According to court filings, an Idaho man has been accused of threatening to assassinate Donald Trump during phone calls to the former president’s Florida Mar-a-Lago estate.
A criminal complaint and affidavit that were first made public by Forbes on Monday state that on July 31, Warren Jones Crazybull, 64, of Sandpoint, made at least nine threatening phone calls to President Trump’s residence.
After “Warren Jones,” a phone number, called Mar-a-Lago security, and Crazybull uttered a variety of remarks, including “Find Trump…Tomorrow, I’m going to Bedminster. According to the court documents, “I’m going to kill him and take him down myself.”
According to court documents, Mar-a-Lago security informed the Secret Service that eight other phone calls containing threats were received from the same number.
Crazybull’s supposed Facebook page includes other threats of violence against Trump, as well as references to Jeffrey Epstein, “John John Kennedy Jr” and a “shadow government.”
He was detained on August 1 and indicted on August 20 in a federal court in Idaho. He pled not guilty to one charge of making threats against a former president.
The trial is slated for October 28. According to the affidavit, Secret Service investigators validated Crazybull’s identity by reviewing phone records and comparing the voice on threatening calls recorded by a Mar-a-Lago security employee to Crazybull’s voice on a video posted to his Facebook page.
According to the petition, the Secret Service used T-Mobile phone data to pinpoint his whereabouts, which led them to Montana.
In an interview with the Secret Service, an agent stated in an affidavit that Crazybull appeared to be “paranoid” and that his cognitive processes were racing and muddled.
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According to the affidavit, Crazybull stated that he would not try to assassinate Trump, but would “not let” him become president again.
The court filings reflect communications made almost two weeks after a gunman shot Trump in the ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Following that, a Florida man was detained in connection with an incident at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Court filings in that case show that Ryan Wesley Routh, the man accused of masterminding the operation, labeled it as a “assassination attempt” in a letter. A Florida judge ordered Monday that he would be detained pending trial.
A Secret Service spokesman claimed on Monday that Trump’s protection was being beefed up in response to “recent events.”
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