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NY Man Convicted of Making Death Threats Against US Lawmakers A New York man who threatened to kill Democratic members of Congress on social media earlier this year was found guilty by a jury at a federal court in Brooklyn on April 28, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Brendan Hunt, a 37-year-old part-time actor and filmmaker from Queens who sometimes used the alias “X-Ray Ultra,” was found guilty of one count of threatening to assault or murder multiple U.S. officials in a video posted online, officials said in a statement.

Brendan Hunt told a federal court in Brooklyn that his statements should not be taken seriously.

“If you look at what I was saying, the idea that I would somehow borrow someone’s gun and waltz into Biden’s inauguration ceremony like some Looney Toons character,” Brendan Hunt said under direct examination. “I think it’s a pretty ridiculous idea.”

Queens Man Who Threatened Lawmakers Wanted Trump To Be Like Hitler: Prosecutors Nazi sympathies arise in the trial of Brendan Hunt, who sometimes wrote extremist messages in code. "I don't want to kill the 'juice' just yet," he said in a video. A 37-year-old New Yorker who’s on trial for threats to lawmakers before and after the U.S. Capitol riot told his father that he wanted President Donald Trump to declare martial law, like Adolf Hitler did in Germany, according to prosecutors. Fervent Trump supporter Brendan Hunt was an apparent disciple of Nazi ideals and right-wing conspiracy theori...

A prosecutor urged a jury in a trial's opening statement to convict a New York man who threatened to kill members of Congress in a video posted online, but a defense lawyer dismissed his rants as speech-protected hyperbole so absurd that they bordered on comedy.