All posts tagged "Assassination Attempt"

A South Carolina veteran faces federal charges after the U.S. Secret Service arrested him last week as he was allegedly headed to D.C. to assassinate the president.

Army veteran Daniel Swain, a South Carolina resident, was arrested in North Carolina while driving a BMW with the message "HEADED TO WSH TO KILL THE PRES" scrawled in white marker across his driver's seat window, according to a press release by the Department of Justice released on Monday. According to a North Carolina criminal complaint, the police were notified on April 29 after employees at a car wash reported the suspicious vehicle.

The car wash was evacuated, and the U.S. Secret Service showed up with K-9 and explosive ordnance disposal teams. When searching Swain's car, they found two containers of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine, and a drone, "which can be used in planning for preparation to carry out any attempts of violence," per the complaint. ...

A Pennsylvania man running for U.S. Senate is now facing federal charges for threatening a member of Congress, President Donald Trump, and the family of a U.S. official.

Raymond Eugene Chandler III was running to unseat fellow Democrat Sen. John Fetterman before he was arrested on May 1, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. According to an FBI arrest affidavit, Chandler left threats for more than a year on the voicemail of an unnamed senator. The affidavit said that the threats were directed at the senator as well as the "immediate family of a United States official" and Trump.

The voicemail threats started in April 2025, when Chandler described buying a "seven-inch combat knife and dagger," said he's ready to "personally kill" ICE agents and told the unnamed senator that he'll "build gallows" to hang him, per the affidavit....

President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters have started to turn on him, using his affinity for conspiracy theories to flip the script, a columnist reported on Friday.

Matt Lewis, an opinion contributor for The Hill, revealed how Trump's long-time use of 'extreme conclusions,' including his firm belief that the 2020 election was stolen, his claims that former President Barack Obama was not born in America (although Obama was born in Hawaii), and his belief that Haitian immigrants living in Ohio were eating cats and dogs, was haunting him.

"Regardless, we have entered a new and possibly ironic phase of the timeline: Trump is finally discovering what it’s like to be on the losing end of a conspiracy theory," Lewis wrote....

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a high school English teacher who called on them to "take out every single person who supports" President Donald Trump, according to the Bangor Daily News.

JoAnna St. Germain, of Waterville, Maine, posted to Facebook this week that the Secret Service “has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts.”

It wasn't clear whether St. Germain was calling for the assassination of Trump....

Right-wing commentators Benny Johnson and Mike Cernovich blamed "The Deep State and Ukraine" for perpetuating two assassination attempts on Donald Trump as he campaigned in Butler County, PA, last July; and Palm Beach County, FL, in September.

Johnson hosted Cernovich on his podcast and posted to X Friday, "Unravel the assassination plot against Trump, it's going to implicate many Senators and members of Congress. The Deep State and Ukraine tried to take out our President."

On the podcast, Johnson asked, "What should happen if Ukraine is found to have been assisting in the assassination of Donald Trump? Even if this is a low-level military guy — and the 17-year-old that was nabbed, all we know according to the FBI is that he was communicating with a Ukrainian number, that he thought was Ukraine. We said on the show it might have been an undercover agent. Who knows?" ...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is calling for the resignation of a local councilwoman in upstate New York who compared the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump to putting down a rabid dog, according to the New York Post.

“Far Left Democrats supporting political violence and the assassination of President Trump are shameful and do not deserve to represent the great people of the North Country,” said the statement from Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference. “Potsdam Town Board Member Christine Paige must be condemned by the NY Democrat State Party and she must resign in disgrace after she said shooting President Trump would be like ‘putting down a rabid dog.'”

Paige's comments were made in a Facebook exchange, where she reportedly said, “I have seen no credible proof that [Trump is] a human being. Maybe you know something we don’t. To me, it would be akin to putting down a rabid dog.” ...