A right-wing American politician who shot into the homes of politicians and election officials from New Mexico has been arrested along with four men for hire. In the November 2022 midterm elections, Solomon Peña, who is running in Republican colors, lost to his Democratic rival by 48 percentage points in the race for a House seat from the 2.1 million member state.
Peña’s rival, Miguel Garcia, began disqualifying the Republican candidate during the campaign after it was revealed that he had served seven years in prison for theft between 2008 and 2015. However, the local judge did not consider criminal record a disqualification factor, but in the end, he defeated him. Garcia 74-26.
However, Peña was unconcerned with his defeat and, in November, visited the electoral officials of his district and a senator at their homes to show them the “evidence” that election fraud had taken place against him. When caught by the authorities, the man hired four people, who conducted four armed visits to two local politicians and two members of the Electoral College from the beginning of December to the beginning of January; They fired several bullets into their homes and left. Someone attacked me CNN reportedthat he was awakened from his sleep by gunshots, and after the attackers moved away, they found 11 bullet wounds lodged in the outer walls and ceiling of the living room.
According to Albuquerque police, the final shooting on January 3 was accompanied by Peña himself, who sprayed the target’s house with a dozen rounds in all—and would have sprayed more if his AR-15 carbine hadn’t been jammed into the main shaft. According to the authorities, no one was harmed by the bombing of houses.
With the help of surveillance camera footage, seized weapons, wiretapped phone calls, and intercepted messages, the police were able to uncover the organization, which is considered a “conspiracy” according to the law. At the moment, the identity of the militants hired by Peña is not known, as well as the nature and goals of the “conspiracy” that formed between the five men.
the Axios reminded me of that, that the number of threats and attacks against elected officials increased in the United States in 2022; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, who resigned in January, was hit with a hammer by a man brainwashed with a QAnon conspiracy theory. Members of non-political member states’ election commissions have been harassed and abused ever since Donald Trump declared before the 2020 presidential election that his possible (eventually) electoral defeat could be the result of fraud, and that has been the case ever since. Republican officials categorically denied. Election fraud has become a myth that shapes the identity of the Trumpian wing of the Republican Party. The power of the myth is demonstrated by the fact that on January 6, 2021, Trump managed to send thousands of supporters to siege the US legislative building, the Capitol, with his false slogan and bad faith to prevent election fraud.
