
Two people were killed during a shooting at the ICE office in Dallas on Sept. 24, with the gunman taking his own life. In Texas, there were two previous incidents where shots were fired at ICE or Border Patrol facilities since July 4, with ten people being charged with attempted murder in connection with the former incident.
A person fired at ICE agents with a pistol when ICE raided a California marijuana farm in July after obtaining a warrant, with the FBI offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s identification, arrest and conviction.
“What’s inappropriate is billionaires existing,” Smeltzer told DCNF in an email. “Elon musk lives off of government tax dollars (38 billion to date) and when users on twitter proved Elon could singlehandedly end world hunger, he decided to become the worlds first trillionaire, while his DOGE wreaked havoc on the systems that keep poor Americans alive.”
Smeltzer added that billionaires “violated the social contract” while claiming they were in “solidarity with one another.” He added that the “proletariat are waking up to that fact.”
“Brian Thompson made money by denying people healthcare, Brian Thompson is a DEATH PANELIST because when you are DENIED DEFENDED and DEPOSED you are condemned to death by a billionaire,” Smeltzer continued.
This article has been updated with a response from Smeltzer.
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