A Texas man was indicted for threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
A grand jury indicted Mickael Gedlu for threatening the president, Fox 4 reported.
Gedlu was, according to the charges, accused of threatening “to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon” Trump sometime between December 2018 and June 2019.
A man matching the name of Gedlu and appearing to be the same person posted on Facebook in January, “KILL TRUMP” after saying he’d been assaulted by “an old short white man.”
In another post on June 5 he wrote: “For 20 straight months now, openly and publicly, I have been calling for President Trump’s death.”
He added a #metoo hashtag at the end of the post.
He said that he had been molested when he was a child and experienced symptoms including panic around women. “I have no connections, no friends, and no social skills,” he wrote.
In another post, he wrote, “75-year-old, Joe Biden. Don’t die before the election!”
His bio said he was “Ethiopian, Eritrean, Atheist.”
The indictment cited 18 U.S. Code 871, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
“Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both,” the code states.
Gedlu’s father, Gizaw, told the Star-Telegram that his 35-year-old son is a “sick person.”
He described his son as disabled and mentally confused, disclosing that he went to a number of doctors to seek treatment for mental issues.
He said that his son watches the news and has been known to go outside and shout about what he just watched, including things about Trump.
“That’s his problem, He talks too much, simply,” Gizaw Gedu said. “Doctors give him medicine. Sometimes he’s not taking it.”
It wasn’t clear which news channels he was watching. Most of the primary national news channels, such as ABC, CBS, and CNN, are openly against Trump and only rarely report stories that show the president in a positive light.
Among the links Gedlu shared on his page was a link to a news story about Trump defending his response to the Charlottesville incident, which has been widely twisted by news outlets and presidential candidates like Biden. He also shared a link speculating that Trump obstructed justice in the Trump-Russia investigation.
NY Man Arrested
A New York man was indicted on five counts, including one count of making a threat against the president, for threatening President Donald Trump and three other people.
Jared Marc Brown, 23, of Lockport, threatened to kill Trump on March 25, according to the Department of Justice.
The defendant is accused of penning a letter and sending it to a U.S. Secret Service special agent. In the letter, Brown wrote from prison, “I’m [] gonna kill Donald Trump with Anthrax when I get out.”
On the same day, authorities said Brown threatened to assault and kill U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo, his wife, and a Secret Service agent.
“The defendant intended to retaliate against Judge Vilardo and the Secret Service special agent on account of the performance of their official duties,” the department stated.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan Tokash was handling the case.
