ND man to plead guilty to threatening Obama

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man says he will plead guilty to threatening to kill President Obama.

Eric Allen Hirchert is charged in federal court with threats against the president. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

The plea agreement released Wednesday says Hirchert told his parents he was going to shoot Obama and posted a statement on his brother's Facebook page in October that he was going to kill the president and that it was no joke.

The 22-year-old Hirchert was charged following an arrest for allegedly assaulting his mother. Hirchert's mother told authorities that her son had been threatening to kill Obama for a couple of weeks and struck her in the face after she told him to stop.

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