Several nominees to US President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet and administration have been the target of bomb threats and "airstrike incidents", Trump's transition team said on Wednesday.
"Last night and this morning, several cabinet nominees and members of President Trump's administration were the targets of violent and un-American threats against their lives and the lives of those who live with them," a spokeswoman for the Trump transition administration said in a statement Caroline Leavitt.
"These attacks ranged from bomb threats to 'swatting'," she continued, without giving specific details about who was targeted.
Swatting incidents consist of falsely reporting an incident to law enforcement, usually the police or SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) teams, in order to provoke a massive, heavily armed response at a location where an innocent person is present.
Law enforcement and other authorities acted swiftly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted, according to a statement posted on the X network.
The targets of the attacks included Susie Wiles, Trump's incoming White House chief of staff; Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general whom Trump has picked as the next U.S. attorney general; Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary; and Brooke Rollins, Trump's nominee for agriculture secretary, CBS News reported.
A White House spokesman said US Democratic President Joe Biden had been informed of the threats. "The president and the administration unequivocally condemn threats of political violence," said the spokesman.
The threats come months after Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July. In a separate incident in September, a man who allegedly stood with a rifle outside one of Trump's golf courses in Florida was charged with attempted assassination.
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