An elderly man was arrested in Southern California for allegedly posting threats to assassinate President Donald Trump on social media.
73-year-old Thomas Eugene Streavel is accused of making the threats on his Facebook account before the presidential election in 2024, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
‘Let me put a bullet right between the ears of your president-elect. … That’s my purpose for living.’
Streavel lives in Yucca Valley in San Bernardino County and was charged with three counts of making threats against Trump, who was the president-elect at the time.
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One of the threats documented by officials was made on Nov. 6, the day after the election.
“[T]rump is a dead man walking for the
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