Several members of Donald Trump’s future administration have been victims of threats, the FBI, the US federal police, said on Wednesday, November 27. Among these threats: numerous bomb threats.
Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for the president-elect, denounced attacks “unamerican”. Former parliamentarian Lee Zeldin, chosen by Donald Trump to head the Environmental Protection Agency, told him that he was attacked on Wednesday along with his family by “a bomb threat” accompanied by a “Pro-Palestinian thematic message”. “Neither my family nor I were home at the time and we are safe”he added “warned of a bomb threat in [son] residence “.
The FBI confirmed that “awareness of numerous bomb threats and crushing incidents against people expected to join the next administration”. “Swatting” is a practice that consists of causing police raids on victims under the pretext that a crime is being committed there. “We take all potential threats seriously”the FBI continued.
Informed of the situation, outgoing President Joe Biden condemned “unequivocally the threats of political violence”according to a White House press release. The Democratic administration is in contact with federal authorities and the Republican billionaire’s team on the issue, he said. Joe Biden pledged to do everything possible to enable a transition “quiet and orderly” with the president-elect. The presidential campaign was one of the most tense in modern American history, and Donald Trump was the victim of two assassination attempts.
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