{"id":2435536,"date":"2025-05-16T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mace-calls-for-harshed-penalties-for-trans-activist-who-threatened-her\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:27:28","slug":"mace-calls-for-harshed-penalties-for-trans-activist-who-threatened-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mace-calls-for-harshed-penalties-for-trans-activist-who-threatened-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Mace calls for harshed penalties for trans \u2018activist\u2019 who threatened her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmace-calls-for-harshed-penalties-for-trans-activist-who-threatened-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is advocating for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >severe legal consequences<\/a> for Samuel Cain, a transgender individual who allegedly threatened her life on social media. In a post dated April 26, cain proclaimed his intention to assassinate Mace, leading to an investigation by the FBI and ultimately his arrest by South Carolina authorities. During a bond hearing, Mace submitted a statement urging that Cain be denied bail and face the maximum penalties available for such a threat, which include up to five years in prison and fines.<\/p>\n<p>Mace described the emotional impact of the threat, highlighting the fear it instilled in her and her family, and emphasized that such threats are designed to intimidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocking-number-of-front-line-health-care-workers-refusing-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Shocking Number of Front Line Health Care Workers Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine\">public officials<\/a> and disrupt their duties. Following the incident, she expressed concern about the political climate, remarking on the &#8220;radicalization&#8221; of the transgender movement and its implications for public safety. Mace has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ariz-state-sen-townsend-says-democrat-attacks-on-election-audit-suggest-foul-play\/\" title=\"Ariz. state Sen. Townsend says Democrat attacks on election audit suggest foul play\">received numerous threats<\/a> in the past, particularly after introducing legislation restricting transgender individuals&#8217; bathroom use based on biological sex. Cain&#8217;s case represents a significant instance of legal action taken against threats made towards Mace, underscoring the urgency she feels regarding the issue.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mace calls for harsh penalties for trans &lsquo;activist&rsquo; arrested for threatening her<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2122935\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) called for the full weight of the law to come down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3412429\/activist-arrested-threatening-assassinate-mace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">on the transgender person<\/a> who said they would assassinate her in a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mace provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-doctor-who-conned-women-into-hysterectomies-sterilizations-for-insurance-money-gets-60-years-in-prison\/\" title=\"Virginia Doctor Who Conned Women Into Hysterectomies, Sterilizations For Insurance Money Gets 60 Years In Prison\">victim impact statement<\/a> in Samuel Cain&rsquo;s bond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3412719\/james-comey-8647-message-trump-white-house-dhs-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">hearing<\/a> on Friday morning, explaining that Cain should be denied bond and have the maximum penalties assessed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3413743\/concha-aoc-2028-could-lose-51-states\/\">Concha jokes AOC could lose &#8217;51 states&#8217; if she&#8217;s the 2028 Democratic nominee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3413755\/kash-patel-fbi-hoover-building-agents-leaving-dc\/\">&#8216;Moving out of Hoover Building&#8217;: Kash Patel says over 1,500 FBI agents leaving DC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3413766\/pope-leo-chicago-house-childhood-auction-paramount-realty\/\">Pope Leo&#8217;s childhood Chicago suburban home up for auction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The person, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-day-report-card-trump-makes-good-on-pledge-to-kill-dei\/\" title=\"100-day ...ort card: Trump makes good on pledge to kill DEI\">transgender-identifying biological male<\/a>, wrote: &ldquo;I&rsquo;M GOING TO ASSASSINATE REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE WITH A GUN AND I&rsquo;M BEING 100% DEAD ASS,&rdquo; on X April 26 under the username raystr1ker. Cain was later called by the FBI and admitted to making the threat, but said the threat wasn&rsquo;t serious. South Carolina authorities arrested Cain on Thursday for making a threat toward a public official.<\/p>\n<p>A judge denied Cain&rsquo;s bond in the Friday morning hearing. Mace said in a press conference after the hearing that she &ldquo;may be forced to run for governor&rdquo; because &ldquo;statewide leaders are doing nothing to protect women.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She also appeared emotional and said at the beginning of the conference that it was &ldquo;heartbreaking&rdquo; to see what Cain &ldquo;has made his life out to be.&rdquo; Mace ended the press conference by thanking Cain&rsquo;s family for their &ldquo;humility.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I come before you today not just as a victim, but as a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives who has been the target of a direct and credible threat on her life,&rdquo; Mace said in a statement provided to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in advance. &ldquo;On May 15, 2025, Samuel Theodore Cain was arrested for threatening to murder me. He threatened to shoot me.&nbsp;His intention was clear and his intention was violent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The penalties for Cain&rsquo;s alleged crime are a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. Mace will request the maximum penalties for Cain.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These threats are not just words,&rdquo; Mace said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re meant to intimidate, they&rsquo;re meant to silence, and they&rsquo;re meant to paralyze public servants who were elected to do a job.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman said her staff called and urged her to move to a secure location after the threat came in. She said she knew Cain was in South Carolina, but didn&rsquo;t know exactly where. Mace said she and her children were vulnerable during this time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had to make immediate changes to my movements, surroundings, and plans because a man I had never met threatened to put a bullet in me,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mace said the transgender movement is &ldquo;radicalized&rdquo; and resembles a &ldquo;cult.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trans people and their supporters fuel violence, particularly toward women who speak the truth and toward elected officials who refuse to be bullied,&rdquo; she added, saying men who crossdress are &ldquo;mentally ill&rdquo; and are &ldquo;violent towards women.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She said she and her staff experience fear daily that affects their jobs. Mace added she hoped Cain can &ldquo;find God.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I ask the bond be denied or set to the highest possible amount under the law. The defendant should face the full weight of statutory penalties&mdash;because letting him walk away sends a message that threats against public officials are just another day without consequence,&rdquo; Mace said of Cain.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To do otherwise would send a dangerous message: that threatening to kill a member of Congress is a tolerable offense. It is not. It is criminal. And it must be treated as such,&rdquo; she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina-based Snell Law Firm&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snelllaw.com\/blog\/2025\/march\/defending-against-charges-under-sc-code-16-3-104\/#:~:text=In%20South%20Carolina%2C%20it%20is,Code%2016%2D3%2D1040.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said a valid defense<\/a>&nbsp;for someone charged under the threatening public officials law could be to argue they had a lack of intent or were joking.&nbsp;The U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the District of South Carolina declined to prosecute Cain,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-south-carolina-trans-activist-arrested-for-threatening-to-assassinate-rep-nancy-mace?utm_campaign=64470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Post Millennial<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division previously told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;that the case will be prosecuted by the 13th Circuit Solicitor&rsquo;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>If Cain is convicted of the crime, the 19-year-old will face the weight of being a felon. A jury will have to determine whether the threat constituted a &ldquo;true threat,&rdquo; which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/22-138_43j7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Supreme Court has decided is <\/a>punishable as a crime and not protected under the First Amendment. There&rsquo;s no known evidence that Cain had a weapon or planned to carry out a crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3246790\/pardon-fifth-amendment-trouble-hunter-biden\/\"><strong>PRESIDENTIAL PARDON MEANS FIFTH AMENDMENT TROUBLE FOR HUNTER BIDEN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mace has received numerous threats since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mace.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-nancy-maces-resolution-protect-womens-private-spaces-united-states-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she introduced<\/a>&nbsp;a resolution in November 2024 proposing to ban transgender people from using bathrooms that don&rsquo;t correspond with their biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>Cain appears to be the first person to be punished for threatening Mace. A person who violently shook Mace&rsquo;s hand in December was arrested, but the charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2122935\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2122935\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mace demands severe penalties for trans activist who threatened her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nancy-Mace-June-2024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5167,4133,9637,4104,55389],"class_list":["post-2435536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-mace","tag-news","tag-penalties","tag-threat","tag-trans-activist-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nancy-Mace-June-2024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435540,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435536\/revisions\/2435540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}