Threat made against Boston Globe after editorial condemning Trump

A threat was reported at The Boston Globe on Thursday, the same day the newspaper spearheaded a campaign to publish coordinated editorials at multiple papers condemning President Trump’s attacks against the press. 

Officials from the Boston police told Boston 7 News that they do not believe the threat was “super serious” but that they have increased patrols around the building.

The station noted that the FBI is conducting an investigation. 

A building manager at the Globe’s headquarters said the paper received “several threats via phone call” on Thursday, according to an email obtained by Axios.

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A spokesperson for The Globe confirmed the development to Axios, adding “that alarming turn of the president’s rhetoric — the specific labeling of the press as an ‘enemy of the American people’ and the opposition party — does cause us concern about media outlets and the stories we have heard around the country.”

“Journalistic outlets have had threats throughout time but it’s the president’s rhetoric that gives us the most concern,” the spokesperson said. 

The threat comes as hundreds of newspapers around the country published editorials denouncing the president’s frequent attacks against the media. 

“To label the press ‘the enemy of the people’ is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries,” the Globe wrote in its editorial.

Trump responded to the coordinated editorials by accusing the Globe of “collusion with other papers.” 

In a later tweet, the president said “there is nothing I would want more for our Country than true freedom of the press,” before asserting that the media regularly pushes political agendas.

There is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2018

—Updated Friday at 12:21 p.m.