A Coast Guard officer, said by prosecutors to be a white nationalist who hatched a plan carry out a hits on well-known media personalities and politicians, including some 2020 presidential candidates, appeared in a federal court Thursday in Maryland. He pleaded guilty to four federal gun and drug charges, and faces up to 31 years in prison.
According to court documents, Lt. Christopher Hasson advocated for the establishment of a “white homeland” in emails with a known Neo-Nazi leader. Prosecutors said Hasson intended “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.”
During the raid, officials also discovered a spreadsheet on Hasson’s computer with the names of prominent politicians, such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as well as television personalities, including MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, and CNN’s Don Lemon.
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