Armed Utah Man Shot & Killed By FBI After Threatening Joe Biden & Other Democrats

An armed man in Utah was shot and killed after making threats to President Joe Biden by the FBI. 

The agents were serving a warrant to Craig Deleeuw Robertson in Provo, Utah, when a shooting occurred at 6:15 a.m. 

Robertson posted threats online after the news that Biden was flying to Utah was announced. He planned to find a camouflage suit and already started to clean “the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.” It was believed that Robertson owned a long-range sniper rifle and other weapons, as he often referred to them in other social media posts. 

Robertson has made several threats before to other public figures and to the officials who are bringing multiple court cases against former President Donald Trump, including New York’s Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan’s District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

He was known to call himself a “MAGA Trumper,” which references Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” 

The FBI initially began their investigation after receiving a tip about Bragg from Trump’s social media platform Truth Social back in March. Robertson posted on the app that he was “waiting in the courthouse parking garage” with a weapon to “put a nice hole in his forehead.” Since writing the post, his account has been suspended. 

Robertson was known to carry guns with him regularly by the neighbors, but they believed him to be harmless as he was an elderly man who required a stick, which he made himself, to walk. 

Authorities first arrived at his home early Wednesday morning when a boom was heard by neighbors, followed by possible gunshots. After the confrontation, officials searched his home on Wednesday and took several items into their custody. 

He was charged with three felonies, which included threatening the president and FBI agents who were investigating him. 

On Wednesday, Biden arrived in Utah, where he went to visit a Veterans Affairs Hospital on Thursday to discuss the PACT Act, which expands benefits for veterans. Biden is also planning on holding a re-election fundraiser in Salt Lake City.