The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation sent out a concerning bulletin to law enforcement agencies warning of higher than usual threats following the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid on former President Trump.
In recent days following the FBI raid, the FBI and DHS have seen an increase in “violent threats” against law enforcement, judiciary, and government personnel, including a particular threat to “place a so-called Dirty Bomb in front of FBI headquarters,” according to Fox News.
“General calls” for “civil war” and “armed rebellion” have also increased in recent days on social media.
According to the bulletin, “the FBI and DHS have identified multiple articulated threats and calls for the targeted killing of judicial law enforcement and government officials associated with the Palm Beach search, including the Federal judge who approved the Palm Beach search warrant.”
The bulletin also referenced the August 11th FBI Cincinnati office incident when 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer Jr., “attempted to forcibly enter the FBI Cincinnati field office.” Shiffer allegedly fled from the scene when officers responded and then entered a standoff with law enforcement officers and FBI agents. He was shot and killed after a standoff that lasted six hours.
In a post on Truth Social after the warrant was publicly released on Friday, Trump stated that the documents taken by Federal agents were “all declassified.”
“Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request…” Trump said. “They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?”