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Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts say a Great Barrington man was arrested and indicted after allegedly posting eight threatening messages about President Donald Trump on Facebook over a three-month span in 2025.

Andrew D. Emerald, 45, was charged with eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston. Prosecutors said the posts were made from May 3 through July 7, 2025. The charging document says the messages included threats to injure and kill Trump, and referred to taking him to Mar-a-Lago and hanging him from the Statue of Liberty.

The Justice Department said Emerald was arrested on April 1, 2026, and was scheduled to appear in federal court in Springfield that afternoon. Prosecutors stressed that the allegations in the indictment are just that — allegations — and that Emerald is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The case is a reminder of how often federal authorities are forced to treat political threats as live security problems rather than online noise. It does not prove anything about every person who is angry at Trump, and it does not make a broader political theory by itself. What it does show is that threats against the president remain a routine federal concern, with investigators, the Secret Service, and local police all drawn into the response when online rhetoric crosses into alleged criminal conduct.

The indictment says the posts were spread across months and were specific enough to trigger a federal case. That is the verified fact pattern here. Any larger reading about the temperature of American politics is interpretation, not charge language. But the underlying point is plain enough: when threats become detailed, repeated, and public, they stop being background chatter and become a law-enforcement file.