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The fatal shooting by the FBI of a Utah man accused of threatening Joe Biden and other public figures has fueled anger among many in right-wing circles, Newsweek reports.

Craig Deleeuw Robertson was accused of making threats against Biden ahead of the President’s scheduled visit to the state. He was killed as authorities arrived at his Provo home with a warrant for his arrest Wednesday.

Right-wing media personality Glenn Beck suggested that the circumstances surrounding Robertson’s shooting are suspect.

“I'm seeing the government do things I've never seen in my 40+ years of broadcasting. People have mailed credible threats to presidents for years,” Beck wrote on his social media account.

“They've (rightly) been investigated for it, but I've never seen the FBI gun anybody down for it. Ever. This is not normal.”

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Conservative author Andrew Pollack wrote on his social media account that, “The FBI hunted and killed a 75-year-old Trump supporter over a Facebook post, but didn’t arrest Ray Epps for telling people to go into the Capitol. Really makes you think."

Epps is currently suing Fox News for defamation after the network suggested he was an undercover FBI agent at the Capitol to spur on rioters.

The Citizen Free Press, a right-wing outlet, wrote on social media,“What did the FBI do when Madonna said she had ‘thought an awful lot about blowing up the Trump White House?" They did nothing."

The outlet in another post wrote: “Pre-dawn raid on an elderly man because he was spitting his dumb mouth on Facebook.”

“Biden's FBI.”

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"That is precisely the claim that the chairman of your committee, James Comer and also Jim Jordan, have made many times on public record. Here on this network.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is reportedly pushing back on rumors being spread by the Trump campaign in a TV ad.

Willis, who it was recently reported will be seeking more than a dozen indictments in the near future in her investigation into 2020 election tampering, called the allegations “derogatory and false" in an internal email, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's report on Wednesday.

"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday flatly denied that she had a relationship with a former client and other rumors spread by former President Donald Trump in a new campaign ad," the outlet reported. "In an email to her colleagues, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Willis called the information in a television spot bankrolled by the Trump campaign 'derogatory and false.' She urged her staff not to respond to any of the allegations."

AJC senior reporter Tamar Hallerman included the following quote from the Willis email:

“You may not comment in any way on the ad or any of the negativity that may be expressed against me, your colleagues, this office in the coming days, weeks or months,” Willis wrote in the email, sent early Wednesday. “We have no personal feelings against those we investigate or prosecute and we should not express any.”

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Here's what she denied:

"In the minute-long ad, titled 'The Fraud Squad,' the narrator refers to Willis as 'Biden’s newest lackey.' It says that Willis presided over a sharp rise of violent crimes in Atlanta and highlights her office being disqualified from investigating Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in her long-running election interference case due to a political conflict of interest," the report states. "But the most incendiary allegation is that Willis 'got caught hiding a relationship with a gang member she was prosecuting.' It cites as evidence a Jan. 25, 2023, article in Rolling Stone."

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Trump's team "anticipated that this unconstitutional act might lead to widespread unrest, and that they planned for the commander-in-chief to order federal troops (or federalized National Guardsmen) to put down those riots."

The judge in Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 election conspiracy case is likely to issue a gag order in response to the former president’s incendiary rhetoric, a legal expert said Monday.

Retired California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” said one of the former president’s social media posts in particular was “clearly a threat.”

Cordell’s comments came in response to a question from Collins over whether Trump’s all-caps Truth Social post on Friday in which he wrote "IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!" would likely influence Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision over whether to issue a protective order.

“I don't know necessarily that that quote impacts the protective order, but that certainly would get me thinking if I were the trial judge about a gag order in this case,” Cordell said.

“It's clearly a threat, and a good trial judge doesn't just look at the law, you use common sense.”

Cordell said the timing of Trump’s post, the day after he was arraigned, would also likely figure into how a judge would look at the rhetoric.

Cordell said she believes a gag order is likely and that “my guess is Trump would violate it in a heartbeat and then we'll see what the judge does in terms of consequences for violating yet another court order.”

Seeking clarification, Collins asked: “So you think there will be a gag order here? At least you think that there should be?”

“I absolutely can see it coming because this man cannot shut up. He's a ‘chatty Charlie’ and he's going to just talk and talk and he really doesn't care about rules that say you can speak or cannot speak,” Cordell said.

“So this is where the test of a good trial judge comes about. If you're going to have a fair trial, it's going to be by the rules set by that person in the black robe. And if the rules are you do not talk about this other than in the court, because it's not punishment it's to ensure fair trial. If that doesn't happen, there have to be immediate consequences to violating a court order.

“Only in that way can everyone have respect for the system.”

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Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on special counsel Jack Smith and U.S. District Court judge Tanya Chutkan hours before his legal team has been ordered to answer for his previous comments about his prosecution.

The special counsel's office asked Chutkan to set limits on what Trump's team could do with evidence shared with them after Trump posted an apparent threat against witnesses in the case, and the judge set a deadline for 5 p.m. Monday to respond to that motion -- and the former president continued commenting.

"Deranged Jack Smith is going before his number on draft pick, the Judge of his 'dreams' (WHO MUST BE RECUSED!), in an attempt to take away my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS," Trump posted on his Truth Social website. "This, despite the fact that he, the DOJ, and his many Thug Prosecutors, are illegally leaking, everything and anything, to the Fake News Media!!!"

Prosecutors sought in their original protective order request to prohibit Trump's attorneys from providing copies of "sensitive" details from grand jury transcripts and other evidence to the ex-president because they feared he would publicly share them or take other actions that could possibly obstruct the case.

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Trump could be shown those materials under those restrictions but would not be allowed to take down personal identifying information from those documents.