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'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connexion with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
President Donald Trump insists he deserves no arraign for divisions in America.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from acts of violence in communities beyond America, dismissing critics who point to his rhetoric equally a potential source of inspiration or comfort for anyone acting on even long-held beliefs of bigotry and hate.
"I think my rhetoric brings people together," he said final year, four days after a 21-year-old allegedly posted an anti-immigrant screed online and then allegedly opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 and injuring dozens of others.
But a nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 54 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connectedness with tearing acts, threats of violence or allegations of assail.
Later on a Latino gas station attendant in Gainesville, Florida, was all of a sudden punched in the caput past a white human, the victim could exist heard on surveillance camera recounting the attacker's own words: "He said, 'This is for Trump.'" Charges were filed but the victim stopped pursuing them.
When police force questioned a Washington country homo about his threats to kill a local Syrian-born man, the doubtable told police he wanted the victim to "go out of my state," calculation, "That's why I like Trump."
Reviewing police reports and court records, ABC News found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators hailed Trump in the midst or immediate backwash of physically assaulting innocent victims. In another xviii cases, perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. And in another x cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant'south fierce or threatening beliefs.
When iii Kansas men were on trial for plotting to bomb a largely-Muslim apartment circuitous in Garden Metropolis, Kansas, ane of their lawyers told the jury that the men "were concerned about what now-President Trump had to say most the concept of Islamic terrorism." Another lawyer insisted Trump had become "the voice of a lost and ignored white, working-class set of voters," and Trump'south rhetoric meant someone "who would often be at a seven during a normal day, might 'go to 11.'"
13 cases identified by ABC News involved tearing or threatening acts perpetrated in disobedience of Trump, with many of them targeting Trump's allies in Congress. Only the vast bulk of the cases – 41 of the 54 – reflect someone echoing presidential rhetoric, not protesting it.
ABC News could not find a single criminal case filed in federal or state court where an act of violence or threat was made in the proper name of President Barack Obama or President George West. Bush-league.
The 54 cases identified by ABC News are remarkable in that a link to the president is captured in court documents and law statements, under the penalty of perjury or antipathy. These links are non speculative – they are documented in official records. And in the bulk of cases identified by ABC News, information technology was perpetrators themselves who invoked the president in connection with their case, non anyone else.
The perpetrators and suspects identified in the 54 cases are mostly white men – equally young every bit teenagers and every bit old equally 75 – while the victims largely represent an array of minority groups – African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and gay men.
Federal law enforcement authorities have privately told ABC News they worry that – although Trump has offered public denunciations of violence – his statements have been inconsistent and Trump'south style could inspire violence-prone individuals to take action against minorities or others they perceive to be against the president's agenda.
"Any public figure could have the effect of inspiring people," FBI Director Chris Wray told a Senate panel last yr. "But call up that the people who commit detest fueled violence are not logical, rational people."
While asserting that "fake" media coverage is exacerbating divisions in the country, Trump has noted that "a fan" of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders opened fire on Republican lawmakers playing baseball in a Washington suburb ii years ago. "Nobody puts ... 'Bernie Sanders' in the headline with the maniac," Trump said concluding yr.
And, last year, Trump similarly insisted that the human being who fatally shot ix people in Dayton, Ohio, 3 days earlier "supported" Sanders and other liberal causes.
But there's no indication either of those shooters mentioned Sanders while launching their attacks, and no charges were ever filed considering they were both fatally shot during their assaults.
In add-on, a president inhabits a unique position in America, with access to a special bully pulpit. On Twitter, Trump currently has 80.vii million followers – nearly seven times the number of Sanders followers.
In identifying the 54 Trump-related cases, ABC News excluded incidents of vandalism. ABC News also excluded many cases of violence – from attacks on anti-Trump protesters at Trump rallies to certain assaults on people wearing "Brand America Great Once again" hats – that did not establish explicit ties to Trump in court records or police force reports. Similarly, being a documented Trump supporter who committed an attack, even at a Trump-related location, would not be enough to exist included if official records did not document a specific connection to Trump.
ABC News found several cases where pro-Trump defendants were charged with targeting minorities, or where speculation online suggested the defendants were motivated by Trump, but in those cases ABC News institute no police records, court proceedings or other direct show presenting a definitive link to the president.
In many cases of assault or threat, charges are never filed, perpetrators are never identified or the incident is never fifty-fifty reported to regime. And most criminal acts committed by Trump supporters or his detractors have zilch to do with the president. But in 54 cases, courtroom records and police reports indicated some sort of link.
Yet, Trump has said he deserves "no blame" for what he called the "hatred" seemingly coursing through parts of the state. And he told reporters that he's "committed to doing everything" in his power to not let political violence "take root in America."
The White House did not answer to a request seeking comment for this written report.
Here are the 54 cases identified by ABC News:
Aug. 19, 2015: In Boston, after he and his blood brother vanquish a sleeping homeless man of Mexican descent with a metal pole, Steven Leader, thirty, told police "Donald Trump was correct, all these illegals need to be deported." The victim, still, was not in the United States illegally. The brothers, who are white, ultimately pleaded guilty to several assault-related charges and were each sentenced to at least two years in prison.
Dec. 5, 2015: Afterward Penn Land University educatee Nicholas Tavella, xix, was charged with "indigenous intimidation" and other crimes for threatening to "put a bullet" in a young Indian man on campus, his attorney argued in court that Tavella was just motivated by "a beloved of country," not "hate." "Donald Trump is running for President of the United states of america saying that, 'Nosotros've got to cheque people out more closely,'" Tavella'southward chaser argued in his defense force. Tavella, who is white, ultimately pleaded guilty to indigenous intimidation and was sentenced to up to two years in prison.
Apr 28, 2016: When FBI agents arrested 61-yr-sometime John Martin Roos in White City, Oregon, for threatening federal officials, including and then-President Barack Obama, they institute several pipe bombs and guns in his home. In the three months before his abort, Roos posted at least 34 messages to Twitter nigh Trump, repeatedly threatening African Americans, Muslims, Mexican immigrants and the "liberal media," and in courtroom documents, prosecutors noted that the avowed Trump supporter posted this threatening bulletin to Facebook a calendar month earlier: "The establishment is trying to steal the election from Trump. ... Obama is already on a kill list ... Your [name] can be there too." Roos, who is white, has since pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered explosive device and posting internet threats against federal officials. He was sentenced to more than five years in prison.
June 3, 2016: After 54-year-old Henry Slapnik attacked his African-American neighbors with a pocketknife in Cleveland, he told police "Donald Trump volition fix them considering they are scared of Donald Trump," according to police reports. Slapnik, who is white, ultimately pleaded guilty to "indigenous intimidation" and other charges. It'south unclear what sentence he received.
Aug. 16, 2016: In Olympia, Washington, 32-year-old Daniel Rowe attacked a white woman and a black man with a pocketknife after seeing them kiss on a popular street. When law arrived on the scene, Rowe professed to being "a white supremacist" and said "he planned on heading downwardly to the next Donald Trump rally and stomping out more of the Black Lives Affair grouping," according to court documents filed in the case. Rowe, who is white, ultimately pleaded guilty to charges of assault and malicious harassment, and he was sentenced to more than four years in prison house.
Sept. ane, 2016: The then-chief of the Bordentown, New Jersey, law department, Frank Nucera, allegedly assaulted an African American teenager who was handcuffed. Federal prosecutors said the attack was part of Nucera's "intense racial animus," noting in federal courtroom that "within hours" of the assault, Nucera was secretly recorded maxim "Donald Trump is the terminal hope for white people." The threescore-year-onetime Nucera, who is white, was indicted by a federal grand jury on three charges, including committing a federal hate crime and lying to the FBI about the declared assault. He was convicted of lying to the FBI, but a jury deadlocked on the other charges, and then Nucera is now awaiting a second trial. He has pleaded not guilty.
September 2016: Later on 40-year-old Mark Feigin of Los Angeles was arrested for posting anti-Muslim and allegedly threatening statements to a mosque's Facebook folio, his attorney argued in court that the comments were protected by the Starting time Amendment because Feigin was "using similar language and expressing similar views" to "campaign statements from then-candidate Donald Trump." Noting that his client "supported Donald Trump," chaser Caleb Stonemason added that "Mr. Feigin'southward comments were directed toward a pressing upshot of public concern that was a central theme of the Trump campaign and the 2016 election by and large: the Islamic roots of many international and U.S. terrorist acts." Feigin, who is white, ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of sending harassing communications electronically. He was sentenced to probation.
October. 10, 2016: Police in Albany, New York, arrested 55-year-old Todd Warnken for threatening an African-American woman at a local grocery store "because of her race," according to a police report. Warnken allegedly told the victim, "Trump is going to win, and if you don't like it I'chiliad gonna beat your ass you n----r," the police force report said. He ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the case and completed a local "restorative justice program," allowing the charges confronting him to be dismissed, according to the district attorney's office.
October. 13, 2016: Later on the FBI arrested three white Kansas men for plotting to bomb an flat complex in Garden City, Kansas, where many Somali immigrants lived, ane of the men'south attorneys insisted to a federal guess that the plot was "cocky-defensive" considering the three men believed "that if Donald Trump won the election, President Obama would not recognize the validity of those results, that he would declare martial police force, and that at that point militias all over the state would take to pace in." Then, later on a federal chiliad jury bedevilled 47-year-old Patrick Stein and the two other men of conspiracy-related charges, Stein's attorney argued for a lighter sentence based on "the properties" of Stein's actions: Trump had go "the voice of a lost and ignored white, working-class set up of voters" like Stein, and the "climate" at the time could propel someone like Stein to "go to 11," attorney Jim Pratt said in court. Stein and his two accomplices were each sentenced to at least 25 years in prison house.
Nov. 3, 2016: In Tampa, Florida, David Howard threatened to burn down the firm next to his "simply because" it was beingness purchased past a Muslim family, according to the Justice Department. He later said under oath that while he harbored a years-long dislike for Muslims, the circumstances effectually the abode auction were "the match that lit the wick." He cited Trump's warnings about immigrants from majority-Muslim countries. "[With] the fact that the president wants these 6 countries vetted, everybody vetted before they come over, there's a business well-nigh Muslims," Howard said. Howard, who is white, ultimately pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation, and the 59-year-old was sentenced to eight months in prison house.
Nov. x, 2016: A 23-twelvemonth-old human from High Springs, Florida, allegedly assaulted an unsuspecting Hispanic man who was cleaning a parking lot exterior of a local food store. "[H]e was all of a sudden struck in the dorsum of the head," a law study said of the victim. "[The victim] asked the suspect why he hit him, to which the suspect replied, 'This is for Donald Trump.' The suspect then grabbed [the victim] past the jacket and proceeded to strike him several more than times," according to the report. Surveillance video of the incident "completely corroborated [the victim'south] account of events," police said. The suspect was arrested on battery charges, but the example was dropped subsequently the victim decided not to pursue the matter, constabulary said. Efforts past ABC News to attain the victim for farther explanation were not successful.
Nov. 12, 2016: In Chiliad Rapids, Michigan, while attacking a cab driver from Due east Africa, 23-yr-old Jacob Holtzlander shouted racial epithets and repeatedly yelled the word, "Trump," co-ordinate to law enforcement records. Holtzlander, who is white, ultimately pleaded guilty to a accuse of ethnic intimidation, and he was sentenced to xxx days in jail.
Nov. 16, 2016: Police in San Antonio, Texas, arrested 32-yr-erstwhile Dusty Paul Lacombe after he and a companion assaulted a blackness human at a convenience store. According to a police force study, Lacombe "stepped out of a vehicle and walked to the [victim] and stated he was a Trump supporter and swung at him several times." The victim "was punched in the face several times," the police report said. When police force arrived, Lacombe – who "smelled strongly of alcohol" – "stated something about Trump and admitted to fighting with [the victim]," the police report noted. Lacombe was charged with misdemeanor assault and ultimately received "deferred adjudication," which is akin to probation. Lacombe ultimately pleaded "no contest" to the charge and was granted "deferred adjudication" with a $450 fine.
Jan. three, 2017: In Chicago, four young African-Americans -- sisters Brittany and Tanishia Covington, Jordan Loma and Tesfaye Cooper -- tied up a white, mentally disabled man and assaulted him, forcing him to recite the phrases "F--thousand Donald Trump" and "F--k white people" while they broadcast the attack online. Each of them ultimately pleaded guilty to committing a detest criminal offence and other charges, and iii of them were sentenced to several years in prison.
January. 25, 2017: At JFK International Airport in New York, a female Delta employee, wearing a hijab in accordance with her Muslim faith, was "physically and verbally" attacked by 57-twelvemonth-old Robin Rhodes of Worcester, Mass., "for no apparent reason," prosecutors said at the time. When the victim asked Dark-brown what she did to him, he replied: "You did nix, only ... [Expletive] Islam. [Expletive] ISIS. Trump is here now. He will get rid of all of you." Rhodes ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of "menacing," and he was sentenced to probation.
Feb. 19, 2017: Later on 35-year-sometime Gerald Wallace called a mosque in Miami Gardens, Florida, and threatened to "shoot all y'all," he told the FBI and police that he made the call considering he "got angry" from a local TV news report about a terrorist human activity. At a rally in Florida the 24-hour interval before, Trump falsely claimed that Muslim refugees had just launched a terrorist set on in Sweden.
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Wallace's attorney, Katie Carmon, subsequently tried to convince a federal approximate that the threat to impale worshippers could be "protected speech" due to the "very distinctly political climate" at the fourth dimension. "There are courts because President Trump's travel ban ... and the president himself has fabricated some very pointed statements about what he thinks about people of this descent," Carmon argued in court.
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Wallace, who is African American, ultimately pleaded guilty to obstructing the free do of his victims' religious beliefs, and he was sentenced to ane twelvemonth in prison.
February. 23, 2017: Kevin Seymour and his partner Kevin price were riding their bicycles in Cardinal W, Florida, when a human on a moped, 30-year-old Brandon Davis of Northward Carolina, hurled anti-gay slurs at them and "intentionally" ran into Seymour's bike, shouting, "You live in Trump country now," according to law reports and Davis' attorney. Davis ultimately pleaded guilty to a charge of battery evidencing prejudice, just in court, he expressed remorse and was sentenced to 4 years of probation.
May iii, 2017: In Southward Padre Island, Texas, 35-twelvemonth-old Alexander Jennes Downing of Waterford, Connecticut, was captured on cellphone video taunting and aggressively approaching a Muslim family, repeatedly shouting, "Donald Trump volition terminate you!" and other Trump-related remarks. Police arrested downing, of Waterford, Connecticut, for public intoxication. It's unclear what came of the charge.
May 11, 2017: Government arrested Steven Martan of Tucson, Arizona, after he left 3 threatening letters at the function Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz. In 1 message, he told McSally he was going to "blow your brains out," and in another he told her that her "days are numbered." He afterwards told FBI agents "that he was venting frustrations with Congresswoman McSally's congressional votes in support of the President of the U.s.a.," according to charging documents. Martan's attorney, Walter Goncalves Jr., later told a judge that Martan had "an booze problem" and left the messages "after condign intoxicated" and "greatly upset" past news that McSally "agreed with decisions by President Donald Trump." Martan, 58, has since pleaded guilty to three counts of retaliating against a federal official and was sentenced to more than ane yr in prison.
May 23, 2017: George Jarjour and his brother, Sam Jarjour, were getting gas at a station in Bellevue, Washington, when 56-year-old Kenneth Sjarpe started yelling at them to "go back to your country," according to a police report. Sjarpe then drove his truck toward the brothers, rolled downward his window, and declared, "F--m you, you Muslims," and "I'll f---ing kill you," the police study stated. When police officers interviewed Sjarpe the next day, according to the report, he "became blithe and his voice got louder every bit he started talking almost how he hated those people… [peculiarly] Iranians, Indians and Middle Easterners." And, the study recounted, "He said he supports Trump in keeping them out." A week later, Sjarpe threatened another man at a local business, yelling, "I hate foreigners," according to a police report. He was arrested days later. Sjarpe ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of malicious harassment and was sentenced to six months backside bars.
Oct. 22, 2017: A 44-year-old California homo threatened to kill Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., for her frequent criticism of Trump and her promise to "take out" the president. Anthony Scott Lloyd left a voicemail at the congresswoman's Washington office, declaring: "If you continue to make threats towards the president, you lot're going to wind upwardly dead, Maxine. Crusade nosotros'll kill you." After pleading guilty to one count of threatening a U.S. official, Lloyd asked the judge for leniency, saying he suffered from addiction-inducing mental illness and became "far too immersed in listening to polarizing political commentators and engaging in heated political debates online." His lawyer put it this way to the judge: "Mr. Lloyd was a voracious consumer of political news online, on goggle box and on radio … [that are] commonly viewed every bit 'correct wing,' unconditionally supportive of President Trump, and fiercely disquisitional of anyone who opposed President Trump's policies." The judge sentenced Lloyd to vi months of house arrest and three years of probation.
Feb. 21, 2018: A federal thousand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted a one-time U.South. diplomat – William Patrick Syring, sixty, of Arlington, Virginia – on several counts for threatening employees of the Arab American Institute. He had previously served nearly a twelvemonth in prison for threats he made in emails and voicemails to the same organization in 2006, but presently later on serving his fourth dimension he began emailing the arrangement again. In January 2017, a week after Trump was inaugurated, Syring sent ane email saying: "It's time for indigenous cleansing of Arabs in America. Elections have consequences. President Trump volition cleanse America of [AAI President James] Zogby … and all Arab American terrorists." Within months, he began sending peculiarly "charged" rhetoric that constituted "a true threat" – and emails similar the i from January 2017 reflect the blazon of language that was "part and package of" his threats, prosecutors said in court documents. In May 2019, a federal jury bedevilled Syring on all 14 counts against him, including seven hate-crime charges and seven interstate-threat charges. He was sentenced to five years in prison house.
March 1, 2018: The FBI arrested 24-yr-one-time Daniel Frisiello of Beverly, Massachusetts, for sending envelopes with white pulverisation to at least five politically-charged locations around the country. I of those envelopes was addressed to "Donald Trump Jr." in New York, and it included a typed letter of the alphabet stating, "Y'all are an awful, atrocious person, I am surprised that your father lets you speak on Telly." Trump Jr.'southward then-married woman received and so opened the alphabetic character. The FBI ultimately determined Frisiello was responsible for a rash of threatening letters sent to various public servants since 2015. In 2016, Frisiello sent white powder to Trump'south family in what federal authorities called "a bid to persuade [Trump] to driblet out of the presidential race." Frisiello then sent white powder to Trump Jr. in early 2018 "because of the victim's connexion with his father," federal authorities said. Frisiello ultimately pleaded guilty to 13 federal counts of mailing a threat. He was sentenced to five years' probation, including 1 year of dwelling confinement, afterward even prosecutors acknowledged there were "unique circumstances concerning Mr. Frisiello's mental and emotional weather," as they said in courtroom documents.
April vi, 2018: The FBI arrested 38-year-old Christopher Michael McGowan of Roanoke, Virginia, for allegedly posting a series of Twitter threats against Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., over several months. In one posting in December 2017, McGowan wrote to Goodlatte: "I threatened to kill y'all if y'all help Trump violate the constitution," co-ordinate to charging documents. In another alleged post, the self-described Army veteran wrote: "If Trump tries to burn down [special counsel Robert] Mueller I Will brand an effort to execute a citizens arrest confronting [Goodlatte] and I will impale him if he resist." In subsequent statements to police, he said he drinks too much, was "hoping to get someone's attending over his concerns near the current status of our land," and did not actually intend to impairment Goodlatte, court documents recount. A federal k jury has indicted McGowan on one count of transmitting a threat over country lines, and it'south unclear if he has entered a plea as he awaits trial.
June 8, 2018: Federal authorities arrested Nicholas Bukoski of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for threatening to kill Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California. "You wouldn't want to be caught off baby-sit when I use my second subpoena protected firearms to rid the earth of you," Bukowski wrote to Sanders via Instagram on March, 24, 2018. Two minutes later, he wrote to Harris maxim he will "brand sure yous and your radical lefty friends never get back in power … because you lot won't make it to see that solar day." At a mental treatment facility shortly afterwards his arrest, he said, "He was watching the news and social media, which made him want to send the threats. He stated that he was frustrated with liberals and he is very supportive of the electric current president," court documents signed by Bukoski recount. Other court documents draw Bukoski's criminal by unrelated to politics, including a series of arsons he committed in 2017 and early 2018 and an armed robbery he committed in Jan 2018. In the most recent example involving threats to lawmakers, he ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting interstate threats and was sentenced to six months in prison.
July 6, 2018: Martin Astrof, 75, approached a volunteer at the campaign part of Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., in Suffolk County, New York, and "state[d] he was going to kill supporters of U.S. congressman Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump," according to charging documents. Astrof was arrested and ultimately pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment. He was sentenced to one twelvemonth of probation.
August 2018: Afterwards the Boston Earth called on news outlets effectually the country to resist what it called "Trump'southward attack on journalism," the Boston Globe received more than a dozen threatening telephone calls. "You are the enemy of the people," the declared caller, 68-year-old Robert Chain of Encino, California, told a Boston Globe employee on Aug. 22. "Every bit long as you lot keep attacking the President, the duly elected President of the United States ... I will continue to threat[en], harass, and annoy the Boston Globe." A week subsequently, regime arrested Chain on threat-related charges. Afterwards a hearing in his example, he told reporters, "America was saved when Donald J. Trump was elected president." Concatenation has pleaded guilty to seven threat-related charges, and he is awaiting sentencing.
October. iv, 2018: The Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida arrested 53-twelvemonth-onetime James Patrick of Winter Haven, Florida, for allegedly threatening "to kill Democratic function holders, members of their families and members of both local and federal law enforcement agencies," according to a police force study. In messages posted online, Patrick detailed a "plan" for his attacks, which he said he would launch if then-nominee Brett Kavanaugh was non confirmed equally a Supreme Court justice, the police report said. Seeking Patrick's release from jail after his arrest, Patrick'south chaser, Terri Stewart, told a judge that her client's "rantings" were alike to comments from "a certain high-ranking official" -- Trump. The president had "threatened the North Korean people -- to blow them all up. It was on Twitter," Stewart said, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Patrick has been charged with making a written threat to impale or injure, and he has pleaded not guilty. His trial is pending.
Tardily Oct 2018: Over the course of a week, Florida man Cesar Sayoc allegedly mailed at to the lowest degree 15 potential bombs to prominent critics of Trump and members of the media. Sayoc had been living in a van plastered with pro-Trump stickers, and he had posted several pro-Trump messages on social media. Federal prosecutors accept defendant him of "domestic terrorism," and Sayoc has since pleaded guilty to 65 counts, including utilize of a weapon of mass devastation. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. "We believe the president's rhetoric contributed to Mr. Sayoc's behavior," Sayoc's chaser told the judge at sentencing.
October. 21, 2018: While Bruce 1000. Alexander of Tampa, Florida, was flying on a Southwest Airlines flight from Houston, Texas, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, he assaulted a woman by "reaching effectually the seat" in front of him and "offensively touching" her, he acknowledged in courtroom documents. When federal government then arrested him, he "stated that the President of the U.s.a. says it's ok to grab women by their individual parts," an FBI agent wrote in court documents. Alexander ultimately pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor count of simple set on and was sentenced to two days behind bars.
November. 3, 2018: Law in Tucson, Arizona, arrested 42-year-old Daniel Brito of Rockville, Maryland, on a robbery charge after he allegedly stole a Tucson human's "Make America Great Again" hat and punched the victim several times. When a police officer responded to the scene, Brito told the officer, "I saw this guy with a Trump hat walk by and think about, 'You lot know what, f--k him," co-ordinate to a police report. Brito later told ii other officers that he believed the victim was a "Neo-nazi Jew hater" because the victim supported Trump, some other police report said.
Dec. 4, 2018: Michael Brogan, 51, of Brooklyn, New York, left a voicemail at an unidentified U.Due south. Senator's office in Washington insisting, "I'm going to put a bullet in ya. … You and your constant lambasting of President Trump. Oh, reproductive rights, reproductive rights." He afterwards told an FBI amanuensis that before leaving the voicemail he became "very aroused" by "an net video of the Senator, including the Senator's criticism of the President of the Usa as well every bit the Senator's views on reproductive rights." "The threats were made to discourage the Senator from criticizing the President," the Justice Section said in a afterward press release. Brogan has since pleaded guilty to ane count of threatening a U.S. official, and he is awaiting sentencing.
January. 17, 2019: Stephen Taubert of Syracuse, New York, was arrested by the U.S. Capitol Police for threatening to kill Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and for threatening to "hang" former President Barack Obama. Taubert used "overtly narrow-minded, mean language" in his threats, according to federal prosecutors. On July 20, 2018, Taubert chosen the congresswoman'due south Los Angeles office to say he would find her at public events and kill her and her unabridged staff. In a alphabetic character to the judge only days before Taubert's trial began, his defense attorney, Courtenay McKeon, noted: "During that fourth dimension period, Congresswoman Waters was embroiled in a public feud with the Trump administration. … On June 25, 2018, in response to Congresswoman Waters' public statements, President Trump tweeted: 'Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has … simply called for harm to supporters … of the Make America Great Once again movement. Be conscientious what you wish for Max!'" Every bit McKeon insisted to the judge: "This context is relevant to the case." A federal jury ultimately convicted Taubert on 3 federal charges, including retaliating against a federal official and making a threat over state lines. He was sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
Jan. 22, 2019: David Boileau of Holiday, Florida, was arrested past the Pasco County Sheriff's Office for allegedly burglarizing an Iraqi family's home and "going through" their mailbox, according to a police written report. Afterwards officers arrived at the home, Boileau "made several statements of his dislike for people of Middle Eastern descent," the report said. "He also stated if he doesn't get rid of them, Trump volition handle it." The constabulary written report noted that a 24-hour interval before, Boileau threw screws at a vehicle outside the family'due south house. On that day, Boileau allegedly told police, "We'll get rid of them one fashion or another." Boileau, 58, has since pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor accuse of trespassing, and he was sentenced to xc days in jail.
Feb. xv, 2019: The FBI in Maryland arrested a Marine veteran and U.South. Coast Guard lieutenant, Christopher Paul Hasson, who they said was stockpiling weapons and "espoused" racist and anti-immigrant views for years as he sought to "murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country." In court documents, prosecutors said the 49-twelvemonth-old "domestic terrorist" compiled a "hit listing" of prominent Democrats. Two months later on, while seeking Hasson's release from jail earlier trial, his public defender, Elizabeth Oyer, told a federal judge: "This looks like the sort of list that our commander-in-chief might accept compiled while watching Fox News in the morning time. … Is information technology legitimately frustrating that offensive language and credo has now get part of our national vocabulary? Yep, it is very frustrating. Simply … it is difficult to differentiate it from the random musings of someone like Donald Trump who uses similar epithets in his everyday language and tweets." Hasson ultimately pleaded guilty to federal weapons-related charges, and he was sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison.
Feb. 15, 2019: Police in Falmouth, Massachusetts, arrested 41-twelvemonth-old Rosiane Santos later she "verbally assault[ed]" a human for wearing a "Make America Neat Once again" chapeau in a Mexican eating place then "violently push button[ed] his head down," co-ordinate to police reports. Apparently intoxicated, "she stated that [the victim] was a 'motherf----r' for supporting Trump," one of the responding officers wrote. "She likewise stated that he shouldn't be allowed in a Mexican restaurant with that." Santos was in the United States unlawfully, federal authorities said. Police arrested her on charges of "unproblematic attack" and disorderly conduct. She has since admitted in local court that at that place are "sufficient facts" to warrant charges, and she has been placed on a course of probation.
Feb. 25, 2019: An eighteen-year-former student at Edmond Santa Fe High School in Edmond, Oklahoma, was captured on cellphone video "confronting a younger classmate who [was] wearing a 'Make America Not bad Over again' chapeau and carrying a 'Trump' flag," according to a printing release from the local school system. "The [older] educatee then proceeds to grab the flag and knock the hat off of his classmate'southward head." The eighteen-year-old student was charged in local court with assault and bombardment, according to Edmond City Chaser Steve Murdock. The pupil has since pleaded guilty and was placed on probation, Murdock added.
March 16, 2019: Anthony Comello, 24, of Staten Island, New York, was taken into custody for allegedly killing Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, the reputed caput of the infamous Gambino law-breaking family. It marked the kickoff mob boss murder in New York in thirty years, constabulary enforcement officials told ABC News the murder may take stemmed from Comello's romantic relationship with a Cali family member. Court documents since filed in state courtroom by Comello's defense attorney, Robert Gottlieb, said Comello suffers from mental defect and was a believer in the "conspiratorial fringe right-fly political grouping" QAnon. In addition, Gottlieb wrote: "Beginning with the election of President Trump in Nov 2016, Anthony Comello'southward family began to notice changes to his personality. … Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president's full support. Mr. Comello grew to believe that several well-known politicians and celebrities were really members of the Deep Country, and were actively trying to bring most the destruction of America." Comello has been charged with 1 count of murder and ii counts of criminal possession of a weapon. His trial is pending, and he has pleaded not guilty.
April 5, 2019: The FBI arrested a 55-yr-old man from upstate New York for allegedly threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress. She is an outspoken critic of Trump, and Trump has frequently launched public attacks confronting her and three other female person lawmakers of color. 2 weeks earlier his arrest, Patrick Carlineo Jr. allegedly called Omar's function in Washington labeling the congresswoman a "terrorist" and declaring: "I'll put a bullet in her f----ing skull." When an FBI agent then traced the call to Carlineo and interviewed him, Carlineo "stated that he was a patriot, that he loves the President, and that he hates radical Muslims in our government," according to the FBI agent'due south summary of the interview. Federal prosecutors charged Carlineo with threatening to assault and murder a United States official. He has since pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to one yr in prison.
Apr 13, 2019: 27-year-former Jovan Crawford, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, and 25-twelvemonth-old Scott Roberson Washington, D.C., assaulted and robbed a blackness man wearing a red "Brand America Bang-up Over again" hat while walking through his suburban Maryland neighborhood. Before punching and kicking him, "The two suspects harassed [the victim] nigh the lid and asked why he was wearing it. [The victim] told them he has his own beliefs and views," according to charging documents filed afterwards their arrest by Montgomery County, Maryland, police force. Crawford afterward received a text message noting that, "They jumped some trump supporter," the charging documents said. Crawford and Roberson accept since pleaded guilty to assault charges. They were each sentenced to at least i year in prison.
April eighteen, 2019: The FBI arrested John Joseph Kless of Tamarac, Florida, for calling the Washington offices of iii prominent Democrats and threatening to kill each of them. At his dwelling house, authorities plant a loaded handgun in a backpack, an AR-15 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. In later pleading guilty to one charge of transmitting threats over state lines, Kless admitted that in a threatening voicemail targeting Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., he stated: "You lot won't f---ing tell Americans what to say, and yous definitely don't tell our president, Donald Trump, what to say." Tlaib, a vocal critic of Trump, was scheduled to speak in Florida four days later. Kless was pending sentencing. In a letter of the alphabet to the federal estimate, he said he "made a very large mistake," never meant to hurt anyone, and "was way out of line with my language and attitude." Kless was sentenced to 1 year behind bars.
Apr 24, 2019: The FBI arrested thirty-year-old Matthew Haviland of Northward Kingstown, Rhode Isle, for allegedly sending a series of tearing and threatening emails to a college professor in Massachusetts who publicly expressed back up for abortion rights and strongly criticized Trump. In 1 of 28 emails sent to the professor on March 10, 2019, Haviland allegedly called the professor "pure evil" and said "all Democrats must exist eradicated," insisting the country at present has "a president who'southward taking our country in a identify of more liberty rather than less." In another email the aforementioned twenty-four hour period, Haviland allegedly wrote the professor: "I volition rip every limb from your body and … I will kill every member of your family unit." Co-ordinate to courtroom documents, Haviland'south longtime friend later told the FBI that "within the terminal year, Haviland's views regarding ballgame and politics have become more farthermost … at least in office because of the way the news media portrays President Trump." Haviland has since pleaded guilty to charges of cyberstalking and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. He is awaiting sentencing.
June 5, 2019: The FBI arrested a Utah homo for allegedly calling the U.S. Capitol more than 2,000 times over several months and threatening to kill Democratic lawmakers, whom he said were "trying to destroy Trump'south presidency." "I am going to take up my 2nd amendment right, and shoot you liberals in the head," 54-yr-onetime Scott Brian Haven allegedly stated in i of the calls on October. 18, 2018, co-ordinate to charging documents. When an FBI agent afterward interviewed Haven, he "explained the phone calls were made during periods of frustration with the way Democrats were treating President Trump," the charging documents said. The FBI visit, however, didn't cease Haven from making more threats, including: On March 21, 2019, he called an unidentified U.S. senator's office to say that if Democrats refer to Trump as Hitler again he will shoot them, and two days later he called an unidentified congressman's office to say he "was going to accept [the congressman] out … because he is trying to remove a duly elected President." A federal thou jury has since charged Haven with ane count of transmitting a threat over land lines. Haven has since pleaded guilty to 1 count of transmitting a threat over country lines. He was sentenced to time served.
Aug. 3, 2019: A gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people and injuring 24 others. The FBI labeled the massacre an act of "domestic terrorism," and police adamant that the alleged shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, posted a lengthy anti-immigrant diatribe online before the set on. "We attribute that manifesto straight to him," according to El Paso police force principal Greg Allen. Describing the coming assault as "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas," the screed'south writer said "the media" would "blame Trump's rhetoric" for the assail but insisted his anti-immigrant views "predate Trump" -- an apparent acknowledgement that at least some of his views marshal with some of Trump'due south public statements. The writer began his online essay by stating that he generally "support[south]" the previous writings of the man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand earlier this twelvemonth. In that case, the shooter in New Zealand said he admittedly did not support Trump every bit "a policy maker and leader" -- simply "[a]s a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure." Crusius has been charged with capital murder by the state of Texas.
Aug. sixteen, 2019: The FBI arrested Eric Lin, 35, of Clarksburg, Maryland, for sending threatening and detest-filled letters over Facebook vowing to kill a Miami-area woman and "all Hispanics in Miami and other places," equally the Justice Department described it. Over two months, the woman received 150 pages' worth of messages from Lin, the FBI said. In June 2019, Lin allegedly wrote: "In iii curt years your entire Race your entire civilisation will perish just then after I kill your [epithet] family volition I permit you to Die by Hanging on Metal Wire." A month later, on July 19, 2019, he allegedly wrote: "I Thank God everday President Donald John Trump is President and that he will launch a Racial State of war and Crusade to keep the due north----rs, S---s, and Muslims and whatsoever unsafe non-White or Ethnically or Culturally Strange group 'In Line.'" On his Facebook account, Lin says he "Studied at Trump University," and he repeatedly praises Trump for, among other things, "fomenting racial hatred" and "Making Racism Ok Once more." At the aforementioned time, a few of his posts seem to praise Democrats and minorities. In January, Lin pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting a threatening communication. He has yet to exist sentenced.
Aug. 21, 2019: Nathan Semans of Humphreys County, Tennessee, was arrested by land constabulary enforcement for allegedly emailing a threat to a local Boob tube station that demanded the station broadcast a certain story. "Await if you don't run story I'g going to state capital to blow someone'due south brains out," the electronic mail stated. The email and so added in office: "I don't look good at the moment cause the tyranny of what trump did … I'grand ill of this nonsense and bologna hanging around that trumps [sic] the perfect American, hallelujah against Trump." Semans has been charged with one count of making terrorist threats, and his trial is pending. Information technology'south unclear if he has entered an initial plea.
Oct. 7, 2019: A woman driving in Moorhead, Minnesota, called law subsequently 27-year-old Joseph Schumacher of Due north Dakota allegedly rolled down his window and "began yelling at the female expressing his dislike for the political bumper sticker [she] had displayed on her car," according to police reports. Schumacher then allegedly pointed to the "Trump Pence" bumper sticker on his own vehicle "and further expressed his difference in national political views" before "brandishing a pistol" inside his vehicle, police said. Schumacher was ultimately arrested on three misdemeanor charges, including disorderly conduct that could "reasonably agitate alarm." He ultimately pleaded guilty to the disorderly conduct charge and a "gross misdemeanor" accuse of carrying a weapon without a allow. He was sentenced to a year backside bars.
Oct. 25, 2019: The FBI arrested Jan Peter Meister of Tucson, Arizona, for threatening to kill Firm Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, D-California. Iii weeks earlier, he left a voicemail at Schiff'due south role in Washington, D.C, promising to "blow your brains out." Co-ordinate to court documents filed in the case, Meister told FBI agents that "he strongly dislikes the Democrats, and feels they are to arraign for the land's political issues." In other court documents, Meister's attorney, Bradley Roach, noted that the accuse his customer ultimately accepted "involves threats of injury of decease against a political figure who figures very prominently in the ongoing impeachment of President Trump." Meister has pleaded guilty to i count of threatening a U.S. official. A plea agreement with prosecutors calls for Meister to exist sentenced to time already served.
Oct. 26, 2019: During a Collier Canton fair in Florida, a teenage daughter allegedly assaulted a man dressed equally Trump. "While standing in line [with my wife and stepdaughter] waiting our turn to get in to the haunted house exhibit, [she] … walked over to me and punched me in my left jaw. She laughed and ran back to her identify in line," the homo told constabulary, according a law written report of the incident. The unidentified girl's "sole motivation was to strike 'Trump,'" and a video of the incident was posted on social media, the police written report added. The girl was issued a civil citation and ordered to announced in court, according to the Collier County sheriff'due south office.
Nov. 1, 2019: Clifton Blackwell, 61, of Milwaukee was arrested by local law after allegedly throwing acid on a Peruvian-American's confront and accusing him of existence within the United States illegally. Before attacking the victim outside of a Mexican restaurant, Blackwell allegedly asked the victim "Why yous invade my state?" and "Why don't you respect my laws?" The attack was captured on video past surveillance cameras, and the victim suffered 2d-degree burns on his face and neck. When law and then searched Blackwell's dwelling house, they found gun parts and "three letters addressed to President Donald Trump," a police force report noted. And when constabulary interviewed an employee at a grocery store frequented by Blackwell, the employee told police that Blackwell "many times talked well-nigh his political support for President Trump," according to a police report. "She stated she was even warned by the security guard James to not talk nigh political issued when [Blackwell] is in the store considering of how he acts." Blackwell was charged with offset-caste reckless injury during a detest law-breaking. He pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
November. 6, 2019: Lawrence K. Garcia of the Albuquerque, New United mexican states, surface area was arrested by the FBI for allegedly threatening to kill local law enforcement and bomb a U.S. bank's offices. In a phone call to the bank, Garcia said, "If Donald J. Trump doesn't step down by my birthday, the twenty-four hour period after, we shall declare war against the devil. … [S]o Donald J. Trump you are going to bow to the American people," according to charging documents filed in the case. A federal thou jury indicted Garcia on ane count of communicating a threat over land lines, but he has a history of mental illness and a federal gauge later adamant he "is not shortly competent to stand trial." Garcia was placed into federal custody to receive handling.
Feb. 11, 2020: Patrick Bradley, 34, of Windham, N.H., was arrested by local police for allegedly assaulting a pro-Trump teenager on the day of New Hampshire'due south main election for presidential nominees. Co-ordinate to police, "Bradley had exited the voting polls located inside Windham Loftier School and was walking by a TRUMP campaign tent occupied by several campaign supporters / workers. As he passed by the tent Bradley slapped [the] 15-year old juvenile across the face. He then assaulted two other adults who attempted to intercede. Bradley was also accused of throwing TRUMP campaign signs and attempting to knock over the same tent." Bradley was charged with 3 misdemeanor counts of uncomplicated assault and one count of disorderly conduct. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
Feb. 19, 2020: The FBI arrested Salvatore Lippa II, 57, of upstate New York for allegedly threatening to impale Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, the top Democrat in the Senate, and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. In belatedly January, he left a voicemail at Schiff's part in Washington, D.C., calling Schiff a "scumbag" and threatening to "put a bullet in your [curse] forehead," co-ordinate to charging documents. 2 weeks later, he allegedly left a voicemail at Schumer's office in Albany, New York, saying "somebody wants to assassinate you." When federal authorities confronted Lippa, he "admitted that he made the threatening calls because he was upset about the impeachment proceedings" targeting Trump. Lippa has been charged with threatening to kill a U.S. official and is currently engaged in plea negotiations with the government, co-ordinate to courtroom records.
April thirty, 2020: A Pennsylvania human being who fled Cuba most two decades ago, Alazo Alexander, allegedly opened burn down on the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C. When police officers first arrested Alexander, he was belongings an American flag and yelling nonsensical statements, according to charging documents filed in the case. He had also unsuccessfully tried to fire a Cuban flag that had several phrases written on it, including, "Trump 2020." After his arrest, Alexander told authorities he had heard voices in his head and believed certain Cubans were trying to kill him, so he "wanted to get them earlier they got him," the charging documents said. His wife afterward told authorities that Garcia was previously diagnosed with a delusional disorder. Garcia has been charged with three firearms-related offenses, including one count of using a deadly weapon to attack a foreign official. It'due south unclear if he'southward entered an initial plea.
ABC News' Aaron Katersky, Meg Cunningham, Luke Barr, Karen Travers, and Alexis Scott contributed to this report.
EDITOR'S Annotation: This article has been updated since it was first published in October 2018.
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