The FBI said it was acquainted of "numerous bomb threats" as able-bodied as "swatting incidents", in which hoax calls are fabricated to allure a badge acknowledgment to the target's home.
Threats were fabricated adjoin at atomic nine bodies alleged by Trump to advance the Departments of Defense, Housing, Agriculture and Labor, as able-bodied as his aces for US agent to the United Nations, amid others.
Police are investigating the incidents, which happened on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Karoline Leavitt, a backer for Trump's alteration team, said the Trump appointees “were targeted in violent, un-American threats to their lives and those who alive with them”.
She said "law administering acted bound to ensure" the nominees' safety.
"With President Trump as our example, alarming acts of browbeating and abandon will not avert us,” she said.
Neither Leavitt nor the FBI articular any of the targets by name.
New York Republican Elise Stefanik, who Trump has alleged to be the US agent to the United Nations, was the aboriginal to say her ancestor's home had been targeted by a bomb threat.
Her appointment said the congresswoman was abreast of the blackmail while she was active with her bedmate and three-year-old son from Washington DC to New York for Thanksgiving.
Defense secretary appointee Pete Hegseth afterwards accepted that he was additionally targeted.
On X, he said that a badge ambassador had apparent up at his home on Wednesday morning, as his seven accouchements were sleeping central to acquaint him, they had accustomed "an aboveboard aqueduct bomb threat".
"I will not be afraid or intimidated. Never," he wrote. "President Trump has alleged on me to serve - and that is what I intend to do.”
- 'I had 60 abnormal to assure my family': Swatting targets US politicians
Trump, who survived two assassination attempts during his campaign, was not amid those who accustomed the hoax calls, law administering sources told US media.
He has accustomed 18-carat threats recently, according to admiral in Arizona who arrested a man beforehand this anniversary for announcement videos on a "near-daily basis" in which he threatened to annihilate Trump and his family.
None of those targeted this anniversary were adequate by the US Secret Service, according to media reports.
Lee Zeldin, who Trump has nominated to become ambassador of the Environmental Protection Agency, additionally accepted he was targeted, adage a "pipe bomb threat" was beatific to his home with a “pro-Palestinian themed message”.
"My ancestors and I were not home at the time and are safe," he said. "We are beholden for the abrupt accomplishments taken by bounded officers."
Brooke Rollins, Trump's aces to advance the Department of Agriculture, acquaint on X to acknowledge badge in Fort Worth, Texas, for their "swift efforts" to investigate a blackmail to her ancestors on Wednesday morning.
"We were complete and bound alternate home," she wrote.
Scott Turner, Trump’s aces for Department of Housing, and Lori Chavez-Deremer, his aces for Labour Secretary, additionally acquaint on amusing media that they had been targeted. They anniversary vowed that they would not be beat by the threats.
President Joe Biden has been abreast on the incidents, the White House said in a statement.
"The White House is in blow with federal law administering and the President-elect’s team and continues to adviser the bearings closely."
US Capitol Police, which protects Congress, said in the account that it was alive with federal law administering agencies on any "swatting", but beneath to accommodate added accommodation "to minimize the accident of copycats".
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, who afresh alone out of the active to become US advocate general, was additionally targeted.
The sheriff's appointment in Florida's Okaloosa County accepted that a bomb blackmail targeted an abode in the boondocks of Niceville.
The home's mailbox was austere, and no accessories were located, badge said, and a chase of the breadth did not bare anything.
New York badge told the BBC's US accomplice CBS News that the New York home of Trump's appointee for business secretary, Howard Lutrick, was additionally threatened.
Pam Bondi, who was called to alter Gaetz as Trump's nominee, was additionally targeted forth with admission White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to CBS.
Fox Newsletters that John Ratcliffe, Trump's appointee to be administrator of the CIA, additionally accustomed threats.
Similar hoax approach accepts been afresh acclimated adjoin added high-profile political figures, including adjoin the board and prosecutors who oversaw the bent cases adjoin Trump.
Last year, US politicians about the country were swatted over Christmas. Most were Republican, but some Democrats were targeted as well.
