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Spencer Gear told a judge that he is not a killer by nature, despite his disturbing threats. He\u2019d merely caught a virus, reports The New Republic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 34-year-old Nevadan was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for threatening to murder federal judges who handled cases involving Trump and January 6ers,\u201d reports TNR. \u201cHis messages, which were mostly delivered by way of phone calls between November 2023 and July 2024, were explicit: \u2018This is a death threat,\u2019 he told one victim. \u2018I\u2019ll spill your blood,\u2019 and \u2018You can\u2019t do s\u2014\u2014 to Donald Trump,\u2019 Gear warned targets.<\/p>\n

But TNR reports the seeming MAGA fanatic changed his tune as he sat across from the judge handling his criminal case Monday, pleading for mercy as he tried to walk back his violent promises. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed that I ever talked to people in such a manner,\u201d Gear reportedly said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>. \u201cThe republic cannot survive if we continue this path of political discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gear claimed his brain had been infected by a \u201cmind virus\u201d from the internet and that the alleged disease had caused him to lash out at people he believed were going to destroy the country by, reported the Reno Gazette Journal<\/em>. It did not matter that the people allegedly destroying the nation were judges overseeing the legal issues of Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first so-called attack from an internet head virus. Christian Zionists, say MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, have been ‘seized by this brain virus.'”<\/p>\n

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Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk complained repeatedly of a \u201cwoke mind virus\u201d threatening \u201cmodern civilization,\u201d which he said prompted him to buy the social media platform now known as X. <\/p>\n

The jury that convicted Gear of 20 counts, including nine counts of threatening a federal official and 11 counts of transmitting threats, appeared to have made no accommodations for Gear\u2019s \u201cvirus.\u201d His 5-year prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.<\/p>\n

Gear threatened to assault and murder public officials over a seven-month period before he was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey.<\/p>\n

But while Gear is packed away, social observers warn the increasingly hostile political climate is showing no signs of abating, and some political scientists were worried about what that could mean for Americans in the near future, particularly after the assassination of far-right activist Charlie Kirk inflamed political tensions across the nation.<\/p>\n

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