A Trump adviser with 38 years in law enforcement, who appeared on Fox to dismiss charges that the president hasn’t done enough to stop mass shootings, said that he has been threatened and the FBI and U.S. Secret Service are on the case.
Navy reservist and former FBI terrorist task force member Steven Rogers, after appearing on Fox yesterday, was threatened on a blog by a man who said he could be shot “with a bullet hole through his chest. That’s our reality now. We’re all just waiting our turn.”
Rogers, speaking to Secrets from his Nutley, New Jersey home, said, “this could be a trigger, what he wrote. Maybe this guy Rogers should be shot. This is serious.”
To those crying gun control. Gun control is not the solution. We need real criminal justice reform, enhanced mental health treatment, a return to Community Policing, to start. Time to stop politicizing this and start implementing (not talking about) real solutions.
— Steven Rogers (@LtStevenLRogers) August 4, 2019
Police are now patrolling his neighborhood.
Trump critics have been trying to blame the president’s rhetoric for the shootings this weekend that have left nearly 30 dead. In the worst, in El Paso, Texas, the suspect left an anti-immigrant screed.
Rogers is a member of the 2020 Trump advisory campaign and frequent Trump surrogate on TV.
On Fox, after the shootings, he dismissed the charges against the president and said that Trump has “done a lot” to combat racism and help police.
But that prompted Californian Steve Brown to suggest on Facebook that Rogers will be the next with a bullet in the chest, apparently upset that Rogers said more gun control won’t stop cases like El Paso. He even knew where Rogers lived.
He wrote: “Rogers should know by now that he and his family and friends are not immune to this violence. We’re not ‘crying’ gun control. We’re demanding it. The next time he goes to Walmart, he could wind up in the aisle crying with a bullet hole through his chest. That’s our reality now. We’re all just waiting our turn.”
Rogers said he believes the post, on the Nutley Community Facebook page, is a threat.
Rogers said he reported it to the Nutley Police, where he worked for decades.
“I always say, ‘If you see something, say something.’ Well now I decided to say something,” he said.
As a result, police are making more trips in front of his house and he said that the FBI and Secret Service have been notified.
Let’s not forget the fact that President @realDonaldTrump restored to police much of the tactical equipment we see when they respond to these horrific incidents. -Steven Rogers pic.twitter.com/9fCeWHJzFq
— Steven Rogers (@LtStevenLRogers) August 4, 2019
“This is not an overreaction,” he said. “This is a real concern.”
