Pete Hegseth, Elise Stefanik and Matt Gaetz are among those who were either confirmed or reported to be targetedUS politics – live updatesPete Hegseth, nominated to be Donald Trump’s defense secretary, was among several cabinet nominees and appointees of the president-elect’s incoming administration who were targeted with bomb threats and so-called “swatting” on Wednesday, the Guardian has learned.Elise Stefanik, Republican congresswoman of New York and Trump’s nomination for US ambassador to the United Nations, who has emerged as a hard right loyalist of Trump in the last few years, was the subject of a bomb threat, her office said. Continue reading…
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Author : Alice Herman and Joanna Walters
Publish date : 2024-11-27 17:49:54
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Trump’s picks for new administration are focus of bomb threats and ‘swatting’
