Media Beating Drum Of Right-Wing Extremism
bearingarms.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bearingarms.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Right-wing extremism: History repeats itself — and the worst may be yet to come
thehill.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehill.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
alongside undercover FBI agents.
(CN) FBI agents began investigating Jerry Drake Varnell after he made disparaging remarks to a Facebook friend leading up to the 2016 election. Throughout 2017, Varnell, then 23, spoke with FBI agents about building a bomb and starting a revolution.
Authorities arrested in August 2017. In February 2019, a jury convicted him on one count of attempting to use an explosive device to damage a building in interstate commerce and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against property used in interstate commerce.
After applying a terrorism inhancement, a federal judge sentenced Varnell to 25 years in prison with a lifetime term of supervised release. Now 27, Varnell has appealed his conviction claiming he would not have attempted to commit the crime if undercover FBI agents hadn’t pressured him into it.