Eli Martinez was in bed last Thursday morning when agents showed up at his home in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
His father, who answered the door, woke up the 20-year-old and told him the Secret Service was waiting for him.
“I thought he was kidding or I was dreaming,” Martinez told Mashable.
Days earlier, Martinez had tweeted what he claims was a joke about killing Donald Trump.
Martinez said the agents “questioned the hell” out him — about his personal, medical and employment history, if he was a U.S. citizen and if he’d ever purchased weapons. They wanted to determine if he was a real threat to Trump’s life or if he was just another Twitter user thoughtlessly sending a tweet they’d come to regret. Read more…
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