FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the FBI made multiple arrests disrupting the "planned attacks" intended to target the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend, reports Associated Press.
According to court papers unsealed Tuesday, the plotters were disgruntled with the direction of the country and spoke of flying explosives-laden drones and shooting panicked crowd members as they fled. The FBI acquired encrypted texts messages, revealing around 20 participants sharing maps and discussing escape routes and a safe house.
It is unclear how far along the attackers’ plan had gotten before it was thwarted last week. Five people were arrested from states, including Ohio, Missouri and California.
Among those arrested was Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old Ohio man whose mother contacted local law enforcement last week with concerns about his firearms purchases and online communications. Proper admitted in an interview with law enforcement that he participated in the planning of an attack.
Tom Zawistowski, president of the Ohio based We the People Convention, says the mother did the right thing.
"All of these things, someone knows about every one of them, but most time people don't do anything. And so, kudos to her,” says Zawistowski. “That's what being a mother is about. That's what being a father is about, and it's about time that they started to take responsibility for their children's actions."
Proper, he says, bought into the lies of the Left.
"This young man, 19 years old, spent $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase lots of ammunition, guns and extra magazines,” states Zawistowski. “Part of the reason that they were going after Trump and these people is because of his covering up of the Epstein crime. That's straight out of ‘The View,’ the Democrat lie playbook. That is doing what? Causing young people to get confused and to want to act out violently."
