 A California man was arrested Thursday and charged with making a series of violent threats to employees at the Boston Globe in retaliation for the newspaper's editorial campaign against political attacks on the news media by President Donald Trump and others, officials said. Add Interest 
 
 Robert D. Chain, 68, of Encino, California, was taken into custody on one count making threatening communications in interstate commerce, according to officials at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was released on $50,000 bail after he was arraigned in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Thursday afternoon. Within hours of the federal complaint against Chain being unsealed on Thursday morning, the president repeated his attacks on the media, tweeting, "I just cannot state strongly enough how totally dishonest much of the Media is. Truth doesn’t matter to them, they only have their hatred & agenda. This includes fake books, which come out about me all the time, always anonymous sources, and are pure fiction. "Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather 'the enemy of the people.' — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2018 
 
 Authorities say Chain threatened the Globe in retaliation for its Aug. 16 coordination of a series of editorials condemning President Donald Trump’s suggestion that journalists are “the enemy of the people.” Trump used those words in a tweet Thursday morning, saying “how totally dishonest much of the media is… Enemy of the People!” 
 
 Chain allegedly began making threatening phone calls on Aug. 10 when the editorial campaign was announced. The day the editorials went to print, Chain called the Boston Globe newsroom and “threatened to shoot Globe employees in the head ‘later today, at 4 o’clock,’” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said. The threat was reported to the Boston Police Department and as a result, extra patrol officers were stationed outside the Globe's office building. In one threat the newspaper received on Aug. 22, Chain allegedly stated that his threats would continue "as long as you keep attacking the President, the duly elected President of the United States, in the continuation of your treasonous and seditious acts...," according to a nine-page criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Brian Snyder/Reuters 
 
 “Everyone has a right to express their opinion, but threatening to kill people takes it over the line and will not be tolerated,” Harold Shaw, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston Division, said in a statement. “Today’s arrest of Robert Chain should serve a warning to others, that making threats is not a prank, it’s a federal crime.” 
 
 Lelling said that in a time of “political polarization,” the public must “police their own political rhetoric.” 
 
 Boston Globe vice president of marketing and strategic partnerships Jane Bowman issued a statement following Chain’s arrest. "We are grateful to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Boston Police, and local authorities in California for the work they did in protecting the Globe while threats were coming in, for investigating the source, and for making this arrest. We couldn't have asked for a stronger response," Jane Bowman, a spokeswoman for the Globe, said in a statement Thursday. Bowman added: "While it was unsettling for many of our staffers to be threatened in such a way, nobody -- really, nobody -- let it get in the way of the important work of this institution."
– A California man is accused of making violent threats against Boston Globe employees because of the newspaper's campaign to get anti-Trump editorials published across the nation. Robert D. Chain, 68, was arrested Thursday on a count making threatening communications in interstate commerce, ABC News reports. Chain allegedly made threatening phone calls to the Globe in which he referred to the paper's employees as the "enemy of the people," echoing President Trump's own words about the media. In 14 phone calls he allegedly made between Aug. 10 and Aug. 22, Chain allegedly threatened to shoot employees in the head and said he had planned an attack on the paper for Aug. 16 at 4pm. In an alleged threat received Aug. 22, Chain, who does own firearms, allegedly said he would continue his campaign against the newspaper "as long as you keep attacking the President, the duly elected President of the United States, in the continuation of your treasonous and seditious acts," according to the criminal complaint. "Everyone has a right to express their opinion, but threatening to kill people takes it over the line and will not be tolerated," an FBI special agent said in a statement. "Today's arrest of Robert Chain should serve a warning to others, that making threats is not a prank, it's a federal crime." Chain was expected in court in LA Thursday but will be transferred to Boston in the future, CBS Boston reports.