Salina man pleads guilty to distributing child porn, has threat against POTUS dropped

A 25-year-old Salina man pleaded guilty Tuesday to distributing child pornography and, as a part of the plea agreement, had a charge of threatening the president’s life dropped, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Kansas.

Aaron McDowell’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 20. The plea agreement recommends 14-18 years in federal prison, according to a news release. The case against McDowell started after he posted on his Facebook page on Jan. 21 about killing President Donald Trump, according to court records.

“I’m going to kill Trump in the white house tomorrow at 7 PM,” the documents say McDowell wrote on Facebook.

The next day, he was visited by a Secret Service investigator based out of Wichita, the records show. McDowell consented to his apartment and phone being searched. On the phone, which was used to make the Facebook post, pornographic images of children were found, the records show.

McDowell told investigators he shared and received pornographic images and videos of children, records say.