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Trump transition team says Cabinet picks, appointees were targeted by bomb threats, swatting attacks
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The "attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting,’" according to Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Trump’s initial pick for attorney general who bowed out of the process last week, received a pipe bomb threat, Punchbowl News reported.
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming cabinet members and other political appointees have been targeted with bomb threats, a transition team spokeswoman revealed Wednesday.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team says several of his political allies were "targeted in violent, un-American threats to their lives." Trump himself has been the target of assassination attempts.
The Trump-Vance transition team said Wednesday that several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and administration appointees “were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them” Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
The FBI put out a statement saying it "is aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees, and we are working with our law enforcement partners."
A number of President-elect Donald Trump 's most prominent Cabinet picks and appointees have been targeted by bomb threats and “swatting attacks," Trump's transition team said Wednesday. The FBI said it was investigating.
The attacks ranged from bomb threats to swatting, in which attackers initiate an emergency law enforcement response against a target victim under false pretenses.
The FBI said in a statement that it was 'aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees' and was investigating with its law enforcement partners.
Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet and administration picks were targeted this week with actions including bomb threats and “swatting,” a spokesperson for the transition team said on Wednesday.
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