an agent of fbi shot dead on Wednesday in Utah, USA, a man whom the authorities watched for months for threaten US President Joe Biden, hours before a scheduled visit by the president to this state in the west of the country.
According to him Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)a suspect died Wednesday when officers tried to arrest him in Provo, south of Salt Lake City.
The facts are being investigated, added the fbi without providing details about the man.
According to a complaint by federal prosecutors in Utah, it is about Craig Robertson, a septuagenarian who claimed to be a supporter of former Republican President Donald Trump and threatened Biden in social media posts.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Attorney General merrick garland and the prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who oversaw the investigation that led to an indictment of Trump in New York, have also been threatened, as have the agents of the FBI.
Robertson’s threats against Biden and Harris
“The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe, then Kamala!”he said in one of the messages.
“Heard Biden is coming to Utah. Breaking out my old hunting outfit and dusting off the M24 sniper rifle. Welcome, Chief Jester”he stated in another, published a few days ago according to the complaint.
According to the same source, the man also posted numerous photos of Firearms.
President Biden is currently visiting the western United States and will travel this Wednesday to Salt Lake City.
The Secret Service, charged with protecting authorities, said it was “aware of an FBI investigation involving an individual in Utah who threatened a protected person.” He did not give further details.
Threats against Obama
In early July, the FBI arrested near the home of the former president of USA, Barack Obama, in Washington a man with a military arsenal had threatened attacks against various targets, including the head of state, via live broadcasts conducted online.
Is about Taylor Taranto, 37-year-old conspiracy theorist linked to the QAnon theory who participated in the storming the capitol on January 6, 2021. The prosecutor has requested that she remain in prison awaiting trial because she is a “serious and direct threat against the public”.
The man had activated the alert after the FBI discovered a live broadcast on June 28, in which he threatened to do blow up his van in a reactor nuclear research in Gaithersburg, 25 km north of Washington.
Source: Ambito
