Inset: Robert King (Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office). Background: President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo/Alex Brandon).
Several new details have been revealed in the case of a North Texas man who was recently arrested for allegedly threatening government agents with violence on social media.
Robert King, 35, stands accused of one count of transmitting threats to injure in interstate commerce, according to a criminal complaint and arrest warrant filed in federal court earlier this month.
As Law&Crime previously reported, the defendant was arrested last week on one count of making terroristic threats causing the impairment or interruption of public services, a Lone Star State violation, according to the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office.
In that state law case, King was only accused of using exceedingly violent language against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and threatening to shoot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Now, authorities say the defendant’s violent language has also targeted other officials, including Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott and President Donald Trump.
“If I see ICE agents in my neighborhood, I am opening fire,” King allegedly wrote on Facebook. “It’s time to stop being p — and put the second amendment to work. ICE are not real cops, they are a secret police force with no real legal authority. Kill them.”
In the federal charging document, law enforcement says an informant tipped authorities off to those threats on social media — and more.
“Individual #1 reported that he confronted King about the Facebook posts, specifically King’s threat to shoot ICE agents on sight,” the document states. “Individual #1 reported that King confirmed not only that he had made the post, but that he was serious about his willingness to kill ICE agents, and that he had no remorse for doing so.”
King has allegedly changed his Facebook username to “Rob Gutierrez” and “deleted or removed from the public’s view,” the post about shooting at ICE agents, authorities say.
The Facebook profile associated with that account, however, allegedly contains a link to an Instagram account that appears to reference the ICE-related post, according to law enforcement.
“Just wanna double down on what I said the other day: if ICE comes to your neighborhood, f—ing shoot them and kill them,” an image in the story linked to reads. “No mercy for the Gestapo. And if I find out anyone from family I cut off is stalking my page or someone is feeding information about what I post to, well, anyone, I will find you and there will be hell to pay.”
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A substantial number of Facebook posts attributed to the “Rob Gutierrez” account, and allegedly to King, are also included in the complaint.
“I hope Greg Abbott literally burns alive from having a Molotov cocktail thrown directly on him,” one cited post reads. “I will laugh while he screams. The governor of Texas is a monster and an outright corrupt fascist.”
Similarly the court document contains a screenshot of the post about Noem reported on after King’s initial arrest by local authorities.
“I truly hope, and I mean this with all my heart, that Kristi Noem meets a horrible and agonizing demise I hope she is tried in a war criminal court with the rest of the Nazis when this is all over and I hope she is ripped apart in a gulag,” the defendant allegedly wrote on Facebook. “Nothing less for a Nazi scum. This is America now a Nazi fascist state. Disgusting.”
In each of those instances, however, the charging document says King’s posts are “desiring violence” and does not tie either post to an explicit crime under federal law.
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In one post, the Facebook user allegedly acknowledges the sharp turn in his word choices as of late.
“Some of my friends have noted that my rhetoric is growing increasingly more violent,” the defendant allegedly wrote. “Yes.”
The federal complaint goes on to take note of what law enforcement terms “King’s anti-government, anti-law enforcement, and violent rhetoric.”
“Finally a little bit of good news. Watch the video,” the Gutierrez account writes in one screenshot. “It’s disgusting. Those ICE agents should have been shot on the spot. We have got to reinvigorate our zest for our second amendment rights and start using them to fight tyranny instead of shooting kids.”
Other images culled from the account in question appear to express desires for violence directed at both Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Facebook posts expressing wishes of violence toward JD Vance and Donald Trump (U.S. Department of Justice).
“They should have done us all a favor and blown them the f — up,” the cited account posted about Vance and his wife, in reference to a meme about their recent trip to Greenland.
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“So we’re really just letting this play?” the Gutierrez account asks out loud in another post — this one commenting on a news story about the Trump administration detaining immigrants at a notorious prison in El Salvador. “Just letting a rogue President dismantle our country and imprison people with no fight whatsoever? I am ready to take up VIOLENT arms against a tyrannical government. I will NOT be complicit in another Nazi Germany.”
In yet another cited post, the defendant allegedly references the 45th and 47th president again — this time in reference to a persistent rumor, never substantiated, that Trump is an asset working for the government of Russia.
“I don’t give a f — anymore, give me the gun,” the post reads. “I’ll pull the trigger myself. Come get me FBI. F — this country.”
