{"id":545177,"date":"2021-05-29T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=545177"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:36:11","slug":"report-twitter-war-has-california-democrat-sleeping-with-gun-by-her-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-twitter-war-has-california-democrat-sleeping-with-gun-by-her-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Twitter War Has California Democrat Sleeping With Gun By Her Bed"},"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\">24<\/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%2Freport-twitter-war-has-california-democrat-sleeping-with-gun-by-her-bed%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=545177&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Norma-Torres.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A California congresswoman says she started sleeping with a 9-millimeter pistol by her bed after getting into a Twitter beef with a Central American leader.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Norma Torres, a Democrat from Pomona, California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-05-27\/norma-torres\">told<\/a> the Los Angeles Times that the social media feud with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele started after she spoke out about the migrant crisis. She said tensions have escalated to the point where she is concerned for her safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to do everything I can do to protect myself in my home,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>An immigrant from Guatemala, Torres, 56, is the only member of Congress born in Central America. She said she became a target for harassment for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NormaJTorres\/status\/1374505391673856010\">calling out<\/a> \u201cdictators\u201d from the Northern Triangle of countries in that region, which include Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The Times reported that Torres \u201chas worked to put restrictions on military aid\u201d to those nations and has urged President Joe Biden not to send funding to the central governments she deems corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese three countries have set an example for all of Latin America that it is OK for presidents, for congresses, to sit on their hands and watch their children die en route to our southern border,\u201d Torres told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Times, Bukele, 39, became \u201cfurious\u201d after he and Torres exchanged \u201can angry torrent of tweets\u201d and \u201curged Salvadorans in Southern California, an enormous community, to work to oust Torres from office.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5401662049861\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pres.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nayibbukele<\/a>\u2014I&#8217;ll make it clearer. This is a result of narcissistic dictators like you interested in being \u201ccool\u201d while people flee by the 1000s &amp; die by the 100s.<\/p>\n<p>Send me a pair of glasses so I may see the suffering of your people through your eyes.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eBCahxNzmM\">https:\/\/t.co\/eBCahxNzmM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F4O173fYcZ\">pic.twitter.com\/F4O173fYcZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Norma Torres (@NormaJTorres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NormaJTorres\/status\/1377819131798462464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FOX 11 News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/california-congresswoman-reveals-she-sleeps-with-gun-by-her-bed-after-death-threats\">reported<\/a> that Torres says she has been the recipient of threats directed by Bukele, and strangers have been staking out her house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response has been one of a very violent, insecure, narcissistic leader in that Northern Triangle who has utilized his army of trolls against me,\u201d said Torres.<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. Times reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>Torres says Bukele also mounted a campaign to flood her district office with phone calls to make it difficult for constituents to reach harassed staffers. The Salvadoran Embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The congresswoman believes there is cause for concern that some Bukele supporters might turn violent; her social media accounts are inundated with hateful messages and images. And so she sleeps with her gun nearby.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter users defending Bukele have flooded Torres\u2019 Twitter mentions, threatened her life, and mocked her Indigenous features, FOX 11 reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly what is happening to women in these regions that are being controlled by these dictators,\u201d Torres said in a virtual interview broadcast on the outlet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"15.668674698795\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Espero que todos mis hermanos salvadore\u00f1os, mexicanos, hondure\u00f1os, guatemaltecos, dominicanos, venezolanos y todos los latinoamericanos del Distrito 35 de California NO VOTEN por <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NormaJTorres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NormaJTorres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No trabaja para ustedes, sino para mantener a nuestros pa\u00edses en el subdesarrollo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1377840717884706819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ricardo Zuniga, Biden\u2019s special envoy for the Northern Triangle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-05-27\/norma-torres\">described<\/a> Bukele\u2019s tactics as election interference.<\/p>\n<p>Congresswoman Torres told FOX 11 that Bukele stopped tweeting at her after the U.S. Agency for International Development announced that it would redirect aid from El Salvador\u2019s national police and public information institute to civil society groups.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Times, \u201cBukele is wildly popular in El Salvador, but State Department and other U.S. officials said he has shown increasingly authoritarian tendencies in repressing free speech and media and in consolidating power to silence critics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California congresswoman says she started sleeping with a 9-millimeter pistol by her bed after getting into a Twitter beef with a Central American leader.U.S. Rep. 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