Aug 16, 2022
Washington – Adam Bies’s goal was simple: kill as many FBI agents as he could, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Monday in eastern Pennsylvania.
And Bies, 46, wasn’t shy about expressing that goal in the days after FBI agents executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, former president Donald Trump’s home and beach resort in south Florida, an agent with the bureau wrote in an affidavit for Bies’s arrest.
He allegedly threatened to “slaughter” and “kill” FBI employees in multiple posts on Gab, a conservative social media platform.
On Monday, FBI agents arrested Bies. He’s charged with threatening to assault or murder a federal law enforcement officer. Bies appeared in court Monday afternoon, and a federal judge scheduled a Thursday hearing to determine whether he should remain locked up as the case against him proceeds.
Court records do not list lawyer for Bies. The federal prosecutor assigned to his case did not immediately return a request for comment from The Washington Post early Tuesday.
Bies’s arrest came a week after FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago, sparking a firestorm among conservative politicians and commentators.
As Trump supporters protested outside the resort that night, Fox News host Sean Hannity distilled many of their criticisms, denouncing the search as “a dark day for our republic, the Department of Justice, the rule of law,” The Post reported.
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