Nikki Haley Targeted in 'Swatting' Incident

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The events ranged from riots to brawls at political demonstrations to beatings and murders.
39% : The swatting wave coincides with the most sustained spate of political violence in the United States since the 1970s, according to a Reuters investigation last year.
38% : Trump, famed for his incendiary rhetoric, has expressed fury at Haley in recent weeks.
37% : In the early morning hours of Jan. 11, police in Nassau County, New York, received a report of a bomb at the home of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the civil fraud trial of Trump and his family real estate business.
36% : Judges and at least one prosecutor handling cases against Trump have been targeted.
36% : One such incident targeted the Florida home of Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on Dec. 27, weeks after he endorsed Trump, according to records from the Naples Police Department.
33% : But Trump backers such as U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene have also faced swatting attempts.
28% : Law enforcement experts see it as a form of intimidation or harassment that is increasingly being used to target political figures and officials involved in the civil and criminal cases against Trump.
25% : The targets include figures who have publicly opposed Trump, such as Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat who barred him from her state's primary ballot.
24% : That report documented at least 232 politically motivated acts of violence since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
21% : Judges in Trump Cases Are TargetedSimilar scare tactics have been directed in recent weeks at judges and prosecutors involved in cases against Trump.
21% : Just days earlier, police in Washington, D.C., responded to a false report of a shooting at the home of U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is hearing the criminal case charging Trump with attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
8% : Haley has ramped up her criticism of Trump, suggesting he's too old to be president again and calling him "totally unhinged.

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