Liberal commentator Dean Withers said he faced death threats and that a fake TikTok account made false rape allegations against him.
Withers, who featured on the popular web series Surrounded, wrote on social media: "Right wing twitter has decided to peddle a false rape allegation against me all over the time line.
"This allegation originates from a FAKE TikTok account named 'Emily,' this account stole the identity of a minor from Australia to pretend to be a girl. MAGA knows NO low."
Newsweek has contacted Withers and the Grand Junction Police Department for comment.
He shared a video taken from TikTok in which a voice can be heard saying over screenshots of the "Emily" account: "I'm the girl whose photos were being used in Emily's videos. ... I'm now getting multiple DMs and comments about this whole situation, and I wanted to let you guys know that I'm not involved in any of this and I didn't make any of these videos."
Withers later said on his YouTube channel that someone called his local police department and said they were "on their way to my house with a bomb to kill me."
"So I went out front, and I sat in a chair with my 9 mm at my hip, waiting for somebody to show up at my house to try to kill me," he said.
"But that was just a precaution. I knew that chances were it was fake. Luckily, it was fake. Instead of somebody showing up at the house to kill me, the cop showed up, and I spoke with him for a while," he continued.
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