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The election is less than one month away, and politics are now so divisive that people are receiving death threats based on the presidential candidate to whom they’ve made campaign contributions. Welcome to 2016.
Renee Rush of A.W. Rush & Co. Legal Search Consultants claims that just before Sunday night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, she received a telephone call from an unfamiliar number. The caller, a man, claimed to be with the Clinton campaign.
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Big Law Business has the details on what happened next:
After Rush said she had already “maxed out” her donations, the voice said, according to her account: “Shits like you shouldn’t be alive anymore and we have a pine box waiting for you.”
Startled, Rush hung up and headed to her friend’s house near Central Park West, where she was going to watch the debate. There, she received another call from the same number, a line she later learned was a generic phone number from Optimum.
The same voice came back, according to Rush: “The pine box is waiting,” he said.
This time, Rush said she called the police and hung up.
According to the police report, Rush, a longtime Clinton supporter who had donated at least $1,500 to her campaign, “fear[ed] for her life and safety” after receiving the calls. Rush’s complaint is still under investigation, and the New York Police Department declined to comment on whether other similiar complaints had been filed.
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After Clinton Donation, Legal Recruiter Complains of Death Threat [Big Law Business]
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