{"id":68760,"date":"2026-03-11T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/man-charged-with-threatening-trump-and-democratic-representative-swalwell\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:57:35","slug":"man-charged-with-threatening-trump-and-democratic-representative-swalwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/man-charged-with-threatening-trump-and-democratic-representative-swalwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with threatening Trump and Democratic representative Swalwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Villavicencio also made violent threats against an unnamed individual, who appears to be Jerome Powell<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Florida man was charged with making threats against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, the Democratic representative Eric Swalwell and an unnamed individual who appeared to be Fed chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/jerome-powell\">Jerome Powell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury in the northern district of Florida returned a four-count indictment against Diego Villavicencio, who is accused of making violent threats against a member of Congress and the president of the United States. A lawyer for Villavicencio declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/11\/man-charged-threats-trump-eric-swalwell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Villavicencio also made violent threats against an unnamed individual, who appears to be Jerome Powell Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Florida man was charged with making threats against Donald Trump, the Democratic representative Eric Swalwell and an unnamed individual who appeared to be &#8230; <a title=\"Man charged with threatening Trump and Democratic representative Swalwell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/man-charged-with-threatening-trump-and-democratic-representative-swalwell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man charged with threatening Trump and Democratic representative Swalwell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}