US senators on Tuesday condemned the avalanche of threats received by the federal police since the search last month of the residence of former President Donald Trump, accused of encouraging this outpouring of hatred.
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“I have said many times that violence once morest law enforcement is never – never – acceptable, no matter what ideology drives it,” said influential Democratic Senator Dick Durbin.
“But here’s the reality: Last month, following the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s residence, federal police faced an avalanche of threats once morest its employees and buildings, and those threats were encouraged by the former president and his allies,” he continued.
The Senate voted “unanimously” for a text condemning these threats, noting in passing remarks from certain Republican members of Congress who called for “stop funding” the FBI or compared the search “to the actions of the Gestapo” , the political police of Nazi Germany.
On August 8, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida residence and seized boxes of confidential documents that the Republican had not returned following leaving the White House, despite multiple requests.
Federal investigators suspect Donald Trump of having thus violated an American law on espionage which very strictly regulates the possession of confidential documents.
Donald Trump, who openly plans to run for president in 2024, has since stormed once morest a search that he considers “illegal and unconstitutional”, and repeats that he was targeted for political reasons.
Since this operation, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have reported an increase in threats and acts of violence once morest federal police officers.
On August 11, a 42-year-old gunman, for example, tried to force his way into FBI premises in Cincinnati, Ohio, following he issued a “call to arms” on Donald Trump’s social network, Truth. Social. The man, killed by the police, believed that it was necessary to “respond with force” to the search at Donald Trump’s home and “shoot on sight the FBI agents”.
The text adopted by the Senate describes other attempts at intimidation, such as the threat to plant a “dirty bomb”, made from stolen radioactive materials, in front of the FBI headquarters or even calls for “civil war” and to “armed revolt”.
He also underlines the “repeated attacks of the ex-president who, among other insults, called FBI officials ”vicious monsters””.
Donald Trump’s team did not react immediately to AFP’s requests.
