A Trump fan convicted of making racist threats to kill Barack Obama and Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Stephen Taubert, 61, was found guilty of calling congressional offices in 2017 and 2018 and using racial slurs and other “vile” language to threaten public officials, prosecutors said. On Tuesday, Taubert was sentenced to 46 months in prison for the phone calls in the US District Court in Syracuse, New York. "Racist threats to kill present and former public officials are not protected free speech, but serious crimes,” Grant C Jaquith, the US attorney for the Northern District of New York, said in a statement on Tuesday. Taubert’s lawyer, Courtenay K McKeon, declined to comment. But in court on Tuesday, she and Taubert both said that he was mentally ill and deserved a more lenient sentence, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...e-waters-stephen-taubert-jailed-a8895856.html