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Man arrested after threatening to slice Donald Trump’s throat with sword

Published 09:05 2 Apr 2026 BST

Updated 09:12 2 Apr 2026 BST

Harry Warner
Man arrested after threatening to slice Donald Trump’s throat with sword

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The FBI confirmed the news.

A man has been arrested after threatening to slice Donald Trump's throat with a sword.

Yesterday, a 45-year-old man in Massachusetts was arrested after making threats over Facebook to kill the 47th president of the United States.

The news was revealed by the FBI who shared a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the district of Massachusetts.

The report said: "Andrew D. Emerald, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury on eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications.

"Emerald was arrested this morning [Wednesday] and will appear in federal court in Springfield, Mass., at 2:30 p.m. today.

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The report said that Emerald had "made eight separate Facebook posts in which he threatened to injure President Trump".

The report shared the messages:

  • May 3, 2025: “When I see to it that Trump is put to death. It will be the the day the purpose creation put me here for beyond creating. My daughter is fulfilled. (because what she is destined to do for the world is far greater than mine, taking out the orange menace!)”
  • May 13, 2025: “Oh, I’m not just watching!! Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026 or I am hunting him down and putting him there. Do you hear that FBI and any other organization that wants to show up at my f****** door? Put the enemy of the United States in a f****** body bag or I will.”
  • May 15, 2025: “Cause and effect. Trump being a monster to humanity caused this family suffering, and they might never choose to have children because of him Affect we’re going to f****** kill Trump on public television so the world sees what we do to f****** monsters and then we’re gonna hang him from the Statue of Liberty until his pathetic bloated corpse rots off falls in the ocean, and I swept out the to see with humanities trash. After what I just heard if Trump is not dead by 2026 I’m going to Mar-a-Lago and I’m going after myself.”
  • May 15, 2025: “That’s not a threat that’s a f****** promise and I don’t have Trump arrangement syndrome. The bulls*** they made up. I’m going after him for taking my second amendment rights on constitutionally for calling him the Russian asset that he is! Cause and f****** affect!!!’ I’m going after him because I’m an actual f****** patriot. By the way, if there’s any arrangement syndrome caused by Trump it’s what his cult is inflicting on the rest of us!!!! That is going to end up going down in the psychological history books. Including the bulls*** that is Trump arrangement syndrome. I have very good reason to threaten his life and to go after it whether I have my second amendment rights or not. If the people that are supposed to have not gone after him by the new year, I am hear Trump I’m coming for you you little b****.”
  • May 30, 2025“If others have not taken care of you before the end of the year, Trump, I will, and I won’t make the mistake of not knowing where the f*** you are when I come for you. I’ll make sure you’re at Mar-a-Lago when I burn it to the f****** ground.”
  • May 30, 2025: “And you shouldn’t have listened to my father when he said I wasn’t dangerous. I burned a house to the ground once in my life on accident when I burn you to the ground, it will very much be by intention, and I will revel in it instead of regret it for the rest of my life.”
  • June 14, 2025: “Because killing is not wrong defending your life or putting down a predator you see taking others through murder. Which is why I’m coming for you, Trump. You’ve killed millions of people by proxy. And you’re a monster to f****** humanity and it is my mission in this life to end your f****** existence. And I won’t be murdering you I will be executing a monster. I will be fulfilling my constitutional duty to execute a criminal citizen that’s committed high treason just like the constitution tells me too, tells us all f****** too.”
  • July 7, 2025: “Trump either you’re dead by 2026 or I’m coming for you personally and if I’m the one that kills you, you’re gonna suffer you little f****** b****.”

The report details that the charge which Emerald faces carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

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