The former U.S. Coast Guardsman charged with threatening to assassinate President Trump isn’t just a run-of-the-mill Antifa lunatic.
Peter Andrew Stinson is a sharpshooter who has repeatedly threatened to murder Trump since 2020, vowing to do so by stabbing, poisoning, or shooting, a federal criminal complaint alleges.
Stinson is a founder of the communist Mayday Movement USA, which sponsored a protest on the Washington Mall on Sunday. Far-left Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell (Calif.) keynoted.
The 19-page criminal complaint reports that Stinson was a Coast Guard officer from 1998 to 2021 and had achieved the rank of lieutenant. He
was awarded sharpshooter ribbons for pistol qualification in 1988 and for rifle qualification in 1989. He also received extensive training in operations planning and was an instructor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (“FEMA”) Incident Command Systems (“ICS”), a series of courses taught to first responders and government personnel to prepare for and respond to disasters and emergencies.
Besides receiving a master’s degree from the U.S. Naval War College, he also is a “self-identified” Antifa goon, as his X and far-left Bluesky accounts show. In February, he wrote on Bluesky that “this is war. Sides will be drawn. Antifa always wins in the end. Violence is inherently necessary.”
On March 4, 2025, he wrote about “target practice” and shooting “some oranges,” a clear reference to Trump. Says the complaint:
Stinson has consistently used a group of code names to refer to President Trump including: “the orange”, “orange mf”, “orange thug”, “Krasnov”, “tfg”, “one ear”, or an orange emoticon.
These code names are directly explained by Stinson, or implied through context, to be references to President Donald Trump.
Stinson clearly became unhinged in 2020, the complaint shows. “You see Trump drowning, what are you throwing him?” he wrote on X on April 1 that year. “This morning I feel like I would hit him in the head with an oar … He wants us dead. I can say the same thing about him.”
Three days later, responding on X to someone who said Trump should be sued because of what he said about hate-Trump impeachment hoaxer Alexander Vindman, Stinson wrote that “somebody ought to do more than sue the orange mf’s a**…. It involves a rifle and a scope, but I can’t talk about it here.”
Stinson continued, the complaint alleges:
I’d be willing to pitch in $100 for a contract. Who wants to join me? We could solve the solvable part of this problem in a crack. Then, we can focus on the coronavirus itself.
On April 5, Stinson answered another post that said Trump must be voted out of office “in numbers he can’t overcome by cheating. Get involved and get out the vote. Everything is riding on the 2020 election.”
Replied Stinson:
Actually, there is another way out of this mess. But it would be messy. And illegal. It might be what we have to do, however.
On April 6, noting that Trump is a “moron,” Stinson urged “someone” to “just pull the proverbial trigger.” There followed another threat: “I would do it. I would take the fall to save America. Too bad I don’t have the operational skills to pull it off. I am willing to serve in a support capacity for someone else with the skills to take care of things.”
On April 15, he promised to drive the assassin. On July 6 he wrote that “I can’t shoot, but I can drive. Let’s just take care of things.”
He repeated a promise to drive on July 7, the complaint alleges, and in August wrote that he “would pull the trigger.”
December 3, 2020, he posted: “Let’s end this national nightmare now. I’ll drive.”
Later threats included these, the complaint alleges:
On Bluesky, central command for far-left lunatics, Stinson continued the threats. On March 30, 2024, he wrote that he would “take the shot. But I’m a lousy shot. And it would be a waste.”
Five days later, he asked, “Would I be a bad person if I pulled the trigger?”
Then, the next month, he “posted a photo holding up two books, ‘Terrorism A Very Short Introduction’ by Charles Townsend and ‘Fascism A Very Short Introduction’ by Kevin Passmore, with the caption, ‘Starting my indoctrination.’”
On July 1 that year, the complaint alleges, Stinson wrote that President Joe Biden “should … end the greatest threat to the American Experiment since the confederate states seceded so that white men could own black people. Ready the strike package.” He also wrote that “I’d put the uniform back on to execute President Biden’s orders.”
On July 13, 2024, when Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Stinson offered the following thoughts on Bluesky:
Those secret service agents moved very slowly. They left him in the open way [too] long. A missed opportunity will not come around again. They will teach this to future agents as a failure to protect and act.
What a**hole thought he was good enough to complete the mission and then so really f*** up? S*** takes skills. Practice. Etc. Most of us are not capable. As noted before, I’m not a good enough shot. Very few people are. Somebody needs to learn this lesson.
You want to play in the big leagues, you need the talent. Luck is not a plan.
Execution is critical.
When the county district attorney in Butler announced that Crooks was dead, Stinson offered these thoughts, the complaint alleges:
Three inches to the right, and the shot woulda gone through the eyeball. Practice. Practice. Practice. And to die in the process. If you’re going to do something big, get it right [winking emoticon].
The threats continued for the rest of 2024 and into this year.
On January 28, Stinson wrote:
Somebody needs to do it. Somebody with the skills to do it right. Somebody with the experience. Somebody with the right tools. Somebody needs to get it done.
On January 29 and 31, Stinson suggested poisoning Trump, and on February 1, “in response to another user comment reading: ‘bluesky is an AMAZING place to announce an intention to do assassinations, keep it up,’ Stinson replied: ‘All in.’”
“If we’re planning murders, I’d like to suggest an orange one,” he wrote on February 4. He followed that with:
Since May 16, he has posted “8647,” a viral far-left threat to murder Trump, 14 times, and also threatened Trump on Reddit and Instagram, the complaint alleges.
Stinson faces an indictment for violating 18 U.S. Code 871, threats against the president.
For its part, Stinson’s Mayday Movement is shocked that he was arrested after threatening Trump for five years.
“The Mayday Movement USA today expressed dismay and a high degree of suspicion about the arrest and jailing of Mayday Founder Peter Stinson by FBI agents who searched his home, seizing his computer, other devices and Mayday-related notes,” the outfit said, Newsweek reported:
We learned today that Peter is charged with threatening President Trump. We think these charges are exaggerated and overblown. The Peter we know has been very clear that the only solution to Donald Trump’s transgressions is impeachment and removal, the Constitutionally sanctioned remedy. We would be surprised if Peter made any comments suggesting he was inclined toward violence.
A disheveled Swalwell, wearing a T-shirt and ball cap, opened his oration at the communist outfit’s rally on Sunday with this deranged remark: “Donald Trump is America’s Hitler.”
In 2023, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) booted Swalwell off the House Intelligence Committee because of his relationship with a Chinese communist spy.