The following article by Luke Barnes was posted on the ThinkProgress.org website August 30, 2018:
Robert Chain allegedly also had an arsenal of weapons.
A 68-year-old California man has been arrested by the FBI for making repeated threatening phone calls against staff of the Boston Globe in which he said he would kill them and labeled them “the enemy of the people.”
Robert Chain, from Encino, California, began calling the Globe’s office on August 10th, after the newspaper announced that it was partnering with dozens of other media outlets across the country to launch a coordinated editorial response to President Trump’s repeated political attacks on the media.
Tom Winter✔@Tom_Winter
BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has arrested Robert Chain, 68, from Encino, California for threats they say he made to The Boston Globe following their recent editorial about the press.
Chain allegedly referred to the Boston Globe as “the enemy of the people” in phone calls.
Tom Winter✔@Tom_Winter
NBC News: According to the criminal complaint Chain threatened to travel to The Boston Globe and kill newspaper employees.
Here’s what the FBI says is a transcript of one of his recorded calls: pic.twitter.com/XDNu2rDTSE
According to the criminal complaint, Chain made approximately 12 calls in a week, in which he repeatedly threatened the workers at the Globe. “We are going to shoot you motherfuckers in the head, you Boston Globe cocksuckers,” Chain allegedly said on August 13th. “Shoot every fucking one of you.” Chain also repeatedly referred to the Globe as “the enemy of the people” and promised to continually harass and threaten the Globe “as long as you keep attacking the President, the duly elected President of the United States.”