'Should I finish him off?': Man allegedly threatens to 'slit joe biden's throat,' kill federal agents

President Joe Biden exits Marine One before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, July 15, 2024 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen).

Jason Patrick Alday of Florida has been arrested and charged with threatening President Joe Biden after he said “I want to kill him, slit his throat,” according to a criminal complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Tallahassee.

Alday is charged with three counts including making threatening communications, making threats against the President of the United States and threatening federal officials.

According to a detention hearing memo reviewed by Law&Crime on Tuesday, the U.S. Secret Service was notified on June 25 that Alday’s health care provider at the mental health and counseling Apalachee Center reported that Alday said “he did not like the president and wanted to slit his throat” during the intake process.

Alday had self-admitted to the Apalachee Center. Court records show he resides with his parents in Florida and his mother told prosecutors and U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Stampelos that he has lived with her “off and on his whole life” and that he is bipolar and also diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and ADHD. He is in his 30s, according to court records, but his exact age was not clear as of Tuesday.

A criminal affidavit for Alday states that the Secret Service agents, accompanied by Gadsden County Sheriffs, interviewed the defendant at his parent’s home on July 1 and that he confirmed he had been at Apalachee before being transported to a hospital and then released. But when asked if he recalled making the statements about slitting Biden’s throat, Alday said he did not and denied making the remark.

Growing “agitated” with police questioning, Alday stated in the interview that he did not like Biden, prompting the Secret Service agent to ask if he had ever made plans to travel to Washington, D.C. Alday denied wanting to make such plans.

On July 11, however, the affidavit states that the Secret Service’s Open-Source branch learned that an X.com user handle under the name “Jason Alderman/@Jman86628004” posted several messages including: “I’ll kill joe biden today!!” [Emphasis, grammar original]

On June 30, investigators said Alday wrote: “sources: Joe biden’s health is declining rapidly. Not doing too good at all. Should I finish him off?”

On July 1, Alday allegedly appeared to reference the Secret Service interview, saying the agency sent a “special agent n—– to my house with Gadsden county officers.”

“I’ll still slit joe biden’s throat,” he wrote.

He again used a racial slur to address a special agent by name on July 5 and said he wanted the agents dead.

On July 11, he is accused of taunting the Secret Service agents again, asking one “where you at” by name and then declaring: “This is Jason Alday!!” [Emphasis original]

Though Alday’s mother urged for him to be released to her custody, Judge Stampelos said a review of the man’s record indicated that he was competent to face charges and further, posed a danger to the community if released. According to Stampelos’ order, federal prosecutors raised concerns about knives for cooking being available in Alday’s family home and that on prior occasions when law enforcement had arrived to escort him to the Apalachee Center, he had pushed a deputy.

The detention memo also indicates that in May 2021, while Alday was home with an ankle monitor on, his mother said he got “lost in the woods.” The judge noted that when a probation officer was sent to investigate, Alday allegedly battered him.

In this most recent case, Alday’s mother told the court she had no idea her son was making threats online and promised to keep him away from computers regardless of whether the court ordered him to or not.

A defense attorney for Alday argued that the man did not have the “apparent ability to carry out any threat” but he was “just venting on the internet because he has mental health issues.”

Stampelos said while a state court had previously found Alday incompetent to proceed at prior hearings, the federal court was “not bound by what the state court does” and noted that there were “no reports” from any mental health provider that gave him comfort: Over the past two years, Alday “demonstrated a consistent trend” of problems or violations of the law, the judge wrote.

Alday’s public defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday and it is unclear when Alday appears in court next.

The charges come on the heels of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden has called for a cooling of rhetoric and has continued to condemn political violence.

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