Ilhan Omar’s transphobic opponent banned from Twitter for making death threats against her

The filed mugshot of political candidate Danielle Stella.
Photo: Bloomington (MN) Police

A Minnesota challenger running to unseat U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar was banned from Twitter last Thursday – apparently for threatening to hang the Muslim Congresswoman, according to the challenger herself.

Danielle Stella, “a special education needs professional launching a campaign to represent Minnesota’s 5th congressional district,” reported to the conservative publication The Washington Times that both her personal and campaign Twitter accounts were removed due to a tweet advocating for Omar’s trial and execution.

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Stella’s tweeted in reference to a right-wing claim born this week that Omar has shared confidential intelligence about the United States with the Iranian government, via channels originating in neighboring Qatar.

“If it is proven @IlhanMN passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged,” her first tweet from @2020MNCongress read – followed by another with an image of a hanging stick figure along with an article related to the allegations, and another with the definition of treason in the U.S. Penal Code.

Twitter confirmed that Stella’s campaign account was permanently suspended, simply stating that “the [@2020MNCongress] account was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules.”

Stella’s campaign page claims that she is only in politics “as a result of the lack of honorable representation for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district,” which is the seat currently held by Omar. While she touches on several issues in her biography that she would legislate on if elected, most of Stella’s political presence, online or otherwise, is dedicated to just being antithetical to whatever Omar and her constituents are doing.

She maintains her innocence, but failed to appear in court in April and had a warrant issued in her name. In August, she….

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