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Man Arrested By FBI On Charges Of Threatening To Shoot Boston Globe Employees Over Trump Editorials

Joseph Curl

The FBI on Thursday arrested a California man, allegedly upset about The Boston Globe’s editorials about President Trump, for threatening to kill the paper’s journalists.

Prosecutors say Robert Chain, 68, made threatening phone calls to the Globe’s newsroom after the newspaper asked other papers across the country to condemn what it called the “dirty war against the free press.”

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