Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and police in Arizona arrested a man for allegedly making threats against President-elect Donald Trump and his family and for trying to purchase illegal firearms.
According to court documents the suspect Manuel Tamayo Torres posted photos from a Trump rally in Glendale, California in August. This rally was held just six weeks following Trump’s assassination at Butler, Pennsylvania.
He was convicted in 2003 of assault causing great bodily injury in California. He was sentenced to six years in prison. His ex-wife served him with a restraining order in Arizona on July 20, 2023.
A felony conviction and active restraining order prohibited him from owning firearms. On November 13, 2023, and again on November 15 of that year, the man filled out a form 4473 at the Shooters World store in Phoenix, Arizona.
According to the prosecutors, he lied when he said he had attempted suicide. In his claim that he had never been convicted of a crime and that no-one had ever issued a child protection order or a restraining order against him.
Phoenix Police discovered that Tamayo-Torres posted on Facebook videos in which he claimed “Individual 1,” who is not identified, but described in the court documents as “a former president and current president-elect”, had trafficked his children.
Trump is the new president-elect after he defeated Kamalah Harria on Election Day.
Tamayo said that the incoming president has “White privilege” and conspired to murder his daughter with his wife and that his other children had been trafficked. It was not immediately apparent from court documents whether he was a father.
“You’re Caucasian nothing,” Tamayo-Torres allegedly ranted in a Facebook video posted on Thursday. “You’ll earn nothing, Aryan money, that’s all you have. You’re a low-life scum, I’ll spit in your f—ing face motherf—er, and if they give me a chance, I’m going to f—ing bury you myself.”
Police discovered another video that was posted days earlier, where Tamayo Torres is allegedly seen holding “what looks like a white AR-15-style rifle” with a 30-round magazine. He accused the President-elect “of touching his children” and said that the Secret Service and the First Family would all be sent to jail.
While investigating Trump’s Facebook page, detectives discovered pictures taken at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale. Trump had held a rally that evening. Other photos showed the suspect holding firearms he wasn’t legally allowed to possess.
Tamayo Torres is expected to face federal charges in Arizona after being arrested in Southern California.
