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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

His wife is screwed. She’ll eventually divorce him, but he’ll have no assets and no income by then, so she’ll leave with very little to show for it.


41 posted on 11/20/2016 3:58:40 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of my heart, and You love me the same...)
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To: JudyinCanada

Yet there is are 100 others for this one guy . . .


42 posted on 11/20/2016 3:58:50 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: spintreebob

[I’ve met some of his type in IT.]

Oh yes. It’s even more fun when a non-I/T person tells you how things are supposed to be in I/T. Been there, done that. More than once and recently.


43 posted on 11/20/2016 3:58:53 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Stupid is as stupid does, and stupid deserves the results of his stupidity.


44 posted on 11/20/2016 3:59:04 PM PST by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: RummyChick
Harrigan said his family has been forced out of their home by death threats from people unhappy with his remarks

Maybe the people are just joking...nyuk, nyuk.

45 posted on 11/20/2016 3:59:23 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RummyChick
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46 posted on 11/20/2016 3:59:36 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: ThunderSleeps

It’s not who you know...

It’s who you (rhymes with know)


47 posted on 11/20/2016 4:00:10 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: RummyChick

I’m sure all the threats against him are jokes, too!


48 posted on 11/20/2016 4:00:36 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: RummyChick

When you do really, really, really, stupid things sometimes your life gets turned upside down.


49 posted on 11/20/2016 4:01:19 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are real money. Everything else is a derivative)
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To: Robert DeLong
Really dude, they are just joking with you. No one wants to kill you. They are just having a little drunken fun man. I'm sure in the morning they will regret their jokes.


50 posted on 11/20/2016 4:01:54 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: RummyChick

You notice it is always all about them. Are we supposed to feel sorry for this turd?


51 posted on 11/20/2016 4:02:08 PM PST by plain talk
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To: RummyChick

Whining beotch.


52 posted on 11/20/2016 4:02:42 PM PST by Lent
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To: All

And this guy was actually a CEO of a company????????


53 posted on 11/20/2016 4:02:56 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: RummyChick

Shocker! Heart-breaker!

More seriously, I think people who spend too much time online can get a little divorced from reality and completely lose track of acceptable or normal behavior. They say horrible things to friends or strangers that they would never say in person. Road rage of the Information Superhighway.

But considering the business he was apparently in he certainly should have known better.


54 posted on 11/20/2016 4:02:57 PM PST by Mr. Dough (Who was the greater military man, General Tso or Col. Sanders?)
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To: RummyChick

[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]

We take your threats against Trump seriously, Matt Harrigan. That’s why we’re hoping the Secret Service charges you soon and locks you up for a while. Drink that one off.


55 posted on 11/20/2016 4:03:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: RummyChick

Choices have consequences.


56 posted on 11/20/2016 4:03:37 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ThunderSleeps
How the {expletive} did someone that stupid become CEO?

There's a lot of mad money in silicon valley and San Diego's north county coastal right now. Too much money chasing after vaporware.

With this murderously hateful guy being able to rise to the top with all sorts of venture funding, I'm calling it now: The next financial bubble will pop next year.

57 posted on 11/20/2016 4:04:34 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of my heart, and You love me the same...)
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To: RummyChick

Have the FBI folks and Secret Service folks been to see you?


59 posted on 11/20/2016 4:05:47 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: SaveFerris; Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator

Oops forgot his Tweet had foul language.


60 posted on 11/20/2016 4:06:58 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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