A 64-year-old Idaho resident has been indicted for making multiple threatening phone calls to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
According to the Daily Mail, Warren Jones Crazybull was arrested on August 1 and charged with threatening a former president after allegedly making nine calls to Trump's Florida home, stating his intention to kill the former commander-in-chief.
The threatening calls were made on July 31, just weeks after an assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear. In one of the calls, Crazybull allegedly threatened to "find Trump" and said he was "coming down to Bedminster tomorrow," referring to the location of Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.
Crazybull was indicted in Idaho federal court on August 20, with a trial scheduled for October 28. He has pleaded not guilty to the single charge of making threats against a former president.
The Department of Justice complaint quotes Crazybull as saying in one call, "I am going to down him personally, and kill him." The Mar-a-Lago security team informed the U.S. Secret Service about the nine threatening calls, which were all made from the same number with the caller ID "Warren Jones."
The Secret Service confirmed Crazybull's identity through phone records and by comparing the voice in the recorded calls with a video he had posted on Facebook.
The threatening calls came amid a series of concerning incidents targeting the former president. Just weeks after Crazybull's alleged threats and the first assassination attempt, Trump was targeted again by Ryan Wesley Routh during a round of golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida club on September 15.
In the earlier incident on July 13, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, had grazed Trump's ear with a bullet, killed one rally attendee, and critically injured two others before being neutralized by the Secret Service.
These events have sparked multiple ongoing investigations by various agencies and congressional groups into the assassination attempts on the former president.
The Trump campaign has responded to the news of Crazybull's threats, with spokesperson Steven Cheung attributing the incident to the rhetoric of Vice President Kamala Harris and liberal Democrats.
Cheung stated:
Kamala Harris and liberal Democrats are the ones who are deranged. There have been two heinous assassination attempts on President Trump, and their violent rhetoric are directly to blame.
The campaign called on Harris to apologize for what they termed "hateful rhetoric" and to tone down their attacks, warning that failure to do so could be seen as "explicitly advocating for and inciting more bloodshed" against Trump and his supporters.
In conclusion, Warren Jones Crazybull faces federal charges for making death threats against former President Donald Trump. The incident occurred weeks before a second assassination attempt on Trump, highlighting the ongoing security concerns surrounding the former president. The case has sparked political debate, with Trump's campaign attributing such threats to inflammatory rhetoric from their opponents.
