Man makes threats to assassinate President Biden, Barack Obama in X posts and videos, feds say

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 12th, 2024, 3:34 pm


A man in Illinois is facing federal charges for allegedly taking to social media and threatening to assassinate President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, former President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — even going so far as to post videos of himself making the threats on camera with his face in full view, according to prosecutors.

“Mayorkas, I’m going to have you f—ing killed,” Jacob Sterr, 36, allegedly wrote in one of the alleged X broadcasts, which is detailed in Sterr’s criminal complaint.

Filed in the Central District of Illinois last week, the complaint features images of posts and at least one video purportedly from Sterr’s X page. Prosecutors say that the Springfield man uses the handle @SterrILOVEYOUA, and a Law&Crime review of that account shows that regular posts were appearing until Dec. 6 — the day of Sterr’s arrest.

The posts he allegedly made against the Bidens, Obama and Mayorkas came in late November after he created his account on Nov. 22. The page is filled with inflammatory statements aimed at both Democrats and Republicans, but it’s the alleged threats of violence that wound up putting him on the radar of the U.S. Secret Service, according to his complaint. “I am going to have you assassinated, you never understood my deadlines since 2021,” Sterr allegedly said in one X post that tagged Obama.

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