Trump shakes another "NUT" loose from his tree.
Sep 1, 2018 17:16:45 #
FBI: Man threatened to shoot Boston Globe staff, calling them the ‘enemy of the people’
The front page of the Aug. 16 edition of the Boston Globe newspaper reads "Journalists Are Not the Enemy." (Tim Bradbury/Getty Images)
By Eli Rosenberg
August 30 at 5:36 PM
Federal law enforcement officers arrested a man in California on Thursday after he made repeated threats of violence against the Boston Globe newspaper this month, which included echoing the catchphrase popularized by President Trump that the news media are “the enemy of the people,” officials said.
Robert D. Chain, 68, of Encino, a neighborhood in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, was charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce, which comes with a potential penalty of as many as five years in prison. Chain made at least 14 threatening phone calls to the Globe beginning Aug. 10, the FBI said in a statement, after the Globe announced that it was organizing a campaign for newspapers to respond collectively to Trump's repeated attempts to demonize the media.
“Anyone — regardless of political affiliation — who puts others in fear for their lives will be prosecuted by this office,” Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said in a statement. “In a time of increasing political polarization, and amid the increasing incidence of mass shootings, members of the public must police their own political rhetoric. Or we will.”
The front page of the Aug. 16 edition of the Boston Globe newspaper reads "Journalists Are Not the Enemy." (Tim Bradbury/Getty Images)
By Eli Rosenberg
August 30 at 5:36 PM
Federal law enforcement officers arrested a man in California on Thursday after he made repeated threats of violence against the Boston Globe newspaper this month, which included echoing the catchphrase popularized by President Trump that the news media are “the enemy of the people,” officials said.
Robert D. Chain, 68, of Encino, a neighborhood in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, was charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce, which comes with a potential penalty of as many as five years in prison. Chain made at least 14 threatening phone calls to the Globe beginning Aug. 10, the FBI said in a statement, after the Globe announced that it was organizing a campaign for newspapers to respond collectively to Trump's repeated attempts to demonize the media.
“Anyone — regardless of political affiliation — who puts others in fear for their lives will be prosecuted by this office,” Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said in a statement. “In a time of increasing political polarization, and amid the increasing incidence of mass shootings, members of the public must police their own political rhetoric. Or we will.”
Sep 1, 2018 17:18:53 #
proud republican
Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
Geo wrote:
FBI: Man threatened to shoot Boston Globe staff, c... (show quote)
Its old news,Geo...Try to find new insults for our democratically picked President Trump....There are waaaay more "NUTS" on your side then on ours....
Sep 1, 2018 17:19:35 #
Geo wrote:
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Nuts abound in every shape and size...no doubt.
Sep 1, 2018 17:27:33 #
When they lie their not your friend!
Geo wrote:
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