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Raymond Hunter Geisel arrested for death threat on Barack Obama

08 August 2008 07:42 (UTC +04:00)

According to a Secret Service affidavit, Geisel, 22, was in a class for bail bondsmen when he "allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, ’If he gets elected, I’ll assassinate him myself.’ "
"Another person in the class quoted Geisel as saying that ’he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the president’s head,’ according to the Secret Service.
â€œGeisel denied in a written statement to a Secret Service agent that he ever made those threats, and the documents don’t indicate that he ever took steps to carry out any assassination. He was charged only with threatening Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, but not for any threat against President Bush."
While searching Geisel’s car and house, officials found a machete, a loaded nine-millimeter handgun, a combat-style hatchet, knives, 40 rounds of 9mm armour-piercing handgun ammunition, two canisters of tear gas, and other items, according to the document.