This isn't going to stop and will not be limited to Republicans.
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This isn't going to stop and will not be limited to Republicans.
"Several of the people President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked to be cabinet nominees or for White House positions received threats on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, a transition spokeswoman said."
The F.B.I. said in a statement it was aware of “numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees.”
Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition team, said several cabinet nominees and others were targeted with “violent, un-American threats to their lives and those who live with them.”
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Jess👾replied to BrianKrebs last edited by [email protected]
@briankrebs These nominees are also compulsive liars, and the NY times has a long history of repeating and platforming right wing lies uncritically.
The history of political violence in this country is vastly from the far right, even against Republicans - see the Trump assassination attempt, yet their headline implies that these are threats from the left.
I would hope that journalists such as yourself would do more validation of these claims before using your platform to promote them. Even cops and FBI spokespersons have repeated half truths and outright lies time and time again.
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@briankrebs My biggest hope is that the Democrat party disavows them instead of embracing them
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@JessTheUnstill I expect I will be pulled into looking into this more. I haven't done any original reporting on it myself yet. The fact that we're even still talking about swatting as a problem is the point.
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Jess👾replied to BrianKrebs last edited by [email protected]
@briankrebs I agree - swatting should have been a solved problem a decade or more ago. The entire notion that a single prank call from an anonymous VOIP number can deploy a paramilitary strike force on a private citizen is an atrocity.
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These Muppets aim to execute the blueprint for the destruction of America.
To call threats against them "un-american" is Orwellian.
United States is founded on terrorism against the legitimate rule of King George.
We better get used to that, newspeak is back.
