A 73-year-old man from California is facing federal charges after allegedly making repeated threats on social media to assassinate President Trump, including a chilling post where he said he wanted to “blow [Trump’s] brains out,” according to the Department of Justice.
Federal agents arrested Thomas Eugene Streavel on Monday following an investigation that uncovered several online threats he allegedly made. According to a DOJ statement, Streavel “knowingly and willfully threatened to kill and inflict bodily harm on Donald Trump, who then was the President-elect of the United States.”
On November 6, one day after Trump declared victory in the 2024 election, Streavel took to Facebook and wrote that Trump “is a dead man walking for the time being until a patriot like myself blows his [expletive] brains out in the very near future,” according to the DOJ’s statement.
Just under a week later, on November 12, Streavel—who resides in Yucca Valley, located in San Bernardino County—allegedly made another post: he was “willing to make America great again and blow his [expletive] brains out.”
In a subsequent post dated November 19, he escalated the threats further, writing, “Let me put a bullet right between the ears of your president-elect,” adding that this had become his “purpose for living.”
Then on November 28, Streavel reportedly made another alarming statement in which he expressed a wish for Trump’s murder: he was “praying for a successful assassination of your president elect.”
That same day, he allegedly wrote: “My life’s mission is killing the worthless LOSER [expletive] and my mission starts tonight so watch yourself trump, you are a dead [expletive] and I am your assassin,” as detailed by the DOJ.
A federal grand jury has indicted Streavel on three counts for making threats against the president-elect. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to five years in prison for each count.
During his court appearance on Tuesday, Streavel entered a plea of not guilty. He was released on a $10,000 bond. His trial is scheduled to begin on July 28.
“The type of rhetoric and threats made by this defendant are similar to those that led to an attempt on the President’s life last year,” said United States Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli.
“There is no place for political violence or threats of violence in the United States,” he added.
{Matzav.com}
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