{"id":2448508,"date":"2025-06-17T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-cramer-urges-fbi-to-utilize-visits-to-quell-future-political-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:52:46","slug":"kevin-cramer-urges-fbi-to-utilize-visits-to-quell-future-political-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-cramer-urges-fbi-to-utilize-visits-to-quell-future-political-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Cramer urges FBI to utilize visits to quell future political violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-cramer-urges-fbi-to-utilize-visits-to-quell-future-political-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2448508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-more-americans-decide-the-system-is-rigged-the-more-they-will-silently-rebel\/\" title=\"The More Americans Decide The System Is Rigged, The More They Will Silently Rebel\">escalating political violence<\/a>, Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota has urged an increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >congressional security adn greater involvement<\/a> from the FBI to address harmful online rhetoric.This call to action follows a tragic incident in Minnesota where two state lawmakers were shot, resulting in fatalities and injuries. Cramer highlights the need for immediate confrontation when online expressions of anger cross into threats, advocating for FBI interventions as perhaps effective deterrents.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that threats should be treated as assaults,requiring serious consideration beyond mere free speech protections. Cramer also called for increased personal security measures for lawmakers, acknowledging the challenges faced by Capitol police in ensuring safety for all members of Congress and their families. The recent Minnesota shooting has raised further discussions about political violence, with opinions suggesting that many perpetrators are disconnected from reality despite their political motives. The suspect in the shootings now faces both federal and state charges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Kevin Cramer urges FBI to utilize visits to quell future political violence<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2146770\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/sen-kevin-cramer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Sen. Kevin Cramer<\/a> (R-ND) called for an uptick in congressional security amid rising political violence, suggesting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> needs to be more involved in confronting online &ldquo;rhetoric.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Cramer&rsquo;s call for action comes after two&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/minnesota\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a>&nbsp;state lawmakers were shot early Saturday morning, resulting in the death of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3442053\/two-minnesota-lawmakers-shot-by-suspect-impersonating-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman<\/a>&nbsp;and her husband, along with the injuries of Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.<\/span> Cramer suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">social media<\/a> and online discourse are partly to blame, noting that it has gone from people using freedom of speech to vent their frustration to people issuing &ldquo;threats&rdquo; against others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3444480\/supreme-court-disclosures-2024-ketanji-brown-jackson-book\/\">Ketanji Brown Jackson received $2 million for book, financial disclosures show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3444746\/salena-zito-suggests-recent-attacks-are-unhinged-not-political\/\">Salena Zito suggests recent attacks are &#8216;unhinged from reality,&#8217; not political<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3444769\/pennsylvania-man-pipe-bombs-home-no-kings-protest\/\">Police find seven pipe bombs in home of man arrested near &#8216;No Kings&#8217; protest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;When they cross that line from anger to a threat, I think they have to be confronted immediately,&rdquo; Cramer stated on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Faulkner Focus<\/em>. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing like a visit by an FBI agent at your front door for somebody to apologize profusely and say &lsquo;I didn&rsquo;t mean to go that far.&rsquo; I think that&rsquo;s helpful. I think some prosecutions are helpful. I think far too often, we just sort of say &lsquo;well, you know, prosecutors will say, well, freedom of speech and all that.&rsquo; No, a threat is assault and it needs to be treated as such. We have to deter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2987300&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=b8c15d5c0053fb2daab7704ce3b20b84\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amid the concern on political violence, Cramer said he is calling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-live-q-biden-readies-executive-orders\/\" title=\"Video: Live Q&amp;A: Increased Security the \u2018New Normal\u2019 In Washington; Biden Readies Executive Orders\">increased security<\/a> for himself, citing that his family needs to have peace of mind that they are safe. He acknowledged that the &ldquo;challenge&rdquo; this poses to Capitol police is protecting 535 lawmakers and their families, but stressed that this must be accomplished and that &ldquo;hopefully&rdquo; society changes overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Minnesota shootings, the <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> Salena Zito has argued that those committing political violence do so because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3444746\/salena-zito-suggests-recent-attacks-are-unhinged-not-political\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">they are &ldquo;unhinged from reality.&rdquo;<\/a> She acknowledged that some perpetrators will use politics or religion as their motive, but suggested that the actions by these people have &ldquo;nothing actually to do with how people really feel about politics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3444075\/donald-trump-tim-walz-minnesota-lawmakers-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP SAYS HE WON&rsquo;T &lsquo;WASTE TIME&rsquo; CALLING WALZ OVER MINNESOTA LAWMAKERS SHOOTING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides the respective killing and injury of Hortman and Hoffman, other acts of political violence in the last year include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3443423\/10-year-anniversary-maga-movement-trump-transformative-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump<\/a>, in July and September, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3378952\/josh-shapiro-fire-pennsylvania-governor-mansion-family-evacuated-arson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">arson attack against Gov. Josh Shapiro&rsquo;s<\/a> (D-PA) governor&rsquo;s mansion in April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect in the Minnesota shootings, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3443502\/vance-boelter-no-plea-deal-remain-custody-until-next-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">facing federal and state charges<\/a>. He made his first appearance in federal court on Monday, and will remain in the custody of U.S. marshals until his next hearing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2146770\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2146770\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Cramer calls for FBI visits to address political violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2448509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin-Cramer-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50645,51132,51050,35049],"class_list":["post-2448508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-fbi-2","tag-kevin-cramer","tag-law-enforcement-2","tag-political-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin-Cramer-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448512,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448508\/revisions\/2448512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}