West Virginia woman arrested in alleged Trump assassination plot; sheriff says she recruit people on social media

A woman in West Virginia was arrested after she allegedly tried to recruit people to assassinate President Donald Trump, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman has been identified as Morgan Morrow, 39, and was charged with one count of terroristic threats. Deputies said Morrow was recruiting individuals to "pursue and assassinate" Trump, and said further details will be released as the investigation continued, KCBD reported.

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The complaint said that on January 25, 2026, deputies learned of an alleged threat of violence “directed toward an unknown individual, which was believed to be a public official”.According to the complaint, deputies said they learned that the reported threat originated from a public TikTok account allegedly belonging to Morrow, DC News Now reported.The complaint said the TikTok post included the sentence “Surely a sn!per [sniper] with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million.” Authorities reviewed the content, context and wording of the post and interpreted the statement as a message to encourage and advocate for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump, the complaint said.According to the complaint, Jackson County deputies, the Jackson County Bureau of Investigations and the Ravenswood Police Department responded to Morrow’s home, where she was detained and taken to the sheriff’s department for further investigation.

The complaint stated that after Morrow was read her Miranda rights, she admitted in an interview with police that she had written and posted the statement on TikTok and claimed it was “intended as a threat directed toward President Donald J. Trump.” The complaint said Morrow told authorities her “personal reasons for wishing harm upon the President,” but it did not disclose those reasons.In the complaint, deputies said that while Morrow claimed she had no intention to personally carry out a threat, statements such as the one made on TikTok are “designed to encourage, inspire or entice others to carry out the threatened act, regardless of whether the speaker publicly intends to personally do so.”Sheriff Mellinger said on Sunday in a Facebook post that Morrow’s arrest was not a political statement, as making threatening statements about any public official is illegal according to West Virginia State code.“This is not meant to be a political – oriented statement. This is an active criminal investigation with documented and troubling concerns,” Sheriff Mellinger said.Following the announcement of Morrow’s arrest, the Jackson County Public Library released a statement on social media saying that Morrow was one of their employees and they were addressing the matter internally.