President-elect Donald Trump’s Monday inauguration will be an “attractive potential target” for violence, US national security agencies are warning, despite saying there are currently no specific credible threats against the event.
A group of intelligence and law enforcement agencies wrote in a threat assessment that hasn’t been released to the public, which was obtained by Politico, that potential perpetrators, like those with “election-related grievances” may see the event as “their last opportunity to influence the election results through violence.”
The threat assessment was compiled by the FBI, Secret Service, Capitol Police, the Washington DC government, and the Supreme Court’s police. It laid out multitudes of scenarios that could occur, such as foreign terrorists, domestic extremists, and lone wolves initiating bomb hoaxes, drone flights, vehicle ramming attacks, and swatting calls.
The threat assessment noted that Iran, which has sought to kill Trump or his national security advisors in an act of revenge for the killing of General Qassem Solemani. The threat assessment said that in response to a video posted to Telegram the day after Election Day by a media entity aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, 700,000 users threatened to assassinate Trump.
Law enforcement is also concerned about protests around the inauguration turning disorderly, with multiple groups applying for demonstration permits, including some groups whose previous protests ended with arrests. The threat assessment stated, “Past protests by some of these individuals have involved traffic blockades, trespassing, property destruction, and resisting arrest.” […]
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