It should be quite clear that if someone plans to threaten the assassination of the President of the United States, they certainly shouldn’t announce their intentions on Facebook. However, that’s exactly what a man from Great Barrington, Massachusetts did, and as a result, he is now in jail facing a litany of federal charges:
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 and will appear in federal court in Springfield, Mass., at 2:30 p.m. today.
According to the indictment, from May 2025 to July 2025, Emerald intentionally made eight separate Facebook posts in which he threatened to injure President Trump. Specifically, it is alleged that Emerald made the following posts:
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****.”
There’s more; just click the link above. They’re just as foul and deranged. Threatening the life of the president is a federal felony under 8 U.S.C. § 871 and 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). Each count carries a possible sentence of five years.
This isn’t the first, nor will it be the last, threat against President Trump. We should remember that there have been two actual attempts on his life, one of which he narrowly escaped as a candidate. Here’s the crucial point: This is the United States of America. We do not settle our political disagreements through assassination. At least, we didn’t used to; it seems that the left has grown increasingly inclined toward violence, particularly concerning Trump. This trend is a direct consequence of years of extreme rhetoric from the left. When Democratic political figures compare a lawfully elected president and his duly appointed cabinet and staff to Nazis and portray them as irredeemably evil or akin to the Gestapo, it’s unsurprising that such violence might emerge. In fact, this may even be the outcome the left is seeking.
At least the would-be assassin is now behind bars and has been indicted, which is fantastic news.
