Wow. Just … wow !!
Where’d he get half a million bucks – a rather inappropriate GoFundMe ??
And:
Now the man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.
WTF is up with these wingnuts and child pornography?
And when he was arrested later that month in North Carolina, police searching his van found four rifles, a 9mm handgun, explosive materials, books on bomb making, and $509,000 in cash that’s believed to be his inheritance.
That guy needs help for many reasons, but he had $500,000 in cash, and all he could think of to do is to plot to kill Biden. That’s. . . this guy is just fail on all cylinders.
Oh to be young and have $500,000. . .
Hell, I’m old and I’d be thrilled to have $500,000.
The article says he was arrested on May 6th. From his comments about having to “save Bernie”, it sounds like he was thinking about assassinating Biden during the Primaries, so that Bernie Sanders could win.
Antifa probably, right? I keep earing Republicans talk about what a menace antifa is. Gotta be, right?
He’s apparently a Bernie Sanders supporter: (From the Washington Post article):
“…Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden.”
Wow. What did this guy NOT do? And where did he get 500K in cash?
Aren’t authorities driving around and shooting some kind of laser beam at houses to find out if people have cash stashed away? (Snark - I’ve heard rumors about that for more than 30 years, and have never believed it, because it really can’t happen.)
The authorities say they believe it to be his inheritance.
Hopefully, his parents died natural deaths…
More details about the accused:
Strong religious component. Makes you wonder whether he was sympathetic to Bernie’s politics or if he was supportive of the notion of a Jewish President.
Where do you see that? Because his late father (who died when the son was 8) belonged to a temple? I see no other religious component in that piece.
I see a strong mental illness component.
If he was arrested in May, why is this news now?
I guess this part is new:
“Officers booked him for carrying a concealed weapon and turned him over to federal authorities pending further investigation, according to Kannapolis Chief of Police Terry Spry.
Now the man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges. And federal agents presented evidence indicating Treisman had a fascination with mass shootings and terrorist attacks — and had plotted to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.”
(Quoted from OP’s link)
From the links, it looks like he admired shootings that got a lot of press and maybe chose his target with that in mind.
What I see in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency piece – both by virtue of the fact that they are covering the story and by what the story says – is that he grew up in a household that was fairly aligned and active with their faith and in their temple.
It didn’t strike me as a “… who happens to be Jewish” kind of story. The fact that “his middle name is that of a renowned Talmudic sage” is mentioned strengthens that feeling.
Which is only to speculate whether/how that upbringing – along with the clear mental health (and other) issues – might have played into these actions.
The whole Sanders thing could be totally unrelated to any of it, or to anything. He may simply have fixated on Sanders for reasons that none of us would ever understand.
OTOH …
Yes, the article is quite misleading, probably because it’s the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and they claim connection with all things Jewish. They’re really stretching here though, grasping at anything that might have a Jewish angle.
Mainly, there’s nothing in the article indicating Alexander ever set foot in a temple or had any connection whatsoever with Judaism after the age of 8. Based on the source, if there were any further Jewish connection in Alexander’s life (another temple, club, anything) anytime between the age of 9 and today, they surely would have mentioned it.
Yeah, the JTA seems to have put that in there for no other reason than to claim Jewish relevance - it’s completely out of the blue and apropos of nothing in that piece. Giving a Jewish kid a Biblical middle name is quite common.
I wouldn’t ascribe anything to the religion angle based on that article.
Dunno, but it is a charge you can find when looking around for something. It’s possible to get a child porn charge because your computer shows that you have once visited a site which showed you something (mixed in with everything else) that might be a representation of a child.
And normally something like that in an old cache would only be found if your computer was carefully searched in detail. As for example, if you were a wingnut that got in trouble with the law.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment on child pornography charges in September.
This guy is seriously messed up in the head and they want to do everything they can to make sure he’s behind bars for the rest of his life.