A man from Utah has faced criminal charges after reportedly making threats to kill President Donald Trump during his visit to the state last month, CNN reports.
The indictment by the grand jury in central Utah shows that Travis Luke Dominguez is being charged with threatening to kill Trump.
“I’m a Navy SEAL. I woke up and decided I’m going to kill the president Donald Trump today. Please forgive me and then I will die by suicide by cop,” the indictment quoted Dominguez as saying.
“I’m going to kill the sexist racist homophobic President Trump today. Nothing you can do to save President Trump nor stop me, pigs,” he continued.
Among other charges, Dominguez also faces five counts of “maliciously conveying false information” regarding attempts to “kill, injure, and intimidate individuals” at several areas in the state. Apart from President Trump, his targets include police officers, movie theater attendees in Utah and other regional businesses, according to Politico.
Dominguez was confined in Utah state prison and is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday afternoon.
Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney John Huber, said “local and federal law enforcement agencies treat all threats seriously” and added that after conducting an investigation in the case they didn’t find enough evidence that “Mr. Dominguez traveled to carry out his threats against the President.”
The U.S. attorney’s office said that the individual made the threats on December 4, 2017, the same day when the president traveled to the state to announce his decision to reduce the size of two national monuments.
The Justice Department statement says that later the same month, Dominguez used an internet tip line to send more threats, including the one to hurt people at a movie theater with firearms or explosives and then to harm police officers responding to the scene.
Dominguez was apprehended after he was spotted in the vicinity of the movie complex.
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