A Rhode Island man indicted for allegedly threatening to assassinate President Donald J. Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller remains free on a GPS ankle monitor after two Democrat-affiliated federal judges refused the U.S. Department of Justice’s motions to jail him pending trial.
Carl D. Montague, 37, of Providence, was charged in an August 13 indictment with threats against the president, interstate threats, and threatening to assault, kidnap, or murder a United States official. All are felony charges that carry possible prison terms from five to 20 years.
Montague was originally arrested July 9, and despite four assault convictions since 2014, a magistrate judge refused to jail him on a motion from the DOJ. A President Joe Biden-appointed U.S. district judge later refused another DOJ motion to detain Montague and ordered that he wear a GPS monitoring device instead.
President Trump faced two assassination attempts in 2024, the first by Thomas Crooks in Butler, Pa., on July 13 and the second on Sept. 15 in West Palm Beach, Fla., allegedly by Ryan Wesley Routh.
