‘My life goal is to assassinate Trump’: Ohio man is first to be charged for sending threatening election night tweet
On election night hundreds of people tweeted about assassinating Trump
Zachary Benson, 24, from Cleveland, Ohio, is the first to be charged
He told a Secret Service agent he had been ‘frustrated’ and later deleted it
By CHRIS SUMMERS
DailyMail.com
15 November 2016
A 24-year-old man from Ohio has been charged in a federal court after tweeting a threat to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on election night.
Zachary Benson, from Fairview Park in Cleveland, posted the remark on Twitter a few minutes before the Republican nominee was declared the winner of last week’s election.
Benson tweeted: ‘My life goal is to assassinate Trump. Don’t care if I serve infinite sentences. That man deserves to decease (sic) existing.’
Seconds earlier he tweeted: ‘Diplomacy. F***ing fools. I hate you all. I want to bomb every one of your voting booths and your general areas.’
Benson was arrested a few hours later and interviewed by the Secret Service.
After the results were announced, many of those who opposed Trump rushed to Twitter to call for his assassination. But Benson is believed to be the first person to be charged in connection with one of those tweets.
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