Politics
GOP Congressman ‘Nearly Killed’ By Left-Wing Radical
A Republican congressman was run off the road and nearly killed Thursday after a far-left individual attempted to ram him with their car while traveling at high speed.
The incident occurred along an Indiana highway where Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) said he avoided his brush with death in Rocky River, a small city sitting along Lake Erie to the state’s northeast.
There, “the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who proceeded to show a Palestinian flag before taking off,” he wrote on X while sharing a video describing the harrowing encounter.
“I have filed a police report with Capitol Police and the local police department. We know who this person is and he will face justice,” he went on.
“If you have an issue with a legislator, your city councilman, your mayor, anyone like that, the appropriate thing to do is to reach out to them for a phone call to set up a meeting at one of our district offices. What is not okay is to assault anyone, whether you’re a member of Congress or anyone else within our district while you are driving to work.”
“While I was driving to work, some deranged, unhinged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention to show me a Palestinian flag — not to mention ‘death to Israel,’ death to me — that he wanted to kill me and my family. Thank god my daughter wasn’t in the vehicle at the time.”
WATCH:
The explosion of politically-motivated violence in recent years has left members of Congress fearful for their safety and contemplating the possibility that an assassination may even tip the balance of power, something the U.S. House has no plan to address, the Washington Post reported.
“Part of our job is to think about the unthinkable,” former Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA) told the outlet about a working group convened last year to contemplate such a scenario.
While succession plans are in place for the presidency and U.S. senators, the Constitution requires states to set a date for a special election to fill a House vacancy, something that may take up to a year to complete.
That’s left Republicans reliant on Rep. Miller and others to be constantly available to pass critical legislation by just a handful of votes. Past attempts on the lives of House members — including the 2011 shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) and Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) surviving the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — seem to be on the minds of Washington, D.C. lawmakers this week.
Davis, who was at home plate the day Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was shot, told Politico he always carries a gun as a result of the experience “in order to fire back if somebody decides to come and kill me and my friends again.”