On July 31, two weeks after a failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, an Idaho man called the former president’s Mar-A-Lago resort and threatened to kill him, court documents obtained by Forbes show.
According to a criminal complaint and search warrant filed by the Secret Service, Sandpoint, Idaho resident Warren Jones Crazybull made at least nine threatening calls to Trump’s Florida property. “Find Trump…I am coming down to Bedminster tomorrow. I am going to down him personally and kill him,” he said in one call, according to the Department of Justice complaint. Trump National Golf Club is based in Bedminster, New Jersey.
A Facebook page believed to belong to Crazybull contained further threats of violence towards Trump, according to an affidavit in the case written by a Secret Service agent. “I start driving to the home of this multi person rapist PIG TRUMP to take him down single combat,” he wrote in one post, according to the document.
The threats, which reference Jeffrey Epstein, John F. Kennedy and a “shadow government,” remain live on Facebook as of this writing. Meta, the company’s parent, had not provided comment at the time of publication.
Using cell phone location data from T-Mobile, Secret Service investigators detained Crazybull on August 1. According to a government account of his interview in a criminal complaint he told investigators that “he would not attempt to kill former President Trump,” but also claimed he would not let Trump become president again either. He said he blamed Trump and former President Kennedy for “broken treaties that resulted in the loss of his land.” He also told them that he had previously been admitted for psychiatric care.
Crazybull was indicted on August 20 in Idaho federal court with one count of making threats against a former president and has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer and the Secret Service had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication. The Department of Justice declined to comment. The maximum sentence for a single count of making threats to a former president is five years.
The threat came shortly after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, hitting him in the ear and killing a bystander before being killed by Secret Service. Earlier this month, Ryan Routh was arrested on the grounds of Trump’s West Palm Beach, Florida golf course and charged with attempting to shoot the former president. A judge ruled Monday that he will be held without bail. Online threats have also been made against the life of sitting president Biden and presidential candidate vice-president Kamala Harris.
The House on Friday unanimously passed legislation to bolster the former president’s security.
