Friday, June 18, 2021

Florida Republican Is Recorded Threatening To Call "My Russian-Ukrainian Hit Squad" And Have His Opponent Murdered ("I Really Don't Want To Have To End Anybody's Life . . . But If It Needs To Be Done . . . [She's] A Fucking Speed Bump In The Road. She's A Dead Squirrel You Run Over . . . For The Good Of The Country, We Have To Sacrifice The Few.")

Marc Caputo, Politico, June 17, 2021:
A little-known GOP candidate in one of Florida's most competitive congressional seats was secretly recorded threatening to send "a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad" to a fellow Republican opponent to make her "disappear."

During a 30-minute call with a conservative activist that was recorded before he became a candidate, William Braddock repeatedly warned the activist to not support GOP candidate Anna Paulina Luna in the Republican primary for a Tampa Bay-area congressional seat because he had access to assassins. The seat is being vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), who is running for governor.

"I really don't want to have to end anybody's life for the good of the people of the United States of America," Braddock said at one point in the conversation last week, according to the recording exclusively obtained by POLITICO. "That will break my heart. But if it needs to be done, it needs to be done. Luna is a f---ing speed bump in the road. She's a dead squirrel you run over every day when you leave the neighborhood."

Reached by text message, Braddock refused to say whether he made any threats about Luna to the person who recorded him, Erin Olszewski. . . . "[It's] allegedly me … there is no proof of that." . . .

Olszewski . . . made it because she was concerned about Braddock's "unhinged" dislike of Luna that he had previously expressed. After she made the recording just after midnight last Wednesday, she promptly turned it over to St. Petersburg, Fla., police . . .

In the recording, Braddock early in the call brought up the alleged assassins. He also made rambling statements about getting financial help from fellow Freemasons or by somehow importing millions of dollars from Malta and Gibraltar.

"I have access to a hit squad, too, Ukrainians and Russians," he said about three minutes into the call, adding "don't get caught out in public supporting Luna. … Luna's gonna go down and I hope it's by herself." . . .

It's unclear exactly why Braddock has such dislike toward Luna. The two do not appear to have any previous connection to one another . . .

Olszewski, who initiated and recorded the call just after midnight on June 9, said she phoned Braddock at his insistence . . .

Braddock said on the recorded call that the "pivotal" St. Petersburg-based district will take on outsized importance in 2022 to keep America from devolving into a "communist-socialist s---hole." When Olszewski asked him why he had Russians at the ready, Braddock indicated they were to stop Luna.

"My polling people are going to charge me $20,000 to do a poll right before the primary. And if the poll says Luna's gonna win, she's gonna be gone. She's gonna disappear," Braddock said in the recorded call, pledging Olszewski to secrecy. "For the good of our country, we have to sacrifice the few. … For the better or the good of the majority of the people, we've got to sacrifice the few."

Later in the call, Olszewski asked what would happen if "Luna is gonna win" and Braddock assured her that wouldn't happen.

"She's gonna be gone. Period. That's the end of the discussion. Luna is not an issue," he said.

Olszewski pushed him, asking "how do we make her go, though? I just don't understand that."

"I call up my Russian and Ukrainian hit squad, and within 24 hours, they're sending me pictures of her disappearing," he replied. "No, I'm not joking. Like, this is beyond my control this point."

Asked if the killers were snipers, Braddock described them as, "Russian mafia. Close-battle combat, TEC-9s, MAC-10s, silencers kind of thing. No snipers. Up close and personal. So they know that the target has gone."

Olszewski said that threats like the ones Braddock made "you can't take lightly. Normal people don't say these things."
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1 comment:

  1. RetariusMonday, June 21, 2021 7:00:00 PM

    That Jones photograph; he's exactly the same in both, simply lit/filtered differently. 😄

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