Podcaster Tim Pool filed a defamation lawsuit against Vice President Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign Thursday.

Pool says he has faced an increase in death threats and that suspicious people have been monitoring his place of business, two developments he finds alarming after two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump.

“It’s putting a target on my back for things I don’t believe and things I actually argue against,” Pool told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday.

Pool’s lawsuit focuses on one specific post on the social media platform X from Harris’ campaign, on Aug. 31.

“Trump operatives say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total, unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins (They have since scrubbed this video from YouTube),” the campaign posted.

Trump operatives say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total, unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins

(They have since scrubbed this video from YouTube) pic.twitter.com/z6VVtthKr4

The Harris campaign included a video clip from May 31, in which Pool calls for putting Democrats in jail if they get convicted of crimes. Elsewhere in the video, Pool insists that any jailed Democrats should face charges through the legal process, with their civil rights honored.

Pool claims the X post is egregiously false on multiple levels.

First, he calls it “absolutely incorrect” to say he is a “Trump operative.”

Second, he has no........

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