SALISBURY — A Salisbury man has been arrested on charges of threatening President Donald Trump and communicating threats using a means of interstate commission.
According to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina, Christian Wolfe Daniels, of Salisbury, faces the above mentioned charges. U.S. Attorney Dan Bishop said that Daniels was taken into custody by the FBI.
The criminal complaint against Daniels alleges two counts of making threats against the President on Nov. 13 and 14, 2025. Daniels’ count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce cites a Nov. 17 date.
According to complaints filed by federal prosecutors, Daniels made multiple posts on Facebook under the name Clyde Franco threatening federal officials, including Trump, FBI Director Kash Patel, Vice President JD Vance and conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s widow and Turning Point USA head Erika Kirk. Daniels allegedly threatened to perform “medieval torture” on Trump and said he would kill all of the threatened political figures.
Daniels was reportedly connected to the account by phone records and when he allegedly posted a threatening message against his neighbor, who had reported him for threatening to kill her. A family member also identified the account as Daniels’s, according to the complaint.
The neighbor told local law enforcement at the time that Daniels said he had a gun, but she could not verify that he did and database checks showed no registered firearms under his name, according to the complaint.
“We’re not going to abide threats against President Trump in the Middle District of North Carolina,” Bishop said in the release. “As soon as I received the details, I insisted we act immediately.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge James C. Barnacle Jr. added, “It has become far too common for people to make violent threats on social media. Listen closely, you cannot hide behind a keyboard and threaten people’s lives. The FBI will fine you. Threats to public officials, their loved ones, a grieving widow or the President of the United States are illegal. Political violence in all forms must stop.”
Daniels had an appearance in Winston-Salem on Thursday. He was detained and will have a detention hearing in Greensboro on Dec. 18. The case is being investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Eric L. Iverson.
The release indicates that Daniels, if convicted on all counts, faces a maximum term of 15 years imprisonment and a term of supervised release of no more than three years.
