'Kill The President': PA U.S. Senate Candidate Arrested For Threats

PITTSBURGH, PA — A man who announced his intention to challenge Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman in the 2028 election has been arrested.

Raymond Chandler of Wilkinsburg, was arrested by the FBI's Pittsburgh office and the Secret Service on Friday, the FBI confirmed.

According to an affidavit, Chandler left a voicemail message to an unidentified member of Congress and invited the Congressional member to envision the Congressional member and others in their family being assassinated.

"So imagine your house, your daughter’s house, everyone you know and love who is also rich. Imagine every single one of those homes being surrounded by a thousand people," the voice mail allegedly states.

"Then imagine them all getting a text and then, then suddenly
taking out their pocket knives, walking slowly towards your house with 10, you got your 10 guards or whatever against a thousand people, and then they come and they pull you out of your house and they slit your throat and they slit your daughter’s throat and they slit everyone’s throat.

"That you know, sir, that is the future."

A week later, Chandler allegedly left another voicemail for the Congressional member advocating the assassination of Trump.

"Sir, I’m calling this evening because what I want you to do is I want you to take a firearm. I want you to put it in your hand," the message allegedly states.

"I want you to walk into the Oval Office. I want you to put that firearm to the President’s head, and I want you to pull the trigger and I want you to kill him.

"I am petitioning you, Senator for redress of grievances. My redress of grievances is that this president is awful . . . He’s a liar among all liars. He’s a great deceiver. He’s the antichrist.

"I want you to walk into the Oval Office with a gun in your hand. I want you to put it to his temple, and I want you to pull the trigger. That is what I want you to do as my agent. That’s what I want you to do as my elected official.

"I want you to kill the President. I want you to assassinate the president."

Chandler is facing charges of Influencing, impeding or retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member and by threatening a federal official.