Boston Globe gets bomb threat after editorial blasts President Donald Trump's media attacks

Mike Snider | USA TODAY

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Law enforcement is investigating a bomb threat The Boston Globe received Thursday, the same day it led a nationwide publication of newspaper editorials denouncing President Donald Trump's attacks on the press as "the enemy of the people."

Boston police do not believe the threat was “super serious,” but the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting an investigation, reported WHDH, a Boston TV station.

Boston police responded to the building where the Globe's offices are located after the newspaper received a threatening phone call Thursday morning, Axios reported.

The building's manager alerted other tenants just before noon about the situation, according to an email obtained by Axios. "Earlier today a tenant in the building, the Boston Globe, received several threats via phone call. Based on this threat the local and federal authorities have recommended some additional security measures for the property. For the remainder of the day you will see uniformed Boston Police officers in the lobby and around the property. There are very few specifics, but the threat was specific to later this afternoon."

Boston police referred a query about the incident to the FBI, which would neither confirm or deny an investigation.

In an editorial published Thursday entitled "Journalists Are Not The Enemy," the Globe criticized Trump's labeling of mainstream media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and NBC as "fake news media" and "the enemy of the American people."

The Globe's editorial said: "A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press."

More than 350 other newspapers and some radio and TV stations joined the Globe in publishing their own editorials. The main message: "Trump is inflicting massive, and perhaps irreparable, damage to democracy with these attacks," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote in its editorial.

.@GlobeOpinion asked news outlets to speak out in support of a #freepress. More than 400 answered the call. https://t.co/IBK8m9zZJa pic.twitter.com/izQiviQSYq — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2018

President Trump fired back on Twitter saying the Globe was "in COLLUSION with other papers on free press" and tweeting, 'THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country....BUT WE ARE WINNING!"

THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country....BUT WE ARE WINNING! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2018

Many on Twitter expressed concern that Trump's tweet could have inspired the bomb threat. "Your inability to be civil has now incited a bomb threat to the Boston Globe," tweeted attorney Andrew Turner.

After Donald Trump tweeted an attack at the Boston Globe a bomb threat was made to their office.



Our president is a bigger threat to the safety of private citizens than the "fake news" ever was. — Paul Gasari (@WheresMyArk_23) August 16, 2018

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