David Anthony Ruck, who made headlines in 2013 when he started a Facebook page called the "Pākehā Party", was convicted by a jury in July of three charges of threatening to kill, court documents show.
The charges related to a May 2020 video posted to YouTube and two emails sent in October 2021.
In the video, he shared conspiracy theories about the New Zealand Government's relationship with the Trump administration, which Judge Paul Kellar said was his "right". The video crossed the line into criminal behaviour when "in reasonably emphatic terms, you make comments towards Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand Prime Minister, stating that you have every right to walk up to Wellington and shoot her in the face".
Unhinged and not very nuanced, but the reality is that Jacinda has done more harm then good so such "strong" opinions were bound to happen.