Texan charged with threatening FBI agent involved in Hunter Biden investigation

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A Texas man was arrested Thursday for threatening one of the FBI agents involved in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, the Justice Department said.

Timothy Muller, 43, is charged with making interstate threats and influencing, obstructing or retaliating against a federal official. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

While court documents do not name the FBI agent who was the target of the threats, a person familiar with the matter told CNN that the agent was a member of special counsel David Weiss’ team investigating the president’s son.

A lawyer for Mueller did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has not yet entered a formal plea in court.

The charges come as the Justice Department and federal agents report an increase in violent threats – many of them linked to high-profile investigations and prosecutions like that of Hunter Biden. Attorney General Merrick Garland condemned the rise in “baseless, personal and dangerous” threats in a Washington Post editorial on Tuesday, saying department employees are “being threatened for simply doing their jobs.”

Muller’s alleged threats against the FBI agent appear to fall into that category. According to court documents, Muller called the FBI agent hours after a Delaware jury found President Joe Biden’s son Hunter guilty of three weapons offenses.

In a one-minute voicemail, Muller allegedly threatened to kill the agent and his family, saying, “You can run, but you sure as hell can’t hide.”

The message continued with lies about rigging the 2020 presidential election (as court documents show) and profanity-laced threats that said, “The guns will be out and we will hunt you down” and “slaughter you like the traitorous dogs you are in your own damn houses.”

Mueller then reportedly sent the agent several text messages in which he wrote: “How is the family? Is everyone safe?” He also asked, in a homophobic slur, if they “really think you would disenfranchise 75 million Americans and still not die? Lol.”