A Maryland man who worked as a supervisor at Voice of America pleaded guilty Thursday to making death threats against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, her family and staff in ominous voice messages.
Seth Jason admitted in court records that he repeatedly threatened to gun down the Republican congresswoman — who until recently was one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress — in voicemail messages left at her district offices in Georgia, using pseudonyms such as “Kevin” and “Ruben.”
The messages began in October 2023, with a threat to shoot Greene “between the eyes” with an AK-47 rifle at one of her rallies, and ran through January 2025, around the time of Trump’s inauguration.
“Greene you will not see the inaugural, you’ll be dead,” Jason said in a Jan. 8 voicemail, according to documents filed in connection with his guilty plea in U.S. District Court in D.C. “Your family will be dead. Your staff will be dead. On the 20th, you’ll all be dead.”
Jason, 64, worked for more than two decades at Voice of America, a news outlet run by the U.S. government that the Trump administration has all but dismantled this year, first as a contractor and then as a full-time federal employee starting in 2009. As a supervisor since 2011, he was in charge of studio renovations, studio scheduling and payroll and management issues. He retired in May.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said Jason would place the threatening calls from inside Voice of America’s offices in the District, calling the conservative congresswoman a “racist” and “Nazi” and threatening to shoot her at a book signing she had scheduled last December.
“No one should have to live their life in fear wondering if those threats are about to be fulfilled,” Pirro said in a statement. “Today’s guilty plea sends a clear message — my office will not take these threats lightly — think twice because we will find you and we will convict you.”
Greene’s office and an attorney for Jason did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday. Greene is resigning her seat next month.
Jason pleaded guilty to one count of interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure and one count of anonymous telecommunications harassment. A judge set his sentencing for June 18.
During an interview with Capitol Police this year at his home in Edgewater, Maryland, Jason initially said he had called Greene’s office in D.C. only once, “when she was saying some things about Jewish space lasers,” what he described as an antisemitic conspiracy theory. (Greene in 2018 theorized that California wildfires were caused by “Jewish space lasers,” a claim she has since disowned.)
After officials played some of the threatening voicemails for him, Jason admitted placing the calls. He told police “he has no obsession with chemicals or weapons, and that he did not have any ‘fantasies about being a Rambo,’” according to the police report of the interview.
Jason told police he did not own any firearms and that he refrained from discussing politics at work. He told police he “believes that over the past decade, politics has become increasingly polarized, with people aligning strictly with one side or the other.”
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