'I'm gonna watch him die': TikToker who vowed to kill Trump with a 'bullet inside his forehead' learns his fate

A 30-year-old antheral successful Georgia volition walk much than 3 years successful situation for threatening to termination Donald Trump, utilizing TikTok to repeatedly station astir the graphic mode helium planned sprout the president.

U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II connected Monday ordered Jauan Rashun Porter to service 3 years and 5 months successful a national correctional installation implicit the bid of posts.

Ray handed down the condemnation aft Porter reached a plea woody with prosecutors successful the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia successful which helium agreed to plead blameworthy to 1 number of transmitting interstate threats.

"Threatening to termination the president of the United States is an abhorrent transgression that cannot beryllium tolerated," U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said successful a statement pursuing Monday's proceedings. "Because the Constitution affords nary extortion to governmental violence, we volition proceed to enactment intimately with our national partners to place and prosecute criminals who marque specified threats."

According to the transgression complaint, Porter joined a TikTok livestream astir the president called "Alligator Alcatraz" connected July 26, 2025. During the livestream, Porter utilized the grip "@jj572851" to marque "numerous threats to assassinate POTUS."

Only seconds aft joining the livestream, Porter wrote: "So there's lone 1 mode to marque America large and that is putting a slug successful betwixt Trump's eyes."

Over the adjacent fewer minutes, helium continued making posts likewise expressing his tendency to termination the president. Such comments included the pursuing posts:

• "I'm gonna termination Donald Trump. I'm gonna enactment a 7.62 slug wrong his forehead."
• "I'm gonna ticker him bleed retired and I'm gonna ticker him die."
• "It'll beryllium connected the quality . . . his rally is coming up beauteous soon and I'm going determination and I'm going to enactment a slug successful his head."
• "I'mma load up a firearm [and] beryllium wrong . . . an abandoned gathering . . . and erstwhile helium approaches the rally . . . I'm gonna enactment 1 . . . if not the look past I mightiness enactment 1 precisely successful his chest."
• "He [POTUS] deserves to beryllium successful the crushed . . . Certain radical connected this satellite merit to beryllium successful the crushed and he's 1 of them."

At 1 constituent successful the video, the big asked Porter if helium thought helium was exhibiting "normal behavior," and Porter responded by saying "normal behaviour would beryllium speaking connected thing and past doing it."

Due to the quality of Porter's comments, a signaling of the livestream was subsequently forwarded to the U.S. Secret Service for investigation.

Secret Service agents interviewed Porter and explained to him that TikTok had provided investigators with relationship holder accusation for his username. After initially denying that helium was down the comments, Porter yet confessed to "issuing the threats connected the livestream" and "acknowledged the seriousness" of his actions.

Porter's live-in woman told investigators that helium had mentioned the incidental to her and she remembered informing him astir making specified threats and "the seriousness with which the authorities takes them." She added that Porter "frequently spent clip online 'trolling' successful a akin manner," saying specified enactment was "a societal outlet for him."