Homan taking death threats against him ‘more seriously’ after Trump officials targeted with violent threats

Incoming Trump borderline czar Tom Homan reacted to quality of decease threats against Trump nominees connected Wednesday and said helium present takes the decease threats helium has antecedently received seriously. 

"I person not taken this superior up to this point," Homan told Fox News anchor Gillian Turner connected "The Story" connected Wednesday, referring to erstwhile decease threats made against him and his family. 

"Now that I cognize what's happened successful the past 24 hours. I volition instrumentality it a small much serious. But look, I've been dealing with this. When I was the ICE manager successful the archetypal administration, I had galore decease threats. I had a information item with maine each the time. Even aft I retired, decease threats continued and adjacent aft I retired arsenic the ICE Director. I had U.S. Marshals extortion for a agelong clip to support maine and my family."

Homan explained that what "doesn't help" the concern is the "negative press" astir Trump. 

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"I'm not successful the cabinet, but, you know, I've work galore deed pieces. I mean, you know, I'm a racist and, you know, I'm the begetter of household separation, each this different stuff. So the hatred media doesn't assistance astatine each due to the fact that determination are immoderate nuts retired there. They'll instrumentality advantage. So that doesn't help."

Homan's comments travel soon aft Fox News Digital archetypal reported that astir a twelve of President-elect Donald Trump's furniture nominees and different appointees tapped for the incoming medication were targeted Tuesday nighttime with "violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who unrecorded with them," prompting a "swift" instrumentality enforcement response.

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The "attacks ranged from weaponry threats to ‘swatting,’" according to Trump-Vance modulation spokeswoman and incoming White House property caput Karoline Leavitt.

"Last nighttime and this morning, respective of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and medication appointees were targeted successful violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who unrecorded with them," she told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday. "In response, instrumentality enforcement acted rapidly to guarantee the information of those who were targeted. President Trump and the full Transition squad are grateful for their swift action." 

Sources told Fox News Digital that John Ratcliffe, the nominee to beryllium CIA director, Pete Hegseth, the nominee for caput of defense, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the nominee for UN ambassador, were among those targeted. Brooke Rollins, who Trump has tapped to beryllium caput of agriculture, and Lee Zeldin, Trump's nominee to beryllium EPA administrator, separately revealed they were besides targeted. 

Threats were besides made against Trump's Labor Secretary nominee, GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and erstwhile Trump lawyer wide nominee Matt Gaetz's family. 

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Homan told Fox News that helium is "not going to beryllium intimidated by these people" and "I'm not going to fto them soundlessness me."

"What I've learned contiguous I'll commencement taking a small much serious."

Homan added that helium believes "we request to person a beardown effect erstwhile we find retired is down each this."

"It's amerciable to endanger someone's life. And we request to travel done with that."

The threats connected Tuesday nighttime came specified months aft Trump survived 2 assassination attempts.

Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman contributed to this report