Ohio man arrested for threatening to shoot Trump over Twitter - The first among many to get tried for threatening tweets.

A 24-year-old man from Ohio has been charged in a federal court after tweeting a threat to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on election night.

Zachary Benson, from Fairview Park in Cleveland, posted the remark on Twitter a few minutes before the Republican nominee was declared the winner of last week's election.

Benson tweeted: 'My life goal is to assassinate Trump. Don't care if I serve infinite sentences. That man deserves to decease (sic) existing.'

Seconds earlier he tweeted: 'Diplomacy. F***ing fools. I hate you all. I want to bomb every one of your voting booths and your general areas.'

Benson was arrested a few hours later and interviewed by the Secret Service.

After the results were announced, many of those who opposed Trump rushed to Twitter to call for his assassination. But Benson is believed to be the first person to be charged in connection with one of those tweets.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Benson told the Secret Service agent he spent election night drinking and eating at a restaurant with his father and a friend.

He got back home and was watching the election results on TV in his bedroom when he tweeted the remarks.

Benson said he had no intention of following through with the threat and was 'just frustrated thinking about how President-elect Trump's policies could affect his job'.

He apparently deleted the tweets when he woke up in the morning, but the Secret Service had already been tipped off about them.

But he has now been charged with making a threat to a successor to the presidency.

Benson made his first appearance in court yesterday and is thought to be in custody, pending a bail hearing.

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Does this mean anybody who threatens to kill Trump will be arrested too? Thoughts?

 

[Bassomatic]

Maybe people will start to learn making death threats to the POTUS isn't the wisest thing to do.

 

[Some JERK]

Maybe people will start to learn making death threats to the POTUS isn't the wisest thing to do.

anyone who would publicly announce their assassination plans in advance isn't really smart enough to learn anything from anything.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Sounds like a lot of these people can start literally shaking again. The feds are coming for you.

Also bla bla Chris.

 

[Bassomatic]

anyone who would publicly announce their assassination plans in advance isn't really smart enough to learn anything from anything.

Sadly I agree, but at least we can have some good laughs when we get to see them come BACK to twitter and scream facesit drumpf took away the first amendment because I stated my intent to murder a world leader.

 

[WEEDle]

I think it is very stupid to make death threats against political leaders in a public forum. It must really suck to be one of the few out of many thousands who will actually get punished for it.

 

[harry]

Benson said he had no intention of following through with the threat and was 'just frustrated thinking about how President-elect Trump's policies could affect his job'.

You have to love how he made the tweets with no thought about how they might affect his job more than Trump's policies.

 

[CWCchange]

I think it is very stupid to make death threats against political leaders in a public forum. It must really suck to be one of the few out of many thousands who will actually get punished for it.

He would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for him being A FUCKING WHITE MALE, and instead some Google or a self-proclaimed autistic transsexual with a history of running into the law.

 

[HG 400]

Does this mean anybody who threatens to kill Trump will be arrested too?

Yes. Threatening to kill the POTUS-elect is taken as seriously as making bomb jokes in an airport.

 

[Male Idiot]

So wish Chris would get a call from Secret Servicejerks.

 

[CervixHammer]

>"My life goal is to assassinate Trump. Don't care if I serve infinite sentences."
>Benson said he had no intention of following through with the threat

"I have no intention of following through with my life goals" is the new "It was just a social experiment!".
also, >decease existing

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

He would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for him being A FUCKING WHITE MALE, and instead some Google or a self-proclaimed autistic transsexual with a history of running into the law.

This is funny, people don't even care enough to give Chris this kind of attention. I bet he'll still have more Christmas gifts and offers of China after he gets out than OPL.
There are crazy women that love to sleep with hypermasculine criminals.

 

[polonium]

hypermasculine

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Well, he's got that beard, and that weird caveman thing going on.

 

[polonium]

Well, he's got that beard, and that weird caveman thing going on.

MFW a beard makes you hypermasculine.

This dude looks like a total puss, and he was upset over democratic process.

 

[nonnewtonian]

This is funny, people don't even care enough to give Chris this kind of attention. I bet he'll still have more Christmas gifts and offers of China after he gets out than OPL.
There are crazy women that love to sleep with hypermasculine criminals.

But the crazy chicks who go after criminals usually go for the murderers. People who actually follow through on their desire to kill others. This guy made some very direct threats on Twitter in a drunken rage and then pussied out when he sobered up.

 

[Piss Clam]

The Secret Service looks at intent when they investigate. There is something in this guys background so no they won't be recommending everyone they interview be charged.