A 19- or 20-year-old Orting man is facing a federal charge after posting a TikTok video in June that called on viewers to grab guns, rush the White House, and kill President Donald Trump and his Secret Service detail. FBI agents showed up at Ayden Langevin's home in the small Pierce County city on August 23 after the video resurfaced online, and he told them he made it and regretted it.
Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Langevin on August 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma, charging him with transmitting interstate communications containing a threat to injure, according to The News Tribune. The charge, under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), carries a statutory maximum of up to five years in federal prison and potential fines, per the Legal Information Institute.
In the video, posted June 1 at about 1:36 p.m., Langevin allegedly told viewers to grab guns and rush the White House, criticizing the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 for “just storming” the building rather than engaging in mass violence against Trump and Secret Service agents, according to details reported by Alex Jones Live. Langevin said he was angry about world events, including the situation in the Middle East and the Jeffrey Epstein files, per the same account. He deleted the video 30 to 40 minutes after posting it and estimated that only about 60 followers had seen it before it came down.
A Tip Logged in June, an Arrest in August
The FBI received a complaint about the TikTok video on the same day it was posted, June 1, and Secret Service investigators logged Langevin's social media identity and connected it to his Orting address at that time. But federal agents did not interview him in person until the video resurfaced on X on August 23, when the account @libsoftiktok republished and circulated the clip. Langevin said he was unaware the account had reposted the video before agents arrived at his door.
That resurfacing drew swift political attention. Following the republication, U.S. Senator Mike Lee tagged FBI Director Kash Patel on X to urge an immediate arrest, a call that preceded the FBI's visit to Langevin's home later that night, according to reporting cited by The Nerd Stash. Langevin told FBI agents he made the video and regretted it, and also told officers he would not make trouble.
A Rifle He Was Too Young to Buy
Investigators found that Langevin had tried to buy a semi-automatic rifle but could not because of his age. Washington's voter-approved Initiative 1639, enacted in January 2019, raised the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic assault rifle from 18 to 21, according to the Washington State Office of the Attorney General. That state law is what blocked the purchase, since Langevin, born in 2006, is either 19 or 20 years old. He has also described an interest in gunsmithing.
The News Tribune reports that Langevin has a broader history of threatening people online. In one instance, he allegedly told an Instagram user he would stomp the victim's face into concrete and sent that user pictures of himself holding various weapons; he has denied making those threats. The FBI received a tip about that alleged Instagram threat on September 15, 2025. He also allegedly posted a threat to assassinate then-Vice President Kamala Harris if she won the 2024 election.
Prior Contact With Secret Service and Orting Police
The U.S. Secret Service had already visited Langevin's Orting house once before, in May 2025, and he told agents at that time he was not planning to harm anyone. The Orting Police Department also visited his house shortly after the Instagram threats surfaced. Langevin described his online behavior as ragebaiting people and said he deleted social media from his phone after taking down the June TikTok video.
Federal Precedent in Western Washington
Langevin's case follows a pattern of federal threat prosecutions tied to social media posts about Trump. In February, a federal grand jury in Western Washington indicted a 20-year-old Everett man on two federal counts after he allegedly posted messages on X threatening to kill the president, according to HeraldNet. Separately, a 30-year-old Georgia man was sentenced that same month to three years and five months in federal prison for making repeated threats on a TikTok livestream to shoot Trump and kill federal agents, as reported by 11Alive.
Federal prosecutors also have the option of pursuing charges under 18 U.S.C. §§ 871 and 879, which specifically criminalize threats to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a sitting president or major presidential candidate and carry the same five-year maximum, according to FindLaw. Whether prosecutors will add those presidential-threat counts against Langevin remains an open question, as does the status of his initial bail hearing in Tacoma federal court.
Orting sits in the Puyallup River Valley in Pierce County near Mount Rainier, where municipal safety oversight is shared between local police and Central Pierce Fire & Rescue, which Hoodline previously reported serves communities across the county. Hoodline has also covered several similar federal cases nationwide this year, including a Winthrop Harbor man's 38-month sentence and a Rock Hill man charged over an alleged threat posted on X, underscoring how frequently online threats against the president are ending up in federal court this year.
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