The feds arrested an Arizona man who allegedly threatened to “put a gap” in President-elect Donald Trump’s face — after months of posting deranged movies through which he threatened to gun down the primary household whereas brandishing a rifle.
Manuel Tamayo-Torres was taken into custody in San Diego Monday after threatening Trump, 78, in a video as not too long ago as Thursday, ABC Information reported.
Charging paperwork, which seek advice from Trump as “Particular person 1,” described the threats as “obscure but direct,” and accused Tamayo-Torres of posting “quite a few” movies “on a near-daily foundation” over a number of months.
Within the collection of profane movies posted to Fb, the suspect claimed that Trump kidnapped and sex-trafficked his children, although it’s unclear whether or not Tamayo-Torres has kids, in line with the outlet.
“[Y]ou’re gonna die,” he allegedly mentioned in a video posted Thursday, referring to Trump. “[Y]our son’s gonna die. Your entire household goes to die … I’m going to place a gap in your face.”
He brandished what federal authorities mentioned “seems to be a white AR-15-style rifle with a 30-round journal inserted into it” in a number of of the movies whereas making the alleged crazed threats towards the as soon as and future president.
In a single video from Aug. 23, Tamayo-Torres seemed to be filming himself from a Trump rally on the Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, Ariz., and mentioned he’d watched the previous president and Secret Service brokers kidnap his daughter to promote her into prostitution.
Along with the fees for threatening a president, authorities charged him with making false statements whereas buying a firearm after he allegedly lied on federal kinds final 12 months — indicating on the shape he had no felony historical past, when in actual fact he was convicted of assault in 2003.
Proof from Tamayo-Torres’ Fb indicated he possessed a tactical shotgun, one other rifle and high-capacity magazines, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Trump has been the goal of a number of assassination plots within the lead-up to the Nov. 5 election earlier than Tamayo-Torres’ arrest, together with a July try by Thomas Crooks, who shot the then-candidate within the ear and killed a bystander earlier than he was killed by a Secret Service sniper at a Pennsylvania rally.
Simply two months later, would-be murderer Ryan Routh was caught hiding within the bushes of Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle whereas the president-elect was {golfing} close by.
Routh was thwarted on the final second after Secret Service brokers noticed the barrel of his rifle within the brush.
Tamayo-Torres is anticipated to be despatched again to Arizona to face costs.
