{"id":1837,"date":"2026-09-03T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:41:13","slug":"la-based-gay-podcaster-indicted-for-threatening-to-kill-trump-cyberstalking-making-harassing-interstate-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"LA-Based Gay Podcaster Indicted For Threatening to Kill Trump, Cyberstalking, Making Harassing Interstate Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Los Angeles-based \u201cgay Christian podcaster,\u201d LGBTQ advocate and former television host has been indicted by a grand jury on three felony counts for threatening to kill President Trump, cyberstalking, and making harassing interstate calls.<\/p>

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Prosecutors allege that between January and May 2026, Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, used platforms like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and a personal website to post videos calling for the president\u2019s assassination and to dox the family of Trump\u2019s personal attorney, Jay Sekulow by publishing their home address and phone numbers.<\/p>\n

Specific evidence includes an April 7 Instagram video in which he stated, \u201cKill Donald Trump,\u201d and a TikTok post publishing the attorney\u2019s home address with the caption, \u201cNo peace for traitors.\u201d He is also accused of leaving threatening voicemails with messages like, \u201cjustice comes to your door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, told Fox 11 Los Angeles that it was clear Southworth wasn\u2019t joking when he made the threats.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment,\u00a0 Southworth on March 31 posted on his now deleted \u201cHoly Menace\u201d Instagram account a video of himself saying, \u201cSince the [United States] Supreme Court has ruled today that psychological, spiritual, emotional and physical torture known as gay conversion therapy is free speech, I want to practice my free speech as a survivor of conversion therapy for five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court had ruled that same day that the state of Colorado\u2019s ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youths violated the 1st Amendment\u2019s free-speech clause.<\/p>\n

\u201cKill Donald Trump. Kill that motherf\u2014pedophile in the White House. Kill that traitor of the United States Constitution. That\u2019s all,\u201d Southworth allegedly said in the video.<\/p>

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On April 25,\u00a0 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance stormed the White House Correspondents\u2019 Assn. dinner in Washington, D.C., armed with guns and knives, and Southworth allegedly posted \u201cIF AT FIRST YOU FAIL TRY AGAIN\u201d on a livestream of Jordan Sekulow, the son of Trump\u2019s personal lawyer.<\/p>\n

On his Holy Menace website, Southworth also sold a sticker sheet of a mouse with bows on its head and the phrase, \u201ckill trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Southworth was arrested by the FBI at his Westlake home Thursday, following the federal grand jury indictment.<\/p>\n