US man arrested over Facebook posts threatening to kill Trump

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A US man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Donald Trump, officials said Wednesday, outlining a series of Facebook posts targeting the US president.

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Andrew Emerald, 45, is said to have written eight messages on the social media platform in which he threatened to injure and kill Trump, who was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet in 2024.

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“Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026 or I am hunting him down and putting him there,” Emerald allegedly wrote in one post in May 2025.

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In another expletive-laden post later that month, he apparently threatened to attack Trump’s personal resort in Florida.

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“I’ll make sure you’re at Mar-a-Lago when I burn it to the f****** ground,” Emerald wrote, according to a Justice Department press release.

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The Massachusetts resident was indicted on eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications, a charge that carries up to five years in prison.

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There have been several similar cases involving social media threats against Trump.

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A Virginia man was sentenced in March to more than two years in prison for sending threats online to kill the US president.

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Trump narrowly escaped an attempt on his life in July 2024 when a gunman opened fire at an election campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

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