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A federal court in Manhattan sentenced a man to three years in prison this week for sending threatening text messages to the family of a journalist. Robert Lemke, a 36-year-old from the San Francisco, California area, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of making threatening interstate communications. Prosecutors told the court that threatening text…

Robert Lemke, a resident of Bay Point in the San Francisco Bay Area, pleaded guilty in October to one count of making threatening interstate communications.

Robert Lemke, a resident of Bay Point in the San Francisco Bay Area, pleaded guilty in October to one count of making threatening interstate communications.

Robert Lemke sent threatening messages to Congress members and journalists in the weeks after the election and on the day of the Capitol insurrection, prosecutors said.

CNN’s Don Lemon and Brian Stelter both testified at the sentencing of a 36-year-old Bay Point man who threatened to kill CNN hosts, their parents, and their children over the network's lack of faith in Trump’s claims about the 2020 election results.

Robert Lemke, a resident of Bay Point in the San Francisco Bay Area, pleaded guilty in October to one count of making threatening interstate communications.

Ann LaBore, co-chairman of Friends of Mears Park, a group that maintains a downtown park in St. Paul, Minn., blamed "tree rats" for a decision to forgo strings of twinkly lights in favor of a kaleidoscope projector after a troop of hungry squirrels chewed through the wires of last year's holiday lights display.

Robert Lemke, a resident of Bay Point in the San Francisco Bay Area, pleaded guilty in October to one count of making threatening interstate communications.

Robert Lemke sent threatening messages to Congress members and journalists in the weeks after the election and on the day of the Capitol insurrection, prosecutors said.

The anger, hate and bitter rhetoric stoked repeatedly by former President Trump has created a culture wherein his supporters feel righteous in their media attacks and victimized by facts and free speech.