{"id":31341,"date":"2024-08-25T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31341"},"modified":"2024-08-25T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T08:44:11","slug":"tennessee-man-charged-with-making-threats-against-biden-harris-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31341","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee man charged with making threats against Biden, Harris and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A 37-year-old Tennessee man was charged over alleged social media threats against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdtn\/pr\/man-charged-threats-against-president-vice-president-and-former-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release&nbsp;<\/a>from the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kyl Alton Hall was indicted Tuesday on two counts of threatening a sitting president or vice president and one count of a threat to a former president. Each charge could carry a penalty of up to five years in prison, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities say the threats originated on the social media platform X. The Memphis-area man allegedly threatened to \u201ckill, assassinate, shoot, and crash the plane\u201d of Biden. He also threatened to assassinate Harris and Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Secret Service investigated the case, which will be prosecuted by the national security and civil rights unit in the local U.S. attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for the Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The charges come the same week that all three officials \u2014 Biden, Harris and Obama \u2014 appeared in Chicago to speak at the Democratic National Convention, where Harris accepted her party\u2019s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden\/tennessee-man-charged-threats-biden-harris-obama-rcna168073\">nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 37-year-old Tennessee man was charged over alleged social media threats against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, according to a&nbsp;press release&nbsp;from the Department of Justice. Kyl Alton Hall was indicted Tuesday on two counts of threatening a sitting president or vice president and one count of a threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1350,1205,3075],"class_list":["post-31341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-man","tag-president","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31343,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341\/revisions\/31343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}