Federal prosecutors charged a man in southern California for allegedly threatened to kill President Trump on Facebook after last year’s elections.
The man – identified as 73 years old, Thomas Eugene Streval of the County of San Bernardino – was charged last week for three counts of Make threats against an elected presidentsaid the Ministry of Justice in a press release on Tuesday.
An undeveloped indictment lists a series of messages on angry Facebook that Streval would have written about Mr. Trump before and after the elections – some of which expressed the desire for him to be murdered.
The accusations are focused on three messages that would have been written in November, said the Ministry of Justice.
Streaveal was arrested on Monday and pleaded not guilty when he charges on Tuesday. He was sentenced to the release of a bond of $ 10,000, said the Ministry of Justice statement.
The secret services are investigating the issue. Streval lawyers have not been inscribed in a database of the Federal Court.
“This accused is accused of having threatened the life of our president – a man who has already survived two disturbed attempts over his life,” said Prosecutor General Pam Bondi in a statement.
Trump faced two assassination attempts in last year’s elections. A shooter hit Mr. Trump in his ear to a butler, in Pennsylvania, rally in July, and a man was charge By trying to assassinate the candidate then president of his Florida Golf Club in September.
If you are convicted, the maximum sentence For having made threats against the president or president -elected representative is five years – although decisions to determinate the sentence are taken by the judges, and it is not uncommon for federal criminal defendants to receive less than the maximum.
In recent years, the Ministry of Justice regularly accusations carried For threats to Trump, former president Joe Biden and other senior high -level officials. Threats against civil servants – Congress members For judges and prosecutors – are also increasing, according to the authorities.
Monday, a Romanian man guilty has ring This was targeting dozens of members of the congress and a former president with bomb threats and calls for “cut” – in which a person makes a false police report in order to draw a massive police reaction.
