'Donald Trump deserves to die': Man who allegedly asked member of Congress to assassinate the president is not getting rid of his case any time soon

New allegations person emerged against a Pennsylvania antheral who authorities accidental threatened to termination President Donald Trump and urged members of Congress to execution each billionaires.

Raymond Chandler III, 40, has been indicted by a national expansive assemblage successful Pittsburgh connected charges of influencing, impeding, oregon retaliating against a national authoritative oregon national instrumentality enforcement serviceman by threat. The five-count indictment alleges Chandler vowed to termination the president, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and a subordinate of Congress and their daughter.

The suspect has a website announcing his run for U.S. Senate successful Pennsylvania to regenerate Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.). His listed goals connected the page, specified arsenic "Tax the Billionaires," "Fight Against Corruption," and "Abolish ICE," way with the wishes of the antheral quoted successful the indictment — and his allegedly convulsive intentions to execute them.

"I enactment equipped absorption against ICE. I privation each cause dead," Chandler said successful a voicemail to an unidentified subordinate of Congress connected April 18, 2025, per the affidavit. "I americium consenting to spell to war. I americium consenting to personally kill."

On June 10, 2025, helium allegedly went a measurement further.

"You indispensable apprehension the President. You indispensable impeach him. You indispensable convict him, and you indispensable termination him for tyranny and treason," the indictment reads.

The voicemails continued into the caller year, according to national authorities. On Jan. 12, 2026, the suspect reportedly near different voicemail stating, "I woke up this greeting realizing that unit has go necessary. … Donald Trump deserves decease … Nothing abbreviated of decease volition bring justice, and without justness determination volition ne'er beryllium peace."

It appeared that Chandler's distaste for the Trump medication was heightened by the government's strikes connected Iran, arsenic helium alluded to the "reason I'm running" for national office.

"You request to backmost retired of this warfare successful Iran," Chandler said connected April 7, 2026, per the tribunal document. "I privation you to enactment a achromatic container implicit the President's head. I privation you to hindrance his hands and I privation you to present him to the force … That's what I privation to see. Senator, you are not protected. The President can't support you."

"If you perpetrate warfare crimes, I volition travel to Congress and I volition prosecute you for those crimes," helium allegedly went on. "I volition effort you. I volition convict you, and I volition bent you. Senator, I volition bent you."

As Law&Crime previously reported, Chandler is besides accused of threatening to wounded a household subordinate of the U.S. representative. He allegedly stated, "So ideate your house, your daughter's house, everyone you cognize and emotion who is besides rich. Imagine each azygous 1 of those homes being surrounded by a 1000 radical … and past they travel and they propulsion you retired of your location and they slit your pharynx and they slit your daughter's pharynx and they slit everyone's throat."

The suspect went truthful acold arsenic to petition that the national typical beryllium the 1 to fatally sprout Trump, according to authorities.

On May 1, 2026, Chandler reportedly near a voicemail referring to the 1886 Haymarket Square Bombing — successful which respective constabulary officers were killed — and ended the connection with "I privation you to beryllium terrified." FBI agents arrested him aboriginal that day.

During consequent tribunal hearings, prosecutors pointed to purported excerpts from a diary owned by Chandler, with lines specified as, "I support calling Congress telling them I privation them to termination each the ICE agents and billionaires" and "I indispensable dependable insane to them and yet that is wherever my bosom and caput are truly at." The magistrate justice successful the Western District of Pennsylvania determined that determination was "strong" grounds against him and ordered him detained pending trial.