'I'm gonna kill you': Man tells Trump he is going to shut him up 'in the most brutal way possible,' feds say

A South Carolina antheral is accused of threatening to "take the life" of President Donald Trump, penning connected X that helium wanted to soundlessness Trump everlastingly by putting him six feet under, according to federal prosecutors.

"@realDonaldTrump you person the close to stay silent," wrote John Alexander Bellue successful a September 2025 X post, according to his indictment. "I'm gonna termination you successful the astir brutal mode possible," Bellue allegedly said.

A expansive assemblage indicted Bellue past week connected 1 number of threatening the president and 1 number of utilizing interstate communications to nonstop his threat, according to national tribunal records. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina is handling his case.

"On oregon astir September 7, 2025, successful the District of South Carolina, the suspect … did knowingly and willfully marque a menace to instrumentality the beingness of and to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States," prosecutors said successful Bellue's indictment.

A "reasonable recipient who is acquainted with the circumstances" would construe Bellue's X station arsenic a "serious look of an intent to bash harm" to the president, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Bellue, who is from Rock Hill, allegedly posted his assassination menace connected Sept. 7, 2025, portion Trump was astatine the U.S. Open men's tennis tourney successful New York City. He was indicted connected May 19.

Bellue has nary known transgression history, with situation and tribunal records showing nary anterior convictions.

His indictment came conscionable days earlier U.S. Secret Service officers killed a gunman who opened occurrence connected a White House information checkpoint.

According to reports, 21-year-old Maryland nonmigratory Nasire Best started shooting astatine a checkpoint adjacent 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue portion Trump was wrong the White House. It is the 3rd shooting to hap adjacent the president successful caller weeks, with 2 different men besides opening occurrence astatine the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner successful April and adjacent the Washington Monument earlier this month.

In effect to the latest incident, Trump wrote connected Truth Social, "Thank you to our large Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and nonrecreational enactment taken this evening against a gunman adjacent the White House, who had a convulsive past and imaginable obsession with our Country's astir cherished structure."

Bellue's adjacent tribunal day has not been scheduled.