On April 13, a bunch of camouflage-clad FBI brokers arrested 21-year outdated Nationwide Guardsman Jack Teixeira at his house in Massachusetts. Teixeira was charged with leaking categorized paperwork containing nationwide safety secrets and techniques. He faces as much as 25 years in jail, and has but to enter a plea.
From the second of Teixeira’s arrest, studies have emerged that the invitation-only Discord server the place Teixeira leaked the paperwork was a cesspool of racist memes, offensive jokes, and gun fetishization. However on Saturday morning, the Washington Submit launched a way more wide-ranging report on Teixeira’s extremism, drawing on beforehand unpublished movies, chat logs, and interviews with a number of of Teixeira’s pals. This new proof, writes the Submit, suggests Teixeira was “readying for what he imagined can be a violent battle towards a legion of perceived adversaries — together with Blacks, political liberals, Jews, homosexual and transgender folks.”
In on-line posts, Teixeira known as the mainstream media “zogshit,” a slur for “Zionist Occupied Authorities;” repeated January 6 false flag conspiracy theories; and referenced Waco and Ruby Ridge, two Nineties standoffs between regulation enforcement and armed extremists which have turn into a touchpoint for the far proper.
“He used the time period ‘race struggle’ fairly just a few instances,” one shut buddy instructed the Submit. “He did name himself racist, a number of instances…I might say he was pleased with it.” The buddy, who mentioned Teixeira was “very completely happy” after a white supremacist shooter killed 51 folks at two mosques in New Zealand in 2019, added that Teixeira “ would ship me a video of somebody getting killed, ISIS executions, mass shootings, struggle movies…He completely loved gore.” The buddy mentioned Teixeira had instructed him “a number of instances” about “his need to shoot up his college” when he was in highschool.
The Submit uncovered movies of Teixeira taking pictures weapons in his yard in addition to at a close-by gun vary. On the latter, Teixeira recorded a video of himself utilizing a racist slur earlier than emptying {a magazine}. In the home he shared together with his mom and stepfather, Teixeira amassed what the Submit described as “a small arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, in addition to a helmet, fuel masks and night-vision goggles.”
Teixeira stays in custody, as prosecutors argue that he poses a flight threat. A detention listening to initially scheduled for final Thursday was canceled.