Since the FBI raided the home of former US President Donald Trump, federal law enforcement officials have received more threats. This is reported by various American media. The FBI found state secrets documents last week during a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida.
A dirty bomb for FBI headquarters. Death threats against people directly involved in the raid, including the judge who approved the search warrant. Civil war. Armed uprising.
These are examples of the threats US law enforcement has been facing since the Trump search. This is according to an internal memo circulated by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
The threats are mainly done online. But it doesn’t stop there. Three days after the search, an armed man forcibly attempted to break into the FBI’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office. What followed was a standoff that resulted in the man’s death. Earlier he had posted a message on Truth Social, Trump’s social medium, in which he indicated that he wanted to kill federal agents.
Fear of escalation of violence
The internal memo also warns that the threats indicate that violence by domestic violent extremists could escalate around the midterm elections next November.
The search warrant for the raid on former President Trump was made public on Friday. It shows that Trump is under investigation for possible obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act.
Trump says he is the victim of “unprecedented political efforts by law enforcement” by “radical-left Democrats”.