Trump Fan Who Threatened Poll Workers And Officials Sent To Prison
Credit: Lubbock County Detention Center
August 7, 2023

There wasn't much hostility toward poll workers until Donald Trump took office. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, of Texas, advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Maricopa County, Arizona
officials and their children, so now he's going to Big Boy prison for 3 1/2 years, prosecutors said.

Everything Lubbock reports:

Goltz was arrested by the FBI in December after he was caught making posts on right-wing websites threatening to injure political officials and their children. According to court documents, Goltz had an account under the name "FreeSpeechMaster" on a website that described itself as "the ultimate right-wing news, memes and discussion aggregator."

Court documents stated "FreeSpeechMaster" posted, "Hypothetically, a mass shooting of poll workers and election officials in these highly suspect precincts might be the way to go."

In November, court records stated Goltz wrote, "We are in dire need of a REAL holocaust this time." In a post about a "prominent American Jewish politician," court documents said Goltz commented, "I want to throw that Jew in an oven so badly, I can taste it."

He doesn't seem very pro-life to me:

In response to posts about another Maricopa County official, Goltz suggested targeting the official's children. Another user said kids were "off limits." Goltz's account replied that nothing was off limits and said the other user did not "have the stomach to do whatever it takes to get our country back."

Goltz pleaded guilty to Interstate Threatening Communications, and after he serves the 3 1/2 years in prison, he will be on supervised release for three years. Trump has been responsible for putting a countless amount of his supporters in jail. Who knows, Goltz might even end up as Trump's cellmate.

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