5 things to know about Craig Robertson, man killed in FBI raid over social media death threats
4. Robertson was a ward clerk in the LDS Church who had mobility issues
While the FBI clearly lays out allegations of wrongdoing against Robertson in the complaint, a college professor and church friend of Robertson's spoke to conservative radio host Glenn Beck to share memories of a different side of the deceased. Travis Lee Clark, who serves as an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University, identified Robertson as a ward clerk at his local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) church. Clark told Beck that he did not follow Robertson on social media and was unaware of the posts he had made.
“I had never heard him say anything like that,” Clark insisted. “He was not a very mobile guy. He lived less than half a block away from the church and he would drive himself and his son to church just because he really couldn’t walk that distance.”
Beck noted that Robertson used a “walking stick” and was “300 pounds” and 5’4. Clark explained to Beck that “he could not get out of a chair without his cane or walking stick and there were a few times where I had to help him get out of a chair.”
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Clark contended that Robertson actually following through on the threats he made on social media remained unlikely in light of his health and physical condition: “He was not very mobile. He was not very active. I could not imagine him in a million years getting dressed up in a Ghillie suit and taking up some position as a sniper in the condition that he was.”
According to Clark, “Anyone who saw him and his condition and anyone who knew him and his personality would have just thought” that his posts would have amounted to “trolling” that “went over the top and in exceedingly bad taste and not very wise … statements.” When asked if he carried a gun “all the time,” Clark replied, “It wouldn’t surprise me because he talked about concealed carry. But if he did, he wasn’t flashing it in church … he wasn’t like some of these gun nuts who are flashing their gun and doing everything else.”
“If he did, he was very discrete about it and … it never worried me at all,” Clark asserted. Clark also noted that “he has an adult son who is disabled, blind, that he is the primary caregiver for and had been up until a few weeks ago” when “his son had a stroke.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
