Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the east. We come on the air with some breaking news from one of the most high-profile Democrats in our country right now, Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay, confirmed cabinet member in United States history, the former Secretary of Transportation, someone who many

Democrats hope will be a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.

He today announced in a post on Substack that he and Chaston and their kids, his family,

were the targets of a, quote, cruel, politically motivated hoax. That's how he describes it.

He goes on to tell the whole story, an anonymous caller called Child Protective Services on his family and made false allegations about him.

Buttigieg describes it as akin to swatting. Swatting is when someone calls 911 and makes a fake, false report that suggests an imminent threat like a mass shooting, something that leads law enforcement to swarm or swat someone's home.

In Buttigieg's post, he describes what happened to him when a worker with child protective services

came to the door. He writes this, quote, someone decided to hurt our family this week. I'm furious,

and I want to share what happened. You've probably heard of swatting. It's a cruel and dangerous kind of

hoax, as has started happening more frequently in recent years. Someone anonymously calls 911 with a false

report of imminent danger, such as a hostage situation, at the home of a public figure. Law enforcement

swarms the house, guns drawn, terrifying the unsuspecting homeowner and family, and sometimes

even leading to deaths or injuries in the confusion. It's happened to dozens of lawmakers, judges, celebrities, and others.

When I was in the cabinet, someone attempted to do this to our home, but fortunately, the hoax

was quickly detected.

It's become enough of a problem that the FBI now has a dedicated database to track such

incidents.

Now imagine that same concept but with child protective

services instead of a SWAT team. Hadn't thought of that? Me neither. Until a few days ago when a

police officer and a CPS worker showed up at our home and politely asked to speak with me,

I showed them in, invited them on the deck so that we

could hear each other over the barking dog, and asked what was going on. They explained that there

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