An Oregon man who was convicted last year for threatening to kill both Donald Trump and Joe Biden is back behind bars — this time for sending death threats against the president directly to his probation officer, just weeks after his release from prison.

Diedrich Holgate, 47, was originally sentenced in July 2024 after making threats on social media and placing a series of calls to the U.S. Secret Service’s Washington Field Office. In one June 2024 call, Holgate told agents, “I have the right to kill the president.” In another call two months later, he threatened to “hang hi[m] for treason,” declared that no one was safe from him, and specifically named the First Lady and Supreme Court justices.

“The president is going to die,” he said at one point. “I don’t care if it is Trump or Biden. I will hang everyone for treason.”

Holgate was released from custody on January 21 and ordered to reside in a halfway house. He didn’t last long. Within weeks, his probation officer filed a petition to revoke his supervised release after he sent a string of threatening text messages — including one reading “Trump’s gonna… pardon me or I’ll kill him!!!!” — along with an ominous religious screed warning his probation officer that those not aligned with him were “traitors and infidels” who would face eternal erasure.

The violations didn’t stop there. Holgate also failed to report to a scheduled meeting with his probation officer, left the halfway house without authorization, and violated house rules by smoking a vape.

A magistrate judge found probable cause that Holgate had violated the terms of his release. He will remain in custody until a hearing scheduled for March 26.

It is not the first time Holgate has run afoul of the law over threats. He was previously convicted in 2018 for leaving threatening voicemails for two judges in Travis County, Texas.

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