Utah: 76-year-old man, who threatened Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, killed in an FBI raid
On Wednesday, August 9, a 76-year-old man named Craig Robertson was shot lifeless by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) brokers in Utah, USA. His killing got here simply hours earlier than US President Joe Biden’s go to to the state. The particular brokers of the FBI performed a raid on Wednesday to nab the person for making alleged threats in opposition to President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and others.
Reportedly, the slain man was a supporter of former US President Donald Trump and known as himself a “MAGA Trumper”.
According to US media reviews, the incident occurred early Wednesday as investigators tried to serve arrest and search warrants at a property in Provo, south of Salt Lake City.
According to the grievance, Robertson was charged with three counts, interstate threats, threats in opposition to the president, and influencing, impeding, and retaliating in opposition to federal legislation enforcement authorities by risk.
Reportedly, Craig Robertson wrote a number of social media posts threatening President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, along with a number of officers who had been concerned within the prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
According to the grievance, one of many posts allegedly made by Robertson was printed on August 6, three days earlier than Biden’s scheduled go to. “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle. Welcome, buffoon-in-chief! ,” the submit added, based on the grievance, which described the submit as a “willful true threat to kill or injure President Biden.”
Alongside Biden, the grievance claimed that Robertson threatened Vice President Kamala Harris and US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“The time is right for a presidential assassination or two,” one of many posts by Robertson posted, “First Joe then Kamala!!!”
He additionally threatened to shoot Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s investigating former President Donald Trump for allegedly paying a porn star hush cash.
The accusation additionally contained pictures from Robertson’s social media postings of his giant weapons assortment, together with a semi-automatic rifle he known as a “Democrat eradicator.”
A consultant for the United States Secret Service mentioned the company is conscious of the FBI investigation “involving an individual in Utah who has exhibited threats towards a Secret Service protectee” and forwarded any issues to the FBI.
When an Indian-origin man was sentenced 5 years in jail for threatening George W Bush
The killing of Craig Robertson reminds one in every of one other incident involving on-line threats to a US President from 2009. An Indian-origin man named Vikram Buddhi was sentenced in 2009 to 4 years and 9 months in jail for his alleged hate messages despatched in 2006 in opposition to former US president George W Bush. Buddhi was arrested for making derogatory remarks about then-US President George Bush on the time of a burgeoning protest in opposition to the US invasion of Iraq.
Buddhi was arrested in 2006 for making threats to Bush, then Vice President Dick Cheney and their wives, and calling for bombings of US infrastructure on Yahoo message boards. He was convicted in 2007 however sentenced solely in 2009.
