US man charged for framing immigrant in fake plot to kill Trump
Demetric Scott admitted he wrote letters in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, who he was charged with assaulting

Robert Mackey
Mon 2 Jun 2025 20.56 EDT
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Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a man with four felonies for attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant’s name with a threat to kill Donald Trump.

The handwritten, forged letters were mailed to Wisconsin’s attorney general, Milwaukee police and US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice). The story received a flood of media attention and was highlighted by the White House and Trump’s allies, but appears to have been a hoax.

WISN-TV, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, reported on Monday that a criminal complaint alleges Demetric Scott admitted to investigators he wrote the letters threatening to kill the president in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom he was previously charged with assaulting.

Among those who fell for the hoax was Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who released a statement praising immigration officers for arresting Morales-Reyes on 22 May, one day after the forged letter was received by an Ice field intelligence officer.

“Thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars,” Noem said in a press release. Her department also released to news agencies an image of the handwritten note in light blue ink, expressing anger over Trump’s deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally. Noem also shared the letter on X along with a photo of Morales-Reyes, and the White House also shared it on its social media accounts.
>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/letter-threatening-trump-fake-plot

>>1409543 (OP) (cont)
“We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans – we have done more for this country than you white people – you have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him,” the letter said. “I will self deport myself back to Mexico but not before I use my 30 yard 6 to shoot your precious president in the head – I will see him at one of his big ralleys.”

But the claim soon began to unravel.

Last week, one of Morales-Reyes’ children told an immigrant rights group that he could not have written the letters since he cannot read or write in Spanish, let alone English.

As part of the investigation, officials asked Morales-Reyes for a handwriting sample and concluded his handwriting and the threatening letter didn’t match and that the threat was not credible, a source familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press.

Scott is currently in Milwaukee county jail, charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery. Prosecutors said Morales-Reyes was the victim in that case; he was allegedly assaulted in September 2023 with a box cutter during an attempted theft of his bike. As the case prepared to go to trial, Ice this month received the letter threatening to assassinate Trump.

According to a transcript of a phone call prosecutors say Scott made while awaiting trial for assaulting Morales-Reyes, Scott framed Morales-Reyes to keep him from testifying against him. “If he gets picked up by Ice,” Scott allegedly said in the call, “there won’t be a jury trial, so they will probably dismiss it that day. That’s my plan.”

Morales-Reyes works as a dishwasher in Milwaukee, where he lives with his wife and three children. He had recently applied for a U visa, which is carved out for people in the country illegally who become victims of serious crimes, according to his attorney.

Morales-Reyes remains in Ice detention at a facility in Juneau, Wisconsin.

>>1409544 (Cont)
OTHER SOURCES:
>https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/wisconsin-man-threaten-trump-migrant-dhs
>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wisconsin-man-forged-threats-trump-try-get-witness-deported-officials-rcna210605
>https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-man-accused-of-framing-illegal-immigrant-with-trump-threat-letters/64948661

>>1409544
>We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans – we have done more for this country than you white people – you have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him,” the letter said. “I will self deport myself back to Mexico but not before I use my 30 yard 6 to shoot your precious president in the head – I will see him at one of his big ralleys
Its like the local schizo wrote it

>Twitter users are ordering doordash, taking pictures of license plates and sending the evidence to ICE.
>"I've got a plan, we'll frame the migrant as an ASSASSIN!"
Pinky and the Brain tier moment.

>>1409543 (OP)
ofc its a far-left blackie, whose using immigrants as a political tool for his TDS.
can democrats be any bigger scumbags.

>>1409543 (OP)
This guy might genuinely be one of the most retarded criminals I've seen in a long time.
>Decide to frame guy for a fucking presidential assassination threat to get out of robbery assault charges
>Choose to frame guy who's literally illiterate in spanish with a letter written in perfect english in your own handwriting
>Basically admit to this in a recorded prison phone call

>>1409552
This literally has nothing to do with Trump beyond framing the guy for threatening him so authorities moved fast lmao. He's literally just doing this to dodge assault and robbery charges in the most retarded way possible. Aside from what he framed him for, this is as apolitical a motive as you can get.

>>1409557
>This literally has nothing to do with Trump
Setting aside Trump's ICE scooping up the victim and keeping him in detention even though he'll absolutely be getting a U visa out of this.

Trump would rather violent robbers out on the street than brown people.

>>1409547
If the fascists offered $100 reward for every illegal alien captured from my information that I give them, I would have a good second job

>>1409559
I'm talking more the case.

But yeah the irony is if this guy wasn't so incompetent he would've gone free because ICE was in such a rush to arrest everyone they can. I hope if this guy gets a U Visa that he sues the shit out of Noem for defamation.

>>1409552
>He's black so he couldn't be a bigoted cuckservative
dumb racist, did you miss the part of trump's 2024 run where he pandered to black men's homophobia and misogyny to earn the black male vote?

>>1409557
>uses immigrant to attack a political official
>apolitical
How stupid do you have to be
>>1409580
nice red herring, you actual POS.

>>1409582
>>uses immigrant to attack a political official
No, he assaulted and tried to rob an immigrant than framed him for threatening the president to dodge charges. The guy doesn't give a shit about Trump, he just knew that it was easy bait to get the guy deported to sabotage the trial against him.

>>1409583
and the right wing shills will double down on the lie he told for the next ten years because americans are too dumb to be media literate

>>1409585
coming from the retard who thinks sending a death threat was apolitical lmao.
God retards like you are too stupid to ever have any common sense just end it already.

>>1409587
you know more than 2 people post here right. not that many more, but still

>>1409587
>coming from the retard who thinks sending a death threat was apolitical lmao.
The death threat was bullshit. It was solely to get the guy arrested by ICE.

>>1409588
>>1409589
sure thing domestic terrorist twat. you're in such denial its incredible how stupid you are. I'm sure a democrat would've sent a death threat to biden during his term to frame immigrants right. that definitely happened right?
god fucking no common sense with you losers

>>1409590
you're literally not american and it's funny making you sperg out when you're proven wrong

>>1409592
what a typical retard "comeback" muh muh you aren't american you sperg kekekee i win internet keyboard fight I numba one.

Ya retard you're a moron without any common sense always making excuses for pieces of shit because they align with you. I hope you get investigated by the FBI

>>1409596
you're still esl

>>1409598
and you're still an uneducated brainlet, must be nice being stupid and ignorant

>>1409604
i don't speak poltard

>>1409582
>NOOOOOO STOP DIRECTLY CONTRADICTING MY ASSERTION! YOU'LL BREAK MY FRAGILE BACKWARDS WORLDVIEW! RED HERRING! RED HERRING!
ran out of script?

>>1409590
>I'm sure a democrat would've sent a death threat to biden during his term to frame immigrants right. that definitely happened right?
You understand the guy literally got arrested for doing this, right? He confessed to it. The reason this is the first time someones done this is because it's objectively retarded; he's basically given the guy a fucking U Visa through this and gotten himself even more charges.

>>1409590
>common sense
Because we have something infinitely superior to that: we're not you

>>1409641
so you're a brainlet understood.
>>1409638
Do democrats ever think before they do shit? we have a literal free palestine guy screeching it right after he executed two embassy workers. Leftists aren't exactly known for rational thought

>>1409652
>brainlet
If the rest of us are 'brainlets' and we have something infinitely superior to your so-called 'common sense': that we're not you , thanks for admitting you're a no-brainlet.
That's always been understood by everyone else since you first infected 4chan, retard. You can't beat the proven fact that you and all other rightards here the only brainlets in /news/.

>>1409652
If "Free Palestine" guys are all democrats does that make Israel's attempts at genocide right wing?

>>1409657
>genocide
>Palestinian population has more than doubled since the 90s.

>>1409657
are they doing it in america? no? then gtfo with your garbage false equivalancy.
Typical leftist behavior so vile and disgusting.

>a schizo spewing wrong opinions
Typical rightist behavior, so vile and disgusting.

>>1409658
>since the 90s
Now do 2023

>>1409669
Do you think you're on leftypol again?

>>1409543 (OP)
OK, this still doesn't change my mind about deporting illegals.

>>1409657
Yes. But why does that matter? Do you seriously think Democrats are left wing? They're the most authoritarian pigs on the planet.

>>1409657
Israel's genocide is right wing because Israel is right wing.

>>1409677
>They're the most authoritarian pigs on the planet
And that's just the Rethuglicans with their orange Oinker-in-Chief

>>1409680
I fail to see how dRumpf is some sort of extreme authoritarian.
Perhaps you can explain all the mental illnesses you suffer from to me?

>>1409681
>I fail
You got that right at least. You should have stopped there.

>>1409681
Dude is building a MASTER DATABASE of all Americans. How is that not scary?

>>1409683
Why should that be scary to someone who wants endless government handouts? The government is your friend and supports you. Or is there something inherently wrong with people's lives being too intertwined with the government that you object to?
>MASTER DATABASE!!!!
This information already exists and the government has it. And no they shouldn't, but your social services and safety nets require data collection to be feasible.
So, thanks, faggot for decrying what you literally support without being aware of it.

>>1409698
>someone who wants endless government handouts?
Just ask Elongated Muskrat

>>1409681
>I fail to see how dRumpf is some sort of extreme authoritarian.
I believe you, retard.