(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A man from Butler, Pennsylvania—where President Donald Trump was shot at in July 2024—has been sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for threatening to kill Trump, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Shawn Monper, 33, was sentenced after pleading guilty in April to two counts of threatening to assault and murder United States officials and federal law enforcement. According to the DOJ, he also threatened to kill billionaire Elon Musk and other U.S. government officials this year. Both his attorneys and the DOJ agreed that four years was an appropriate sentence.
The Butler man who was born on July 13 was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment today for threatening to assassinate Trump. https://t.co/KB0UnQwjV4
— Ken Silva (@JD_Cashless) September 1, 2026
Monper was arrested on April 11, 2025. According to the Butler Eagle, the FBI’s SWAT team was operating in Butler Township that same day. The Eagle later confirmed that the FBI SWAT team was taking down Monper.
Investigators say Monper got a firearms permit shortly after Trump’s January 2025 inauguration and then commented online that he had bought “several guns and been stocking up on ammo since Trump got in office.”
According to the indictment, Monper said on YouTube in February 2025 that “we just need to start killing people, Trump, Elon, all the heads of agencies Trump appointed, and anyone who stands in the way.” In early March, he again said: “im going to assassinate him myself” during a YouTube video titled “Live: Trump’s address to Congress.” Monper was posting under the YouTube account name “Mr Satan.”
Along with Monper being from Butler, his case received online attention because he was born on July 13, 1992. Trump was shot on July 13, 2024, in Butler.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
