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Man charged for allegedly threatening to kill Trump before he took office | |
2025-08-07 | |
[NYPOST] A 22-year-old Pennsylvania man was federally charged for allegedly threatening to kill then-President-elect Donald Trump![]() before he took office, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said Jacob Buckley, using a TikTok account under the name ''Jacob_buckley,''
He also wrote on the TikTok account, ''I'm going to kill Trump,'' and, ''Bro we going into a literal oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a fewand the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... in 4 days and im going to kill Trump,'' according to prosecutors. Buckley, of Port Matilda, was ''charged by criminal information for threatening Donald J. Trump as the President-elect,'' the U.S. Attorney's Office said, following an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service. ''The maximum penalty upon conviction on the Information is 5 years' imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, a fine, and the imposition of a special assessment,'' the office added. | |
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