A federal aviation employee (FAA) based in New Hampshire stands accused of threatening to take out President Trump just days after the last assassination attempt, but may not be in jail for too long if convicted.
As ABC News reported, federal authorities busted 35-year-old Dean DelleChiaie of Nashua and charged him with communicating an interstate threat.
This news comes less than two weeks after a lunatic tried to take out Trump and members of the administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
It also comes less than one week after a Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate was arrested for threatening to kill President Trump and members of Congress.
DelleChiaie, a mechanical engineer with the FAA, reportedly first conducted searches on his work computer to find out ways to kill Trump and used it to target the president. He also used it to conduct other disturbing searches, including the percentage of people who want Trump gone, how to get a firearm into a federal facility, previous assassination attempts on the president, and the phrase “I am going to kill Donald John Trump.”
ABC reports that the Secret Service met with DelleChiaie in February, and he admitted to making these threats. DelleChiaie also told officers he was depressed, in therapy, regularly drank, and used marijuana and other drugs.
Yet, he remained a free man. Not surprisingly, he then escalated.
From ABC News:
On April 21, DelleChiaie allegedly used his personal email to transmit a threat across state lines to the White House’s email address, prosecutors said.
The email had for a subject, “Contact the President,” and said, “I, Dean DelleChiaie, am going neutralize/kill you — Donald John Trump — because you decided to kill kids — and say that it was War — when in reality — it is terrorism. God knows your actions and where you belong,” according to the complaint.
If convicted of all charges, DelleChiaie faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
He appeared in court on Tuesday and has been assigned a public defender.
