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70-year-old arrested in New York after threatening to kill Trump

A 72-year-old man, who had warned US authorities of his plan to kill Donald Trump before and after the 2020 presidential election, was arrested on Monday morning, January 10, 2021, the Brooklyn federal prosecutor’s office announced. Thomas Welnicki, 72, “knowingly and deliberately threatened to kill, to abduct and inflict bodily harm” on the former US president, reads the court document released Monday in support of the arrest warrant.

The suspect, arrested by agents of the Secret Service – the agency responsible in particular for protecting American presidents and vice-presidents – was to be brought to justice on Monday. According to the document, the man had called at least three times, between September 24 and December 2, 2021, the New York office of the Secret Service to announce his intentions, requesting information on the protection of Donald Trump and in claiming to have ever owned a firearm.

“I will do everything I can to make sure he is dead”

“I will do everything I can to make sure he is dead,” warned this New Yorker, resident of Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn, calling Trump “Hitler”, during a telephone conversation in November 2021. The septuagenarian had already made threats in the summer of 2020, before the presidential election and with the Capitol police department in Washington, assuring that he “would obtain weapons and would 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 Trumpist activists, an unprecedented attack that resulted in five deaths, the suspect this time left two messages on the voicemail of the Secret Service office in Long Island, another New York district. He then threatened to kill Donald Trump as well as 12 members of Congress whom he did not identify. The history of the United States is marked by the death of four presidents assassinated during their mandate, from Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.

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