Left: President Donald Trump listens to a reporter’s question on board Air Force One on its way from Joint Base Andrews, Md., to Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, June 6, 2025 (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta). Right: Sheldon Biddle (Volusia County Jail).
A Florida man made threats against President Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, police say.
In one post on X (formerly Twitter), Sheldon Biddle, 25, allegedly told Trump to “shut up before you end up like Kennedy.”
The defendant has been charged with state counts of making written threats to kill or do bodily injury and being a fugitive from justice, according to the Ormond Beach Police Department.
“Do I have to (expletive) kill someone to get attention? Hellooooooooo?” another of the incriminating X posts reads, according to an arrest affidavit filed in April and reviewed by Orlando-based CBS affiliate WKMG. “I’m so god damn sick of my government betraying me. I’d rather die fighting for what I believe in, all of you fake Patriots make me sick.”
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Biddle had an active federal warrant out for his arrest, and on Thursday, he was arrested at a park on North Nova Road.
“We have absolutely no tolerance for threats of violence in our city,” Ormond Police Chief Jesse Godfrey said in a press release. “No one should feel unsafe in their place of worship, neighborhood or community, and we will act swiftly to hold offenders accountable.”
A review of the X account authorities linked to Biddle reveals a litany of antisemitic, racist, and anti-LGBTQ statements.
“Biddle is known to have made antisemitic statements and radical threats of violence under the guise of protecting the Constitution,” police wrote in the press release. “He has also expressed hostility toward law enforcement.”
In the post targeting Trump, the defendant allegedly called the president a “tyrant” and suggested he regrets voting for him because of his support for Israel. Biddle also reportedly made threats against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Another post from the X account in question reads: “@TedNugent is a boot licking traitor to American & the @NRA has never done what the majority wants. Want somebody willing to kill tyrants? I’m your guy!!!!””
When the U.S. Secret Service was made aware of his actions, they began to investigate, according to law enforcement.
A federal case has also been filed against Biddle – on one count of threats against the president.
A short and redacted indictment alleges Biddle “did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of the President of the United States in a series of online posts, specifically indicating that the President was going to get assassinated for engaging in treason, with the intent to communicate a true threat of violence and with recklessness as to whether the communication would be viewed as a true threat of violence.”
The defendant is currently being detained in the Volusia County Jail without bond, records show.
