New York man charged with threatening to kill Donald Trump

According to an unsealed complaint, Thomas Welnicki, 72, from Rockaway Beach, expressed interest in killing the then president in an interview with US Capitol police in July 2020 and in several calls to the Secret Service the following year.

Welnicki was charged with threatening to kill, kidnap and inflict bodily harm on Trump.

Lawyers and spokesmen for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump spoke in Georgia on 4 January, in support of two Republican senators in run-off elections and to advance his lie about electoral fraud in his defeat by Joe Biden.

In March 2017, an intruder who said he hoped to speak to Trump breached the White House walls via the US treasury.