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President Donald Trump speaks successful the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, successful Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
A self-declared "patriot" from Massachusetts has been arrested for pledging that helium volition termination President Donald Trump "on nationalist tv truthful the satellite sees what we bash to f—ing monsters," according to the Justice Department.
"Taking retired the orangish menace," wrote Andrew Emerald, 45, of Great Barrington, successful a Facebook post, according to his national indictment. "That's not a menace that's a f—ing promise," Emerald allegedly said. "Trump I'm coming for you you small b—."
Emerald is charged with 8 counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications for allegedly posting a slew of threats connected Facebook betwixt May 2025 and July 2025. A "concerned citizen" reached retired to the FBI and notified agents astir Emerald's posts aft interacting with him online, according to DOJ officials.
"I've been threatening [Trump] for 10 f—ing years connected here," Emerald told the individuals, according to an affidavit successful enactment of pretrial detention that was filed connected Wednesday.
"I won't beryllium going to jail," helium allegedly said. "They'll either support monitoring maine oregon they'll marque a mistake coming aft maine and I'll termination them until they termination me."
On May 15, 2025, Emerald wrote connected Facebook that Trump's "being a monster to humanity" caused his household suffering. "Going to f—ing termination Trump connected nationalist tv so the satellite sees what we bash to f—ing monsters," helium allegedly said. "And past we're gonna bent him from the Statue of Liberty until his pathetic bloated corpse rots disconnected falls successful the ocean."
Emerald added, "I'm going aft him due to the fact that I'm an existent f—ing patriot," according to his indictment. "I person precise bully crushed to endanger his beingness and to spell aft it whether I person my 2nd amendment rights oregon not."
On May 30, 2025, Emerald allegedly confessed that helium had "burned a location to the crushed once" and that helium would bash the aforesaid with Mar-a-Lago. Several weeks later, helium wrote that "killing is not wrong" erstwhile you're "putting down a predator," according to the indictment.
"You're a monster to f—ing humanity and it is my ngo successful this beingness to extremity your f—ing existence," Emerald allegedly said connected June 14, 2025. "I won't beryllium murdering you I volition beryllium executing a monster. I volition beryllium fulfilling my law work to execute a transgression national that's committed precocious treason conscionable similar the constitution tells me."
Emerald has allegedly been connected the FBI's radar since 2018, erstwhile helium was caught posting threats connected Facebook that said "the lone mode to cleanable things up successful Washington, D.C. would beryllium if each of the politicians including Donald Trump were publically executed," according to the affidavit supporting his pretrial detention.
Emerald promised that helium would "never station thing astir authorities again," according to national prosecutors. He was warned that his comments could beryllium considered a crime, but inactive chose to allegedly support posting connected the aforesaid Facebook account.
"I volition [stop] erstwhile the FBI amusement up astatine the orangish buffoons petition again," Emerald allegedly said connected May 12, 2025. "I volition not beryllium silenced, detained oregon disappeared. So you volition perceive astir maine being shot, but it volition beryllium the changeable that ends your f—ing pedophile, Russian plus insurrectionist president."
Emerald faces up to 5 years successful prison, 3 years of supervised release, and a good of $250,000 if convicted. He is scheduled to look for a detention proceeding connected Monday.
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