A Pennsylvania man has been hit with federal costs after plotting to kill President Trump, Elon Musk and Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers, the Division of Justice introduced Friday.
Shawn Monper, 32, is accused of constructing a number of threats towards the president and his allies between Jan. 15 and April 5.
In accordance with a legal criticism, the FBI’s Nationwide Menace Operations Part was alerted on Tuesday to a YouTube person calling himself “Mr Satan” who was posting threats from an handle linked to Monper’s residence.
“I have bought several guns and been stocking up on ammo since Trump got in office,” he allegedly commented in February utilizing that moniker.
Investigators discovered the suspect had certainly obtained firearm permits after the forty seventh president was inaugurated in January.
Monper additionally allegedly boasted he’d been buying one gun per thirty days since Trump was elected in November, together with physique armor and ammunition. He stated a “mass shooting” was part of his plan.
“We just need to start killing people, Trump, Elon, all the heads of agencies Trump appointed, and anyone who stands in the way,” he reportedly wrote on Feb. 17. Two weeks later, he stated he meant to “assassinate” Trump himself.
Subsequent threats included “terrorist” ICE brokers on his record targets.
“If I see an armed ICE agent, I will consider it a domestic terrorist, and an active shooter and open fire on them,” he wrote, in accordance with the feds.
Monper is a resident of Butler, Pa., the identical metropolis the place a gunman narrowly missed killing Trump throughout a marketing campaign rally final July.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage throughout a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Lawyer Common Pam Bondi indicated that Monper shouldn’t anticipate leniency.
“Rest assured that whenever and wherever threats of assassination or mass violence occur, this Department of Justice will find, arrest and prosecute the suspect to the fullest extent of the law and seek the maximum appropriate punishment,” she stated in Friday’s assertion.
Monper was arrested on Wednesday and is at present detained pending preliminary and detention hearings scheduled for Monday.
