China News Service, April 26. According to US media reports on the 26th, US prosecutors said a 36-year-old Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to assassinate President Trump.
In a statement in the Dallas office, U.S. Attorney Eileen Neely Cox said that the sentence against the suspect Michael Grew was made on the 24th. Allegedly, in December 2019, Grew admitted that he had made remarks about threatening Trump.
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According to the plea agreement, Gru admitted that he had made threatening comments on social media, saying "I am waiting for Trump to visit Dallas before attempting to assassinate him."
During the court hearing, the prosecutor stated that on May 31, 2018, 30 minutes before Trump arrived at the Dallas Adolphus Hotel, someone saw Grew opposite the hotel. Dallas police noticed that Grew held a sign with the words "Kill Trump" and arrested him when he shouted "Kill the President".
The prosecutor said that the US Secret Service, with the assistance of the Dallas police, conducted an investigation.