A 39-year-old woke librarian from Ripley, West Virginia, was arrested on Sunday, January 25, 2026, following an investigation into social media posts that sought to recruit individuals to assassinate President Donald Trump. Morgan Leigh Morrow worked at the Jackson County Public Library and was detained after authorities identified threatening content on her publicly accessible TikTok account.
Morrow posted multiple videos on TikTok that authorities interpreted as advocating for the assassination of the President. One video, which gained significant attention after being shared by the account “Libs of TikTok,” contained the caption: “Surely a sniper with a terminal illness cannot be a big ask out of 343 million.” Law enforcement characterized these posts as part of what they described as a “social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump.”
When confronted by officers from the Jackson County Bureau of Investigations and Ravenswood Police Department at her residence, Morrow was transported to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for questioning. After being informed of her Miranda rights, which she acknowledged and waived, Morrow admitted to authoring the post and confirmed that the threat was directed at President Trump.
The threatening content attracted additional harmful responses in the comments section. On her Instagram video, other users proposed assassinations of Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, as well as tech executive Larry Ellison and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. These responses demonstrated that Morrow’s initial posts had generated a broader conversation encouraging violence against multiple government and private figures.
Morrow was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat under West Virginia Code 61-6-24(b). The criminal complaint documented that Morrow’s statements constituted “a communicated threat of a terrorist act, made publicly through social media, and (is) reasonably capable of causing fear, alarm or disruption.” While Morrow stated during her interview that she did not personally intend to carry out the threat, the complaint noted this did not negate the serious nature of the public threat she had communicated.
Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger commented on the case, noting that “some of the posts were pretty graphic” and that Morrow “was rather proud of her work.” Mellinger emphasized to the public that while “we all have our opinions,” citizens cannot legally make threats against anyone’s life.
The sheriff’s department took steps to notify federal authorities immediately, with Mellinger confirming that both the FBI and Secret Service were contacted on Monday morning regarding Morrow’s arrest. The sheriff’s office released a statement clarifying that the announcement and investigation “is not meant to be a political-oriented statement” but rather represented “an active criminal investigation with documented and troubling concerns.
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