No less than 4 Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut have been focused by bomb threats on their houses Thursday, the lawmakers or their places of work stated.
Reps. Jim Himes, Joe Courtney, John Larson and Jahana Hayes all reported being the topic of such threats. Police who responded stated they discovered no proof of explosives on the lawmakers’ properties.
There was no fast phrase whether or not Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the fifth Democratic Home member from the state, and Connecticut’s two Democratic senators acquired threats.
The bomb threats in opposition to Democrats occurred a day after various President-elect Donald Trump’s most distinguished Cupboard picks and appointees reported that that they had acquired such threats, in addition to “swatting assaults,” through which perpetrators provoke an emergency regulation enforcement response in opposition to a sufferer beneath false pretenses.
Hayes stated the Wolcott Police Division knowledgeable her Thursday morning that it had acquired “a threatening e-mail stating a pipe bomb had been positioned within the mailbox at my house.” State police, US Capitol Police, and the Home sergeant at arms have been notified, Wolcott and state police responded “and no bomb or explosive supplies have been found.” Courtney’s Vernon house acquired a bomb menace whereas his spouse and kids have been there, his workplace stated.
Himes stated he was informed of the menace in opposition to his house throughout a Thanksgiving celebration together with his household. The US Capitol Police, and Greenwich and Stamford police departments responded.
Hines prolonged his household’s “utmost gratitude to our native regulation enforcement officers for his or her fast motion to make sure our security.” Echoing different lawmakers who have been threatened, he added: “There is no such thing as a place for political violence on this nation, and I hope that we might all proceed by means of the vacation season with peace and civility.” Larson additionally stated Thursday that East Hartford Police responded to a bomb menace in opposition to his house. The threats observe an election season marked by violence.
In July, a gunman opened fireplace at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing him within the ear and killing one in every of his supporters. The Secret Service later thwarted a subsequent assassination try at Trump’s West Palm Seaside, Florida, golf course when an agent noticed the barrel of a gun poking by means of a fringe fence whereas Trump was {golfing}.
Amongst those that acquired threats Wednesday have been New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s choose to function the subsequent ambassador to the United Nations; Matt Gaetz, Trump’s preliminary choose to function lawyer basic; Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, whom Trump selected to guide the Division of Labor, and former New York congressman Lee Zeldin, who has been tapped to guide the Environmental Safety Company.
