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Former Coast Guard Lieutenant Charged Over Years of Online Death Threats Against President Trump

The detention follows an FBI probe that flagged five years of explicit threats on X, Bluesky, Reddit, Instagram

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Overview

  • Peter Stinson served 33 years in the U.S. Coast Guard before working as a FEMA incident command instructor and earned sharpshooter ribbons for both pistol and rifle.
  • Court documents allege that he posted hundreds of threats from 2020 to 2025, including calls to use guns, knives and poison against the President.
  • He self-identified as a member of Antifa and used code names such as 'orange,' 'Krasnov' and '8647' to obscure his target and intentions.
  • Federal prosecutors charged Stinson under Title 18 of the U.S. Code and a judge ordered him detained on June 16 pending a June 18 hearing.
  • The case underscores growing concerns over political violence and the enforcement of laws against threats to the President.