An Idaho man has been charged with threatening to kill Donald Trump in phone calls made to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, court documents show.
Warren Jones Crazybull, 64, of Sandpoint, made at least nine threatening phone calls to Trump’s home on July 31, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit first reported Monday by Forbes.
Mar-a-Lago security received a phone call from a number with the caller ID “Warren Jones,” and Crazybull made several statements, including, “Find Trump… I’m coming to Bedminster tomorrow. I’m going to kill him personally,” the court documents state.
Bedminster, New Jersey is the location of Trump National Golf Club.
Mar-a-Lago security told the Secret Service that eight additional threatening phone calls were received from the same number, according to court documents.
A Facebook page allegedly belonging to Crazybull included more threats of violence against Trump while also making references to Jeffrey Epstein, “John John Kennedy Jr,” and a “shadow government.”
He was arrested on August 1 and charged on August 20 in federal court in Idaho. He has pleaded not guilty to one count of threatening a former president.
A trial is scheduled for October 28.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung blamed Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats for the threats.
“Kamala Harris and the liberal Democrats are the ones who are deranged,” Cheung said in a statement Monday. “There have been two heinous assassination attempts against President Trump, and their violent rhetoric is directly responsible.”
Cheung called on Harris and Democrats to apologize.
“If Democrats and Kamala Harris do not apologize for their hateful rhetoric and tone down their attacks that have fanned the flames of violence, they are explicitly advocating and inciting more bloodshed against President Trump,” Cheung said.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Harris condemned acts of political violence involving Trump.
“As we gather the facts, let me be clear: I condemn political violence. We must all do our part to ensure this incident does not lead to further violence,” she said in a statement shortly after the apparent assassination attempt in West Palm Beach. “I am grateful that former President Trump is safe and sound.”
According to the affidavit, Secret Service agents confirmed Crazybull’s identity through phone records and by comparing the voice of threatening calls recorded by a Mar-a-Lago security employee with Crazybull’s voice on a video posted to his Facebook page.
The Secret Service determined his location using data from the T-Mobile phone, which placed him in Montana, the filing said.
An agent said in the affidavit that Crazybull appeared to have racing, confused thoughts and appeared “paranoid” during an interview with the Secret Service.
Crazybull said he would not try to kill Trump but would “not let” him become president again, according to the statement.
The calls described in the court documents were made about two weeks after the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, when a gunman shot Trump in the ear during a campaign rally.
Since then, a Florida man has been arrested in connection with an incident at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Court documents in that case say the man allegedly behind the plot — Ryan Wesley Routh — described it in a letter as an “assassination attempt.” A Florida judge ruled Monday that he be held in custody pending trial.
A Secret Service official said Monday that Trump’s security had been stepped up following “recent events.”
