Inmate Sends Death Threat to President Obama, But Gets the White House's Address Wrong
It's not like the address changes from year to year when the lease is up... a convicted child molester is currently in a world of trouble in Pittsburgh because he sent a threat to President Barack Obama... and sent it to the wrong address.
According to ABC News, Joseph Savage sent the threat to 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue (the White House address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) while he was awaiting trial in October 2012. The White House received the threat anyway, and it was turned over to the authorities.
Savage threatened to not only kill an unspecified member of the President's family, he threatened to kill the President "once I get out of prison."
But according to The Huffington Post, that would be a pretty big impossibility, all things considered: Savage's original sentence was for 12-and-a-half to 25 years for various child molestation charges. He was convicted of molesting a 9-year-old Uniontown girl, exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl in neighboring North Union Township, damaging a prisoner waiting room at a district judge's office and sending a threatening letter to the state police trooper who charged him.
Though Savage doesn't have an attorney listed in this Federal case, the public defender who represented him in the child molestation case didn't return calls for comment. If he's convicted of these new charges, he could face up to five years in federal prison, in addition to being required to serve the maximum sentence on his original state charges.
Obama, too, had no comment on the matter.
According to the Gallup Organization, Obama began his presidency with a 68 percent approval rating before gradually declining for the rest of the year, and eventually bottoming out at 41 percent in August 2010, a trend similar to Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's first years in office. He experienced a small poll bounce shortly after the death of Osama bin Laden, which lasted until around June 2011, when his approval numbers dropped back to where they were prior to the operation.
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