Days after the FBI reported a number of designees to the incoming administration received threats, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said at least four Democratic Congress members from New England received bomb threats or swatting attempts, according to the Washington Post. Jeffries said the threats were “all signed with ‘MAGA’ at the conclusion of the message.”
Connecticut Democrats Rosa DeLauro, Jahana Hayes and Jim Himes and Congressman Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island said in separate statements that they were individually targeted with bomb threats over the Thanksgiving holiday. Authorities investigated and determined all to be hoaxes. It’s possible that the sources of these are foreign actors, like the Russian-linked ones who made multiple threats to voting locations in the November election.