ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Rochester man was arrested and charged with threatening President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
James Gerald Eckert Jr. of Rochester was charged by criminal complaint with threats to kill, kidnap or inflict bodily harm upon a member of the immediate family of the president.
A member of the U.S. Secret Service on duty was alerted on June 18 that several threats were made against Donald Trump Jr. The threats were made in the group chat feed of Trump Jr.’s podcast “Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.”
The threats
“im going to kill you, (expletive), I am going to kill this (expletive) on the screen,” the complaint said.
The threats were posted by an account with the username JamesGeraldEckertJr/@JamesGeraldEckertJr. While viewing the podcast on the online video platform Rumble, the account was also streaming on Rumble.
Eckert repeated similar threats verbally and through posts in the chat against Trump Jr. and the CEO of Rumble for most of a nearly eight-minute video.
The threats included “your (expletive) dead, its over guys” and “I’m going to go to YouTube and be calm and I’m still going to (expletive) kill Trump Junior. We’re going to get to World Peace. (Expletive) die guy. Try to get out of this surviving. (Expletive) you forever. (Expletive) you forever,” the complaint said.
Threats against other local leaders
Prior to the threats against Trump Jr., officials say Eckert posted a message on June 7 on the Facebook account of “James Gerald Eckert Jr.” was directed at Rochester Mayor Malik Evans.
“Mayor Malik Evans, I am coming for your family. Seriously, you will lose them to me personally. Stand by. This will not go away until you are dead or [REDACTED] is behind bars. Deal with this,” the complaint said.
On June 11, the same Facebook account made a threatening post against New York State Senator Samra Brouk on the senator’s official Facebook page. “You are going to die,” the complaint said.
Eckert is held pending a detention hearing on July 20. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
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