Arizona man arrested for threats to shoot Trump and his family

 NY Post:

The feds arrested an Arizona man who allegedly threatened to “put a hole” in President-elect Donald Trump’s face — after months of posting deranged videos in which he threatened to gun down the first family while brandishing a rifle.

Manuel Tamayo-Torres was taken into custody in San Diego Monday after threatening Trump, 78, in a video as recently as Thursday, ABC News reported.

Charging documents, which refer to Trump as “Individual 1,” described the threats as “vague yet direct,” and accused Tamayo-Torres of posting “numerous” videos “on a near-daily basis” over several months.

In the series of profane videos posted to Facebook, the suspect claimed that Trump kidnapped and sex-trafficked his kids, though it’s unclear whether Tamayo-Torres has children, according to the outlet.

“[Y]ou’re gonna die,” he allegedly said in a video posted Thursday, referring to Trump. “[Y]our son’s gonna die. Your whole family is going to die … I’m going to put a hole in your face.”

He brandished what federal authorities said “appears to be a white AR-15-style rifle with a 30-round magazine inserted into it” in several of the videos while making the alleged crazed threats against the once and future president.

In one video from Aug. 23, Tamayo-Torres appeared to be filming himself from a Trump rally at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., and said he’d watched the former president and Secret Service agents kidnap his daughter to sell her into prostitution.

In addition to the charges for threatening a president, authorities charged him with making false statements while purchasing a firearm after he allegedly lied on federal forms last year — indicating on the form he had no felony history, when in fact he was convicted of assault in 2003.

Evidence from Tamayo-Torres’ Facebook indicated he possessed a tactical shotgun, another rifle and high-capacity magazines, according to court documents.
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It would not surprise me if his lawyers used the insanity defense.  Tamayo-Torres does not sound like an intelligent person.  Whatever his mental state police would probably take him into custody for his threats against Trump.

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