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'I want to shoot him': Man threatened to assassinate Trump then convinced a DA it was just an 'extremely poor joke,' but the feds aren't laughing, DOJ reports
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Christopher Vignogna, 27, of New York, claims he was "just joking" when he told a co-worker he wanted to shoot President Trump and made a gun "gesture" with his hand, according to federal prosecutors.
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