Trump supporter Craig Robertson was shot and killed after pointing a .357 Magnum at feds: FBI
The staunch Donald Trump supporter gunned down by federal agents during a raid at his Utah home last week was brandishing a .357 Magnum when he was fatally shot, the FBI said Monday.
Craig Robertson, 75, was armed with a revolver when he confronted federal agents trying to execute a search warrant on Wednesday over his alleged assassination threats against President Joe Biden and other top Democrats, the FBI said in a statement.
“Robertson resisted arrest and as agents attempted to take him into custody he pointed a .357 revolver at them,” the statement said, read the statement, according to Deseret News.
“The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force officers seriously,” the statement continued.
“In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division. We have no further details to provide at this time.”
Robertson, who described himself on social media as a “MAGA TRUMPER,” was facing charges of interstate threats, a threat against the president, and influencing, impeding and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threat.
A 39-page federal complaint included numerous unhinged Facebook posts by Robertson threatening to assassinate Biden and other pols including Vice President Kamala Harris, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Gov. Gavin Newsome.
“I dreamed I was in a dark corner of a Washington DC parking garage,” one post said. “I was standing over the body of the US Attorney General Merrick Garland with a bullet hole dead center in his forehead.
“In my hand was my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P, smoke wafting from the muzzle. I thought to myself, ‘What an amazing patriotic moment’ as shivers of liberty and freedom swelled my heart…”
Robertson was a US Air Force veteran and twice-widowed father of three.
Following his shooting death, his family called the incident “senseless and tragic.”
“He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and ongoing erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens wrought by what he — and many others in this nation — observed to be a corrupt and overreaching government,” a family statement said.