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Federal agents say an Illinois man allegedly called for President Donald Trump’s execution in a string of profanity-laced Instagram videos, prompting a Secret Service investigation that led to a federal charge of making interstate threats to kill public officials.

In a criminal complaint filed Oct. 31 in the Northern District of Illinois and unsealed Monday morning, Trent Schneider, 57, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, was charged with allegedly making a true threat to injure another person in interstate commerce.

According to the allegations, Schneider posted violent videos and memes on social media calling for Trump’s execution as his home neared foreclosure.

In one video posted Oct. 16, he allegedly looked directly into t

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