Mother of January 6th Officer Michael Fanone Slapped After Calling Trump ‘Authoritarian’

WASHINGTON – Michael FanoneA former police officer who was nearly killed by a mob during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol spoke outside the courtroom during closing arguments in Donald Trump’s secret trial on Tuesday, calling Trump “an authoritarian” with “a fetish for violence.”

Hours later, Fanone’s mother was “struck“at his home in Virginia.

On Tuesday, a fake “manifesto” attributed to Fanone was sent to several email addresses, including some associated with a high school Fanone attended for a year more than two decades ago. The “manifesto,” seen by NBC News, claimed that the writer had killed his mother and planned to go to the recipient’s school on Wednesday and shoot more people. He provided Fanone’s mother’s home address.

That night, Fanone told NBC News, her mother opened the door to law enforcement in her nightgown, “mortified” to find SWAT team officers in her home.

“How dangerous is it to send authorities to an address where you are essentially describing an active shooter, where the only person present is a 78-year-old woman,” he said. “This is the reality of facing or challenging Donald Trump. … These violent calls are incredibly dangerous, especially when the target is someone like my mother.”

Fairfax County, Virginia, police said in a statement Wednesday that police responded to the block where Fanone’s mother lives around 7:40 p.m. Tuesday for a welfare check.

“Officers made contact with the resident, who was confirmed to be OK, following a suspicious email we were made aware of thanks to our partners at the Montgomery County Police Department” in Maryland, the police department said in a statement. . “Detectives from our Threat Assessment Management (TAM) Unit are investigating the circumstances of this case and the aggressive nature of the initial email.”

The FBI had no immediate comment.

Fanone said he understands that police received more than two dozen calls related to the swatting incident. He said his father was also targeted at his address but was out of the country.

“All I do is go out there and talk about what happened to me and so many other officers, like I always have, and that’s the resource,” Fanone said. “This is the direct result of that.”

Fanone spoke about the attack on the Capitol before the J Houseone. 6 wcommittee and made comments at the sentencing hearings of the protesters who attacked him. He left the Metropolitan Police Department at the end of 2021 after being assigned to a desk job and feeling targeted by other Washington police officers.

Fanone, who voted for Trump in 2016, spoke outside the courtroom on Tuesday as part of a campaign event for President Joe Biden. He blamed Trump’s “lies” for the attack on the Capitol.

“These supporters have been fed by Trump’s lies and the lies of his surrogates, lies that the 2020 election was stolen,” he said. “These same lies were spewed by Donald Trump and his surrogates about what happened to me and so many other police officers on January 6, 2021, that day I was brutally assaulted.”

Fanone named four people – all of them Trump supporters – who attacked him on January 6: Albuquerque Headwho is serving 7 and a half years in federal prison; Kyle Youngwho has served his sentence for more than seven years; Thomas Sibick, who was sentenced to four years; It is Danny “DJ” Rodríguezwho held a stun gun to Fanone’s neck and is serving one of the longest sentences given to a Jan. 6 protester, 12 and a half years in federal prison.

“All four of these individuals are self-admitted Trump supporters, all four have committed violent attacks against law enforcement. I am just one representative of the hundreds of police officers who were attacked that day by Donald Trump supporters inspired by his lies. the lies that continue to this day to inspire my fellow Americans to turn against their fellow Americans and to turn against police officers,” Fanone said.

“Ultimately, this election is about Donald Trump and his vision for the Office of the President of the United States, not as a public servant who is answerable to the elected officials, to the people who elected him, but as an authoritarian official who is answerable and it serves only itself,” he said.

Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the federal election interference case against Trump in Washington and the classified documents case in Florida, was the target of a Christmas coup attempt, NBC News reported. This way too, it was Tanya Chutkanthe federal judge overseeing the Washington election interference case, which is on pause while the Supreme Court decides whether the presidency is a license to commit crimes with total immunity.

This article was originally published in NBCNews. with