A McLean, Virginia, man will spend 15 months in prison for telling presidential aide Richard Grenell to “get a bullet put between your eyes.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said Scott Allen Bolger, 33, was sentenced Wednesday on one count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce.
On Dec. 23, Bolger sent a threat to Mr. Grenell, reading “step on U Street and get a bullet put between your eyes, loyalist pig skin p——” via Google Voice, which lets users send texts with their phone numbers hidden.
Mr. Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, was not publicly identified by federal prosecutors but has identified himself publicly as the recipient. Before sending the threat, Bolger researched Mr. Grenell’s phone number and made initial contact with him, federal prosecutors said.
Mr. Grenell attended Wednesday’s sentencing hearing and told CBS News that while he forgives Bolger, he “was surprised that you walk over, and you’re steps away from the guy who wants to kill you.”
On X, the envoy, formerly acting director of the Trump Kennedy Center, said, “I want to thank the FBI officials for very quick work finding and arresting this guy — and [the Justice Department] for getting a conviction. Left-wing violence is getting worse.”
Mr. Grenell told CBS News he thought Bolger was given a sufficient amount of prison time, adding that “I don’t want there to be a victim like my friend, Charlie Kirk.”
In his guilty plea in February, Bolger also admitted to sending threats to a second victim, unidentified publicly by authorities, who is not a public official. Those threats started in 2022 and included the use of multiple X and email accounts.
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