New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander fielded threats of bombing and death as President Donald Trump calls her and fellow lawmakers “traitors”
New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander’s (D-Concord) office was the subject of a bomb threat on Friday afternoon that caused police to close down a section of North Main Street.
The threat comes after Trump posted on social media calling for Goodlander and other lawmakers, who previously served in the military and intelligence communities, participated a video to “be arrested and put on trial” for speech that was “punishable by death.”
In the original 90-second video six lawmakers — Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan speak directly to U.S. service members asking them to uphold their oaths of service and refuse illegal orders issued by the president.
The threats to Goodlander also come after a weeklong politically-motivated misinformation campaign by top New Hampshire GOP officials and a death threat by president Donald Trump, who called for her and fellow lawmakers to be executed for treason.
“The President of the United States, our commander in chief, is the most powerful person in the world, and when he says something, people listen and his words have real world consequences for real people,” Goodlander said in an interview on CNN over the weekend over the bomb threat prompted by Republicans.
There is extraordinarily good reason to believe Trump would give illegal orders to US troops to benefit himself and harm targeted groups of Americans.
Trump has broken the law hundreds of times throughout both terms in office—he has openly planned for an illegal third term in office, turned the US justice department into a tool of political retribution, and attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, culminating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — widely seen as the most serious assault on the seat of American democracy in modern history.
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Trump has also issued a blanket pardon of co-conspirators in the criminal plot to subvert the results of the 2020 election — a move described by POLITICO as sending the message that “if you do it again, I’ll protect you.”
However this has not stopped top New Hampshire lawmakers from calling Goodlander encouraging US troops to follow the law “sedition.”
New Hampshire Senate President Sharon Carson was among the earliest, and highest-profile members to attack Goodlander over her request that US troops not break the law.
Carson, a US Army veteran, said Goodlander, who served in Naval intelligence, should resign as a member of congress for her participation in the video.
“Quite frankly, I believe because of these statements, this woman needs to resign from the U.S. House of Representatives,” Carson told WMUR. “If that’s not going to happen, the House of Representatives should censure her and her colleagues who did this abysmal video, and they should have their security clearances pulled.”
State Sen. Kevin Avard reshared and replied to posts on X (formerly Twitter) calling for Goodlander and other lawmakers involved in the video to be put on trial for “inciting insurrection.” Avard also reposted an image calling the Democratic Party “a terrorist organization.”
Those same lawmakers, however, were silent amid threats of violence against Goodlander and the bomb threat that followed.
The state lawmakers were also bolstered by far right conservative media in the state, which has sought to frame the bomb threat as a consequence of Goodlander’s actions while ignoring the president’s threats of violence. They also routinely ignored Goodlander’s own history as a veteran.
Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colorado), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pennsylvania), and Chris Deluzio (D-Pennsylvania)—who also participated in the video —say they too had offices targeted by bomb threats, while Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan reported a bomb threat was made against her home.
