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Former Coast Guard officer charged with threatening to kill President Trump
VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, JUN 16 – Peter Stinson, a former Coast Guard sharpshooter and self-identified Antifa member, made repeated violent threats against Trump online from 2020 to 2025, prosecutors said.
- Peter Andrew Stinson, a former U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant from Oakton, Virginia, was taken into custody in June 2025 for allegedly making threats against President Donald Trump.
- Stinson allegedly made a series of violent threats via social media from 2020 through 2025, identifying as a member of Antifa and referencing firearms and coded language targeting Trump.
- His social media activity, verified by the FBI, included messages such as emphasizing the importance of carrying out an assassination and suggesting raising funds to hire a killer, while also expressing disapproval of an attempted attack on Trump in July 2024.
- A federal magistrate judge ordered Stinson detained pending a Wednesday hearing, with prosecutors citing extensive firearms training and presence of threatening posts involving a rifle and scope.
- The arrest underscores a continuing rise in politically motivated threats and acts of violence directed at government officials, with thousands of reported threats against members of Congress occurring throughout 2024.
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Former Coast Guardsman Charged With Threatening to Assassinate Trump
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