Thursday, April 2, 2026 - An American man has been arrested for allegedly threatening
to kill US President Donald Trump.
Andrew Emerald, 45, is accused of writing eight messages on
the social media platform last year in which he threatened to injure and kill
Trump, who was grazed by a would-be assassin's bullet in 2024 as he
campaigned for the presidency.
"Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026, or I
am hunting him down and putting him there," Emerald allegedly wrote in one
post in May 2025, according to a Department of Justice press release.
In another expletive-laden post later that month, he
apparently threatened to attack Trump's resort in Florida.
"I'll make sure you're at Mar-a-Lago when I burn it to
the f****** ground," Emerald wrote.
An FBI court filing said that when authorities executed an
arrest warrant at his home in Massachusetts, Emerald refused to come outside,
appeared to brandish a long metal sword, and told agents they would have to
shoot him.
He eventually left the residence peacefully after a crisis
negotiator and local police officer persuaded him to do so, the document
stated.
The FBI on Wednesday shared pictures of several swords and
blades apparently found inside Emerald's home.
In one Facebook post, he allegedly wrote: "I plan to go
to DC with my sword [sword emoji] and kill trump and as (many) of the domestic
terrorist he emboldens as I can."
Authorities previously questioned Emerald in 2018, during
Trump's first term, over a possible threat to shoot the president, according to
the court filing.
Emerald was arrested after being indicted on March 19 on
eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications, a charge
that carries up to five years in prison.
There have been several similar cases involving social media
threats against Trump.
In March, a Virginia man was sentenced to more than two
years in prison for sending threats online to k!ll the US president.
Trump also narrowly escaped an attempt on his life in July
2024 when a gunman opened fire at an election campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
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