There were those who thought that Donald Trump might actually have a Come To Jesus moment on January 6, 2021, when Ashli Babbitt died, and the death toll of Capitol Police began to climb. A few people thought that actual bloodshed might have gotten to Trump. “No way,” said I, “because in truth this is all a TV show to him. And just like on TV, when somebody dies, you know it’s an actor, who will get up and play another part next week, in the same or a different show.”
I still believe that’s the case — although I did expect Trump to weaponize the death of the elderly man in Utah who was “dusting off” his assault rifle and getting the camouflage suit ready. The Associated Press has a comprehensive story up and it’s the best account I’ve read of this tragedy. The poor, deluded, elderly MAGA might have had many more years of productive life if Donald Trump hadn’t crossed his path.
Craig Deleeuw Robertson, age 74, breathed his last today when FBI agents, in the process of serving a warrant on him, engaged in gunplay and shot him.
“There’s no way that he was driving from here to Salt Lake City, setting up a rifle and taking a shot at the president — 100% no way,” said neighbor Andrew Maunder outside the church across from Robertson’s street.
Maybe and maybe not. It’s hard to tell the keyboard warriors from the people who pose an actual threat and since Robertson had a collection of 20 guns, including a sniper’s rifle, his voice rose above the din of hollow threats on Facebook and was heard.
Robertson’s posts indicated he did appear to own a long-range sniper rifle and numerous other weapons, as well as camouflage gear known as a “ghillie suit,” investigators said in court records. Robertson was charged under seal Tuesday with three felony counts, including making threats against the president and against FBI agents investigating him, court documents show.
Robertson also referenced a “presidential assassination” and also posted threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James, authorities said.
“The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!” authorities say Robertson wrote in a September 2022 Facebook post included in the filings. No attorney was immediately listed for Robertson in court documents and family members of Robertson could not be immediately reached for comment through publicly available phone numbers.
The FBI investigation began with a tip about the Bragg threat from Trump’s own social media platform Truth Social in March, after Robertson posted about “waiting in the courthouse parking garage” with a suppressed weapon and wanting to “put a nice hole in his forehead.” His account has since been suspended from the platform.
A former FBI agent spoke about this tonight and put it in context.
Trump provokes this. Trump is responsible for Ashli Babbitt’s death and for this man, Robertson’s, death. They drank the MAGA kool-aide and now they’re gone.
“He believed in his right to bear arms. He believed in his right to say what he feels. When it came down to it, he knew the Lord wouldn’t have approved of killing innocent people,” Searing said. “Things got out of hand because he just was really frustrated.”
A lot of us are frustrated about a great many things. We don’t start talking about blowing away FBI agents, prosecutors, or the president of the United States. We cope.
According to court documents, two FBI agents came to Robertson’s house after the initial warning about him from Truth Social in March. They found Robertson wearing a Trump cap and what one described in a search warrant affidavit as an “AR-15 style rifle lapel pin.”
According to the affidavit, he told them his initial threat was just “a dream” and demanded they only return with a warrant. In a Facebook post days later cited in the affidavit, he said, “To my friends in the Federal Bureau of Idiots: I know you’re reading this and you have no idea how close your agents came to ‘violent eradication.’”
In another undated social media post cited in the document, Robertson wrote: “Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again.” A post from July 21 unearthed by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online extremism, reads, “If I really told you what I’d like to do to Joe Biden Facebook would censor me and the FBI would pay me another visit.”
The guy sounds dangerous to any normal minded person. And of course, Trump is not normal minded and neither are his MAGA followers. We see evidence of that over and over again.
Trump is the pustulant boil on the body politic. The boil erupts from time to time and the poison spews out. It’s swabbed down and the wound is dressed. But the poison remains in the system and creates other boils. Today, the bursting point happened to be in Utah. Who knows where it will be tomorrow?
Meh……..Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I think trump is the third Anti Christ , it says in the Bible that people will worship him.
It really frightens me .
Don’t forget the golden statue
I suppose a golden pig is nearly in the same league as a golden calf (unless of course you’re Jewish os Muslim and pork is a no-no)
I’m really frustrated. I do not attempt to become a rambo wannabe.
Anyone who doesn’t believe these phuckers are lethal must not know a goddamn thing about fascism. Stop them early or be prepared to be killed down the road. It has come out that this lunatic planned to overthrow the government and then USE THE MILITARY to subdue any citizens who tried to resist or protest. Fact.
Trump is the pustulant boil on the a** of the body politic. FIFY
This guy was obviously another raving lunatic, whipped up by the fanatical, insane ravings of another stark raving mad lunatic. Someone needs to get tRump locked up before any more people get hurt. He doesn’t care if they do. It furthers his aim to undermine the government in the eyes of his followers for his own infantile, selfish ends. No regard for the long-term effects on our nation or its people, as long as he gets his way. Lock him up for all our sakes.
Oh well, another MAGA moron gone. Good riddance to such ignorance.
Surely you jest Ursula, we’ve been over this several times. Trump gives a dam about Donald J Trump, and possibly Ivanka if she decides to drop her linens. And that’s it. There ain’t another soul in the world he gives a shit about. That’s just the way it is. Now in the past we have made lists of different people he might protect. That is until the documents came along and they even found some in Barons room. Now as far as would be assassin the fastest way to meet Jesus is to threaten the president then when the FBI shows up to ask you about to go waving your guns around and telling the FBI to do something physically impossible. Works every time. Just ask them people down in Texas on that ranch. Can’t remember the name of it and probably can’t talk to the people because the FBI burnt it to the ground. They mouthed off to the FBI to right before the fire 🔥.