Massachusetts Man Arrested for Trump Death Threats

A 45-year-old man from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was arrested Wednesday after federal authorities accused him of posting a series of online threats to kill former President Donald Trump on Facebook. Andrew D. Emerald faces eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications, charges that carry potential penalties of up to five years in prison per count, three years of supervised release, and fines of $250,000.

The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Massachusetts, details eight Facebook posts Emerald allegedly made between May 3 and July 7, 2025. In one post from May 13, he wrote, "Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026 or I am hunting him down and putting him there." Other messages included vows to travel to Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida if he was not dead by that deadline, descriptions of publicly executing him, and threats to hang his body from the Statue of Liberty. Emerald referenced a sword he owned, stating in a July post that he would "stick it through the president's throat." Prosecutors described the posts as escalating in violence, with Emerald framing his intentions as a patriotic duty or...