(ats) Suspect ‘knowingly and willfully threatened to kill, abduct and inflict bodily harm’ on the 45th President of the United States of America, the court document released Monday to support the warrant reads stop.
The man, arrested by agents of the Secret Service, the agency responsible in particular for protecting American presidents and vice-presidents, was presented to justice on Monday to be charged with threats of assassination against Donald Trump.
He was released on $50,000 bail, with 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 spokesman for the prosecutor’s office.
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 claiming to have owned a firearm.
“I will do everything I can to make sure he is dead,” warned this New Yorker, resident of Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn, calling Trump a “Hitler”, during a conversation. telephone in November 2021.
The septuagenarian had already made threats in the summer of 2020, before the presidential election and with the Capitol police in Washington, assuring that he would “procure weapons 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 Mr. Trump’s activists, 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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