The Secret Service wasted no time this week getting face to face with a twisted lefty agitator in Nebraska after she appeared to write a threatening post about White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on X.
An agent showed up Friday at the home of prominent left wing activist Jamie Bonkiewicz, who posted the day before: “When Karoline Leavitt gets what she deserves, I hope it’s televised.”
During the videotaped conversation, which took place on a front porch and which Bonkiewicz posted on her X account, she denied seeking to physically harm Leavitt, telling the agent that “I want to see her trials.”
The unidentified, bearded law enforcement officer appeared to offer a bit of coaching, telling her “you don’t want to perceive any ill-will towards these people,” while asking her if she attends demonstrations or had any weapons in her house.
After a man off camera asked him what would constitute “crossing the line,” the agent explained that a “direct” threat like “I will go kill the president” would be outside the bounds of protected free speech.
He said he would take such a threat to the US Attorney’s office.
“Something like this, a veiled threat. Is it a threatening nature? Now that I know that you didn’t mean anything by it, it’s basically a non-issue,” he responded.
“I never said anything about killing anybody,” Bonkiewicz claimed.
Given another chance to explain herself, Bonkiewicz appeared to reference the Nuremberg trials, where multiple caged Nazi defendants faced the death penalty for their atrocities.
“Like the trials – the Nuremberg trials, like, when all this s— is over, I want to see all of them go to trial, and I want it to be televised so I can watch it,” she claimed.
She insisted in a subsequent post her remark was “non-threatening” and not a call for on-air execution of a government official.
The Post has contacted the Secret Service for information about the visit, and has attempted to reach Bonkiewicz. The White House and Leavitt didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Bonkiewicz’ own post about the incident blew up online, garnering 2 million impressions. “The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now,” she whined.
She quickly got a reality check.
“You threatened the life of Press Secretary Leavitt,” wrote Paul Szypula, who goes by the handle @Bubblebathgirl. “You know what you did. You should apologize for inciting violence. Instead, you’re defending your vile words. Shame on you.”
The visit is a sign that the beleaguered agency is finally taking potentially violent threats posed by leftists seriously after being called out last month for an “unbelievable security lapse” that could have endangered President Trump.
The visit comes as the agency faces pressure to up its game to protect Trump and his aides after two assassination attempts, and most recently, lax security after protesters in DC infiltrated the president’s lunch outing near the White House.
Leavitt, 28, who has a young son and who recently announced she is pregnant, is one of the most visible White House aides – emphatically defending Trump in clashes with reporters in the White House briefing room and frequently traveling with the president, as she did last weekend on a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
In December, The Post reported that the Secret Service was sitting on information that might expose security lapses related to the president’s trip to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab near the White House, where Code Pink protesters evidently obtained advanced information and heckled the president there.
“He was almost killed twice supposedly under the protection of the Secret Service and then they walked him into a potentially dangerous ambush,” said Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.