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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Senator whose wife was shot fears for safety after Trump sedition accusation

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Mark Kelly at the Capitol in Washington DC. The Arizona senator says he is worried about ‘increased threats’ to his family’s safety. Photograph: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Senator Mark Kelly – whose wife, Gabrielle Giffords, narrowly survived an attempted assassination while she was in Congress in 2011 – says he is worried about “increased threats” to his family’s safety after Donald Trump accused him and other Democratic lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”.

“This kind of language is dangerous, and it’s wrong,” Kelly said on Friday on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, with political violence one of the top topics in the US’s public discourse. He continued: “I’m not going to get into my specific security arrangements, but it would be irresponsible for me not to consider that [Trump’s] words result in increased threats to myself, even to my staff, to my family.

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