Just this past week, Ricky Shiffer entered an Ohio FBI building while armed, made threats, then engaged in gunfire with agents after a police chase and a standoff. On the same day the FBI executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, Shiffer made a call on former President Donald Trump's platform Truth Social to "be ready for combat" and to "Kill the FBI on sight." Shiffer, a staunch Trump supporter, was killed.
On Saturday, Trump supporters protested outside the FBI building in Phoenix, carrying handguns and "assault-style weapons." One protester said they were there to demonstrate against the "unlawful search" at Trump's Florida resort. One said, "We're here in support of Trump, for what happened to him, the unlawful search with the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago home. We will not stand by, and we will not stand down."
One man can be seen on footage waving a Confederate flag, and others held "honor your oath" and "Abolish FBI" signs, and many of them had their faces covered. Hey, we finally got them to wear masks.
Meanwhile, the former President is attacking the FBI on Truth Social, calling the agency corrupt, among other things.
Via CNN:
The FBI is investigating an "unprecedented" number of threats against bureau personnel and property in the wake of the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, including some against agents listed in court records as being involved in the recent search, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
The bureau, along with the Department of Homeland Security, also has issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning of "violent threats" against federal law enforcement, courts and government personnel and facilities.
Unfortunately, open-carrying firearms is perfectly legal because of Republicans, so the intimidation tactics Trumpers used outside the Phoenix FBI building were not against the law. This is the extreme place Republicans have led us: guns, Confederate flags, and calls to kill FBI agents. And all of that for a raging narcissistic septuagenarian who wears lifts in his shoes to appear taller, has a penchant for lying and is under investigation for espionage. That. That's their hero. It's no wonder they embrace the traitorous Confederate flag.
