SAID HE WOULD “IMPALE,” “DISEMBOWEL,” AND SHOOT THEM
T.A. (30) of Dover, New Hampshire, was indicted in late December for the unlawful transmission of a series of text messages to three presidential candidates.
Apparently, T.A. threatened to “impale” and “disembowel” one candidate, to “blow” the "head off" of another and engage in a “mass shooting,” and to “blow” the “brains out” of the third individual, and to “kill everyone” at a then-upcoming campaign rally.
In a written statement, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland noted that “We have seen an increase in threats of violence against public officials and those seeking public office across the country, and I have made clear that these types of illegal threats undermine the function of our democracy …. We will not tolerate illegal threats of violence directed at public officials or those seeking public office.”
T.A. faces up to 5 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine for each charge.
Maybe he shouldn’t have stuck to that text?
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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