FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with threatening an FBI special agent involved in an investigation into the distribution of personal information from Hunter Biden’s laptop, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Timothy Muller reportedly called the FBI agent on Tuesday shortly after a federal jury in Delaware announced its guilty verdict against Hunter Biden. President Joe BidenHis son was convicted of three felonies in a federal firearms trial.
The officer — who is based in Baltimore — hung up, prosecutors said in a news release, and Muller called back and threatened the officer and his family in a voicemail that lasted more than a minute.
“You can run, but you can’t hide,” Muller allegedly told the officer.
Muller reportedly went on to say that former President Donald Trump would win re-election, “and then we’re going to (expletive) go through the FBI and start throwing you (expletive) in jail. Or you can steal another election, and then the guns will come out, and we will hunt you down and slaughter you like the treacherous dogs you are in your own (expletive) homes.
After leaving the voicemail, Muller sent several text messages to the officer, including: “How’s the family doing? Safe?” and “Did you really think you would disenfranchise 75 million Americans and not die? Lol.”
The name of the special agent was not made public.
Muller, 43, of Fort Worth, Texas, is charged with interstate threatening communications and influencing, obstructing or retaliating against a federal official. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
His federal public defender did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.
The long-running laptop saga began with a New York Post story in October 2020, which detailed some of the emails allegedly found on the device related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. It was quickly seized upon by Trump as a campaign issue during that year’s presidential elections.
The owner of a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, has said that Hunter Biden dropped off a laptop at his shop in April 2019 and never returned to pick it up. Its owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, admitted in his 2022 book that he reviewed private and sensitive material from Biden’s laptop, including a file titled “income.pdf.” He later contacted Republicans to review and distribute the material.
