{"id":324705,"date":"2026-06-05T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324705\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:02:09","slug":"collin-county-man-charged-with-threatening-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324705\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County man charged with threatening President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities have arrested a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/collin-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collin County<\/a> man accused of making violent threats against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Ronnie &#8220;Chip&#8221; Austin Jr., 56, of Allen, is charged with making threats against the President and transmitting threats in interstate commerce. Austin appeared Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Aileen Goldman Durrett.<\/p>\n<p>The case is part of Operation Take Back America, a Justice Department initiative targeting illegal immigration, cartels, transnational criminal organizations, and violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas says it will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal authorities have arrested a Collin County man accused of making violent threats against President Donald Trump, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[145,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-324705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-donald-trump","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}