By Steve Neaving
A former high-ranking FBI official warned Wednesday of violence from Donald Trump supporters after some of them issued threats against the prosecutor and grand jury that indicted the former president in Georgia.
Frank Figliuzzi, who served as assistant director for counterintelligence at the bureau, said on an MSNBC segment that right-wing violence is bound to get “uglier.”
Figliuzzi’s warning comes after NBC reported that Trump supporters had posted death threats and shared the addresses of the grand jury members on a fringe website “that often features violent rhetoric.”
On MSNBC’s Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace, Figliuzzi said that he has seen “vile, racist attacks on (Fulton County District Attorney) Fani Willis and others” on “extremist” websites and that the release of grand jury members’ addresses creates a dangerous situation.
“Someone’s going to get hurt,” he said during the segment. “And I can predict that, not because I’m clairvoyant, but because it’s already happened. People have been killed because of the ideology and rhetoric and inciting of Donald Trump.”
Figliuzzi pointed to Craig Robertson, the Trump supporter from Utah who was fatally shot by FBI agents after he made death threats against President Biden and U.S. Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is handling one of Trump’s criminal cases.
