A 71-year-old New Yorker is accused of threatening to kidnap and kill Donald Trump over the 2020 election
Via RT:
A New York City resident has been arrested for saying he plotted to abduct and murder US President Donald Trump if he refused to hand over power after losing the 2020 election.
Thomas Welnicki was arrested on Monday after he allegedly told the Secret Service on multiple occasions of his plot to kill Trump and another 12 unidentified pro-Trump members of Congress, who he believed backed the Republican president’s claims of election fraud.
While Trump is not mentioned by name in the complaint, which was filed with the US District Court in Brooklyn, a footnote identifies “Individual-1” as the “person who served as president from January 2017 to January 2021.”
Welnicki revealed his plan in calls and voice messages to the Secret Service, spanning several months. The messages that started well before the November 2020 presidential election included a “voluntary interview” in July to the US Capitol Police, in which Welnicki reportedly said that “if [Individual-1] loses the 2020 election and refused to step down,’ he would ‘acquire weapons’ and ‘take him down.’”
“I really hope that God takes [Individual-1] out,” Welnicki said.
He also supposedly “bragged about how easy it was for him to acquire a firearm” in New York City, stating that while he didn’t “want to hurt anyone,” he would “stand up to fascism,” according to court documents.
In a subsequent phone call to the Secret Service’s Long Island office in January, Welnicki doubled down on his threat, saying that he would do “anything” he could to “take out [Trump] and his 12 monkeys.” He even indicated that he might strike during a particular Trump rally, saying: “If I had the opportunity to do it in Manhattan that would be awesome … Tomorrow [Trump] will be in Georgia, maybe I will.”
…Welnicki was ultimately released on a $50,000 bond, with his attorney insisting that he posed no threat to Trump at any point. “The bulk of his calls seem to be him calling [the] Secret Service to discuss with them his concerns,” the attorney claimed.
Via Washington Times:
A New York man was arrested Monday after allegedly making multiple threats to kill former President Donald Trump, his allies and children.
Thomas Welnicki, 72, of Rockaway Beach, made the threats over the past two years during voluntary communications with U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Secret Service representatives, according to court documents.
He allegedly told Capitol Police during a voluntary interview in July 2020 that if Mr. Trump “loses the 2020 election and refused to step down,” he would “acquire weapons” and “take him down.”
Authorities say he also called the Secret Service’s Long Island Resident Office on Jan. 4 last year and left two voicemails threatening to kill Mr. Trump and 12 unnamed members of Congress who he believed supported Mr. Trump.
“I am going to do anything I can to take out [Mr. Trump],” he reportedly said in the first voicemail. “Oh yeah, that’s a threat, come and arrest me. I will do anything I can to take out [Mr. Trump] and his 12 monkeys.”
Mr. Welnicki also claimed there was a $350,000 bounty to kill them and “stated, in substance, that he would aid and abet anyone that would shoot” them, according to court documents.
In September, he reportedly called the Secret Service’s New York Field Office and asked about their protection of former presidents, including Mr. Trump, and their children, and what kind of weapons the agency uses.
