Says threat to kill sen. no big deal
Federal prosecutors have charged a Brooklyn man with threatening to “put a bullet” in a U.S. senator because she criticized President Trump on reproductive rights issues — though the suspect declared Wednesday night he doesn’t “think it’s that big” a deal.
Michael Brogan, 51, was so riled up by a video he saw of the senator blasting Trump that he called her D.C. office Dec. 4 and left a rambling, menacing message, prosecutors said.
Federal authorities aren’t identifying the lawmaker.
“Not to trivialize it, I wish in retrospect I didn’t do it, but I don’t think it’s that big,” Brogan told The Daily News at his Marine Park home Wednesday night.
“I’m going to put a bullet in ya. When I’m in D.C. and you’re there, I got your f---ing mark, you stupid b---h,” he said, according to a criminal complaint. “You and your constant lambasting of President Trump.”
He continued: “If I saw you, I’d snuff your stupid f---ing a--. I’d put a f---ing bullet in you. You watch your a--.”
U.S. Capitol Police agents tracked the call to Brogan, and Wednesday, agents searched his home. He said he made the call because a video of the senator made him “very angry,” though he didn’t remember what he said, the complaint alleges.
Brogan was released to house arrest on $50,000 bond, and must wear an ankle monitor.
He brushed off comparisons to MAGA bomber suspect Cesar Sayoc, who’s accused of sending 14 explosive devices to prominent Democrats.
“I would never do that. I would have done it already. I would never do that, I was just blowing off some steam,” he said.
“Honestly, if they didn’t come I probably would have forgotten about the call altogether,” Brogan said. “I reacted the wrong way and I made a call, I shouldn’t have done it. I’m sorry.”