Justice Department charges California man with threatening to kill Trump on Facebook

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.