Not Spurious News: Idaho man "repeatedly threatens" Trump [View all]

https://cdapress.com/news/2024/sep/25/sandpoint-man-arrested-for-making-repeated-threats-against-former-president-trump/
https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2024/sep/25/sandpoint-man-arrested-for-making-repeated-threats/

The Coeur d'Alene Press and Bonner County Daily Bee are reporting this morning (don't bother clicking both links, they're the same story) that one Walter Jones Crazybull, 64, probably a member of the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho (a Native American tribe with 150 enrolled members and only two men on its 10-member tribal council, centered around the city of Bonners Ferry), made at least nine phone calls to Mar-a-Lago on July 31, 2024, in which he made threats against Trump's life. All these calls originated from the same phone number.

(Just so you know: there are five federally recognized tribes in Idaho: the Kootenai are closest to the Canadian border, the Coeur d'Alene are south of the city of Coeur d'Alene, the Nez Perce are near Lewiston, and the Shoshone-Bannock and Shoshone-Paiute are in South Idaho. I'm thinkin' this guy is a Kootenai because of where he lives - Sandpoint is about 40 miles from the minuscule 2200-acre Kootenai Reservation. He MIGHT be a Coeur d'Alene but I doubt it; most Coeur d'Alene live on or close to their 345,000-acre reservation. Before they built the Kootenai River Inn Casino and Spa, their primary industries were timber, sand and gravel, and hatching sturgeon - all of which they still do. They also were into tourism, which makes sense because the primary highway out of Canada into Idaho runs through their reservation. Interestingly, in September 1974 the Kootenai Tribe declared a "peaceful war" against the US Government seeking a reservation of their own - they didn't have one then. The only "warfare" they actually did was charging a 10-cent toll to use a highway that went through the reservation land they wanted. They originally wanted a 128,000-acre reservation - pretty courageous when you consider there were only 65 Kootenai at the time - and compensation for the government taking 1.6 million acres of their ancestral land. What they got was 12.5 acres in a bill signed by President Ford; since the Kootenai make A LOT of money in timber and gravel and now in their highly successful resort, they were able to buy the rest of the land that forms their current reservation.)

His Facebook page has several public posts "concerning violence and anger toward former President Trump and Mr. John F. Kennedy." One post that really upset the Secret Service read "I'm leaving Sandpoint at 12:00 am #Trump2024. I'm coming for you..." He also called Trump a "serial predator" and a "coward."

Mr. Crazybull told the police after they hauled him in that he wrote the posts to get the attention of law enforcement, and that Trump had "violated treaties and thereby deprived him of his land."

He's currently sitting in the Kootenai County Jail in Coeur d'Alene on a US Marshals Service hold. He pled not guilty to one count of threatening a former president, a crime which can net him fines or a year in prison.