Authorities in Iowa have arrested a man who was found during a traffic stop to be carrying a rifle and a “hit list” that included President Biden and Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert.
According to TheHill, Kuachua Brillion Xiong, from Merced, Calif., was taken into custody last week after allegedly telling police who pulled him over for driving aggressively that he was on his way to the White House “to kill persons in power,” according to federal court records that were unsealed Tuesday.
Authorities said they found an AR-15-type rifle, ammunition, body armor, medical kits, and a grappling hook in Xiong’s vehicle, per court records. The LA Times stated that authorities described Xiong’s vehicle as “lived in,” with several empty cans of Red Bull energy drink. Xiong agreed to let Cass County Sheriff’s Sgt.
Tyler Shiels search his car and admitted he had a weapon and ammunition. Shiels found loaded magazines, boxes of ammunition, several items of body armor, and medical kits, according to his report. Xiong said he was not suicidal but would use the weapons to defend himself. Police also found money in the vehicle “earmarked” for Xiong’s funeral expenses, and his GPS was set for the White House.
The Washington Examiner stated: “[Xiong said] that if released from custody, he would immediately resume traveling to the White House … and ‘do whatever it takes’ to complete his plan,” Larson wrote in the complaint. “Xiong stated that he has no intention of returning to California to see his family because he plans on dying while fighting evil demons in the White House.”
According to the complaint, Xiong used a map app that listed his destination as the White House. Xiong also showed investigators a drawing of the White House grounds along with a point he considered a “weak spot” based on previous research he had conducted, Larson said.
Xiong has been charged with making threats against a former U.S. president. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Locher ordered the court documents to be unsealed while noting the government had “not satisfied its burden of proving that the restriction of the right of public access is necessitated by a compelling government interest,” the Sacramento Bee reported.
