The practice of calling officers to a home under false pretenses has become known as "swatting." Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was a recent victim, with police sent to her home to deal with a reported shooting that never took place.
Police were summoned to Bannon’s Washington, D.C., home at 7:17 p.m., according to the Daily Mail. President Joe Biden delivered an address to the nation at 8 p.m. ET, labeling former President Donald Trump and his supporters as extremists who "[threaten] the very foundations of our republic."
Bannon said the Biden administration is culpable for the fake call targeting his home.
"This is 100 percent triggered by the White House," he told the Mail.