Police in Jupiter, Florida, arrested one individual on Friday who was accused of making threats online toward former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance.
According to a release from NBC News, Jupiter Police Department (JPD), the suspect, Michael M. Wiseman, was taken into custody without incident on charges of Written Threats to Kill for threats he allegedly made on social media. Police said that their department received “multiple” tips about the suspect’s comments through online crime tips and from “residents who expressed their concern in person.”
Detectives at the JPD said that they found Wiseman had made “multiple threats” against Trump and Vance on his Facebook account. The suspect is also accused of making threats “concerning bodily harm to members of the Trump and Vance families.”
The news release said that JPD coordinated with the U.S. Secret Service and the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office during their investigation into Wiseman. told by The Hill.
The report comes less than a week after a man made an assassination attempt against Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which left the former president with an injury on the tip of his right ear. One person attending the rally was killed by gunfire in the shooting, and two others were injured.
Vance, a Republican, was selected as Trump’s vice presidential nominee on Monday prior to the kickoff of the Republican National Convention.
The Secret Service also arrested a man in Florida on Monday who is accused of making threats toward President Joe Biden. That suspect, Jason Patrick Alday, was charged with three counts of making threats against the president and federal officials.
Newsweek reached out to Trump’s campaign via email for comment Friday evening.
What We Know
Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office Sunday evening calling for unity and rebuking acts of political violence following the shooting at Trump’s rally, saying, “We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.”
“You know the political climate in our country. It has gotten very heated, it’s time to cool it down,” he continued. “We all have a responsibility to do that.” report from AP News.
Trump also called for unity during his keynote speech that closed out the RNC Thursday evening, although the former president put some of the blame on his political opponents for fanning political division “at a level that nobody has ever seen before.” He also called on the Democratic Party to “immediately stop weaponizing the justice system,” referring to his list of legal challenges while running for reelection.
“If Democrats want to unify our country, they should drop these partisan witch hunts, which I have been going through for approximately eight years, and they should do that without delay and allow an election to proceed that is worthy of our people,” Trump said.
The White House has said that Biden has no involvement in criminal cases against Trump. The former president has been found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan and is facing two other indictments for his actions related to the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
