A Donald Trump supporter, linked to death threats directed toward U.S. president Joe Biden, vice president Kamala Harris, and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, was killed during an FBI raid on his home in Provo, Utah.
Craig Robertson, 75, was first identified as the suspect by the New York Post. Robertson described himself as a “MAGA TRUMPER” in social-media posts. According to two unnamed sources, Robertson was armed during the lethal exchange, the Associated Press reports.
“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.”
On Sunday, Robertson made a Facebook post alluding to his intention to kill Biden during the president’s visit to the state. “I hear Biden is coming to Utah,” the Air Force veteran wrote. “Digging out my old ghille [sic] suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle. Welcome, Buffoon-in-chief!”
In an earlier status update, Robertson wrote of a “WONDERFUL DREAM” he had of himself in a parking garage in Washington, D.C., in gory detail.
“I was standing over the body of the U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, with a bullet hole dead center in his forehead. In my hand was my suppressed Smith & Weston M&P 9mm, smoke wafting from the muzzle,” Robertson wrote, entirely in capital letters, on Facebook.
“The Star Spangled Banner playing quietly in the distance. I thought to myself; ‘What an amazing, patriotic moment’ as shivers of liberty and freedom swelled my heart for our amazingly great country.”
An agency complaint was filed on Tuesday asking a court for an arrest warrant citing the post as a “knowing and willful true threat to kill or cause injury to President Biden.”
In another post from September 2022, Robertson reportedly wrote: “The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe[,] then Kamala!!!”
Biden is expected to land in Utah later on Wednesday and visit a Veteran Affairs hospital on Thursday.