Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced on Monday that the 33 “bomb threats” against schools in Springfield, Ohio, “have all been hoaxes” and have originated from overseas. “None of these had any validity at all,” the governor said. Pressure is now mounting on the establishment press to apologize to former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
“At least 33 separate bomb threats, each one of which has been responded to, and each one of whom has been found as a hoax,” DeWine said. “So, 33 threats, 33 hoaxes. I want to make that very, very clear. None of these had any validity at all.”
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says there were 33 bomb threats against Springfield schools that all turned out to be hoaxes and originated from "overseas."
Where do President Trump and JD Vance go to get their apology from the media who claimed they incited them? pic.twitter.com/NKyhUJZwrz
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 16, 2024
“So, I want to say to the parents in Springfield: These threats have all been hoaxes. None of them have panned out,” DeWine added.
The Ohio governor added that the fake bomb threats have been originating from “overseas,” and he believes “one particular country” is using the recent news out of Springfield as “one more opportunity to mess with the United States.”
“We have people, unfortunately, overseas, who are taking these actions,” DeWine said. “Some of them are coming from one particular country. We think that this is one more opportunity to mess with the United States, and they’re continuing to do that.”
Pressure is now building on the establishment media — who have tried to tie the hoaxes to the Republican ticket — to apologize to Trump and Vance.
“So the leftwing media spent the last week playing into the hands of foreign adversaries to weaponize misinformation and hoaxes to falsely smear @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance for inciting violence,” Donald Trump Jr. reacted. “If you have any decency you’ll apologize: @DanaBashCNN @LesterHoltNBC @LinseyDavis.”
So the leftwing media spent the last week playing into the hands of foreign adversaries to weaponize misinformation and hoaxes to falsely smear @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance for inciting violence.
If you have any decency you'll apologize: @DanaBashCNN @LesterHoltNBC @LinseyDavis https://t.co/bpsIpzGuCU
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 16, 2024
Conservative commentator Greg Price noted that the mainstream media have been telling the public “that JD Vance’s cat memes were responsible for this.”
“The establishment media spent the weekend blaming Trump and Vance’s ‘rhetoric’ for the bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. Now, as it turns out, the governor says that there were all hoaxes — at least some of which were perpetrated by foreign adversaries,” journalist Christopher Rufo said.