Truth Social tipped off authorities on Utah man killed by the FBI – By Ja’han Jones (MSNBC) / Aug 11, 2023
Conservatives claim that the FBI’s killing of a man who allegedly threatened Biden was an anti-Trump conspiracy. But Trump’s own social platform alerted authorities.
After a Utah man was killed by FBI agents Wednesday during an attempted arrest after he allegedly made death threats toward President Joe Biden and other officials, right-wingers on social media almost instantly took the side of the apparent Trump supporter.
As the progressive media watchdog Media Matters noted in a report Friday, “some extremist right-wing media figures are now spinning the incident to claim the federal government is willing to kill any critic of Democrats.”
But it was former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, that reportedly flagged the Utah man to the FBI months ago. As CNBC’s Dan Mangan explained:
“The social media company owned by former President Donald Trump in March tipped off the FBI about threats made by a Utah man who was fatally shot Wednesday by FBI agents as they attempted to arrest him for threatening to kill President Joe Biden, NBC News reported. Truth Social notified the FBI after Craig Deleeuw Robertson posted a threat to kill Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., according to a senior law enforcement official who spoke to NBC.”
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