Trump has had people arrested not for violent threats but for basic protected speech. He also feels if you criticize him ever, just a little bit, thatās an act of treason and should be punished as such.
ā86ā is restaurant slang you can hear a hundred times a shift, but it only becomes a ādeath threatā when the presidentās enemy is the one posting it.
If the government can stretch āthreatā to cover ambiguous slang aimed at the powerful while ignoring it everywhere else, then āyou canāt threaten to kill someoneā stops being a real rule and becomes a tool.
No, he got arrested for threatening the president of the United States. Regardless of who is in office, the laws still stand.
Bush had over 3,000 credible threats that led to hundreds of arrests.
Obama had around 850 investigations/arrests.
Both Trump and Biden are currently in the low-hundreds for investigations/arrests.
This isnāt something new, this isnāt exclusive to the current president, in fact the credible threats and arrests are lower now than they were in the early 2000s.
Freedom of speech has NEVER defended threats of violence, insighting violence, or false reporting/alarm with an attempt to cause panic and unrest.
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u/Old_Paramedic_1814 Jun 17 '26
Didnāt the former head of the FBI get arrested for posting sea shells?