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Threatening government officials of the United States

Felony crime in the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Threatening government officials is a felony in the United States; both physical threats and verbal threats are criminalized. Threatening the president is a separate felony. Cases will be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Secret Service. Threatening government officials and judges can count as terrorism and obstruction of justice. The specifics of what the threatener can be sentenced under depends on the specifics of the case. The frequency of threats and threats prosecuted follows the trend of national crises. Various social media platforms have been used to issue threats.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 94-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Threatening, government and officials can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as felony crime in the United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Threatening government officials of the United States” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.