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Readers respond: Punish threats to elected officials
Readers respond: Punish threats to elected officials
Readers respond: Punish threats to elected officials

Published on: 02/13/2026

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Ryan Routh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, and rightly so, (“Man convicted in Trump golf course assassination attempt gets life in prison,” Feb. 4). Yet after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, what did the people who entered the Capitol saying they wanted to kill Trump’s first term Vice President Mike Pence and then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi get?

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