A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump's mass pardons has been arrested on a charge that he threatened to kill U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Christopher P. Moynihan is accused of sending a text message on Friday noting that Jeffries, a New York Democrat, would be making a speech in New York City this week.

"I cannot allow this terrorist to live," Moynihan wrote, according to a report by a state police investigator. Moynihan also wrote that Jeffries "must be eliminated."

"I will kill him for the future," he texted, according to the police report.

Moynihan, of Clinton, N.Y., is charged with a felony count of making a terroristic threat. It is unclear whether he has an attorney representing him in the case, and efforts by

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