Muller, according to the federal document, threatened to kidnap and kill the agent, saying that the agent had covered up child pornography on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“You can run, but you can’t [expletive] hide,” Muller allegedly said.
Hunter Biden’s laptop was the focus of intense debate during the 2020 presidential campaign. He had reportedly dropped off the MacBook Pro at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Del., in April 2019 and never reclaimed it. The shop owner eventually contacted Republican lawmakers and politicians to review the hundreds of thousands of emails and messages in the laptop, with Republicans wielding it as evidence of misbehavior by Hunter Biden that implicated his father in scandal. Democrats dismissed it as probable disinformation, perhaps pushed by Russian operatives acting in a well-documented effort to undermine Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden has not been charged with any sex-related crimes.
In addition the gun possession conviction, he faces federal tax charges. That case is scheduled to go to trial in September.
A spokesman for special counsel David Weiss, who is leading the investigation of Hunter Biden, declined to comment.
In the trial that concluded this week, the jury found that Hunter Biden lied about his drug use when he filled out a federal form to purchase a gun in 2018 — and then illegally owned that gun for 11-days.
The six-day trial exposed Biden’s sometimes sordid struggles with crack cocaine and alcohol — and the failed relationships that followed.
Federal investigators used some messages obtained on the hard drive of the laptop to corroborate his battles with addiction.
The complaint filed Thursday states that the Baltimore-based FBI agent who was threatened has been previously named in public reports.
According to investigators, the suspect said in another text message that the agent was trying to steal the election in favor of Biden.
“Did you [expletive]s really think you were going to disenfranchise 75 million Americans and not die? Lol.”
The complaint said Muller violated laws related to interstate communication and influencing and retaliating against a federal official.
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