A 29-year-old man from Rome, Georgia, was arrested following an alleged social media tirade threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
The suspect, Jauan Rashun Porter, reportedly joined a TikTok livestream on July 26 discussing the Trump administration’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility for undocumented immigrants, where he allegedly posted a comment threatening the president’s life.
“So there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes,” Porter posted, according to a Justice Dept. press release. The DOJ added that similar remarks were made over several minutes.
“I’m gonna kill Donald Trump. I’m gonna put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead,” Porter allegedly continued. “I’m gonna watch him bleed out and I’m gonna watch him die. I’m gonna do that.”
Following his remarks, other livestream participants raised the specter of Porter being visited by federal agents, leading him to respond: “I’m gonna kill them too.”
According to the government, Porter’s remarks appeared to be more than just empty threats. According to the DOJ, Secret Service agents, along with local and state police, discovered two pipes, pistol ammunition, and Tannerite—an explosive—during a search of Porter’s apartment.
“Porter has prior convictions for terroristic threats, influencing a witness, mutiny in a penal institution, drug possession, battery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and domestic violence. He is currently on probation,” said the Justice Dept. release.
The suspect was charged with making threats against the President and is scheduled for a detention hearing on August 12.
“The allegations against Porter are serious and required a swift, decisive, and collaborative response,” U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg said in the release. “We do not tolerate threats against public officials or law enforcement officers, and Porter will now face the consequences of his actions.”
Porter’s alleged threats come a little more than a year after President Trump, then on the campaign trail in Butler, Pa., was nearly assassinated by a sniper who had managed to get on top of a building a short distance away.
A few minutes into Trump’s speech, he was seen quicky grabbing his ear and ducking behind the podium as several shots rang out. The first bullet knicked Trump’s right ear, while other rounds killed one man, Corey Comperatore and seriously wounded fellow attendees David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
The shooter, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper team.
Weeks later, while Trump was golfing at one of his Florida courses, another alleged would-be assassin was found hiding in the bushes armed with a rifle near a green as the former and future president approached.
Secret Service agents fired upon the suspect before fleeing the scene, but was later apprehended by police in Martin County.
Last week, a federal judge inexplicably allowed the Justice Department to keep key evidence in the second Trump assassination attempt under wraps, citing potential “exceptionally grave damages” to U.S. national security.
The order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon stems from a DOJ motion to block the release of classified materials in the case of Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course in September 2024.
Routh has not been permitted to view the classified evidence. He wasn’t even allowed to see the DOJ’s motion or attend the secret hearing related to it, according to reports.
Cannon did not elaborate in her ruling, stating only that disclosure of the materials “could cause serious damage or exceptionally grave damages to the national security of the United States.”
The classified evidence may be tied to Routh’s 2022 trip to Ukraine, where he attempted to recruit fighters to join the U.S. proxy war against Russia. In a 2023 self-published book, Routh claimed his “best partner” in Ukraine was an Israeli.
The DOJ later accused him of trying to purchase a rocket launcher from a purported Ukrainian as part of his alleged plot.
NEW YORK, N.Y. & MINNEAPOLIS, M.N. – The mayoral campaign of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is reportedly suffering a catastrophic loss of support just days before the election, following a series of damaging scandals that expose both alleged criminal activity and a strategy to manipulate the vote based on religious and ethnic blocs.
The latest controversy centers on leaked video footage that reveals Mamdani’s campaign strategy of mobilizing voters through mosques and his willingness to prioritize foreign and ideological agendas over American law. The campaign’s support is reportedly dwindling as voters learn what Mamdani
The most immediate cause of Mamdani’s collapsing poll numbers is a piece of leaked video footage that details his campaign’s method of voter mobilization.
The video, which critics immediately seized upon as proof of an illiberal strategy, features Robert Allay, a citywide campus director for Mamdani’s campaign, describing how the campaign ensures voter turnout:
“The mosques, we organize the mosques. We get the imams to tell people vote. We get Zohran to go there and talk to them.”
Allay boasts that they visit “100 mosques in a week”
to ensure mobilization.
Allay further detailed the campaign’s cynical use of identity politics to appeal to voters:
“We get young lesbian white women to go give out flyers.”
This strategy, critics argue, highlights a willingness to exploit various identity groups—from Muslim religious leaders to progressive LGBTQ+ activists—to serve the single goal of consolidating political power, which is then used to push a hard-left, socialist agenda.
The leaked video adds to an already extensive list of ethical and policy failures that critics claim make Mamdani unfit to lead the fourth-largest economy in the world.
Mamdani faces the threat of legal prosecution for allegedly receiving thousands of dollars in illegal foreign campaign contributions.1
Reports indicate that the campaign received
The Democratic Socialist is repeatedly accused of disloyalty to the United States, which is fueling the public backlash against him.
Mamdani’s own mother previously revealed that he does
Mamdani’s policy platform is characterized by economically unsound proposals that threaten the financial stability of New York.
“Free, Free, Free”: His proposals include freezing rent for over 2 million tenants, making buses free (costing $\$700$ million), and universal child care (costing $\$6$ billion).
Tax War: Mamdani proposes to increase personal income taxes by $2\%$ for the top $1\%$ of New Yorkers (those making over $\$1$ million). He claims this would raise $\$5$ billion, but New York Governor Kathy Hochul has publicly stated she is not even considering such a tax hike because she knows it will cause wealthy taxpayers to “flee the state.”
The crisis in New York is not isolated. It is part of a wider national trend of radical progressive takeovers that alarm conservative leaders.
In Minneapolis, mayoral candidate Omar Fateh has become a symbol of this movement. At a recent rally, Fateh conspicuously waved a Somali flag, entirely omitting the American flag, while urging votes. Fateh is also under investigation for an alleged pay-to-play scheme where he authored legislation that would financially benefit his wife’s company, raising serious ethical concerns.2
Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly weighed in on the threat posed by Mamdani and his allies:
“Mamdani winning New York City would be the biggest win for the Marxists, the socialist in the history of this country… All those things are in jeopardy when the Marxists take over.”
Johnson warned that Mamdani’s victory would validate the radical wing of the Democratic Party and threaten the foundational principles of individual freedom and limited government that have defined the United States for nearly $250$ years.
The outcome of the New York City mayoral race is now seen not just as a local election, but as a critical test of whether the American people will choose stability and law enforcement or continue to enable a movement that openly prioritizes chaos and displacement.