Anti-Trump summit evacuates after receiving bomb threat

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Bomb Threat Made at Principles First Summit; Will FBI & ATF Conduct The Necessary Investigation?
by Glenn Kirschner
Feb 23, 2025

I had the pleasure of speaking at today Principles First Summit. During the conference, a "credible bomb threat" was made that required the premises to be cleared out while law enforcement with bomb-sniffing dogs secured and cleared the scene.

An email was received explaining the motivation for the bomb threat and listing a number speakers at the conference who "deserve to die", myself included.

The question now is: will the FBI and the ATF - with Kash Patel serving as the director of both of those organization - conduct the through, aggressive, professional investigation necessary to hold accountable the person or persons who issue today's bomb threat?



Transcript

so friends today Sunday I spoke at the
principal's first summit in Washington
D.C and while I was there there was a
bomb threat and there was an email that
was sent explaining what motivated the
bomb threat the email said among other
things that some of the speakers at the
conference including myself quote
deserve to die
well guess what
friends the people who are fighting for
the rule of law for the
Constitution for a healthy American
democracy will not be
intimidated because
Justice matters
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hey all Glen kersner here so friends
this is not the video I thought I would
be making
today I was invited to speak at the 2025
principles first summit in Washington DC
what is principles first well it's an
organization made up of conservatives
Republicans former Republicans an people
who now identify as unaffiliated to any
political party even though they are
conservative because they feel like the
Republican party has left them behind
many of them feel like the Republican
party is
dead and this is an organization that as
its name suggests believe we have to put
principles first regardless of party or
ideology and so when they invited me to
come speak to this conservative
organization I jumped at the chance you
may remember not too long ago I posted a
video and a written piece on substack
explaining why I left MSNBC it was
because I felt like I was preaching to
the converted and I wanted to begin to
speak with more conservative audiences
go on conservative media Outlets if they
were would have me to talk about the
importance of the rule of law to a
healthy democracy not from a place of
politics or ideology
so I happily accepted the invitation to
speak at today's principal's first
summit and while I was there a bomb
threat came in and there was an email
that was sent explaining what the bomb
threat was all
about let's start with the new reporting
this from the Independent anti-trump
Summit in DC evacuates after receiving
credible bomb threat
and that article reads in part A
Gathering of anti-trump conservatives in
Washington DC was evacuated on Sunday
after receiving what officials with the
organization called a credible bomb
threat quote hotel security private
security and MPD the Metropolitan Police
Department have made the decision to
evacuate Summit floor so that the area
can be secured we intend to reconvene
and continue with the summit once the
area has been secured read the statement
from the summit's organizers on Sunday
afternoon and we first learned about the
email that was sent explaining the
motivation behind the bomb threat when
Jim aosta posted it here's what Jim
posted here is the bomb threat at the
principal's first summit in D.C I'm told
by a source familiar with the situation
that this is the threat below C email
attached it mentions Michael fenon and
his mother as well as other attendees at
the
conference and here's the email that Jim
references to honor the j6 hostages
recently released by Emperor Trump I've
constructed four pipe bombs out of 1x8
in threaded galvanized pipes end caps
kitchen timers some wires metal clips
and a homemade black powder I recently
placed one in inside of a room I rented
at the JW Marriott at 1331 Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest Washington DC which is
where the summit was being held it is
rigged to explode as soon as the door
next opens I also shoved another pipe
bomb down the toilet in the bathroom
nearby where the principal's first
summit is being held Mark cubin Chris
Christie John Bolton George Conway J
Michael ludig Adam kinzinger Michael
steel Jeff Duncan Bill Crystal Frank
fusy Glenn kersner Steven reer Norm
Eisen and especially Mike fenon all
deserve to
die in that Spirit the third device has
been placed inside Michael phone's
mother's mailbox which is rigged to
explode when the mailbox opens currently
I am nearby John Bolton's home by the
time you've read this email the final
device will have been deposited inside
of his mailbox and rigged to explode in
the same way to my family I simply did
what needed to be
done
Maga so friends I just want to say two
things about today's
events first of all this kind of a bomb
threat would typically be investigated
jointly by the FBI and the ATF the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco
firearms and
explosives who's the head of the
FBI cash Patel who's the head of the
ATF well Donald Trump just said he wants
cash Patel to head up the ATF as
well well friends let me tell you given
that I am one of the named targets of
this you know email alleging that
they're were bombs placed at today's
conference I will be keeping up on the
nature and the
progress the existence of a federal
investigation into today's
events and the second thing I want to
say
friends is not only will this not deter
me deter us from fighting for the rule
of law fighting for accountability
fighting for
justice it will energize us it will
motivate us it will inspire us to keep
going we will never
stop because
Justice
matters friends as always please stay
safe please stay tuned and I look
forward to talking with you all again
tomorrow
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Anti-Trump summit in DC evacuates after receiving ‘credible bomb threat’: DC Marriott hotel evacuates convention floor as building was swept, event organizers said
by John Bowden
Washington, D.C.
UK Independent
Sunday 23 February 2025 17:20 EST
https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 03227.html

A gathering of anti-Trump conservatives in Washington DC was evacuated on Sunday after receiving what officials with the organization called a “credible bomb threat” they said was sent in by an account claiming to represent Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys.

Video of attendees being evacuated was posted to Twitter along with a statement from summit organizers. An initial version of the statement identified Tarrio — who’d been at the summit on Saturday “harrassing” families of officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, per organizers — as having sent in the threat.

“Hotel security, private security, and MPD have made the decision to evacuate Summit floor so that the area can be secured. We intend to reconvene and continue with the Summit once the area has been secured,” read the statement from the summit’s organizers on Sunday afternoon.

It was edited within a few minutes to say that the threat was sent by an account “claiming” to represent Tarrio, who was also arrested this weekend at the Capitol after allegedly assaulting a counter-protester.

The Independent has reached out to convention organizers for more information on the account where the bomb threat originated. In a second tweet, the Principles First summit organizers said that the threat was emailed by an account with the name “Enrique T,” and continued: “we do not have definitive proof of the email’s origin at this time and so cannot say with certainty who sent the email.”

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Tarrio himself responded with an apparent threat to sue for defamation in a tweet: “They literally edited their tweet. Too late you f---ing scumbags. You don’t get to retract now. PRESERVE YOUR F---ING DOCUMENTS.”

The summit was attended by numerous high-profile opponents of Donald Trump and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party. It’s also known as a sort of “CPAC alternative”, given that it is held the same weekend as the three-day CPAC gathering in National Harbor, just across the river from downtown DC.

Guests this year included hosts and writers from The Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative publication, including Sarah Longwell, J.V. Last and Tim Miller, as well as the remnants of the Republican Party’s anti-Trump circles. Other speakers included George Conway, attorney and ex-husband to Kellyanne Conway, and former RNC chairman Michael Steele, now an MSNBC host, as well as billionaire Mark Cuban.

Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta posted an image of the alleged bomb threat to Twitter; the image names Cuban, Fanone, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and other attendees, whom the author says “deserve to die.”

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Jim Acosta @Acosta

Here is the bomb threat at the Principles First summit in DC. I’m told by a source familiar with the situation this is the threat below (see email attached). It mentions Michael Fanone and his mother as well as other attendees at the conference.

To honor the J6 hostages recently released by Emperor Trump, I've constructed four pipe bombs out of 1x8-inch threaded galvanizesd pipes, end caps, kitchen timers, some wires, metal clips and homemade black powder. I recently placed on inside of a room I rented at the J.W. Marriott at 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C 20004. It is rigged to explode as soon as the door next opens. I also shoved another pipe bomb down the toilet in the bathroom nearby where the Principles First Summit is being held.

Mark Cuban, Chris Christie, John Bolton, George Conway, J. Michael Luttig, Adam Kinzinger, Michael Steeler, Geoff Duncan, Bill Kristol, faggot Frank Figliuzzi, Glenn Kirschner, Stephen Richer, Norm Eisen, and especially Michael Fanone all deserve to die. In that spirit, the third device has been placed inside Michael Fanone's mother's mailbox at [DELETE] which is rigged to explode when the mailbox opens.

Currently I am nearby John Bolton's home of [DELETE] by the time you've read this email, the final device will have been deposited inside of his mailbox and rigged to explode in the same way.

To my family, I simply did what needed to be done. MAGA.

11:50 AM · Feb 23, 2025

The statement posted by Acosta refers to multiple explosive devices. Police have not yet authenticated the threat, and the image does not mention Tarrio or any social media accounts by name.

Police officers who gained national prominence for speaking out about the assault on the Capitol and what they witnessed that day, including Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell also attended the conference. They testified in the wake of the attack to hearing racist and extremely violent rhetoric hurled at them by protesters — including the hundreds pardoned by Donald Trump after his inauguration — while battling rioters in the halls of Congress.

On Friday, they traded insults with Tarrio as he followed them through the lobby of the Marriott in downtown DC, where the Principles First summit was held this weekend.

“You’re a traitor to this country,” an angry Fanone told Tarrio as the former Proud Boys leader attempted to instigate a verbal showdown.

DC has been slightly on edge all weekend, thanks to the arrival of the MAGA influencer sphere for the CPAC conference. Protesters hurled abuse at partygoers attending a DOGE “appreciation party” in northeastern DC on Saturday, while some January 6 rioters/social media stars were thrown out of CPAC itself, clashing with host Matt Schlapp in the process.