Craig Robertson, Utah man who threatened President Biden, shot dead in FBI raid

FBI agents fatally shot a Utah man accused of making threats against President Biden during a raid Wednesday morning.

Craig Robertson was identified as the suspect. Robertson had been accused of interstate threats, threats against the president and retaliating against federal officers.

FBI agents had attempted to enter a home in Provo to serve a warrant when Robertson engaged the agents in a gunfight, sources told CBS News.

“The incident began when special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence,” an FBI spokesperson told Salt Lake City NBC affiliate KSL. “The subject is deceased. The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously.”

Charging documents cited numerous social media posts by Robertson in which he threatened to kill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James, among others.

Robertson landed on the FBI’s radar in March after he posted on Facebook about traveling to New York to kill Bragg, according to Salt Lake City Fox affiliate KSTU. Bragg brought criminal charges against Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

“I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected,” he posted. “BYE, BYE, TO ANOTHER CORRUPT B______!!!”

After learning that Biden would be traveling to Salt Lake City, about 35 miles north of Provo, Robertson once again posted threats to Facebook, according to charging documents obtained by KSTU.

“I hear Biden is coming to Utah,” he wrote Sunday. “Digging out my old [camouflage] ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.”

Biden was scheduled to arrive in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night before a Thursday event. Biden was briefed on the incident Wednesday morning.

On March 19, in the early stages of the investigation, an FBI agent asked Robertson about his posts, KSTU reported. Robertson said “it was a dream” and then told the feds not to come back without a warrant. He also posted about the interaction.

“To my friends in the Federal Bureau of Idiots: I know you’re reading this and you have no idea how close your agents came to ‘violent eradication,’” he wrote.

FBI agents were previously targeted by a Trump supporter in August 2022. Days after the feds raided Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Ricky Shiffer attempted to storm the FBI’s office in Cincinnati. He was stopped and detained.

With News Wire Services