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: Jauan R. Porter (Floyd County Sheriff’s Office).
A Georgia man, aged 30, has been sentenced to over three years in prison for making threats to kill former President Donald Trump. The man, Jauan Rashun Porter, used TikTok to repeatedly detail his plans to shoot the president in a series of graphic posts.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II ruled that Porter would serve three years and five months in a federal prison, following his online threats. This decision came after Porter reached a plea agreement with prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, where he admitted guilt to one count of transmitting interstate threats.
“Threatening the life of the president is a serious crime that we cannot allow,” stated U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg in a statement after the sentencing. “The Constitution does not protect political violence, and we are committed to working with our federal partners to find and prosecute those who make such threats.”
The criminal complaint indicates that Porter participated in a TikTok livestream titled “Alligator Alcatraz” on July 26, 2025. During this session, he used the username “@jj572851” to issue multiple threats to assassinate the president.
Mere seconds after joining the livestream, Porter posted the message: “So there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes.”
Only seconds after joining the livestream, Porter wrote: “So there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes.”
Over the next few minutes, he continued making posts similarly expressing his desire to kill the president. Such comments included the following posts:
- “I’m gonna kill Donald Trump. I’m gonna put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead.”
- “I’m gonna watch him bleed out and I’m gonna watch him die.”
- “It’ll be on the news . . . his rally is coming up pretty soon and I’m going there and I’m going to put a bullet in his head.”
- “I’mma load up a rifle [and] sit inside . . . an abandoned building . . . and when he approaches the rally . . . I’m gonna put one . . . if not the face then I might put one exactly in his chest.”
- “He [POTUS] deserves to be in the ground . . . Certain people on this planet deserve to be in the ground and he’s one of them.”
At one point in the video, the host asked Porter if he thought he was exhibiting “normal behavior,” and Porter responded by saying “normal behavior would be speaking on something and then doing it.”
Due to the nature of Porter’s comments, a recording of the livestream was subsequently forwarded to the U.S. Secret Service for investigation.
Secret Service agents interviewed Porter and explained to him that TikTok had provided investigators with account holder information for his username. After initially denying that he was behind the comments, Porter eventually confessed to “issuing the threats on the livestream” and “acknowledged the seriousness” of his actions.
Porter’s live-in girlfriend told investigators that he had mentioned the incident to her and she remembered warning him about making such threats and “the seriousness with which the government takes them.” She added that Porter “frequently spent time online ‘trolling’ in a similar manner,” saying such activity was “a social outlet for him.”
