In videos posted on Facebook, the suspect threatened to kill Donald Trump and his family.
Donald Trump targeted by death threats. A man was arrested this Monday, November 25 in California in the United States for threatening online to kill the newly elected president and his family, American media report.
Court documents do not directly identify Donald Trump but refer to him as a public figure, former president and current president-elect against whom “vague but direct threats” were made.
The American media ABC News claims that sources close to the investigation have confirmed that these threats were indeed aimed at Donald Trump.
In a video posted on Facebook on Thursday, November 21, suspect Manuel Tamayo-Torres said, according to CNN, “you’re going to die, your son is going to die. Your family is going to die. This is reality now for you. It’s the only reality you have in your future, (…), die.”
“A white AR-15 type rifle”
Previously, in another video, the Arizona man threatened to shoot Donald Trump while brandishing “what appears to be a white AR-15-style rifle with a 30-round magazine inserted inside.”
In addition to death threats, the suspect published “almost daily” videos insulting Donald Trump or relaying strange information. In one of them, Manuel Tamayo-Torres claims, for example, that the 47th president of the United States and the secret services kidnapped his daughter. This video was published on August 23 from the Desert Diamond Arena in Arizona where the Republican candidate held a meeting that same day in the afternoon.
It was also during this meeting that he announced his desire to create an independent commission to investigate assassination attempts, like the one of which he was the victim in July, in Pennsylvania.
Manuel Tamayo-Torres is also accused of making false statements on federal forms while trying to purchase a gun in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2023, according to the documents.
