An armed Texas woman was arrested for traveling to Washington D.C. to harm Donald Trump.
The suspect was caught just three miles from the White House and a mile from the Capitol, according to reports.
The arrest comes less than a month after Trump was almost killed by a sniper at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump was at a fundraiser in the Hamptons on Friday when a 41-year-old San Antonio woman, Christina Montoya, was arrested for threatening him.
The Metropolitan Police in D.C. shared few details about the troubling incident, but she started making threats on July 20, according to a police report, just days after Trump cheated death in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks lived nearby in Bethel Park, about an hour's drive south of Butler. As this latest threat demonstrates, lunatics will go any distance to carry out their twisted plans.
Secret Service alerted police that Montoya, of San Antonio, was headed to Washington D.C. and she was intercepted Friday afternoon. Police found a Smith and Wesson M&P Shield pistol, a magazine and a gun lock.
"On Friday, August 2, 2024, at approximately 12:12 p.m., MPD received information regarding a woman who traveled to Washington, DC.
The woman’s vehicle was located in the First District and subsequent investigation lead to the woman’s location," MPD said in a news release.
Montoya was charged with Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, and Threats Against a Former President.
The attempted assassination of Trump on July 13 has led to plummeting trust in Secret Service, which has been accused of covering up the circumstances that allowed Crooks to shoot at Trump and kill another man from a nearby rooftop.
Trump escaped death by turning his head just in time to look at a chart. The bullet grazed his ear, leaving him bloodied.
Trump has speculated that Democratic rhetoric painting him as a threat to democracy may have played a role in the shooting. He has credited his survival to divine intervention.
“The first one was not a good situation, not a good situation. That was really something incredible. That was from God. That was from God. Because the chances … that was from God. For all of you non-believers, that one was from God, right?” he asked at a rally last weekend.
