Ariz. man arrested for threatening to assassinate Trump in deranged videos: ‘Going to put a hole in your face’

The feds arrested an Arizona man who allegedly threatened to “put a hole” in President-elect Donald Trump’s face — after months of posting deranged videos in which he threatened to gun down the first family while brandishing a rifle.

Manuel Tamayo-Torres was taken into custody in San Diego Monday after threatening Trump, 78, in a video as recently as Thursday, ABC News reported.

Charging documents, which refer to Trump as “Individual 1,” described the threats as “vague yet direct,” and accused Tamayo-Torres of posting “numerous” videos “on a near-daily basis” over several months.

In the series of profane videos posted to Facebook, the suspect claimed that Trump kidnapped and sex-trafficked his kids, though it’s unclear whether Tamayo-Torres has children, according to the outlet.

President-elect Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a July assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. AP

“[Y]ou’re gonna die,” he allegedly said in a video posted Thursday, referring to Trump. “[Y]our son’s gonna die. Your whole family is going to die … I’m going to put a hole in your face.”

He brandished what federal authorities said “appears to be a white AR-15-style rifle with a 30-round magazine inserted into it” in several of the videos while making the alleged crazed threats against the once and future president.

In one video from Aug. 23, Tamayo-Torres appeared to be filming himself from a Trump rally at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., and said he’d watched the former president and Secret Service agents kidnap his daughter to sell her into prostitution.

In addition to the charges for threatening a president, authorities charged him with making false statements while purchasing a firearm after he allegedly lied on federal forms last year — indicating on the form he had no felony history, when in fact he was convicted of assault in 2003.

Evidence from Tamayo-Torres’ Facebook indicated he possessed a tactical shotgun, another rifle and high-capacity magazines, according to court documents.

Manuel Tamayo-Torres appeared with high-power guns in several of his threatening videos posted on Facebook U.S. District Court Southern District of California

Trump has been the target of several assassination plots in the lead-up to the Nov. 5 election before Tamayo-Torres’ arrest, including a July attempt by Thomas Crooks, who shot the then-candidate in the ear and killed a bystander before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper at a Pennsylvania rally.

Just two months later, would-be assassin Ryan Routh was caught hiding in the bushes of Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle while the president-elect was golfing nearby.

Routh was thwarted at the last moment after Secret Service agents spotted the barrel of his rifle in the brush.

Tamayo-Torres is expected to be sent back to Arizona to face charges.