4 Connecticut Home Democrats say their properties have been focused by bomb threats on Thanksgiving Day.
Every of the threats in opposition to Reps. Jim Himes, Jahana Hayes, Joe Courtney, and John Larson have been decided to be unfounded and are available after almost a dozen of President-elect Trump’s Cupboard nominees and different appointees have been focused with related warnings on Tuesday evening.
“This morning, I used to be notified of a bomb menace concentrating on my dwelling the place I used to be celebrating Thanksgiving with my household,” Himes, the highest Democrat on the Home Intelligence Committee, stated in a press release. “Fortunately, after a swift and thorough response from america Capitol Police, the Greenwich Police Division, and the Stamford Police Division, no proof of a bomb was discovered.”
“There isn’t any place for political violence on this nation, and I hope that we could all proceed by means of the vacation season with peace and civility,” he added.
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Clockwise from high left, Connecticut Reps. John Larson, Jahana Hayes, Jim Himes and Joe Courtney. (Tom Williams/Roll Name/Kevin Dietsch/Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Douglas Healey/Getty Pictures/Reuters)
Hayes stated she was notified by the chief of the Wolcott Police Division shortly earlier than 8 a.m. this morning “that they acquired a threatening electronic mail stating a pipe bomb had been positioned within the mailbox at my dwelling.”
That division and Connecticut State Police then responded to her dwelling and cleared the scene with out discovering any bomb or explosive supplies, in response to Hayes.
“I thank regulation enforcement for his or her swift consideration to this matter, their actions display there isn’t a place in our nation for political violence,” Hayes additionally stated.
A spokesperson for Courtney informed Fox61 that there was “no proof discovered of a bomb” at his property in Vernon.
“Joe and Audrey prolong their utmost gratitude to the regulation enforcement officers, whose response ought to sign to perpetrators that a lot of these threats is not going to be tolerated,” the spokesperson added.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s Cupboard nominees and different high appointees have been not too long ago focused with threats as properly. (Allison Robbert/Pool by way of AP, File)
Larson stated in his personal assertion, “Early this morning, East Hartford Police got here to my dwelling in response to a bomb menace.
“The police decided no bomb was current on the property and the Larson household is protected,” he added.
The warnings that the Trump Cupboard nominees and different appointees confronted “ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting,’” in response to Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman and incoming White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Rep. Jim Himes speaks to members of the press after a briefing on the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 14. Himes stated on Thursday, “There isn’t any place for political violence on this nation.” (Alex Wong/Getty Pictures)
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Sources informed Fox Information Digital that John Ratcliffe, the nominee to be CIA director; Pete Hegseth, the nominee for secretary of protection; and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the nominee for UN ambassador, have been amongst these focused. Brooke Rollins, who Trump has tapped to be secretary of agriculture, and Lee Zeldin, Trump’s nominee to be EPA administrator, individually revealed they have been additionally focused.
Fox Information’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
