The FBI on Thursday arrested a man who allegedly made threats against The Boston Globe after the paper led a campaign with other news organizations to publish coordinated editorials condemning President Trump for his attacks against the press.
Robert Chain, 68, of Encino, Calif., is being charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce, according to a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Chain’s arrest, which was first reported by NBC News, comes weeks after hundreds of newspapers around the country published editorials denouncing Trump’s rhetoric towards the press.
“To label the press ‘the enemy of the people’ is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries,” the Globe wrote in its editorial.
Court documents show that, according to the DOJ, Chain began threatening The Globe right after it announced its plans for coordinated editorials.
The DOJ said that Chain threatened to travel to The Globe’s newsroom and shoot employees. He is being accused of making 14 threatening phone calls between Aug. 10 and Aug. 22 — ones in which he referred to the newspaper as “the enemy of the people,” echoing a line Trump has repeatedly said of the press.
“You’re the enemy of the people, and we’re going to kill every f–king one of you,” Chain allegedly said, according to NBC News.
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Man charged with death threats to Boston Globe, allegedly called it ‘the enemy of the people’ https://t.co/hbd9xNJVBC pic.twitter.com/QAyyNQmBls
— The Hill (@thehill) August 30, 2018
JUST IN: Calif. man arrested and charged with allegedly making violent threats against Boston Globe employees “in retaliation for the newspaper’s editorial response to political attacks on the media,” US Justice Dept. says. pic.twitter.com/rEouwtoezf
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 30, 2018
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