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The United States Department of Justice has charged a Texas man with posting an online threat against election officials in Georgia, a US state that former President Donald Trump has claimed without evidence cost him the presidency in 2020.
Chad Stark, 54, was arrested by the FBI and was due to appear in federal court in Austin, Texas, on a criminal charge of threatening three Georgia election officials, the department announced on Friday.
It accused Stark of posting a violent message on Craigslist on January 5, 2021, the day before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building as Congress was meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory.
Stark’s message was titled, “Georgia Patriots it’s time kill [Official A] the Chinese agent – $10,000”, according to the Department of Justice, which withheld the names of three state officials who were targeted.
“It’s our duty as American Patriots to put an end to the lives of these traitors and take back our country by force,” Stark wrote in the post on the classified advertisement website, the Department of Justice said. “We can no longer wait on the corrupt law enforcement in the corrupt courts.”
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Article URL : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/21/us-charges-texas-man-with-threatening-georgia-election-officials