(LifeSiteNews) — A librarian in West Virginia faces terrorism charges after allegedly pleading for someone on social media to murder President Donald Trump.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office announced on January 25 that 39-year-old Ripley resident Morgan Morrow had been arrested following an investigation of a “social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump” and charged with one count of “terroristic threats.”
CBS affiliate WOWK reports that Morrow is accused of posting on TikTok “Surely a sn!per [sniper] with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million,” which she later allegedly admitted to investigators was “intended as a threat directed toward President Donald J. Trump,” whom she had undisclosed “personal reasons” for wanting to see harmed.
Meet Morgan L. Morrow, a librarian at Jackson County Public Library in West Virginia. She appears to call for someone to ass*ssinate Trump while other commenters call to also kiII Stephen Miller, Larry Ellison, and Peter Thiel.
Our tax dollars pay her salary.
You can contact… pic.twitter.com/BrIZG9TlWA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2026
The Jackson County Public Library issued a statement distancing itself from the threat and claiming it was “addressing the matter internally in accordance to our established policies and procedures.”
“When you saddle up on the horse of stupidity, you have to be prepared for the ride that follows. We’re just trying to do our part in making sure that it’s not acted upon, and there’s no one that’s following her footsteps to try to carry out the plan,” said Sheriff Ross Mellinger “It’s okay to be critical of the government. It’s okay to be critical of things you don’t agree with, but when you start promoting the violence and you’re promoting a plan to carry out the violence and recruiting other people to carry out the plan for you, that’s clearly crossing the line.”
Left-wing violence has long been a topic of concern. Last month, Congress heard testimony about the role of the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in inflaming it by labeling mainstream Christian and conservative organizations as purveyors of “hate.” In 2012, would-be mass shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II entered the lobby of the Family Research Council’s headquarters armed with SPLC’s “hate group” list and planning to, in his own words, “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.” Nobody was killed thanks to the intervention of security guard Leo Johnson, who was wounded, but the link between SPLC’s message and a violent left-wing extremist was far more linear than common claims of “dangerous extremism” on the political right.
The conversation about the political left’s tolerance of violent tendencies has intensified ever since Charlie Kirk, the head of campus outreach group Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was murdered on September 10 while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. Two days later, authorities apprehended and accused 22-year-old Tyler Robinson of the shooting and detailed how he was motivated by his view of Kirk’s conservative views as “hateful.” Robinson was in a relationship with his male roommate, who was in the process of “gender transitioning.”
The far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADF) took down its controversial “Glossary of Extremism and Hate,” which had identified TPUSA as a “hate group,” but many leftists went so far as to express pleasure at Kirk’s death, particularly among academia.