South Carolinian facing charges for threatening Trump will stay jailed

(The Center Square) – Army veteran Daniel Swain spoke only briefly in response to a federal magistrate judge on Monday and will have a detention hearing on Thursday.

Swain, of Summerville, S.C., was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday because of threats scrawled onto the vehicle authorities believe he was driving to Washington in search of second-term Republican President Donald Trump. The arrest in Apex at a car wash drew action from the U.S. Secret Service, the State Bureau of Investigation and its bomb squad, and the FBI.

According to the federal complaint, “The defendant, did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.” He’s charged with communicating a threat against the president.

If convicted, he could face five years in prison.

He told U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Numers II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on Monday he understood the charge...