{"id":15753,"date":"2025-11-17T01:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indiana-republican-called-out-by-trump-on-redistricting-is-swatted\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:46:47","slug":"indiana-republican-called-out-by-trump-on-redistricting-is-swatted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indiana-republican-called-out-by-trump-on-redistricting-is-swatted\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Republican called out by Trump on redistricting is swatted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post<\/a> Sunday for not backing the White House\u2019s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n

Greg Goode, who Trump posted was a \u201cRINO\u201d he was \u201cVery disappointed in\u201d Sunday was targeted hours later by what Vigo County Sheriff Derek Fell called a \u201cswatting\u201d in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite Trump\u2019s social media post insinuating otherwise, Goode has not publicly announced his position on redistricting.<\/p>\n

Fell said that around 5 p.m. Sunday \u201can email was sent to the Terre Haute Police Department advising harm had been done to persons inside a home, located in southeastern Vigo County,\u201d Fell said. \u201cThis information was immediately relayed to the Sheriffs Office, at which point deputies responded to the home, which was the home of Senator Greg Goode. Attempts were initially unsuccessful to raise anyone at the residence, but ultimately contact was made with persons inside the home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fell added that Goode and others \u201cwere secure, safe, and unharmed. Investigation showed that this was a prank or false email (also known as \u2018swatting\u2019).\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement, Goode said<\/a> he and his family were “victims,” and thanked Fell and Terre Haute Police Chief Kevin Barrett for their “professionalism.”<\/p>\n

The news comes as efforts to redistrict have ground to a halt in Indiana on Friday, after Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray refused to reconvene the chamber<\/a> to redraw congressional maps in favor of Republicans.<\/p>\n

The president threatened earlier Sunday that a list of Senate Republicans resistant to gerrymandering the state would be “released to the public later this afternoon,” which so far seems to have not materialized by this evening.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Goode held a town hall in Terre Haute<\/a> on redistricting, and 71 people spoke out against it and nobody spoke for it.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Indiana lawmakers are expected to convene at the Indiana Statehouse for organization day, a largely ceremonial and administrative event kicking off next year\u2019s session. Already, pro-redistricting advocates have announced a statehouse rally calling for redistricting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House\u2019s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities. Greg Goode, who Trump posted was a \u201cRINO\u201d he was \u201cVery disappointed in\u201d Sunday was targeted hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}