Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to reporters as President Donald Trump listens, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).
Federal prosecutors in Rhode Island are pushing for the incarceration of a man accused of threatening the lives of President Donald Trump and other prominent administration figures. They argue that he remains a significant threat to the public and those he targeted.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Dulce Donovan has requested a federal judge to authorize the arrest of Carl D. Montague, alleging he has frequently breached the conditions of his pretrial release. Montague was first taken into custody on July 9, facing charges for threatening the president, making interstate threats, and intimidating U.S. officials to disrupt their official duties.
According to earlier reports by Law&Crime, Montague allegedly posted on social media on June 27, threatening to assassinate Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
The threatening post, shared on the president’s Truth Social platform under the alias “tacoustic,” was allegedly uncovered by investigators.
Authorities traced the username to a Gmail account based in Providence, Rhode Island. An emergency disclosure request was submitted to Google, which provided the Secret Service with the related IP address. After conducting further investigation, agents identified Montague as the person responsible for the threats.
Federal agents eventually discovered him concealed in a bathtub within his apartment.
Federal agents later found him hiding in a bathtub in his apartment.
“Montague began confessing to making threats before agents were able to introduce themselves or explained why they were there,” investigators wrote in an affidavit. “Montague stated he was smoking a lot of marijuana when he posted the threat. Montague claimed he deleted his Truth Social account after sending the message. Montague was upset with current politics and expressed his frustrations via Truth Social. Montague did not have a specific reason to direct his threat towards DCOS Miller and AG Bondi. Montague observed their names in prior threads and posts he was viewing and then submitted his post.”
Montague made his initial court appearance on July 9 and was released after posting a $10,000 unsecured bond. As conditions of his bond, a judge ordered Montague to wear a GPS tracking monitor and remain in his apartment from 8 p.m. until 7 a.m., court documents state. He was also ordered to abstain from drinking alcohol and to seek employment.
Prosecutors in a Nov. 25 court filing alleged that Montague “has four times violated his conditions of pretrial release by consuming alcohol” and “not abided by the condition that he seek employment.”
“Further, most recently, on November 21, 2025, the defendant called the location monitoring line after hours, advised he had been drinking and that he was going to self-report for treatment,” prosecutors wrote. “Significantly, during the call, he directed profane language at the United States Probations Office to whom he was speaking.”
