A 19-year-old man who arrested in North Carolina in May, after cops discovered his van carrying five guns, explosives and more than a half million dollars in cash, plotted to assassinate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, court records show.The man, Alexander Hillel Treisman, traveled to within four miles of the former Vice President Biden’s home in Delaware earlier in May, records show.That was within a month or so of Treisman buying an AR-15 rifle in New Hampshire, and writing a checklist note ending with the word “execute,” a federal magistrate judge noted in a court order justifying his detention without bail on child pornography charges.”Should I kill joe biden?” Treisman posted on the meme-sharing platform iFunny on April 15, the order noted.Triesman was indicted in late September in federal court in the Middle District of North Carolina on charges of possessing and transmitting child pornography.His actions regarding Biden and other troubling evidence against him were cited as reasons for his pre-trial detention by the judge in an order signed Oct. 6. “A timeline of internet searches conducted by Defendant between March and May 2020 seeking information about Joe Biden’s home address, state gun laws, rifle parts, and night vision goggles, along with actions taken by Defendant, including posting the abovementioned meme about killing Joe Biden, purchasing an AR-15 in New Hampshire, traveling to a Wendy’s within 4 miles of Joe Biden’s home, and writing a checklist note ending with execute,” the order noted.A lawyer Treisman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The detention order cites testimony by an FBI agent explaining how Threisman came to be the subject of a criminal investigation that uncovered the infromation about Biden.The agent said that on May 28, police in Kannapolis, North Carolina, responding to a report of an abandoned van in a bank parking lot, through the vehicle’s window saw an AR-15 style rifle, a box for a .380 caliber handgun, “a cannister of the explosive material Tannerite,” and a box of 5.56 caliber ammunition, according to the order.After the van was towed, a search of the van found about “$509,000 in U.S. currency (believed to be [Treisman’s] inheritance), books (about survival, bomb making, improvised weapons and Islam), drawings of swastikas and planes crashing into buildings,” and a Sig Sauer Ar Rifle, a 9mm Luger, a Kel-Tec Sub-2000, a .22-caliber rifle, and a Russian Mosin Nagant M91/30 bolt-action rifle.Treisman arrived at the bank later on the same day in a Honda Accord, and asked about the towed van. Police went ot the bank after employees contacted them, and took Treisman into custody.A search of the Honda revealed two more handguns guns, a .380 caliber and a 9mm Luger “found concealed in a clothes hamper,” the order said.Treisman was carrying three different state’s driver’s licenses, one of which bore the name Alexander S. Theiss, the order said.Treisman then was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. In a recorded phone call with his mother from jail on May 29, a day after his arrest, his mother, Kimberly Treisman suggested that Triesman “should ‘jump bail,’ ” the order says.During interviews with police and investigators from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Threisman “disclosed he has an interest in terrorist incidents and mass shootings,” and that he had driving across the country buying firearmsn in different states, the order said.A search of online aliases for Treisman showed him making references to pedophilia “and executing those he hates,” the order said. One post by his alias expressed “a desire to perform a mass shooting.”Searchers of hreisman’s cell phone and 15 other electronic devices seized form his vehilce turns up thousands of images an of child pornography and more than 1,200 child porn videos, the order said.A note created on Oct. 15, 2019, on the phone descibed “a plan to peform a mass shooting at mall food court on Christman or Black Friday, the order said.An Apri 8, 2020, internet post by one of Treisman’s aliases, “AlextheBodacious,” said that he “was going to do a columbine for a while, [but] I think it would be better to put it towards something more memorable.”A week later, he posted a meme on iFunny with the caption “should I kill Joe Biden.”This is breaking news. Check back for updates.
