Federal authorities are warning of an increase in threats to law enforcement officials following the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. 

The threats, which are “occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms, including social media sites, web forums, video sharing platforms, and image boards,” were identified by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the days following the FBI’s authorized seizure of 11 sets of classified documents from the former president’s home, including four sets that were classified “top secret,” according to the unsealed search warrant.

“The FBI and DHS would like to ensure that law enforcement, court, and government personnel are aware of the range of threats and criminal and violent incidents,” the memo read. 

The internal intelligence memo was shared with state, local, tribal and territorial law enforcement officials nationwide late Friday night. 

According to the bulletin, “the FBI and DHS have observed an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities, including a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI Headquarters and issuing general calls for ‘civil war’ and ‘armed rebellion.'”

That includes threats that are “specific in identifying proposed targets, tactics, or weaponry,” the bulletin noted. 

“Since 8 August 2022, the FBI and DHS have identified multiple articulated threats and calls for the targeted killing of judicial, law enforcement, and government officials associated with the Palm Beach search, including the federal judge who approved the Palm Beach search warrant,” the bulletin continued. “The FBI and DHS have also observed the personal identifying information of possible targets of violence, such as home addresses and identification of family members, disseminated online as additional targets.”

The assessment noted that three days after the search, “Ricky Shiffer, Jr., wearing a technical vest and armed with an AR-style rifle and a nail gun, attempted to forcibly enter the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office,” and it described the standoff with FBI and law enforcement officers that ultimately resulted in Shiffer’s death.

Hours before Shiffer’s standoff, he had appeared to post on former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social that he wanted to kill federal agents. 

The post, which has since been removed by the site’s moderators, appeared shortly after the FBI searched the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence last Monday.

“When they come for you, kill them,” the suspect wrote. “Be an American, not a steer.”

The posts represent just a fraction of the violent extremist content flooding far-right message boards and social media platforms in the wake of the FBI’s search of the Mar-a-Lago resort. Phrases including “civil war” and “lock and load” trended across Telegram channels, Gab, Reddit and TheDonald, a popular forum among Trump supporters.

“As a result of recent activities, we assess that potential targets of DVE violence moving forward could include law enforcement, judicial officials, individuals implicated in conspiracy theories and perceived ideological opponents who challenge their worldview,” the joint bulletin continues. 

It warns that events could “escalate the threat environment” further, including “possible future law enforcement or legal actions against individuals associated with the Palm Beach search, statements by public officials which incite violence, high profile successful DVE attacks that inspire copycats, or the emergence of additional conspiracy theories.”

The bulletin also states that the threats seen so far since the search point to the possibility that domestic violent extremists could see the 2022 midterm elections in November as “an additional flashpoint around which to escalate threats against perceived ideological opponents, including federal law enforcement personnel.”

ABC News was the first to report on the intelligence bulletin. DHS has declined to comment. 

In a statement, an FBI spokesperson said the agency is “always concerned about violence and threats of violence to law enforcement, including the men and women of the FBI.” 

“We work closely with our law enforcement partners to assess and respond to such threats, which are reprehensible and dangerous,” the statement continued. “As always, we would like to remind members of the public that if they observe anything suspicious to report it to law enforcement immediately.”

Jeff Pegues and Jake Rosen contributed to this report. 

In August 2020, The Steeple Times asked: “Was Melania Trump trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein” and now with revelations yesterday in Business Insider that the former first lady was nicknamed “Rapunzel” by the American secret services we again revisit the story of the connections between these equally strange characters.

As we previously suggested back in 2020, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly began telling anyone who’d listen that he was the one that introduced the then Melania Knauss to Donald Trump just after the 45^th POTUS came to power in 2017.

Going further, at the time, we added:

“Given the disgraced financier’s planes frequently jetted back and forth to Eastern Europe, stranger things indeed have happened [than that it was Jeffrey Epstein whom first brought the now former first lady into America]. Melania Trump could have flown on the infamous ‘Lolita Express’ and she could [even have been] one of mucky Maxwell’s recruits.”

Though photographed repeatedly with the deviant duo over the years, the Trumps – whom first met according to Wikipedia in September 1998 – have repeatedly rubbished Epstein’s claim and attempted to distance themselves from the croaked paedophile.

Responding of Epstein’s wild allegation, another man who claims to have introduced Melania Knauss – subsequently “nicknamed ‘Rapunzel’ by the secret service because she rarely left ‘her tower, aka the White House residence’” – to Donald Trump, Italian nightclub Paolo Zampolli, simply responded “NO WAY. Fake news. B.S.”

Pictured top: A mock version of Melania Trump in fancy dress (left) and a real photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in fancy dress at Windsor Castle in 2006. Epstein dressed in a Navy SEAL uniform for the occasion – Princess Beatrice’s 18^th birthday party – and included both legitimate service ribbons and medals and fictitious ones in spite of the fact he’d never been a Navy SEAL.

Donald Trump – whom “wished” his one-time chum Ghislaine Maxwell “well” in July 2020 – and his wife Melania Trump have appeared in many pictures with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell. According to ‘Insider’ in July 2019: “After Trump was elected president, Epstein started claiming that he was the one who introduced Trump to then-Slovenian model Melania Knauss.”
In October 2000, the Duke of York was pictured at a nightclub alongside Ghislaine Maxwell and Heidi Klum. The theme of the bash was ‘pimps and hookers’ and for the occasion the ‘Bouncing Czech’s’ deviant daughter dressed in “a bleach blonde wig, midriff bearing top and gold pants” whilst the model wore “a black wig, red lipstick, black latex bodice and black skirt.”Melania Trump’s outfits, due to her position on the international stage, have regularly been dissected by the media. Her “fashion fails” – unlike those of Ghislaine Maxwell – however, have not to our knowledge included dressing up as a hooker.

What I will say now that I keep silent about because I was asked to is there exists a photo showing Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Bohemian Grove.

The elite meet there once every year to worship a 30-40 foot owl god they call “Molech”. pic.twitter.com/CTXCtvemw0

— Kirby Sommers author, feminist, sex slave survivor (@KirbySommers) October 3, 2021In further evidence of the bizarre and frankly weird activities supposedly ‘enjoyed’ by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell this morning, crusading author Kirby Sommers tweeted: “What I will say now that I keep silent about because I was asked to is there exists a photo showing Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Bohemian Grove. The elite meet there once every year to worship a 30-40 foot owl god they call ‘Molech.’”

In another recent tweet, Sommers shared an image of Donald Trump with Robert Maxwell and asked an important question. Her missive read: “Robert Maxwell was one of Donald Trump’s first forays into Russia. Did Maxwell launder money for Trump?”

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI on social media Saturday night, calling their integrity into question days after they conducted a raid on his private Florida residence.

In a series of posts, Trump called the FBI “corrupt” and claimed their raid at Mar-a-Lago on Monday was just the latest in a series of attempts to undermine him. These claims are unsubstantiated.

“The FBI has a long and unrelenting history of being corrupt. Just look back to the days of J. Edgar Hoover,” the former president wrote on TRUTH Social, referencing the first director of the federal bureau.

Trump added: “In the modern era, nothing has changed except that it has gotten far worse.”

FBI SEIZED CLASSIFIED RECORDS FROM MAR-A-LAGO DURING RAID OF TRUMP’S FLORIDA RESIDENCE

The former president then made a series of unverified claims involving former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page. He also referenced the way the FBI impacted the 2016 presidential election.

“Look at Comey, McCabe, Strzok and lover Lisa Page. Check out the brilliantly written but damning I.G. Reports. See what they were willing to do in order to get Crooked Hillary Clinton elected (they failed), and got caught! They spied on my campaign, pushed the FAKE Dossier, and illegally used the FISA Court,” Trump claimed.

FBI SEIZES PRIVILEGED TRUMP RECORDS DURING RAID; DOJ OPPOSES REQUEST FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEW: SOURCES

“I was fully vindicated in the Russia, Russia, Russia SCAM, the “No Collusion” Mueller Investigation, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and all else. NOW THEY RAID MY HOME, ban my lawyers and, without any witnesses allowed, break the lock that they asked us to install on the storage area that we showed them early on, which held papers that they could have had months ago for the asking, and without the ridiculous political grandstanding of a ‘break in’ to a very storied, important, and high visibility place, just before the Midterm Elections,” he continued.

Trump also conspiratorially suggested the FBI could have planted evidence against him during their raid, though there is no evidence to suggest this.

“The whole World was watching as the FBI rummaged through the house, including the former First Lady’s closets (and clothing!), alone and unchecked. They even demanded that the security cameras be turned off (we refused), but there was no way of knowing if what they took was legitimate, or was there a ‘plant?’ This was, after all, the FBI!”

FBI SEIZED CLASSIFIED RECORDS FROM MAR-A-LAGO DURING SEARCH OF TRUMP RESIDENCE

The former president also “ReTruthed” or shared a series of posts that further condemned the FBI, calling it a “criminal RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] enterprise.” 

Another post that Trump shared claimed without proof that the FBI commits “collusion” as well as “treason, espionage [and] sedition.” 

Former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.  (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

On Monday, the FBI spent several hours executing a search warrant on Trump’s Florida estate where they found boxes that contained varying degrees of classification, including, top secret and confidential information. 

The search warrant, unsealed by a judge days later, showed the FBI search was connected to a possible violation of the Espionage Act.

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The incident was the first time in U.S. history the FBI conducted such a raid on the residence of a former U.S. president.