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CEO Who Threatened To Kill Trump With Sniper Rifle Says Life Has Been Turned Upside Down
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Posted on 11/20/2016 3:46:00 PM PST by RummyChick

We all make choices in life, some of them are dumber than others. This former CEO however, takes the cake. He is likely not going to get too much sympathy from anyone other than George Soros or the underbelly of the Democrat Party…

The former CEO of a local cybersecurity firm is talking first to 10News – about his threat to shoot President-elect Donald Trump.

Team 10 Investigator Allison Ash sat down with Matt Harrigan Tuesday afternoon. He tells Allison he’s been getting death threats since the posts went viral and he and his family have relocated until the storm settles.

Harrigan was the CEO of PacketSled until he resigned his position Tuesday morning. He said he’s sorry for his words, and he wants his side of the story told.

Harrigan wrote the series of Facebook posts on election night. They were words that he thought only his friends would see. He wrote, “I’m going to kill the president. elect” and “Bring it, secret service.” He even mentioned getting a sniper rifle and targeting the White House once Donald Trump was living there.

Harrigan said his Facebook friends shared the post on Twitter and that’s how it went viral. He says, he’s ashamed of what he wrote.

“I’m incredibly apologetic, for that. I don’t know,” Harrigan said. “It was [a] very, very dumb thing to do, and I regret it very much… and I would take it back if I could.”

Harrigan said he was drunk when he wrote the “absurd comments” on election night before Donald Trump won the election. He said most of his friends knew he was just being “over the top” with his “distasteful joke”.

At least one of those friends wasn’t amused, sharing the disturbing messages outside their circle of Facebook friends. “It started to trend very, very quickly and started spiraling and I was blown away,” Harrigan admitted

The Secret Service spent two hours interviewing Harrigan inside his Del Mar home. They did not say whether criminal charged would be filed against the married father of two.

Harrigan said his family has been forced out of their home by death threats from people unhappy with his remarks. Although he said the threats he made against Donald Trump were “a joke”, he is taking the threats against his family seriously. –ABC 10 News


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: good; haha; harrigan; ilaughed; justice; mattharrigan; nojoke; notfunny; packetsled; secretservice; trump
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To: RummyChick

Friends don’t let friends drink and tweet!


141 posted on 11/20/2016 6:08:40 PM PST by winner3000
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To: RummyChick

That’s about as smart as making a joke about hijacking the aircraft you just boarded.


142 posted on 11/20/2016 6:12:12 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: SaveFerris

Lynch will do nothing to him. Sessions will.


143 posted on 11/20/2016 6:12:24 PM PST by profit_guy
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To: Califreak
Although he said the threats he made against Donald Trump were “a joke”, he is taking the threats against his family seriously.

"I was just joking, you don't have to be mean about it"...
...What happens when snowflakes (sort of) grow up.

144 posted on 11/20/2016 6:15:48 PM PST by norton
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To: RummyChick

This is a man that doesn’t have the temperament to be a CEO.


145 posted on 11/20/2016 6:18:52 PM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Califreak

The irony is delicious.

He says his threat to kill Trump was a joke, but now that he’s receiving death threats it’s no longer a joking matter.

Liberals! Men.


146 posted on 11/20/2016 6:27:35 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: RummyChick

“CEO Who Threatened To Kill Trump With Sniper Rifle Says Life Has Been Turned Upside Down”

As well it should be! Asshole!


147 posted on 11/20/2016 6:35:43 PM PST by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: RummyChick

ah...no mention of the
“In no uncertain terms, f*** you America. Seriously. F*** off.”
tweets.
So he meant them ?


148 posted on 11/20/2016 6:42:24 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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Loretty the non lyncher and jimmy the weasel won’t do a thing about this public threat to the prez elect. Now if he was a right winger he would be in the electric chair already. Two worlds two laws.


149 posted on 11/20/2016 6:46:03 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Roger Kaputnik

They can dish it out, but they sure can’t take it.


150 posted on 11/20/2016 7:03:24 PM PST by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: RummyChick

Waterboard him.


151 posted on 11/20/2016 7:14:07 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m sure those people sending him death threats are “only joking” also. No reason to move and disrupt his family over a few jokes. After all, they were probably drunk when they wrote them.

On a serious note, whoever these people are who send death threats, STOP IT.


152 posted on 11/20/2016 7:18:31 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: JBW1949

It is a start-up...he founded it.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-packetsled-trump-20161114-story.html


153 posted on 11/20/2016 7:24:08 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Califreak

Dude wrote 5 tweets about assassinating Trump. A bit more then a “joke”.


154 posted on 11/20/2016 7:56:32 PM PST by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: Kozak

Agreed.

But in his mind he was probably making inroads with the Kool Kids.

Sad.


155 posted on 11/20/2016 7:58:57 PM PST by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

O.K. I hope you’re right. I don’t wish him any bad luck; but if he has some I wouldn’t mind hearing about it.
(Snicker-snort).


156 posted on 11/20/2016 8:33:15 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in theolog and politics.)
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To: RummyChick
"CEO Who Threatened To Kill Trump With Sniper Rifle Says Life Has Been Turned Upside Down"


157 posted on 11/20/2016 8:35:48 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

158 posted on 11/20/2016 8:37:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: RummyChick

Guys twitter feed is a joke. I think it’s a small company with little oversight. Very unprofessional behavior by Harrigan - pushing politics, using curse words, etc.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattharrigan

He posted a pic of Trump’s mom in MAY!


159 posted on 11/20/2016 8:51:00 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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>> he’s been getting death threats since the posts went viral and he and his family have relocated until the storm settles.

Imagine that... But an unfortunate response to the vacuum of law. Why wasn’t this idiot arrested?

It’s one thing to criticize, but threats are unacceptable.


160 posted on 11/20/2016 9:01:48 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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