A 72-year-old man, who warned US authorities of his plans to kill former US President Donald Trump before and after the 2020 presidential election, was arrested Monday morning, the Brooklyn federal prosecutor said. He was charged.
Suspect “knowingly and willfully threatened to kill, kidnap and cause bodily harm” to the 45th President of the United States of America, court document released Monday in support of arrest warrant reads .
The man, arrested by agents of the Secret Service, the agency responsible in particular for protecting American presidents and vice-presidents, was brought to justice on Monday to be charged with threats of assassination targeting Donald Trump.
He was released on payment of a deposit of 50,000 dollars, with nightly house arrest, GPS monitoring and an obligation to have his mental health examined and treated as well as any addiction to alcohol or drugs, said a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office.
Trump called Hitler
According to the document, the man had telephoned at least three times, between September 24 and December 2, 2021, to the New York office of the Secret Service to express his intentions, asking for information on the protection of Donald Trump and by claiming to have owned a firearm in the past.
“I’ll do whatever I can to make sure he’s dead,” the New Yorker, a Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn resident, warned, calling Trump a “Hitler” in a conversation. telephone in November 2021.
The septuagenarian had already uttered threats in summer 2020, before the presidential election and with the Capitol police in Washington, ensuring that he “would get arms and bring down” Donald Trump if the latter lost the ballot and did not admit defeat.
On January 4, 2021, two days before the invasion of the Capitol by militants of Mr. Trump, the suspect this time left two messages on the voicemail of the Secret Service office in Long Island, another New York neighborhood. He then threatened to kill Donald Trump and 12 members of Congress he did not identify.
The history of the United States is marked by the deaths of four presidents assassinated during their tenure, from Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.
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