Man who threatened to kill Joe Biden shot lifeless in FBI raid
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man who threatened Joe Biden was shot and killed as FBI brokers served a warrant at his residence on Wednesday.
Special brokers tried to serve a warrant to Craig Deleeuw Robertson in Provo, south of Salt Lake City. The FBI mentioned Robertson was armed and was shot at 6.15am.
Previously, Robertson had posted threats on Facebook in opposition to the US President and a prosecutor pursuing costs in opposition to Donald Trump.
On Monday, he posted on-line that he had heard Biden was coming to Utah and that he was planning to dig out a camouflage swimsuit and start “cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle”.
Authorities additionally referenced a publish Robertson made final September, the place he wrote: “The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!”
Robertson had additionally made threats in opposition to Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg, US legal professional basic Merrick Garland, and New York legal professional basic Letitia James, authorities mentioned.
The FBI investigation started in March when he threatened Mr Bragg on Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social.
At the time, he wrote about “waiting in the courthouse parking garage” with a suppressed weapon and eager to “put a nice hole in his forehead”.
The firm alerted the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center whereas his account has since been suspended.
According to courtroom paperwork, two FBI Agents got here to Robertson’s home after the preliminary warning about him from Truth Social.
They discovered Robertson sporting a Trump cap and what one agent described in a search warrant affidavit as an “AR-15 style rifle lapel pin”.
According to the affidavit, he instructed them his preliminary risk was simply “a dream” and demanded they solely return with a warrant.
In a Facebook publish days later cited within the affidavit, Robertson mentioned: “To my friends in the Federal Bureau of Idiots: I know you’re reading this and you have no idea how close your agents came to ‘violent eradication’.”
In one other undated social media publish cited within the doc, Robertson wrote: “Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again.”
A publish from July 21 publish unearthed by SITE Intelligence Group, which screens on-line extremism, reads: “If I really told you what I’d like to do to Joe Biden Facebook would censor me and the FBI would pay me another visit.”
He made a remaining publish on Tuesday the place he wrote: “Perhaps Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist.”
On Thursday, Mr Biden is anticipated to go to a veterans affairs hospital to speak in regards to the Pact Act, which expanded veterans’ advantages, and maintain a re-election fundraiser.