A prominent conservative social media figure is the latest to face threats for his vocal pro-Trump content.
Robby Starbuck detailed in an interview on DailyMail.com’s podcast Welcome to MAGAland on Wednesday how he, his four children and his wife have been threatened and had their address ‘doxxed.’
‘A crazy person showed up at our house and banged on the door when my kids were home and I wasn’t home,’ Starbuck recalled.
He added: ‘We had somebody ship mail to our house that required a hazmat team to come out. I’m still not able to say everything that was in it, but there’s an open investigation to find who sent the stuff that was sent.’
The right-wing influencer with nearly 800,000 followers on X said the left wing in the U.S. is becoming ‘increasingly violent’ and explained how he had to increase the security for himself and his family.
Starbuck’s latest revelations come as other conservative media commentators spoke out about their own experience with so-called ‘swatting’ attacks.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed his agency is looking into the dramatic uptick in these incidents.
Conservative media figure Robby Starbuck detailed to DailyMail.com’s Welcome to MAGAland podcast the increasing threats against his family, including people showing up to his home and sending suspicious packages
‘The reality is if I’m being really honest with people you have to understand the left is an increasingly violent movement,’ Starbuck said in the Wednesday interview
At least 10 people reported swatting incidents in the course of just one day last week, an FBI official told DailyMail.com.
Such swatting attacks usually involve the perpetrator reporting an innocent person to law enforcement, which can result in police being sent to their home.
Radio host Joe Pagliarulo, known by his media persona Joe Pags, divulged how he caught a man on camera outside his home with a rifle pointed at the house. It was unclear, Pagliarulo said, whether the individual was police or not.
And InfoWars host Chase Geiser said he had police sent to his home twice within 12 hours.
In the middle of the night, a group of police arrived at Geiser’s home and used their megaphones to call him out of his house by name.
‘I was handcuffed in the middle of the street,’ he detailed on X. ‘I was then led into the house where my wife was woken up and we were informed that they received a call from someone pretending to be me and threatening to kill my family.’
In a post to X, Starbuck said: ‘Someone is going to get killed in a swatting if this continues.’
‘Large accounts on X need to notify your sheriff NOW about the increased swatting risk and ask them to put a note on your address if they can do so. Also ask that they form an anti-swatting list for figures at risk,’ he added.
Speaking with MAGAland just two days after that post, Starbuck said: ‘We’ve had, just crazy, crazy threats, death threats against my children, rape threats against my wife.’
Starbuck warned to his nearly 800k followers on X that someone is going to get killed with the uptick in swatting incidents against conservative media personalities
‘A crazy person showed up at our house and banged on the door when my kids were home and I wasn’t home,’ Starbuck recalled, adding: ‘We’ve had, just crazy, crazy threats, death threats against my children, rape threats against my wife.’ Pictured: Starbuck with his wife Landon Newsom at the Am I Racist? movie premiere on September 9, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee
Conservative radio host Joe ‘Pags’ Pagliarulo released video footage earlier this month of a man outside his home with a rifle – saying it’s unclear whether they are law enforcement or not
Infowars host Chase Geiser posted to X video of police putting him in handcuffs after a person called 911 pretending to be the media personality and threatening to kill his family
‘People have doxxed my children online with their full names, address, everything,’ he added. ‘Somebody was just recently arrested in Oregon for a death threat against me. And the FBI has open cases of death threats against me.’
‘The reality is if I’m being really honest with people you have to understand the left is an increasingly violent movement,’ the media figure said.
Doxxing is when a person’s address or other personal identifiable information is published or shared publicly – usually for malicious purposes so those with bad intentions can reach them.
Satrbuck complained that ‘Democrats are not denouncing’ the rise in attacks and targets against conservative media figures.
‘That’s a long way to say they’re a violent movement and, you just have to continue,’ he said when asked about advice for those who want to speak out but are afraid of being attacked.
‘You’ve got to put your head down, do the work and be honest with people because making a difference is not supposed to be easy,’ he concluded.
FBI Director Kash Patel says he is cracking down on a spike in swatting attacks and an FBI official told DailyMail.com there were 10 reports of such instances in the span of a single day last week
