U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant allegedly plotted mass terror attack targeting Democrats, journalists
A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist has been arrested after allegedly plotting a massive domestic terrorist attack targeting several Democratic politicians and prominent media personalities.
Christopher Paul Hasson stockpiled weapons and maintained a hit list of people he wanted to kill, according to court documents shared with Global News by Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, who first noted the case.
FBI agents found 15 firearms and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his basement apartment in Silver Spring, Md.
Hasson’s alleged hit list appeared to name an array of high-profile Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 2020 presidential contenders Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
It also appeared to include CNN anchors Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo as well as MSNBC anchors Joe Scarborough and Ari Melber.
“The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” read a motion for detention filed in the U.S. District Court in Maryland.
“[He] is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct.”
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