Florida House write-in candidate arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Trump

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A former marine and Republican write-in candidate for the US House in Florida has been arrested and charged in federal court with threatening to kill Donald Trump, according to the US attorney’s office. William Upham, 35, was taken into custody on Thursday after appearing in federal court in Jacksonville, Florida. If convicted, he faces up to five years in federal prison. According to public records, Upham is a write-in candidate, running in the Republican primary for Florida’s fifth congressional district. Attorney Gregory Kehoe announced the charge in a press release, which stated that Upham, a former marine and former state prosecutor, had appeared in federal court in Jacksonville earlier on…