Last week, several prominent conservative media personalities, including Joe Pagliarulo, Chase Geiser of Infowars, social media influencer Gunther Eagleman, Pro-Trump account “Catturd” and journalist Nick Sortor, were hit by attacks.
The attack is when someone calls law enforcement for a hoax and reports a false crime with the intent to scare, harass and potentially injure the victim.
“The goal is murder,” says Blaze News Editor, co-host of “Blaze News Tonight.” “It's a form of domestic terrorism…and it is intended to threaten people to silence and to stop people from exercising their God-given rights as Americans.”
A recent post from FBI Director Kash Patel addresses these swatting incidents.
Jill Savage and Matthew are to explain directly what it's like to be victimized by the attack that invited magazine journalist Nick Thorto on the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xn2igbhwoq
Nick tells the panel that he is strategic about his location to ensure that such incidents do not occur.
But, just like in the film, when the bad guys can't get the target, they chase after the target's family.
Thorto tells Jill and Matthew that his father and sister are victims who attack the attack last week. A few hours before the SWAT team arrived, random pizza delivery ordered and paid by unknown entities appeared in the residence.
He says these attacks were particularly frightening to his father.
“I come from a blue-collar family. They're not chronically on the internet. They don't constantly watch TV, and my dad didn't know what swatting was. The whole concept was completely foreign to him, so when you try to break the door in the middle of the night with a gun depicting a gun, you can only imagine the cause. “That's the whole point here. They're trying to silence us and our family.”
“What do you want to do?” Jill asks.
“We want to see strong indications from the DOJ itself that they are actually trying to pursue these accusations,” the player says.
He argues that it is important for Attorney General Pam Bondy to act quickly on the issue.
“There are a lot of Americans, especially on the conservative side, but I don't trust Bondi right now, which is going to be a very important time for her to act to regain some of that trust,” he says.
To hear more about Nick's story, check out the clip above.
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