{"id":67392,"date":"2014-02-03T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=67392"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T11:23:21","slug":"man-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=67392","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after allegedly threatening to kill George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York man armed with a rifle, boxes of ammunition and a machete was arrested Friday after allegedly threatening to kill former President George W. Bush, according to a federal court complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Smith, a resident of upstate New York, threatened to &#8220;kill, kidnap and inflict bodily harm&#8221; on Bush, the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also professed a love interest in Barbara, one of the former president&#8217;s twin daughters, according to the complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Secret Service was alerted to the threat after Smith&#8217;s mother found a note in the home they share in which he allegedly wrote that he&#8217;s &#8220;going to work for George W. Bush and the Pentagon,&#8221; the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also allegedly wrote: &#8220;I have to slay a dragon and then Barbara Bush is mine&#8230; America is finished. Obama, Etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, agents found Smith sitting in his car in Manhattan, with a loaded .38-caliber rifle, two boxes of ammunition, a container of gasoline and a machete, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>During questioning, Smith told Secret Service agents, &#8220;I&#8217;m divorced and not currently seeing anyone, but I am working on a relationship with Barbara Bush,&#8221; the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>Threats against presidents of the United States are a federal crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York man armed with a rifle, boxes of ammunition and a machete was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}