A Florida man is facing charges for making violent threats against President Trump.
The 46-year-old liberal lunatic, Shannon Depararro Atkins, of West Palm Beach, caught the attention of feds after somebody tipped them off to his unhinged Facebook posts.
Like many on the left, Atkins is coping with Trump's return to power - but Atkins went a step beyond by venting violent fantasies of revenge on social media.
The FBI received a tip about Atkins on January 19, the day before Trump's inauguration, as Atkins posted a series of disturbed messages calling for Trump's death.
“I’ve been banned from 'X', because I said I hope and pray someone kills him,” he wrote. “History is supposed to repeat itself. We haven’t had an assassination in years.”
Atkins declared Trump's inauguration a "day of mourning" in another violent post.
Atkins was arrested around 7:30 p.m. Friday during a traffic stop in West Palm Beach. He had three bags of cocaine with him at the time.
When confronted by police, Atkins dismissed the threats as jokes. Police held a press conference where they discussed the incident Saturday.
“Folks, this is not a joke. Nothing of that sort is a joke,” West Palm Beach Police Chief Tony Araujo said.
“In today’s climate, you really can’t say things like this. We have incident after incident, example after example of when these threats become real. And we take these very seriously."
A registered Democrat since at least 2008, Atkins is the owner of a local bakery in West Palm Beach, Big Mama's House of Sweets. West Palm Beach is just a minutes' drive from Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence in Palm Beach.
Trump was golfing at his West Palm Beach golf course when a gunman tried to kill him in September. It was the second assassination attempt Trump survived on his journey back to the White House.
Weeks before, Trump was bloodied by a sniper's bullet on the campaign trail in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Atkins is being held at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Main Detention Center and faces a drug possession charge, and one felony count of written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.
The Secret Service is investigating and will determine if Atkins faces federal charges as well.
