Former U.N. Ambassador, South Carolina governor, and presidential candidate Nikki Haley is the latest victim of “swatting.” The incident occurred at the end of December 2023 in her gated South Carolina community, Reuters reports:
Advertisement Authorities responded to a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley last month after a man claimed to have shot a woman and threatened to harm himself at her home, according to town records obtained by Reuters.
The previously unreported “swatting” incident is among a wave of violent threats, bomb scares and other acts of intimidation against government officials, members of the judiciary and election administrators since the 2020 election that have alarmed law enforcement ahead of this year’s U.S. presidential contest. This tactic has been used against high-profile political figures, no matter what the political stripe, and has included the judges overseeing some of the litigation […]
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