Buttigieg targeted in false report, police say

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twin children after an anonymous caller reported false accusations to Child Protective Services (CPS). 

In a Substack post titled “A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family,” the former Biden administration official said he was the subject of a “swatting” incident, a type of harassment in which someone issues a false emergency report. 

Buttigieg wrote that he was separated from his children for 24 hours while CPS conducted forensic interviews. The former secretary called this time period “among the darkest hours of my life.”

The Democrat said that a CPS worker and a police officer showed up at his house in Traverse City, Mich., after an anonymous caller claimed that he had spoken with a woman whom Buttigieg had personally told at a conference that he “had committed unspeakable violent crimes.” 

Buttigieg said he had never been to the Alabama town where this alleged conversation occurred and that the police officer “made clear that he believed this........

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