A Yucca Valley man was arrested this week on suspicion of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump.
The United States Attorney’s Office said that Thomas Streavel, a 73 year-old resident of Yucca Valley, has been charged with three counts of making threats against President Trump when he was President-elect.
Streaval was arrested on Monday (June 2) for investigation multiple Facebook posts made shortly after the 2024 U.S. presidential election expressing his desire to harm or have others harm President Trump.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that on November 6, the day after the election, Streaval posted “[T]rump is a dead man walking for the time being until a patriot like myself blows his [expletive] brains out in the very near future.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that on November 12 Streavel posted a message on Facebook that read, in part, that he was “willing to make America great again and blow his [expletive] brains out.”
Thomas Streaval was arraigned on Tuesday (June 3) in United States District Court in Riverside County on three counts of making threats against the President-elect.
If convicted, Streavel would face a up to five years in federal prison for each count.
