A California man was arrested Thursday and charged with threatening violence against Boston Globe journalists in retaliation for the newspaper’s coordination earlier this month of some 300 nationwide editorials denouncing President Trump’s attacks on the media, according to federal prosecutors.
Robert Chain, 68, of Encino, Calif., faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He was charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce and will be transferred to Boston at a later date, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts.
On Aug. 16, the Globe published its own editorial saying a “central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press … which has dangerous consequences.”
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