A Donald Trump supporter received shocking backlash after praising Haitian employees for arriving on time.
Jamie McGregor, 48, CEO of McGreggor Metal Co. of Springfield, Ohio, is a lifelong Republican who voted for Trump twice.
But now he has had to buy a gun to protect himself after receiving a barrage of death threats for speaking favorably of his Haitian employees after Trump infamously denounced Haitians in Springfield with false claims that they were eating pets last month.
Posters have also been posted throughout his city calling him a traitor for hiring immigrants. he told the NYT now he has to take his family to shooting ranges in preparation for the worst.
“I’ve struggled with the fact that now we’re going to have guns in our house…and now we’re taking classes, we’re going to shooting ranges, they’re preparing us for handguns,” he said.
Jamie McGregor, 48, CEO of McGreggor Metal Co and lifelong Republican, from Springfield, Ohio (pictured), has received death threats after publicly praising his Haitian employees.
It comes after former President Donald Trump made comments during the Sept. 10 presidential debate with Kamala Harris about Haitians stealing and eating pets in Springfield.
McGreggor runs a company that produces parts for cars, trucks and tractors and began hiring Haitians who had settled in Springfield and now make up about 10 percent of his 330-person workforce.
But the father and businessman has now come under fire after publicly praising his Haitian team members for their hard work and willingness to work.
The threats have come from all angles, and not only directed at McGreggor, but also at his business and his family.
“The owner of McGregor Metal could take a bullet to the skull and that would be one hundred percent justified,” said a message left on the company’s voicemail.
Another asked why he was “importing soul-eating Third World savages.”
“Plamming all 20,000 Haitians inside Jamie McGregor’s factory at once and forcing him to praise the benefits of foreign labor while they are crushed to death by their own black bodies crushed to death,” said another.
McGreggor added that his 80-year-old mother and children have also received terrifying calls just because he had spoken out in an effort to prove that Haitian workers had helped expand his company.
‘They come to work every day. They don’t cause drama. “They arrive on time,” he told the newspaper.
On PBS News Hour, he noted that his Haitian employees were drug-free and he wished he had “30 more.”
The CEO said he never imagined that speaking on behalf of his workers would put him and his family in danger, and revealed that some of his American workers felt undermined by his comments.
This led McGreggor to organize emergency meetings at his three facilities so he could offer an apology to his offended staff and an explanation behind his comments.
He told his employees he was “deeply sorry” if he had caused any offence, stressing that they were “here to make metal parts… not to debate immigration”.
Due to the threat levels, the FBI showed up at McGreggor Metal’s door on September 12 and warned it to take precautions and adhere to strict security protocols.
Security experts met at the family home and advised them to change routes to and from school and work, clean their fingerprints, use gloves and tongs when handling mail, and keep the blinds closed in their home at all times.
Although the threats against his family have subsided in recent days, the worried father said he is still struggling to fully relax and return to normal life.
“You know, things are different now,” McGregor said, noting that he would not vote for Trump again.