Coast Guard sharpshooter accused of threatening Trump released from prison
A former Coast Guard Lieutenant and Antifa sharpshooter arrested and charged for threatening to kill President Trump has been released from prison and ordered home detention.
According to an affidavit, Pete Stinson posted the threats against President Trump to X and BlueSky between 2020 and 2025.
Stinson used a series of code names for Trump including “the orange,” “orange mf,” “orange thug,” “Krasnov,” “tfg,” “one ear,” or an orange emoji.
Would someone please just take care of it. Please.
— Peter Partisan Let’s peel the orange mf! (@peter_partisan) June 21, 2020
Stinson’s most recent threat against President Trump was posted last week.
According to the charging documents:
On April 4, 2024, STINSON posted: “Does it make me a bad person to want tfg dead? Would I be a bad person if I pulled the trigger?”
On March 4, 2025, STINSON posted on BLUESKY ACCOUNT 1: “Can we start a go fund me for a hitman?”
On March 9, 2025, STINSON posted: “He needs to be luigied”
Earlier this week a judge ordered Peter Stinson jailed pending a hearing.
However, after the hearing, federal magistrate judge Ivan Davis released Stinson to home detention and said he did not believe he posed a threat.
Fox News reported:
A federal judge ordered former U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant Peter Stinson to home detention with GPS monitoring during a hearing on accusations that he made numerous threats against President Donald Trump on social media over the past five years.
The 63-year-old Virginia resident served as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1988 to 2021, during which time he became a sharpshooter and served as a FEMA instructor.
Judge Ivan Davis on Wednesday said he did not believe, under the conditions he laid out, that Stinson’s release to home detention posed a threat to the community.
Stinson, who wore a green prison jumpsuit to the hearing, was seen speaking with his attorneys during the proceeding.
Prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Stinson made multiple threats against Trump on various social media platforms, including X, Reddit and Bluesky.
Stinson’s public defender, however, pointed out that Stinson said things like, “Someone should take the shot…he said I can’t shoot but I can drive. I’d take the shot, but I’m a lousy shot, so it would be a waste.”
This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.