Several of Trump’s appointees and several Democrat lawmakers were victims of bomb threats and swattings over the holiday weekend.

From Straight Arrow News. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, multiple Cabinet picks for President-elect Donald Trump and several Democratic members of Congress were targeted with bomb threats and “swatting” incidents. Swatting involves falsely reporting emergencies to police in an attempt to get a SWAT team to respond to a location where no emergency exists.

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Among those targeted was Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who has been nominated by Trump to serve as ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik, who was driving home to New York from Washington on Thanksgiving, learned of a bomb threat at her residence.

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, tapped by Trump to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a social media post that a pipe bomb threat targeting him and his family was sent with a pro-Palestinian-themed message. …

Pete Hegseth, a former Army National Guard officer and Fox News host selected by Trump for secretary of defense, posted on X Thanksgiving morning, saying a police officer arrived at his home, where his seven children were still sleeping. Hegseth said the officer notified him and his wife of a credible pipe bomb threat targeting their family. …

From MSNBC. At least nine Democratic members of Congress said they received bomb threats to their homes on Thanksgiving or the day after, after similar threats were made against some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks earlier in the week.

Those targeted were Sen. Chris Murphy and Reps. Jim Himes, Jahana Hayes, Joe Courtney, John Larson and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut; Rep. Seth Magaziner and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island; and Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.

In a statement on Friday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., condemned the threats, which he said ranged from “detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting, all signed with ‘MAGA’ at the conclusion of the message.” …

The incidents have increased concerns about potential violence amid deep political polarization. …

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(Excerpts from Straight Arrow News and MSNBC. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Pete Hegseth, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121269112)