Family of Craig Robertson Speaks Out

Family of Trump supporter Craig Robertson, who was shot dead in FBI raid, break silence https://t.co/hXA9djQVnt pic.twitter.com/84gD0wY57i

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From the New York Post:

Craig Robertson, 75, was killed when special agents tried to serve him with an arrest warrant at his Provo home early Wednesday, just days after he’d posted on Facebook he planned to dust off his sniper rifle ahead of Biden’s visit to the state, the feds said.

His relatives said Robertson — who they described as a “firearm enthusiast, collector and gunsmith” — loved the US “with all his heart” but had become increasingly disappointed by the Biden administration.

“He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens wrought by what he, and many others in this nation, observed to be a corrupt and overreaching government,” the statement said.

“As an elderly — and largely homebound — man, there was very little he could do but exercise his First Amendment right to free speech and voice his protest in what has become the public square of our age — the internet and social media.

“Though his statements were intemperate at times, he has never, and would never, commit any act of violence against another human being over a political or philosophical disagreement.”

The family described the raid as a “senseless and tragic killing” and said Robertson, who was 300lbs and largely homebound, as a “kind and generous person” who was active in his local church congregation.

It comes after neighbors recalled Robertson as a “decent guy” who had cared for his blind son who was in his 50s.

Defund the FBI.