Illinois Man Gets 14 Months For Threats To Kill Biden

From the Justice Department:

A Jacksonville, Illinois, man, Adam Ray Mouser, 40, of the 500 block of Brooklyn Avenue, has been sentenced to 14 months imprisonment, to be followed by 24 months of supervised release, for threats against the President of the United States.

At the sentencing hearing, the government presented evidence that the defendant used social media to threaten violence against the President of the United States, his family, a former President, Secretary of State, as well as various Members of Congress.

At the hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen R. Lawless said “words do matter” and stated, “I believe it is common sense to not threaten to kill another individual.” She also noted that the threats repeated and escalated, even with the U.S. Secret Service going to his house. Judge Lawless found that the defendant made multiple threats to multiple victims in connection with the threat to President Biden.

Mouser pled guilty on January 19, 2024, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen L. McNaught to the one count indictment. He has been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest on August 28, 2023.

Law & Crime reports:

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Secret Service agents on Aug. 10, 2023, learned that Mouser had been posting threats on X in which he said threatened to kill Biden.

“I’ll murder him with my bare f—— hands then put a bullet in that piece of s— wife,” he wrote in reference to Joe and Jill Biden. The following day, Mouser challenged federal authorities, writing that the “sad pathetic pigs won’t shoot me” because he’ll shoot back and kill them, then track down their children “and murder them too.”

Responding to a post in which another person asked readers if they would prefer to eat a meal with Obama or Clinton, Mouser, on Aug. 9, responded by saying that he would shoot them both under the chin.

Mouser reportedly told federal agents that he had a First Amendment right to threaten to kill Biden, also reportedly accusing them of “protecting pedophiles and scum.”