US man charged for framing immigrant in fake plot to kill Trump
Demetric Scott admitted he wrote letters in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, who he was charged with assaulting
Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a man with four felonies for attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant’s name with a threat to kill Donald Trump.
The handwritten, forged letters were mailed to Wisconsin’s attorney general, Milwaukee police and US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice). The story received a flood of media attention and was highlighted by the White House and Trump’s allies, but appears to have been a hoax.
WISN-TV, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, reported on Monday that a criminal complaint alleges Demetric Scott admitted to investigators he wrote the letters threatening to kill the president in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom he was previously charged with assaulting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/letter-threatening-trump-fake-plotOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
I love that the immigrant can now be granted legal status because he was the victim of a crime. It's a decent silver lining.
Except he'd still be in america.
Even the current US lunacy is preferable to the hell the west has brought to huge portions of central america.
Didn’t see that in the article; can you source it?
But even giving you the benefit of the doubt, can is FAR different from shall. I doubt TACO would allow it to happen.
U visa perhaps?
Wouldn't it be lovely if Morales-Reyes sued Ice Barbie for defamation? I think about 10 million should wipe her out.
"30 yard 6"
Fry that redneck for being too gun-illiterate, and then because he's a racist piece of shit on top of that.
Well that's certainly not the silver lining I was hoping for in this terrible story.