Former President Trump received threats on his life at his Mar-a-Lago property shortly after he was shot in the ear. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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THEOn July 31, two weeks after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, an Idaho man called the former president’s Mar-A-Lago resort and threatened to kill him. Forbes demonstration.
According to a criminal complaint and search warrant filed by the Secret Service, Sandpoint, Idaho resident Warren Jones Crazybull made at least nine threatening calls to Trump’s property in Florida. “Hey Trump…I’m going down to Bedminster tomorrow. I will personally kill him and I will kill him,” he said in one call, according to the Justice Department complaint. Trump National Golf Club is located in Bedminster, New Jersey.
A Facebook page believed to belong to Crazybull contained further threats of violence against Trump, according to an affidavit in the case written by a Secret Service agent. “I’m starting to drive home to this multi-person rapist PIG TRUMP to take him down in single combat,” he wrote in one post, according to the document.
The threats, which refer to Jeffrey Epstein, John F. Kennedy and a “shadow government,” remain live on Facebook as of this writing. Meta, the company’s parent company, had no comment at the time of publication.
Using cell phone location data from T-Mobile, Secret Service investigators arrested Crazybull on August 1st. According to a government account of his interview in a criminal complaint, he told investigators he “wouldn’t try to kill former President Trump,” but also claimed he wouldn’t let Trump become president again either. He said he blamed Trump and former President Kennedy for “broken terms that resulted in the loss of his land.” He also told them that he had previously been admitted for psychiatric care.
Crazybull was indicted on August 20 in Idaho federal court on one count of making threats against a former president and pleaded not guilty. His attorney and the Secret Service had not responded to a request for comment by the time of publication. The Justice Department declined to comment. The maximum sentence for a single charge of threatening a former president is five years.
The threat came shortly after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, hitting him in the ear and killing a bystander before being killed by the Secret Service. Earlier this month, Ryan Routh was arrested at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, and charged with attempting to shoot the former president. A judge ruled Monday that he will be held without bail. Online threats have also been made against the lives of incumbent President Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
The House unanimously voted on Friday legislation to strengthen the former president’s security.
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