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John Hinckley Jr., the attempted assassin who shot President Ronald Reagan in the '80s, is now getting a barrage of heinous requests online ... asking him to do the same to President-elect Donald Trump.

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00:00John Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, you know he is out of prison

00:07now, lives in Virginia with his mother, but has a music career, he plays like coffee shops

00:15and things.

00:16So he had posted something just promoting his next show, and then some of the responses

00:23on his post are really heinous and for sure drawing the attention of the Secret Service

00:30because they're basically putting in a request to him to assassinate Donald Trump.

00:36Yeah Charles it's super crazy, I just happened to notice that he put up a tweet, an innocuous

00:40one about his website, I clicked on it and all of a sudden I saw that nearly every single

00:45response was a pretty gross request for him to do it again buddy, we need a favor, obviously

00:52very disturbing, we went to the authorities right away, something that they should be

00:55aware of.

00:56Again, this is a serious matter and given his history, it's something that is really

01:03inappropriate.

01:04So the Secret Service, when we contacted them, said that they were aware of this.

01:08Well of course, and look, he's had two assassination attempts, the Secret Service massively failed

01:13in Butler, and they are going to take this seriously, because it's happened twice.

01:19So even though obviously this is not animating John Hinckley to do it, but it's like who's

01:26making these threats, and who are these people?

01:29And that's the thing, they're making it in a public forum with their name on it, how

01:32dumb can you be?

01:33They will definitely track this down.

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