Tennessee man charged with threatening Biden, Harris and Obama – NBC New York

A 37-year-old Tennessee man has been charged with allegedly making social media threats against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, according to a Justice Department news release.

Kyl Alton Hall was charged Tuesday with two counts of threatening a sitting president or vice president and one count of threatening a former president. Each count could carry a sentence of up to five years in prison, according to the Justice Department.

Authorities say the threats originated on the social media platform X. The Memphis-area man allegedly threatened to “kill, assassinate, shoot and crash” Biden’s plane. He also threatened to assassinate Harris and Obama.

The U.S. Secret Service investigated the case, which will be prosecuted by the local prosecutor’s office’s national security and civil rights unit.

A Secret Service spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The charges come the same week that all three officials — Biden, Harris and Obama — appeared in Chicago to speak at the Democratic National Convention, where Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination.

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