A Florida man has been arrested for making threats against U.S. President Joe Biden, just days after an assassination attempt on his Republican rival, Donald Trump.
Jason Patrick Alday, 39, was arrested on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida. Alday, from Quincy, Florida, allegedly “engaged in sending threatening communications, making threats against President Joe Biden and other federal officials,” the office announced on Wednesday.
The criminal complaint indicates that Alday made threatening statements about Biden while being checked into a mental health facility in Tallahassee, Florida, last month. He also allegedly posted further threats on social media platform X.
Alday has been ordered to be detained pending trial.
In a separate incident, Donald Trump, 78, was wounded in the ear when a gunman opened fire during a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. A rally attendee was killed, and the 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by Secret Service snipers.