Coast Guard Lieutenant Charged With Planning Mass Terror Attack; List of Targets Included Prominent Dems and Media Figures

A lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard was arrested and charged with attempting to carry out a mass terror attack.

Christopher Paul Hasson was discovered to have been stockpiling lots of weapons and ammo in his Maryland home. The disturbing details uncovered include his white nationalist views and how he took cues from the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik

Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, was first to break news of the arrest, sharing court documents detailing just how deranged this individual was:

Hint about the importance of the case was in the opening paragraph. “The defendant is a domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life” pic.twitter.com/QUZk2j92u2

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) February 20, 2019

LT. Christopher Hasson wrote a draft letter to a well known American neo nazi advocating for a white state. pic.twitter.com/WhUlcnBFJQ

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) February 20, 2019

He was an fan of Anders Breivik pic.twitter.com/6GcClevGu5

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) February 20, 2019

The court documents also show that Hasson targeted prominent Democrats and media figures, including the following:

When he was arrested this week in Silver Spring MD, he had a stash of guns and a list of people he wanted to kill. It was a who’s who of media personalities and elected officials. pic.twitter.com/Y8iEgqktlR

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) February 20, 2019

• Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- CA)
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D- NY)
• Senator Richard Blumenthal (D- CT)
• Senator Tim Kaine (D- VA)
• Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D- NY)
• Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- MA)
• Senator Cory Booker (D- NJ)
• Senator Kamala Harris (D- CA)
• Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D- NY)
• Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D- CA)
• Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D- MN)
• Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D- TX)
• Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D- TX)
• Former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta
• Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and Van Jones of CNN
• Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, and Ari Melber of MSNBC

Per the Washington Post, Hasson even “contemplated biological attacks and targeting food supplies.”

Investigators also found he compiled his list after internet searches of things like “what if trump illegally impeached” and “where in dc to congress live.”

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