A Utah man was shot and killed during an FBI raid early Wednesday morning, the FBI confirmed to ABC News. The raid was in connection with an investigation into alleged threats against President Joe Biden and others, according to two officials briefed on the case.
One of the officials told ABC News that the investigation began in April and the U.S. Secret Service was notified by the FBI in June. In addition to threatening posts, the official said, the man under investigation suggested online he was making plans to take physical action. The threats had been deemed “credible,” the official said.
The FBI in Salt Lake City said the shooting occurred around 6:15 am. local time while special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence in Provo.
“The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously,” the FBI said in a statement. “In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division. As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide.”
The deceased suspect was Craig Robertson, according to multiple sources and a federal complaint obtained by ABC News.
Robertson was facing three counts, according to the complaint – interstate threats, threats against the president, and influencing, impeding and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threat.
The complaint includes numerous social media posts believed to have been made by Robertson threatening to kill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as several officials involved in prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
The president is scheduled to visit Utah on Wednesday.
Among the posts allegedly made by Robertson was one published on Aug. 6, three days before Biden’s scheduled visit, according to the complaint. “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle,” the post said, according to the complaint, which referred to the post as a “willful true threat to kill or cause injury to kill President Biden.”
Senior staff briefed Biden on the incident Wednesday morning, a White House official told ABC News.
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I can’t even find that they are covering it at all, there is nothing on their front page about it.
“But why did the FBI shoot down this antifa Soros plant?”
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Do you really think the Feds want another Ruby Ridge on their hands? They’re not going to make that mistake twice.
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Why does that matter? Do you think that means they want another PR mess like that on their hands?
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Hungry trolls, best ignored ime.
If someone posted that they are going to get their gun and meet the president, you think cops should NOT investigate whether they’re serious or not? That would be malpractice even for cops.
It worse than that. According to Vice, they found his Facebook.
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The tinfoil is restricting blood flow in your head again.
Creditable treats. Nom!
Since when do people trust the police lol
You’ve got a good point there, but Trump supporters are among the short list of groups of people I trust less than Police (or they are the same group) so at worst it’s a push.
Your friend is a moron I guess.
They were serving an arrest warrant in addition to a search warrant, which means they had probable cause for an arrest and a judge signed off on this. It wasn’t just shit posting, he was making plans which for reasons we don’t yet know the feds and a judge considered credible and serious. We also don’t know why he was shot, but “summary execution” seems unlikely, especially given how the feds always walk on eggshells around right wing extremists so as not to ruby ridge their way to another oaklahoma city (see e.g. basically every standoff with the Bundys). My money is the guy was a nutcase who started shooting when the feds showed up leading to a fairly predictable result for him.
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you seem upset about something, son… a fool went to Hell… does that scare you?
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Just calling out degeneracy
Irony.
Fake news huh? Is that like alternative facts?
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Half of Congress just dog whistles to their fanbase to do shit like we see in this exact post. With a couple of notable exceptions, they are generally not dumb enough to make direct threats themselves. (I think Cawthorn directly told a group of pro-Turnip supporters to make threats and such.)
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Do you understand that we have to execute arrest warrants to prosecute someone? Like I don’t see what disconnect you have in this situation.
Why is it such a a leap that a man who has made threats against someone would act violently towards law enforcement?
Why do you think that the FBI is more likely to have killed him in cold blood executing lawful, legal warrants than the above?
Why is it such a a leap that a man who has made threats against someone would act violently towards law enforcement?
It wasn’t just Biden, I take it you haven’t seen his Facebook yet?
FAFO
You trust a right wing nut over the FBI?
Sounds like they’re a Trump supporter.
The FBI and regular police have very different standards. I definitely think this should be fully investigated like any use is force, but I have more faith that the FBI handled this appropriately than of it had been a local PD department.
Maybe he should’ve complied with police orders. Or whatever conservatives say when a black man is killed by police for their pinky twitching.
I mean the dude got into a shootout with the FBI
Idk about you but i would have to make a few really bad life decisions before i got into a shootout with the feds. Like several very bad decisions before it even got to that point lol
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Better keep an eye on this one, too.
You forgot to call them ‘jackbooted thugs’
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Just beat me to it. I’m so happy this community is getting good at posting! That’s the community goal!
I try to do a couple each day!
Thank You!
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We often hear reports about right-wing terrorism in the USA. But how many other incidents like this happen, where the person is caught beforehand? This wouldn’t be a top headline if he hadn’t died, it would be just another story relegated to the bottom of a news site.
I would bet given how many crazy MAGA assholes are out there, and with Trump instigating shit, this is probably happening very regularly right now.
The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
the guy that showed up at obama’s place with weapons, too. and there’s a lot of right-wing hate causing disturbances not directly at leaders that are written off as just more violent crime rather than hate crimes or politically motivated crimes.
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You should really join the majority of us in reality.
Their name is “sadreality”, so I agree.
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They were just minding their own business when federal agents tricked them into trying to kidnap the governor! Poor babies, could happen to anyone.
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Was mostly FedBois, the 4 goons who got arrested had a supporting cast of 20+ members of Federal Law Enforcement. They paid for travel, put together meetings with other people and groups, and helped them plan it.
News is constantly reporting on people being arrested for threatening officials. I disagree that this is being treated any differently than those reports.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/12/illinois-man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-to-shoot-up-bidens-inauguration/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/david-reeves-biden-white-house-threats.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-threats-arrests/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/man-charged-threatening-biden-said-was-coming-white-house-secret-servi-rcna14066
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/11/1162858371/michigan-man-threatens-biden-whitmer…etc
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I don’t want to jinx it because it may still happen, but it’s an outright miracle a straight up war didn’t break out at any of these events like Charlottesville
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The common person wants a war? Lol they absolutely do not. The vast majority of people just want to get on with their lives.
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Sorry I would have been more specific. I wasn’t really referring to a full on civil war, but a large scale shootout at any one of those events that went violent.
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✅ Found out
Here’s the document from the arrest warrant with what he was writing. Dude was a fucking moron.
Also - Truth.social actually tipped off the FBI. Very interesting. I love that it’s a honeypot.
This guy actually posted “Merrick Garland u demented weasel send your FBI swat, you won’t because I’m a MAGA trumper and I’ll fight back” ??? Phew boy, major case of finding out.
Oh wow, that’s amazing that it came from truth.social.
LOL, just finished reading the whole document. Its wild, and there’s really nothing we can do about stupid. Guy is a perfect caricature of crazy.
Guess they pried it from his cold dead hands.
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Anyone who hasn’t learned about Stochastic Terrorism should expect to hear it more and more going forward.
This is republicans and Trump’s fault. They lie to people and get them angry about democrats eating babies or letting men rape children in restrooms. They know that there are mentally unstable people out there and that they will believe them. Trump KNOWS this. And now these brainwashed and programmed people are going out and attacking Trump’s enemies. Remember when Trump got Ashli Babbitt killed?
OR maybe this guy was a fascist. Guess we’ll find out.
And nothing of value was lost.
No. Something of value was lost, because this guy didn’t need to die. He was brainwashed and fed fear throughout his life which compounded with a lack of clear thinking or education, into a need to project a mask of what he thought was bravery.
Our anger should be directed at the remorseless pieces of shit that build this machine that injects fear into the gullible, and engineers the deaths of people who didn’t need to die.
If you find it difficult to empathise with this man, try to imagine that one of your family members went off the deep end and made the stupid ass decisions this guy did. Will you still feel that his death was justified? Will you feel like this was the preferable end to this guy’s life?
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No offense but what is your point? You seem to be going both ways.
okay do your best
What?
it’s a real problem… confusion…
K. I’m out, have fun.✌
fair winds and following seas, matey
FBI:
What a fucking stupid way to die.
Idiot found out, I guess.
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This is why I have to laugh when my firearms enthusiast friends tell me they need assault weapons in case they need to overthrow the government. This guy had a lot of assault weapons. Like tons of them. This is how it turned out. This is how it will always turn out.
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I was trying to decide why I thought he was funny looking. I think it’s partly the nostrils. What a cretin. I suppose I’d be mad, too.
