Adam Benjamin Hall, 23, of Crane Hill, Ala., appeared in federal court on Wednesday to face charges of stalking and trying to kill then U.S. President Joe Biden on June 27, 2024, the U.S. Justice Department said.
“Our highest priority is protecting the president of the United States, and every potential threat is treated with the utmost seriousness,” stated Robert Donovan, acting special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service Atlanta field office.
Theodore Hertzberg, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, stated that “Hall’s alleged actions went beyond mere words and included traveling to Georgia with a firearm to murder President Biden.”
The Justice Department alleges that the 23-year-old drove from Alabama to Atlanta in June 2024, intending to sneak into the CNN presidential debate in order to kill the then president.
“A screenshot of a map allegedly found on Hall’s phone contained a location marker indicating that the phone was three blocks from the debate site approximately 28 minutes before the debate’s scheduled start time when adjusted to local time,” the department said.
Federal prosecutors also allege that Hall’s phone had what he called an “exposé” and “manifesto” addressed to “all the Palestinian journalists” and “in remembrance of the ones who lost their lives along the way.”
“Our enemies are not in any other country but our own and Israel’s,” he allegedly wrote. “It’s time we overthrow these bastards and threaten to pull a f**king D-Day on Tel Aviv.”
He also allegedly called for people to march on Capitol Hill on July 4 week “armed with whatever you have” and “do what is necessary to regain control of our country from the deep state,” including firing on federal agents if they shoot first.
“Hall’s manifesto concluded ‘free Palestine’ next to an emoji of the flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority,” the Justice Department said.
