Trump’s picks for new administration are focus of bomb threats and ‘swatting’
Pete Hegseth, Elise Stefanik and Matt Gaetz are among those who were either confirmed or reported to be targeted
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, 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, a Republican congresswoman of New York and Trump’s pick 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.
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