The FBI recently arrested a man from Michigan for allegedly making violent threats against conservative Christians if President-elect Donald Trump retook the White House.
Man threatens to attack conservative Christians
According to the Justice Department, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center was alerted by an anonymous online threat submitted on November 2.
The threatening message outlined plans to target Christians, stating, “I shall carry out an attack against conservative Christian filth if Trump wins the election.”
“I have a stolen AR-15 and a target I refuse to name so I can continue to get away with my plans,” the suspect wrote.
“Without a specific victim or ability to find the place I hid the gun, there’s not a thing the FBI can do until I complete the attack.”
Luckily, the man who wrote the message was no criminal mastermind, and authorities were easily able to trace the threat back to a 25-year-old named Isaac Sissel using phone records and an IP address.
When confronted by agents, Sissel allegedly said he thought that Trump posed a serious threat that the left had failed to adequately address.
Sissel reportedly was under the notion that violence was required to stop Trump and his conservative Christian backers.
Suspect explains plot to kill conservative Christians
The criminal complaint detailed Sissel’s views, quoting him as saying, “Sissel stated that former President Trump was a threat, a ‘piece of s***’ that should have been assassinated, and that everything would be better if Trump was dead.”
It also noted that “Sissel said that he wouldn’t kill Trump, but if he knew someone was going to assassinate Trump it was his (Sissel’s) duty to not intervene.”
Sissel allegedly admitted to harboring hatred toward conservative Christians, whom he “enjoyed threatening.” He also mentioned the possibility of joining Antifa to protest the election outcome.
Officials linked Sissel to various social media accounts with alarming usernames, such as “ShootUpTrumpRally,” “PlanningToShootTrump,” and “WillShootTrumpSoon.”
He now faces charges for making a threatening interstate communication, a felony that could result in a five-year prison sentence if he is found guilty.
Sissel appeared in federal court on Tuesday, where a judge decided to hold him without bond until a subsequent hearing on Thursday.
Kenyan terrorist plans 9/11-style attack
In a separate case, a man accused of being associated with a Somali terrorist group has been convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on American soil.
On Monday, 34-year-old Cholo Abdi Abdullah of Kenya was found guilty of six charges, including conspiring to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization and plotting to murder U.S. nationals.
The Justice Department reported that Abdullah was involved with Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, a “foreign terrorist organization” operating out of Somalia.
After months of training with AK-47s and explosives in Somalia, Abdullah planned to hijack a commercial aircraft and crash it into a U.S. building.
While in the Philippines, Abdullah attended flight school and attempted to obtain a commercial pilot license.
He was accused of seeking employment as a pilot and targeting “the tallest buildings in a major American city,” as well as learning how to “open a cockpit door from the outside.”
“The jury found that Cholo Abdi Abdullah, an operative of the terrorist organization al Shabaab, conspired to murder Americans in a terrorist attack reminiscent of the September 11 attack on our country,” Attorney General Merrick Garland commented.
“Today’s conviction ensures that Abdullah will spend decades in prison for his crimes,” he added in the press release.
