A Massachusetts man was arrested and indicted on eight federal counts after allegedly posting violent threats against President Donald J. Trump on Facebook, and federal authorities say the posts were made between May and July 2025.
Federal prosecutors say the defendant, identified as Andrew D. Emerald, 45, of Great Barrington, Mass., was taken into custody today after a grand jury returned an indictment charging him with eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications. Officials say the posts explicitly threatened to injure and kill the President over a span of weeks.
The indictment lists eight separate Facebook messages investigators say Emerald made from May 2025 to July 2025, each one framed as a threat to President Trump. Authorities arrested Emerald this morning and scheduled his first federal court appearance in Springfield, Mass., for 2:30 p.m. today.
The charging document includes the content of the alleged posts, which the government describes as direct threats. Those posts are reproduced here exactly as they appear in the indictment:
- 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 federal charge of interstate transmission of threatening communications carries a statutory maximum of five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. Sentences in federal cases are determined by a judge using the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and applicable statutes.
United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division announced the charges. The FBI says it received valuable assistance from the United States Secret Service, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the Great Barrington Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven H. Breslow of the Springfield Branch Office is handling the prosecution. The charging document contains allegations; the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Threats like those described in the indictment are a direct attack on the rule of law and on public safety, and the federal response shows that such conduct will be investigated and prosecuted. Republicans insist that safeguarding the president and enforcing criminal statutes is nonpartisan business, and this case will be handled through the justice system without political double standards.
