Summary
Ryan Michael “Reily” English was arrested at the U.S. Capitol with Molotov cocktails and a knife, allegedly planning to kill newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Initially targeting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or House Speaker Mike Johnson, English changed plans after learning about Bessent’s Senate vote.
He told police he was prepared to kill officers to reach his target and contemplated suicide by cop.
English also considered attacking the Heritage Foundation.
He faces multiple federal charges, including possession of explosives on Capitol grounds.
He was prepared to kill officers yet turned himself in to the first officer he came across?
Multiple of these stories within a few days and they turn themselves in before even trying anything. Something doesn’t add up about these stories.
Edit: it honestly feels like they are laying the groundwork to suspend/call martial law, or do something else extreme to remove barriers to doing stuff.
While they don’t say, this one seems to be liberal (from MA, some twisted concern for women’s rights). It may also be to turn the idea that it’s right wing extremists who are usually the terrorists
Molotov cocktails are an odd choice of weapon for a targeted assassination.
There were two of them, in airplane bottles. This was not a credible threat.
I was going to say, he picked one of the clumsiest and most awkward weapons he could have chosen for the task at hand, as well as a weapon that would be most likely also injure him, and not actually kill the target. Like seriously that was the best you can do? Get creative you pussy. Or not, I mean shit, a chunk of sodium, some water, and a large and small glass bottle and some nails.
Why the heck did he turn himself in before he even did anything?
That’s assuming any of it even actually happened and this isn’t some sort of attempt to bolster sympathy support…
You said it, not me. Really wouldn’t put that past reich-wingers, although I do think it’s more likely that the dude was just some random person who’s really fucking fed up with, well… *gestures around broadly*
I mean, Trump faked an assassination attempt, so it isn’t a stretch to think he’d do this to build the narrative to impose martial law.
It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook.
…finding two devices constructed of 50-milliliter vodka bottles with gray cloth affixed
