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Former Marine and congressional candidate William Upham faces a federal charge for allegedly threatening to kill President Trump.William Lintag Upham, a former Marine officer and qualified congressional write-in candidate, was arrested and charged on July 16 with threatening to kill President Donald Trump.The charges announced by the Justice Department came after federal agents reviewed social media videos in which Upham allegedly called for the administration’s violent overthrow. Upham, 35, appeared in federal court in Jacksonville, Fla., and a judge ordered him detained. He faces up to five years in federal prison if convicted. He is presumed innocent as prosecutors have...

The Marine Corps has denounced comments made by a Marine veteran running for Congress who posted a video of himself in uniform and made threatening comments directed at President Donald Trump. William Upham made the comments in a roughly 6-minute video that was posted on his social media accounts earlier this week. Upham is running for Florida's 5th Congressional District in November as a write-in candidate. In the video, Upham accused Trump of being the "antichrist" and "the enemy of God." Upham also claimed the president is "your enemy and he must be killed." The Marine Corps issued a statement...

A discharged Marine running for a seat in the House of Representatives in Florida has come under fire for a deranged social media video in which he called President Trump “the anti-Christ” who “must be killed.” William Upham wore his uniform in the disturbing, nearly seven-minute attack video despite having been medically discharged from the US Marine Corps last May. “I’ve reached a turning point in my campaign. Why? I’ve come to the realization that our country is broken. We are led by a president who’s the enemy of God, and President Trump will never bring us together like God...

How many people alive today can say that their father was a Civil War soldier who shook hands with Abraham Lincoln in the White House? Fred Upham can. Despite sounding like a tall tale and a mathematical impossibility, it's documented truth. Fred's father, William, was a private in the Union Army's Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was severely wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, in 1861, and later personally appointed by President Lincoln to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Fred's in exclusive company—the dwindling group of children of soldiers who fought, North against South, 150...