A man sold "Kill Trump" stickers on his website for five dollars each.
Now federal agents just showed up at his door.
And this former Christian TV host called Trump a nasty name as federal agents dragged him away in cuffs.
The Man Behind the Merch
Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of cyberstalking, making harassing interstate calls, and threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
Southworth isn't some anonymous internet troll.
He's a former Christian reality TV host who appeared on some of the largest Christian networks in the country in the late 2000s.
His show, The Remix, reached more than 128 million homes and featured top Christian acts.
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Then he came out as gay in 2008 – and spent the next 18 years traveling a very different road.
By 2020, he was hosting a podcast called Yass, Jesus! with Mean Girls actor Daniel Franzese.
By 2026, he was selling "Kill Trump" stickers online and posting videos calling for the president's execution.
What He Actually Said on Camera
Federal court documents state that on April 7, 2026, Southworth posted a video on Instagram that left no room for interpretation.
"I have been vocal in calling for the execution of Donald Trump," he allegedly said. "This government is illegitimate and out of control. It's time for course correction. Kill Donald Trump."
That's not hyperbole on a bumper sticker.
That's a federal crime.
And it wasn't a one-time outburst – prosecutors say the documents include multiple other examples of Southworth making threatening statements against the president.
He also allegedly doxxed the family of one of Trump's personal attorneys – publishing their home address and phone numbers online – and left voicemails threatening "justice comes to your door."
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That's not political dissent.
That's a targeted harassment campaign against private citizens.
When agents took him into custody Thursday, Southworth reportedly screamed, "Donald Trump is a pedophile. The country has fallen!"
This Is Becoming a Pattern
The Southworth arrest is not an isolated incident.
It's the latest in a surge of federal prosecutions targeting people who treated threats against the president as acceptable political speech.
In March 2026, a Virginia man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for sending online death threats against Trump.
In April 2026, a Massachusetts man named Andrew Emerald was indicted on eight counts of interstate threats after posting that "either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026 or I am hunting him down and putting him there."
In July 2026, a Georgia man received more than three years in federal prison for threatening to assassinate Trump during a TikTok livestream.
These aren't edge cases anymore.
The DOJ under Trump's second term has made clear it will prosecute this conduct to the fullest extent of the law – and juries are convicting.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli – the same prosecutor who previously charged a California man for threatening Trump after the 2024 election – announced the Southworth indictment personally.
"Threats against the President of the United States are federal crimes," Essayli wrote. "We will not tolerate threats of political violence in the United States. My office will prosecute anyone who crosses that line to the fullest extent of the law."
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle added that anyone engaging in or endorsing political violence "should also immediately seek psychiatric help to treat their severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has warped their brains and made them sick in the head."
How Kathy Griffin's Severed Head Became Benjamin Southworth's Arrest
For years, the Left normalized this language – on social media, in comedy, in music, in art.
When Kathy Griffin held up a fake severed Trump head in 2017, nobody went to prison.
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When a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer opened fire on Republican congressmen at a baseball practice in 2017, wounding Steve Scalise, the political left called it an isolated incident and moved on.
The assassination attempts against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania and at his golf course in Florida were treated by much of the media as afterthoughts.
So people like Benjamin Southworth concluded there were no consequences.
They were wrong.
Now U.S. attorneys across the country are converting that culture into federal indictments – and the sentences are sticking.
Someone with 128 million households on his television resume thought it was safe to sell murder merchandise from a website called "Holy Menace."
He found out Thursday exactly how safe it was.
Sources:
- Peter D'Abrosca, "Feds bust LGBT podcaster, former Christian reality TV star for alleged threats to kill Trump," Fox News, September 3, 2026.
- "Yucca Valley Man Charged with Threatening to Kill President Trump After Last Year's Election," U.S. Department of Justice, Central District of California, June 2025.
- "Jury Convicts Arizona Man for Threatening to Kill President Trump and Former Vice President Harris," U.S. Department of Justice, District of Arizona, June 8, 2026.
- "U.S. court sentences 30-year-old to prison for threatening to kill Trump," Gazette NGR, July 2026.
- Lance Gooden, "New Gooden Bill Makes Assassination Attempts Eligible for Death Penalty," Gooden.house.gov, 2026.
