Florida Man Arrested for Threatening President Biden

A Florida man has been arrested for making threats against US 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 US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida.

Alday, from Quincy, Florida, allegedly sent threatening communications and made threats against President Biden and other federal officials, the office announced on Wednesday.

The criminal complaint states that Alday made threatening statements about Biden while being checked into a mental health facility in Tallahassee, Florida, last month. He allegedly made further threats in posts on social media platform X.

Alday has been ordered detained pending trial.

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. The 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by Secret Service snipers.