A 29-year-old Georgia man, Jauan Rashun Porter, is facing federal charges after allegedly threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump during a TikTok livestream — and authorities say he had the firepower to back it up.
According to the Justice Department, Porter joined a July 26 TikTok livestream discussing Trump’s controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility and posted chilling remarks about killing the President.
“There’s only one way to make America great,” he allegedly typed, “and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes.” He reportedly followed this with more graphic threats over several minutes, including: “I’m gonna kill Donald Trump… put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead… watch him bleed out and die.”
Other participants warned him that federal agents might pay him a visit, to which Porter allegedly responded: “I’m gonna kill them too.”
When the Secret Service, local, and state police searched his apartment, they say they found two pipes, pistol ammunition, and Tannerite — a highly explosive substance. Porter has a long rap sheet, including prior convictions for terroristic threats, drug possession, battery, and firearm possession by a felon. He was already on probation.
U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg called the threats “serious” and said, “We do not tolerate threats against public officials or law enforcement officers.”
This comes just over a year after two separate assassination attempts on Trump: one in Butler, PA, where a sniper’s bullet grazed his ear and killed one attendee, and another at a Florida golf course where a man with a rifle was found hiding in the bushes.
In the Florida case, federal prosecutors have fought to keep certain key evidence under wraps, with Judge Aileen Cannon citing “exceptionally grave damages” to national security if it were released. Reports suggest the evidence could be linked to the suspect’s activities in Ukraine, where he allegedly tried to acquire heavy weaponry for the plot.
With multiple threats in just over a year, security concerns surrounding the former — and potentially future — President remain at an all-time high.