The man arrested by Miami Beach police Tuesday for allegedly threatening President-elect Donald Trump online is a member of a prominent northeast family close to
Bill and Hillary Clinton.
He once gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee, DailyMail.com has learned.
Dominic Puopolo, 51, is being held without bail in Miami on charges of threatening harm against a public servant.
Suspect Dominic Puopolo Jr., 51, sat near Hillary Clinton
when she delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Puopolo's mother,
Sonia, who died in one of the jets that flew into the World Trade Center
on 9-11.
During that eulogy on Oct. 6,
2001 in Boston, the former presidential candidate referred to 'Dom
Jr.'s latest computer wizardry.'
The 'wizard' is now being held in a Miami-Dade County jail after using Twitter to threaten Trump's life.
Trump
is scheduled to be sworn in Friday in Washington, D.C. as Puopolo
remains incarcerated on a charge of threatening to harm a public
servant.
Puopolo reportedly admitted to
posting a video to Twitter, saying: 'This is the 16th of January 2017, I
will be at the review/ inauguration and I will kill President Trump,
President elect Trump today.'
Hillary
Clinton sits with the Puopolo family at the funeral of Dominic
Puopolo's mother Sonia, who was among 92 people on American Airlines
Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001, when it crashed into the World Trade
Center's north tower.
He was nabbed after leaving a Washington Avenue Subway sandwich shop about 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Puopolo, however, may not be the average Trump hater.
On
various social media platforms, where he posts as Jesus Christ 1701, the
computer consultant claims to have testified in terror cases as an
expert witness in a German federal court in Hamburg from 2003 to 2008.
He also says he served in the Navy. He
once posted a photo of himself holding an image of his mother in front
of a wall that sports a picture of him with Colin Powell and a famous
shot of Ronald Reagan.
Puopolo has published a number of pictures of outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry, whom he calls a friend.