Man charged after online posts of threats against Trump, Rubio and Bondi, feds say

Angie DiMichele, South Florida Sun-Sentinel on May 5, 2026

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A South Florida man faces federal charges after allegedly posting death threats against President Donald Trump and other Cabinet officials on his social media, federal prosecutors said.

Nathaniel Sanders II, 32, of Miami Beach, is charged with threatening the president of the United States and transmitting threats in interstate commerce.

The investigation began in January after a U.S. Capitol Police special agent informed the Secret Service’s Protective Intelligence Operations Center of an unspecified threat Sanders allegedly made against Trump.

Within minutes and independent of the U.S. Capitol Police’s notification, an analyst with the Secret Service provided the operations center with multiple posts Sanders made on X, including one that said he would “bomb” the White House and another minutes later where he wrote, “I mean it,” according to a criminal complaint authored by a Secret Service special agent.

The Secret Service’s Open Source Intelligence Branch found that the person behind the X account was Sanders, according to the complaint. It also discovered two Instagram accounts that belonged to him with videos of him “complaining and speaking angrily about his hatred” for Trump, Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio and former Attorney General Pamela Bondi.

In a video posted April 10 on one of the Instagram accounts, Sanders, in part, said as if he were addressing the first lady that Trump was “the biggest pedophile” in the world.

“I don’t know what to do Melania, like, all I got is a gun,” he said in the video, according to the complaint. “It’s the only thing I can use now is a gun.”

He posted another video two minutes later about Rubio.

“Like a lot of people be forgetting they bleed just like everybody else. Like when I get my hands on him, I’m gonna hurt him. Simple as that,” Sanders said in that video, according to the complaint.

A week later, Sanders posted another video on the same Instagram account calling Trump an “orange pedophile a – pervert” and threatened acts of violence when Sanders saw him, including saying, “I’m going to kill you,” the complaint said.

Sanders then two days later posted another video on the second Instagram account saying threatening things toward Bondi, saying one point, “Imma kill all y’all pedophiles” and “Immakill you,” the complaint said.

Law enforcement officers went to Sanders’s home in Miami Beach in February, and the Secret Service special agent who authored the complaint said Sanders was the man who appeared in all of the videos.

His first appearance was held in Miami on Monday. A detention hearing is set for Thursday morning, and his arraignment is scheduled for May 18.

Sanders could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison if convicted.

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