'Kill Trump' threat at U.S. flight school

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An Egyptian flight-school student is facing deportation after threatening to kill Donald Trump.

Secret Service agents gave Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, a visit in Los Angeles, California, after he said a life sentence in prison would be worth it if he succeeded in assassinating the Republican presidential front-runner. He was arrested shortly afterward when his visa was revoked.

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"It's just a stupid post. You can find thousands of these every hour on Facebook and the media," Elsayed told the Associated Press Thursday from jail in Orange. "I don't know why would they think I am a threat to the national security of the United States just because of a stupid post."

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Elsayed's comments ignore the fact that 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi attended flight school in Venice, Florida, prior to the 2001 terror attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The al-Qaida attacks killed 2,973 victims.

The student's comments also come three months after the Dec. 2, 2015, massacre in San Bernardino, California, by killers Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27. Their day of Islamic terror claimed the lives of 14 and wounded 21.

Elsayed's attorney, Hani Bushra, said her client's assassination threat was the equivalent of blowing off political steam.

"It seems like the government was not able to get a criminal charge to stick on him, so they used the immigration process to have him leave the country," Bushra told AP. "The rhetoric is particularly high in this election, and I just feel he got caught up in the middle."

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Threats to kill Trump picked up in December after the billionaire said all Muslim immigration to the U.S. should be halted until a coherent strategy for combating Islamic terror is implemented.

"Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine," Trump said in a statement released Dec. 8, 2015, WND reported. "Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life."

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