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Conservatives feel unsafe after facts on FBI killing Utah man accused of threatening Joe Biden run low

August 10, 2023 | | Print Article

The Utah man FBI agents shot and killed on Wednesday while attempting to execute a search and arrest warrant allegedly made multiple online threats to President Joe Biden and other politicians according to authorities.

On Wednesday, ahead of a scheduled Salt Lake City visit from Biden, FBI agents descended on the Provo, Utah, residence of Craig Robertson and, at approximately 6:15 a.m.,  fatally shot him, federal law enforcement sources told Fox News. One law enforcement source told the outlet that Robertson, who was charged with interstate threats, influencing, impeding, and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threat, and threats against the president, had a weapon.

Provo is just a 45-minute drive to Salt Lake City, where President Biden landed that afternoon.

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A federal complaint against Robertson was filed on Monday after, prosecutors claim, he posted on social media, “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the m24 sniper rifle. welcom, buffoon-in-chief!”

Fox News reported:

Robertson’s Facebook page, which is no longer visible to the public, showed the Utah man owned “Craig’s Custom Woods, LLC.” State records indicate the company was registered in June 2020.

Robertson was married twice, according to online obituaries, and has three children. Robertson divorced his first wife in 1986, then remarried in 1988. His second wife died on April 20, 2008.

 

In another social media post, Robertson allegedly wrote: “ALVIN BRAGG. Heading to New York to fulfill my dream of iradicating [sic] another of George Soros two-but political hach [sic] DAs. I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected. I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!! BYE, BYE, TO ANOTHER CORRUPT B—–D!!!”

On September 19, 2022, federal prosecutors say he posted, “The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!”

In another post days later, on Sept. 23, 2022, he allegedly wrote, “Death to Joe Biden.”

In one of his Facebook posts, Robertson, who allegedly described himself as a “MAGA TRUMPER” dared Attorney General Merrick Garland to make a move on him.

“Hey Merrick Garland, you Demented Weasel, Send your FBI Swat Team to my house,” he wrote. “You won’t because I fight back against cowards!!!”

“If I really told you what I’d like to do to Joe Biden,” he allegedly wrote in another post, “Facebook would censor me and the FBI would pay me another visit!!!”

When an FBI did pay him a visit on an unspecified date, Robertson told the agent, “We’re done here! Don’t return without a warrant!” according to the charging documents.


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Progressive California Governor Gavin Newsom was also in Robertson’s online crosshairs, according to federal prosecutors.

“Another patriotic dream: I’m standing over Gavin Newsom with a wound above his brow and my suppressed S&W M&P 9mm still smoking,” he allegedly posted online. “Freedom from ‘stupid’ day!!!”

Robertson appeared to own a number of firearms, an FBI agent stated in a court filing, as well as “a sniper rifle and a ghillie suit.”

The Secret Service’s Chief of Communications, Anthony Guglielmi, stated on X, “We are aware of the FBI investigation involving an individual in Utah who has exhibited threats towards a Secret Service protectee. While we always remain in close coordination with the Bureau, this is an FBI-led effort and we refer any related questions to the FBI and DOJ.”

With trust in the Department of Justice and the FBI at an all-time low among many Republicans, folks are understandably critical of the fatal response to Robertson’s alleged threats.

Others wondered where the FBI was when President Donald Trump was receiving threats.

“Robertson described himself in his social media posts as a ‘MAGA TRUMPER’. Was this assassination meant to be a threat toward Maga supporters; fearmongering Maga supporters into silence; so Maga will no longer spread the truths of corruption?” asked one X user. “I don’t believe in threats; I believe in voting out corrupt politicians through the voting process.”


And a third user described the incident as a “chilling” warning to “conservatives.”

“Rest in Peace, Craig Robertson. We will never know the truth of what happened,” the user wrote. “Conservatives are not safe in this nation with a weaponized government. This entire story is chilling.”

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