A former Coast Guard lieutenant who received awards for skills in sharpshooting was arrested Monday for allegedly leveling a series of violent death threats towards President Donald Trump, according to newly unsealed court records.
Peter Stinson, a resident of Oakton, Virginia, served as an officer in the US Coast Guard until 2021 and also worked as an instructor for FEMA’s Incident Command Systems, according to his criminal complaint.
Prosecutors say he was also a self-identified member of the Antifa movement and used his X and Bluesky accounts to transmit multiple threatening posts targeting Trump from 2020 through this year.
In one example from April 2020, court documents say Stinson responded to a user on X (formerly Twitter) who wrote, “somebody ought sue [Trump’s] a** off.” Stinson replied: “somebody ought to do more than sue the orange mf’s a*”* and added: “it involves a rifle and a scope, but I can’t talk about it here.”
In another post, he allegedly wrote: “I’d be willing to pitch in $100 for a contract. Who wants to join me? We could solve the solvable part of this problem in a crack. Then, we can focus on the coronavirus itself.”
Prosecutors say these weren’t isolated incidents. The complaint includes several other messages where Stinson allegedly suggested he would “pull the trigger” or offered to be the “driver” if someone else would go through with an attack on Trump.
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