A Texas man was charged Thursday with threatening a federal agent apparently involved in the Hunter Biden investigation and promising that the agents would be arrested after a new president was elected.
Names are not specified in the criminal complaint, but the FBI agent who was threatened “was known to be involved in an investigation regarding a laptop belonging to HB,” and the threatening call was made on Tuesday after “HB” was convicted in connection with a 2018 gun purchase, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas he said.
Timothy Muller, 43, was arrested Thursday morning outside his Fort Worth home and is accused of threatening interstate communications and influencing, impeding or retaliating against a federal official, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
He called the FBI agent whose name appeared in news reports during Hunter Biden’s trial, which ended in conviction, at 5:03 p.m. on the day the verdict in Biden’s case was announced, prosecutors said.
“You can run, but you can’t [expletive] hide,” Muller said in a voicemail that also included allegations of pornography and child abuse, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said said in a statement. The president’s son has never been accused of such crimes.
A jury in Delaware convicted President Joe Biden’s son Biden of three federal gun charges on Tuesday related to buying and possessing a gun while addicted to illegal drugs.
The younger Biden has never faced charges related to child pornography or child abuse.
Muller, in the voicemail, also apparently referred to former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen as part of threats to the agent, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
“So this is how it will be: [T’s] we will win re-election, and then we will [expletive] go through the FBI and start playing you [expletive]He is in prison,” Muller said, according to the U.S. attorney’s statement. “Or you can steal another election and then the guns will come out.”
The statement, part of a criminal complaint, lists the candidate only as “T.” A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office would not confirm the identities of “HB” and “T.” referred to in the criminal complaint.
Muller also threatened the agent’s family and called him a “traitor,” according to the affidavit.
He sent the agent a message that said, “You [redacted] Do you really think you would disenfranchise 75 million Americans and not die? Haha,” according to the statement.
False claims about a stolen 2020 election are widely believed among Trump supporters, and many have signaled reluctance to accept the results of the 2024 election if Trump does not win. Trump has repeatedly and falsely cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election, which he lost.
Trump’s 2024 campaign has increasingly delivered a message of retribution and revenge after he was convicted late last month on 34 criminal charges in New York state court.
Muller was ordered held in custody pending arrest and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, court records show. A federal public defender listed as appointed to represent him did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if he is convicted, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
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