Her career is jacked but this was in the USAToday and probably correct otherwise.

The photograph did not directly threaten the president and it didn't urge other people to harm him, Persily said. "People are allowed to wish the president dead," up to the point they express a real intent to harm him, Persily said. "To threaten someone you need words that encourage some sort of action," and those words are absent in Griffin's photo, he said.