A Texas man was charged Thursday with allegedly threatening a federal agent Hunter Biden investigation and promised that the agents would be jailed after the election of a new president.
The criminal complaint does not name names, but the threatened FBI agent was “known to be involved in the investigation of a laptop belonging to HB” and the threatening call was made after “HB” on Tuesday. In 2018, he was convicted in connection with the purchase of weaponsU.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas he said.
Timothy Muller, 43, was arrested Thursday morning outside his home in Fort Worth and charged with interstate threatening communication and influencing, obstructing or retaliating against a federal officer, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
According to prosecutors, he called an FBI agent whose name appeared in the media during Hunter Biden’s trial, which ended in a conviction, at 5:03 p.m. on the day of Biden’s sentencing.
“You can run away, but you can’t [expletive] hide,” Mueller said in a voice message from the prosecutor’s office said in the statement. “You covered up child pornography. You hide it [H.B.] he forces himself [expletive] Niece.”
Jury in Delaware Convicted BidenPresident Joe Biden’s son faces three federal gun counts Tuesday in connection with buying and possessing a handgun while high on illegal drugs.
Biden Jr. has never faced allegations of child pornography or child abuse.
In the voicemail, Mueller also referenced former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged as part of threats to the agent, according to the US attorney’s office.
“So here’s how it goes: [T’s] We will win the elections again, and then we will be [expletive] Go through the FBI and start shooting you [expletive]s is in prison,” Muller said in a statement from the US Prosecutor’s Office. “Or you can steal another election, then the guns will come out.”
The petition, which is part of the criminal complaint, names the candidate only as “T.” A spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office would not confirm the identities of “HB” and “T”. mentioned in the criminal announcement.
Mueller also threatened the agent’s family and called the agent a “traitor.”
He told the agent, “You did [redacted] do you really think 75 million Americans are going to be disenfranchised and not die? Lol,” according to the statement.
False claims about a stolen 2020 election are widely believed by Trump supporters and many others signaled Reluctance to accept the results of the 2024 election if Trump does not win. There is Trump repeatedly and falsely suspected about the results of the 2020 elections, which he lost.
Trump’s 2024 campaign is increasingly on message vengeance and revenge after hwas e has been convicted end of last month in 34 felony cases in New York state court.
Mueller was ordered held pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday, court records show. A federal public defender appointed to represent him did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday evening.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted, the U.S. attorney’s office said.