WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A 20-year-old Connecticut man is facing charges after authorities say he tweeted out a bomb threat during a Donald Trump rally Saturday.
Connecticut State Police say the U.S. Secret Service contacted them Saturday afternoon after they say Sean Morkys posted on Twitter, “Is someone going to bomb the trump rally or am I going to have to?”
Police say that tweet was followed by another warning a friend to have his family members leave the rally so they wouldn’t get hurt.
The Republican presidential hopeful appeared in Bridgeport, Connecticut, yesterday.
Authorities tracked the tweets to a Waterbury home, where they found Morkys. After determining he didn’t pose an immediate threat, he was taken into custody and released on $25,000 bond.
No one answered a phone number for the Waterbury home. Morkys didn’t immediately respond to a separate request for comment.
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“Authorities tracked the tweets to a Waterbury home …”
Yeah, they tracked the tweets. Or they found out who had the account and went to his house.
Violence at a Trump rally? Who’d notice?
Just explain to Trump that when this Morkys guy sees what’s going on in this country, he has an anger that’s unbelievable.
Dumb kid.
But then, Trump started it by threatening people with lines like, “I’d really like to punch him in the face.”
So, in all fairness, shouldn’t the police be arresting Trump for making threats as well?
When you open that lid of violence, you start to lose control over which way that goes.
What this guy did is reprehensible, but Trump has some responsibility in all this. And that’s not bashing the victim.