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Nathaniel Sanders II, a 32-year-old man residing in Miami Beach, faces two federal charges for repeatedly posting death threats on social media against President Donald Trump and other officials of the United States.
Judicial records show that from at least January to April of this year, Sanders II used X and Instagram to post numerous messages threatening Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and former Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
According to reports from Local 10, the Secret Service began monitoring Sanders on January 28, after he posted on X: "I'm going to bomb the White House, pedophile."
From then on, the individual escalated their threats on Instagram with a series of videos in which they expressed hatred towards the three officials, repeatedly calling them "pedophiles."
On April 10, he released a video in which he said: "The only thing I have is a weapon. It’s the only thing I can use right now."
Two minutes later, he posted a threat against Rubio, mixing English and Spanish: "I am not afraid of anyone... when I lay my hands on him, I will hurt him. It's that simple."
On April 17, Sanders threatened again to kill Trump "in the worst possible way" and described in detail how he would do it.
Two days later, he shared explicit threats against Bondi and concluded: "I'm going to kill them all, pedophiles. I don't care about anything."
Secret Service agents visited Sanders’ home, an apartment near 15th Terrace and West Avenue in South Beach, to interrogate him. Far from expressing remorse, he reiterated his accusations against the officials.
The federal criminal complaint against him was filed on May 2 in the Southern District of Florida and made public on Tuesday.
He is facing charges of making threats against the President of the United States and transmitting threats in interstate commerce, each carrying a maximum sentence of up to five years of federal prison, for a total combined sentence of up to 10 years.
"The threats against public officials are not political discourse. They are serious federal crimes that endanger public safety and the rule of law," declared federal prosecutor Jason A. Reding Quiñones of the Southern District of Florida, in a statement from the Department of Justice.
For his part, Special Agent in Charge Michael Townsend of the Miami Field Office of the Secret Service stated, "Threatening the President of the United States is a federal offense, and we treat it with the seriousness it deserves in every case. It does not matter where the threat is made or what platform is used; our agents will identify it, investigate it, and work alongside our federal and local partners to bring charges when appropriate."
This is not Sanders' first encounter with the law. On March 28, he was arrested for criminal damage at a vape shop in South Beach, where he caused approximately $7,000 in damages by destroying shelves.
The case fits into a broader pattern of federal arrests for threats against officials of the Trump administration. Just days before, another man was arrested at the Trump National Doral after assaulting a Secret Service agent.
Similar cases have been reported in other parts of Florida. In January, a resident of West Palm Beach was arrested for posting threats against Trump on social media, and in March 2025 another man in Fort Pierce faced similar charges.
The case is being investigated by the Secret Service Field Office in Miami, with assistance from the Capitol Police, the Diplomatic Security Service, and the Miami Beach Police.
Sanders was detained at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami when the accusation became public.
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