Kansas man charged with threatening Trump before rally

Jaden J. Read, 24, was arrested in Kansas on October 17 and charged federally with threatening President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas said. The arrest came two days before Trump’s scheduled appearance in the Wichita area. Read remained in custody pending a detention hearing, according to the office. Prosecutors said the investigation began October 15 after authorities received a Crime Stoppers tip about a comment beneath a Facebook article concerning Trump’s planned visit. The tip led investigators to comments allegedly posted by Read, of Clearwater, Kansas. Authorities later found additional comments beneath another local news article, prosecutors said. According to the federal complaint, Read allegedly wrote that people should shoot Trump and claimed in a follow-up comment to have ammunition. In a separate post, he allegedly urged that Trump be shot in Kansas and said he had mapped rooftops near the president’s planned speech location. The alleged comments have not been adjudicated, and the supplied reports do not establish whether any weapons or ammunition were recovered. The complaint says Wichita police provided the Secret Service...