He brazenly advocated for the dying of then-President-elect Donald Trump, hailing himself as an “murderer” and threatening to shoot the would-be forty seventh commander-in-chief shortly after the election, prosecutors say.
These phrases, left on Fb posts, are on the heart of a federal grand jury indictment. On Tuesday, Yucca Valley resident Thomas Eugene Streavel, 73, pleaded not responsible to 3 felony counts of constructing threats.
The San Bernardino County man was arrested Monday simply earlier than 11 a.m. by United States Marshals and arraigned the following day inside Central District Court docket in Riverside.
He’s out on a $10,000 bond and is anticipated again in court docket July 28. Streavel may serve as much as 15 years in jail if discovered responsible on all counts.
“This defendant is charged with threatening the lifetime of our President — a person who has already survived two deranged makes an attempt on his life,” stated U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi in an announcement. “The Division of Justice takes these threats with the utmost seriousness and can prosecute this crime to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
A quantity listed for Streavel was not answered, and no lawyer was listed for him in court docket paperwork.
His actions had been detailed in a grand jury indictment from Could 29 that was unsealed Tuesday.
Streavel posted a wide range of threats within the days after Trump’s electoral victory in November, based on the Justice Division.
“[T]rump is a useless man strolling in the interim till a patriot like myself blows his [expletive] brains out within the very close to future,” Streavel posted on Nov. 6., based on court docket paperwork.
Six days later, Streavel posted on Fb that he was “keen to make America nice once more and blow his [expletive] brains out,” the indictment says.
There have been comparable Fb rants on Nov. 19 and on 28.
Within the earlier occasion, he wrote, “Let me put a bullet proper between the ears of your president-elect…That’s my function for dwelling,” based on the indictment.
He later posted, “I’m praying for a profitable assassination of your president-elect.” He then added, “my life’s mission is killing the nugatory LOSER [expletive] and my mission begins tonight so watch your self trump [sic], you’re a useless [expletive] and I’m your murderer,” court docket paperwork present.
Streavel’s posts prolong to earlier than the election, when on Oct. 15 he wrote, “right now is the right day to blow his brains out and I’d like to be the one to tug the set off.”
The Secret Service can be investigating the matter.
“The kind of rhetoric and threats made by this defendant are comparable to people who led to an try on the President’s life final yr,” stated United States Atty. Invoice Essayli. “There isn’t any place for political violence or threats of violence in america.”
Trump was injured in a capturing at a marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13. The capturing left one rally attendee useless and two critically injured, and the unidentified gunman was killed by the Secret Service, based on that company.
At Trump’s West Palm Seaside, Fla., golf course on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent scoping out the world one or two holes forward of him noticed the muzzle of an AK-47-style weapon mentioning of the tree line on the perimeter of the course.
Trump was unhurt within the second try on his life in two months.
