A man from Pennsylvania was arrested this week after the authorities said that he had threatened to assassinate President Trump, Elon Musk and other government representatives in comments he published on YouTube.
Google, who owns YouTube, alerted the FBI on Tuesday to threatening comments, which were published by someone using the username “M. Satan “, which the authorities later identified as Shawn Monper, of Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a criminal complaint.
Mr. Monper, 32, was arrested on Wednesday and accused of four heads of influence, embarrassment or response against a federal official and a federal law for the application of the law.
According to court documents, Mr. Monper wrote: “I will assassinate him myself” in the comments under a live flow from Mr. Trump’s address to a joint session of the congress on March 4.
In a comment on another YouTube video on February 17, according to the complaint, Mr. Monper wrote: “No, we just need to start killing people, Trump, Elon, all the agencies appointed by Trump, and anyone who stands on the way.”
On February 26, according to the complaint, Mr. Monper wrote that he had “bought several weapons” and that he had been full of ammunition since Mr. Trump took office for the second time, promising “to do a mass shooting”.
Butler, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Monper lives, was the site of a campaign rally where Mr. Trump was injured during an assassination attempt on July 13. The complaint did not mention this episode.
Mr. Monper’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comments on Friday.
In addition to Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk, immigration and customs agents were also a target of Mr. Monper’s threats, said federal prosecutors.
While the Trump administration has increased its expulsion efforts, ice agents and the Ministry of Internal Security were examined for the detention of students and legal immigrants.
On Friday, an immigration judge in Louisiana noted that the Trump administration could expel a graduate of Columbia University and a legal permanent resident, Mahmoud Khalil, for his role in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus last year.
Friday, the prosecutor General Pam Bondi thanked the FBI and the Canton of Butler’s canton for their work on the investigation.
“Rest assured that whenever threats of assassination or mass violence occur, this Ministry of Justice will find, stop and continue the suspect to the best extent of the law and ask for the appropriate maximum penalty,” she said.
