Three college students face federal charges over alleged threats against Trump ahead of campus rally

Federal prosecutors have charged three University of South Alabama students with threatening President Donald Trump, in cases that became public Friday afternoon, only hours before he was due to speak at a campaign rally on the school's Mobile campus. A source familiar with the matter told Fox News about the arrests, and the details come from FBI affidavits as described by the Lagniappe Daily.

According to those affidavits, agents found the posts while running social media searches in advance of the visit. They then relied on emergency disclosure requests and help from campus police to work out who wrote them. One student allegedly left a menacing comment beneath a TikTok video about the upcoming appearance, and another is accused of replying on TikTok to a post about it. A third allegedly wrote on X that people would remember the school the way they remember Utah Valley University, where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot last year.

Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch had said earlier in the week that his office was helping federal authorities monitor online activity tied to the event.

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