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Virtually one yr in the past, an adolescent murdered his mother and father as a part of a plan to go after a much bigger goal.

That focus on would have been Donald Trump.

Now, Nikita Casap is eighteen and has pleaded responsible to the killings that he carried out.

An odd twist is that he doesn’t seem to have disliked Trump. We’ll clarify, as greatest we are able to, what his thought course of could have been.

It appears to be like like he needs to keep away from a trial

18-year-old Nikita Casap pleaded responsible to 2 counts of intentional murder.

This was a part of a deal over the homicide of his mother and father, The Related Press reviews.

In trade for these pleas, prosecutors dropped seven extra fees.

These fees embody theft, hiding a corpse, and working a motorcar with out consent. A lot much less critical fees, as you may see.

When he was 17, Casap allegedly killed his mother and father with the intention to achieve the autonomy and monetary sources to assassinate Donald Trump.

On February 28, 2025, police appearing on behalf of members of the family carried out a welfare test on 35-year-old Tatiana Casap and 51-year-old Donald Mayer.

Mayer had not been to work. Casap had not been at college.

In each instances, that they had been lacking from the general public eye for about two weeks.

Authorities discovered that they had been each lifeless — victims of a double murder.

This story solely will get weirder the extra that you simply find out about it. Weirder and extra upsetting.

The timeline is morbid (at greatest)

In line with court docket paperwork, Nikita Casap allegedly shot each mother and father on or round February 11.

He then spent a reported 12 days residing in the home with their corpses earlier than leaving.

He took jewellery, a gun, passports, round $14,000 in money, and the SUV. (He additionally introduced the household canine with him)

The identical day that authorities carried out a welfare test, they positioned him. Police in Kansas arrested him on February 28.

It was a comparatively easy matter to trace the GPS of the lacking car of a pair of murder victims.

What was much less easy was figuring out the stays.

Resulting from decomposition, forensic analysts had to make use of dental information to establish Mayer and Casap.

One baffling element of the case is that Nikita apparently penned a three-page manifesto that allegedly explains the crimes to which he has now confessed.

His write-up praises Adolf Hitler (he additionally reportedly has ties to Neo-Nazi teams on-line, on Telegram and TikTok, although we have no idea specifics).

At first look, it doesn’t make any sense why an avowed fan of Hitler would wish to kill one of many foremost fascist figures of the twenty first Century. Our first thought was that he had merely misplaced contact with actuality.

Why would a fan of 1 fascist be plotting the assassination of one other?

Nonetheless, FBI evaluation of the manifesto (which has very fairly not been made public) makes it clearer.

It seems that this younger man is an accelerationist, and believed that assassinating Trump would set off a race warfare — and that white People would triumph.

Accelerationists are white supremacists who consider {that a} race warfare is inevitable. They need for it to occur now (or quickly), after they consider that they will win, as an alternative of sooner or later, after they consider that they may lose.

This evil ideology actually brings this assassination plot into focus. And illustrates that every one of that is ideologically constant.

It isn’t that he disapproves of the Trump regime — the best buddy to white nationalists to occupy the White Home in lots of generations. It’s that he believes that sacrificing one figurehead would spark a brutal race warfare.

Happily, as we see with many evil-doers, his harebrained scheme was riddled with incompetence.