New Hampshire Police Investigating Anonymous Letters Threatening to Burn Trump Supporters' Homes

Brittany M. Hughes | October 22, 2020

Trump supporters in two New Hampshire towns say they’ve been getting threatening letters from someone vowing to attack them and burn down their homes if Trump loses the presidential election and doesn’t concede.

According to local reports, police say several residents in Milford and at least two in Brookline received the anonymous threatening letters.

"Dear neighbor," the letter reportedly read. "You have been identified by our group as being a Trump supporter. Your address has been added to our database as a target when we attack should Trump not concede the election."
 

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Kelly, one resident whose home is covered with pro-Trump signs and flags, said she received a letter that included a “fair warning” saying she’d better have fire insurance, and a reminder that “it was YOU who started this Civil War.”

“Be prepared to face the severe consequences of your pre-emptive actions against democracy,” the letter concluded.
 
Police now say they’re investigating the letters as a potential felony.

"Not only with us, with criminal threatening," Brookline police Chief Bill Quigley said. "It's on a felony level, because of the threat of burning homes down and causing injury, but it could also be with the postal inspectors, something on the federal level."

 

(Cover Photo: Gage Skidmore)