Federal prosecutors charged a Southern California man with allegedly threatening to kill President Trump on Facebook after last year's election.

The man — identified as 73-year-old Thomas Eugene Streavel of San Bernardino County — was indicted last week on three counts of making threats against a president-elect , the Justice Department said in a news release Tuesday.

An indictment unsealed Tuesday lists out a series of angry Facebook messages that Streavel allegedly penned about Mr. Trump both before and after the election — some of which expressed a desire for him to be assassinated.

The charges focus on three messages allegedly written in November, the Justice Department said.

Streavel was arrested Monday, and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday. He was ordered released

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