Plainfield Woman Threatens To Kill Donald Trump, Son Barron: Complaint
PLAINFIELD, IL — A Plainfield woman is in federal custody after she threatened to kill former President Donald Trump and his youngest son, Barron, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Aug. 21 in southern Florida.
Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, was arrested Aug. 21 and charged with transmitting threats to kill or injure another person. She appeared later that day in front of a judge at the Dirksen Courthouse in Chicago.
Her arrest came three months after she sent an email, on May 21, to the headmaster of a school in Palm Beach County saying she would “shoot Donald Trump Sr. AND Barron Trump straight in the face at any opportunity that I get!” the complaint alleges.
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On June 5, officials said she sent another email to the headmaster, writing, “I am going to slam a bullet in Barron Trump’s head with his father IN SELF DEFENSE!” Neither the administrator nor the school are named in the complaint.
Donald Trump’s primary residence is in Palm Beach.
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Fiorenza agreed to a voluntary audio and video interview at the U.S. Secret Service Chicago Field Office, where she confirmed she “intentionally wrote and sent [the threatening language] via email from her residence in Plainfield,” according to the complaint.
The Plainfield woman worked for Chicago Public Schools between September 2019 and August 2020, when she was fired, according to a report from ABC7.
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