Massachusetts Man Charged With Trump Death Threat Facebook Posts

BOSTON, MA — A Great Barrington man was arrested and charged with posting death threats against President Donald Trump on Facebook.

Andrew Emerald, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of interstate transmission of threatening communications. He was arrested Wednesday morning.

Emerald made eight threatening posts over the course of two months from May through July, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a media release.

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The posts included such verbiage as, "taking out the orange menace!” and "Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026 or I am hunting him down and putting him there," the release said.

The posts, which occassionally featured emojis, also said "we’re going to f****** kill Trump on public television so the world sees what we do to f****** monsters and then we’re gonna hang him from the Statue of Liberty until his pathetic bloated corpse rots off falls in the ocean, and I swept out the to see with humanities trash 🚮 After what I just heard if Trump is not dead by 2026 I’m going to Mar-a-Lago and I’m going after myself,” and, “That’s not a threat that’s a f****** promise and I don’t have Trump arrangement syndrome. The bulls*** they made up. I’m going after him for taking my second amendment rights on constitutionally for calling him the Russian asset that he is!" according to the release

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Emerald also posted about burning Mar-a-Lago "to the f****** ground” while Trump was there, among other things, the release said.

Emerald facdes up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000, according to the release.

In July, a Rhode Island man was arrested despite his attempt to hide in a bathtub and charged with threatening Trump, as well as Attorney General Pamela Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller., an FBI agent said.

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Carl Montague, 38, was arrested after "Trump Media and Technology ... the parent organization of social media platform Truth Social, notified the United States Secret Service" on June 27 of a threatening post directed toward Trump, Bondi and Miller, FBI Special Agent Ciara Corbett said in an affidavit filed in federal court.

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The threat, posted by Truth Social user @tacoustic, said, "It's a shame you won't get to see the end of your fl'***** term, because I'm gonna make sure I put a bullet rate (sic) between your fl'***** head you piece of s***, you Pam Bondi. Stephen fl'***** miller, all you b******, are gonna get a fl'***** bullet to the head every single fl'***** one of you," according to the affidavit.

The case against Montague remains pending.

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