Main: President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon). Inset: Christopher M. Davies (Florida Department of Corrections).
A 32-year-old Florida resident has been sentenced to prison for making threats against former President Donald Trump. The man, Christopher M. Davies, claimed in a letter that he intended to execute the “greatest” and “most daring Presidential assassination” in history, stating that Trump “must perish.”
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Sheri P. Chappell sentenced Davies to 27 months in a federal prison. This decision follows Davies’ guilty plea in October 2025 to a single charge of making threats against the president, as announced by the Department of Justice.
Davies, who has a prior felony robbery conviction, is currently serving time at Charlotte Correctional Institute in Punta Gorda, Florida, approximately 150 miles northwest of Miami. He is expected to complete his state sentence by June 2032, after which he will begin serving his federal prison term.
Details in court documents revealed that on March 11, 2025, a senior prison clerk discovered a letter from Davies while reviewing inmate correspondence. The letter contained several menacing remarks.
Later that same day, Davies reiterated his intentions in a second statement, asserting that his threat to assassinate Trump was “true and factual” and ominously advised to “wait and see what unfolds.”
The incident was promptly reported to the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), which launched an investigation into the matter.
The information was soon forwarded to the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) for further investigation.
USSS agents on April 16, 2025, met with Davies in an interview room at the prison and, after being advised about his rights, Davies agreed to speak with them. When questioned about his written statements, he stated that he remembered what he had written and reiterated that he was responsible for writing it, he understood what the words meant, and that they should be considered “as a true threat.”
“When asked why he wrote it, the defendant stated that “you would have to watch,’” prosecutors wrote in court documents. “The Special Agents then asked the defendant what he would do if President Trump was sitting near him, and the defendant claimed that he would attempt to kill the President with his bare hands.”
