Posted on 06/10/2026 10:46:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Arizona jury convicted a Marine combat veteran who threatened to blow away President Donald Trump with an M16 rifle, saying he would do it with “rounds targeting the head, not the ear.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona tells Law & Crime that Rene Ortiz, of Casa Grande, was found guilty on Monday of threats against the president following a four-day trial in Phoenix. His sentencing has not been scheduled yet.
Ortiz went on trial this week after being arrested in early 2025 for allegedly hurling assassination threats against Trump in November and December 2024 when he was the president-elect.
Ortiz threatened Trump in documents left at federal courthouses in Phoenix and Tucson, first asking the courts to “execute the newly elected POTUS by firing an M-16A2 Service Rifle with a magazine of 6 rounds” before threatening to do it himself if his demands weren’t met, according to a federal complaint.
“The execution shall commence 3 days upon notice to the Defendants to this action,” Ortiz said, noting how the “6 rounds to be shot will be from 300 or 500 yards away from the target,” per the complaint.
“ANY REFUSAL OF ANY RIGHT, MR. ORTIZ WILL BE ENTITLED TO SHOT THE INCOMING FRAUDULENT ELECTED POTUS FROM 300 OR 666 YARDS AWAY WITH 666 ROUNDS FOR AN M-16A2 SERVICE RIFLE AT THE INAGURATION [sic],” Ortiz threatened, adding that he had an “Expert Badge” in marksmanship. …
(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...
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Jim
That was pretty stupid.
Bkmk
I thought attempted assassination of the President was automatically a life sentence in a federal prison. Maybe not.
Democrat Party is filled with nothing but freaks and fruit loops.
What is it with these idiots? Can’t keep their impure thoughts to themselves? Jeez what maroons...
I want to read Rene’s tranny manifesto first.
It ain’t the loud ones ya gotta watch!!
It’s the ones once loud, that have since clammed up!
As a former VA employee, aka government wonk, yas really got tuh screw the pooch tuh git yo’self fired!
As a former DPRO QA 9/10, I had the miserable job of watching an individual who was under proposal for termination. My 3 months of observations would satisfy or settle the proposal. I gave him every break that my boss might give me. Somehow, he still managed to screw the pooch, and was terminated, and his position closed three days later. They closed the position, making it so there was no job to return to, if he filed for being “laid off’, with the state unemployment office
(Such was done with the VAMCNOLA employees, in the spring of 2006, in the mechanations of downsizing diasporated personnel all across the country after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the medical center in New Orleans in 2005. we were informed via a transmitted email, containing an Excel spreadsheet of everybody, both retained and terminated. Wherever you were sent to, it was either a call to return to New Orleans, or start your life where you were sent.)
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