A California man is facing federal charges after he allegedly sent a threatening letter to a conservative influencer.

George Russell Isbell Jr., 69, of San Diego is charged with mailing a threatening communication, federal officials announced.

He is accused of mailing a letter to a media personality in Tampa, later identified by NBC News as Benny Johnson , telling him that he needed “to be exterminated.”

In the letter, he referenced one of Johnson’s friends, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed during a public engagement at a college campus in Utah in September.

The letter allegedly also contained other threatening verbiage, with the man writing that he hoped that the American flag “strangles the life out of you,” and phrases like “Maybe someone will blow your

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