This list is more comprehensive (but still very incomplete) for the last 10 years, but goes back to 2016 in order to capture the spate of threats and violence related to the Trump for President campaign in 2017.
| Year | Month (may be approximate) | Target | Perpetrator | Nature of threat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | Barack Obama | ISIL linked terrorists | Complex Plot to kill President Obama, hijack an airplane, and bomb Coney Island |
| 2016 | 3 | Journalists | Donald Trump | Trump calls for violent attacks against journalists who do not agree with him, and promises to pay the legal bills of supporters who do so. |
| 2016 | 11 | Sasha Obama | South Korean Lee | Threat of rape against Sasha Obama, and threats against the US ambassador to South Korea and others. |
| 2017 | 7 | Suspected arrested by the police | Donald Trump | Trump called for police to physically beat suspects. |
| 2017 | 7 | Journalists | Donald Trump | Trump tweets produced video in which he violently attacks and beats a CNN reporter. |
| 2017 | 8 | All people in America who are not white males. | Donald Trump | Trump supported white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, during which white supremacists called for an all white controlled society and killed one counter protester. |
| 2018 | 9 | Barack Obama | Cesar Sayoc | Mail bomb attempt. Perpetrator sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
| 2018 | 9 | Hillary Clinton | Cesar Sayoc | Mail bomb attempt. Perpetrator sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
| 2018 | 9 | Robert De Niro | Cesar Sayoc | Mail bomb attempt. Perpetrator sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
| 2018 | 11 | Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Robert DeNiro, among over 1 dozen prominent Democrats and media outlets | Trump Supporters | Mailed pipe bombs. |
| 2019 | 2 | Cameraman Ron Skeans | Donald Trump supporter | BBC cameraman attacked by trump supporter in El Paso. |
| 2019 | 3 | Barack Obama and Maxine Waters | Stephen Taubert | Convicted of threatening to kill former President Obama and US Representative Maxine Waters |
| 2019 | 4 | Barack Obama | Larry Mitchell Hopkins, militia member | Led a militia band in training to assassinate President Obama. Sentenced to 21 months. |
| 2019 | 4 | Barack Obama | Stephen Taubert | Threatened to hang the president. Convicted and sentenced. |
| 2019 | 6 | Migrants | Donald Trump | Trump calls for the shooting of asylum seekers on the border to “slow them down.” |
| 2020 | 5 | The People, mostly people of color, of Minnesota | Donald Trump | President Trump threatens to send his military into Minnesota to end protests against police violence against black men. |
| 2023 | 4 | Joe Biden | Cody McCormick | Pleaded guilty for making death threats against the President. |
| 2023 | 6 | Barack Obama | Taylor Taranto, January 6th participant | Stalked the Obama home with bomb making materials and weapons |
| 2023 | 8 | Joe Biden and Jon Tester | Anthony James Cross | Charged with threats to kill the President and the Senator from Montana. Under indictment. |
| 2023 | 8 | Joe Biden | Craig Deleeuw Robertson | Threatened to kill President Biden. Killed by FBI agents. |
| 2023 | 8 | The Press | Steve Bannon and Kash Patgel | Former trump advisers openly discuss plans to target, arrest, or assault members of the press, in revenge. |
| 2023 | 11 | Unspecified members of the Biden Administration and Justice Department | Monica Crowley and Donald trump | Crowley threatened (“they will pay”) these victims and Donald Trump followed up by repeating the threats. |
| 2024 | 1 | Joe Biden and Kamala Harris | Russell Wren | Threatened violence against the President and Vice President and others |
| 2024 | 5 | Joe Biden | Jordan Gee | Charged with threatening the life of the President and his Cabinet. |
| 2024 | 5 | Juries, Judges, others | Trump Supporters | Following comments on his legal troubles by Donald trump, numerous supporters call for hanging or executing judges, juries, etc. |
| 2024 | 7 | Joe Biden | Jason Alday | Florida man charged with making threats against the President. |
| 2024 | 7 | Joe Biden | Jason Patrick Alday | Florida man accused of making threats against the President and other federal officials. |
| 2024 | 7 | Donald Trump | Thomas Crooks | Candidate Trump shot in the ear, would-be assassin Crooks killed by Secret Service CAT team. |
| 2024 | 8 | The Press | Donald Trump and unnamed Trump supporter | Candidate Trump called the press the “enemy of the people” inciting a supporter in his rally to attempt to physically attack or kill members of the press at the rally. |
| 2024 | 8 | Employee of National Cemetery | Employee of Trump Campaign | Physical assault |
| 2024 | 8 | Donald Trump | Ryan Routh | Florida Man Routh found near golf course with an automatic rifle, arrested. |
| 2024 | 9 | Children, families, private citizens at large | Trump Campaign and their supporters | More than 30 bomb threats and other threats made by likely Trump supporters incited by Trump/Vance comments about Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio |
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