Overview

• Pete Stinson, a former Coast Guard lieutenant and FEMA Incident Command Systems instructor, faces federal charges for threatening to kill President Trump.
• An FBI affidavit documents hundreds of violent, graphic posts from 2020 through last week on X, Bluesky, Reddit and Instagram.
• Stinson self-identified with Antifa and repeatedly used code names such as “the orange” and “orange mf” to refer to the president.
• Court filings show he proposed crowdfunding a contract hit twice, first in April 2020 and again in February 2025.
• A judge ordered Stinson detained pending his Wednesday hearing, underscoring growing concerns over political violence targeting public officials.