FBI arrests man who threatened Boston Globe reporters over editorial critical of Trump

[malaise]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/man-threatened-to-kill-boston-globe-staffers-over-trump-criticism-doj.html
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A man was charged on Thursday with making violent threats against employees of the Boston Globe following the paper's push to coordinate a national response to President Donald Trump's attacks on the media, according to the Justice Department.
In more than a dozen threatening phone calls to the newspaper, Robert Chain threatened to kill Globe employees and referred to the publication as "the enemy of the people," according to the release. Trump has used the phrase himself.
The threats started Aug. 10, the day the Globe announced that it would be coordinating editorials from papers around the country to "protect free press from Trump attacks."
"You're the enemy of the people, and we're going to kill every one of you," Chain allegedly said in that phone call, adding an expletive, according to a transcript obtained by NBC News. Chain referred to special counsel Robert Mueller, asking: "Why don't you call Mueller, maybe he can help you out buddy."

Chain, of Encino, California, was arrested Thursday and eventually will be transferred to Boston. He is expected to appear in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.


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Thanks Don the Con - lock them all up!

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Thank the FBI

Lock the Con in a dark place overseas, in a safe location.

[Hav]

2. I hope he gets some time in jail to cool off

Also, how ironic that someone who accuses others of being the "enemy of the people" is the one who threatens to kill them all.

[malaise]

4. I"m betting he watched FUX non-stop

He's their demographic to a T

[dalton99a]

3. He is a genius like Trump:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-encino-boston-globe-threats-20180830-story.html

Robert D. Chain was charged with one count of making threatening communications and will appear in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts.

Chain began making phone calls threatening to travel to the Globe’s offices and shoot employees shortly after the paper announced Aug. 10 that it was launching a coordinated campaign with other newspapers to publish editorials calling on Trump to end his rhetoric about the news media, prosecutors said.

Chain made 14 threatening calls, both from his home phone and his wife’s cellphone, to the newspaper between Aug. 10 and Aug. 22, according to prosecutors. He called the Globe “the enemy of the people” — repeating one of Trump’s most-used phrases for the media — and threatened to kill newspaper employees, prosecutors said.

In one profanity laced call made Aug. 13, Chain allegedly said, “We are going to shoot you … in the head, you Boston Globe … . Shoot every … one of you,” according to court documents.

On the day the editorials ran in newspapers across the country, Chain called the Globe newsroom and threatened to shoot Globe employees in the head “later today, at 4 o’clock,” prosecutors said.