No, he was a Bernie Bro, just like the tilt-a-wheel that shot up the softball field where Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was nearly murdered (RE: Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shot-up a Congressional softball practice).

Why no press? We all know. The Washington Post did publish the story, but they buried the lede deep... fourteen paragraaphs deep. Unless you took the time to read well-into the story, you would not know the perpetrator's background. Just another rando Right-Wing Nutter they'd like all to assume. However, as with a vast majority of these incidents, if the aren't outright manufactured hoaxes about racism or some other "ism", and it turns out that the story may hurt their side (Progressive Lefties), then they obfuscate as much as possible. Burying the main gist and obvious title (the lede of a story) well into the late stages just so they can say that they covered it...yeah, technically correct, shameful, full-on biased, but reported.

The story; This 19 year old Bernie Bro (Bernie Sanders, Independent - Vermont) posted his support of the Democrat Vice Presidential candidate on several occasions. He was upset when he saw that Joe Biden was going to be the Democrat's Nominee, so he posted that he must...

"save bernie"

(on Reddit, iFunny as AlextheBodacious) and apparenly decided that Joe had to go. And also apparently being a "man"-of-action, this twisted fuckup intended to "save bernie" by plotting to kill the VP candidate.

Alexander Hillel Treisman searched-out Joe Biden's home address, and in May came within four miles of Biden's Delaware residence. There's no information that I could find as to why he made it to that point and held-off. Perhaps he experienced a brain-freeze from his dessert at Wendy's and called off the assault that day. He did search for night-vision equipment online. Whether he actually purchased and had the equipment with him is not known from what what I've read. Rolling with a half-million dollars in-cash can cover a lot of motel stays and Wendy's drive-throughs though, so it was a month later when he was pulled-over in North Carolina, and the plot was revealed.

A big story? Granted these days in apoco-2020 perhaps just another day at-the-beach. This pervtered wingnut of a fruit-loop had drawings of planes crashing into buildings, swastikas, a book on Islam,screenshots of Muslim attack events, and even child porn on his electronic devices, However, were this a conservative, a Proud Boy, a Trump supporter, well, you know that would be a different story from this less-than-worthless Main Stream Media. It would have been a story pushed so hard that it would have bled into the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination proceedings, and the Presidential Debates.

A half a million in cash and he's doing this schnit? That's a Bernie Bro for ya.

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