The US Federal Police (fbi) shot to death this Wednesday in Utah a man who was watched by authorities for months for threatening Joe Bidenhours before a planned visit by the president to this state in the west of the country.
According to him fbia suspect died Wednesday when officers tried to arrest him in Provosouth of Salt Lake City. The facts are being investigated, added the fbi without providing details about the man.
The FBI cordoned off Craig Robertson’s home in Provo, Utah, the same place where he was shot
According to a complaint by federal prosecutors in Utah is about craig robertson. According to this document, he was a septuagenarian who claimed to be a supporter of the former Republican president. donald trump and threatened Biden in social media posts.
the vice president Kamala Harristhe attorney general merrick garland and the prosecutor Alvin Braggwho oversaw the investigation that led to an indictment of Trump in NYhave also been threatened, as have the agents of the fbi.
“The time is right for one or two presidential assassinations. First Joethen kamala! “, he said in one of the messages.
«I heard that Biden comes to Utah. Taking out my old hunting outfit and dusting off the sniper rifle M24. 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 western USA and will travel this Wednesday to Salt Lake City.
He Secret Servicein charge of protecting the authorities, said he was “aware of the investigation of the fbi that involves an individual Utah who threatened a protected person”. He did not elaborate.
