A man has been arrested at the gates of the United States Capitol armed with a knife and two Molotov cocktails and that he had among his plans to kill the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, and had threatened the head of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and the president From the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
The suspect, identified as Ryan English, approached some agents that guarded the headquarters of the Legislative Power in Washington to surrender, as recorded in the sheet of positions collected by ABC News. Among the requisitioned objects was a note: “It’s terrible but I can’t do nothing while the Nazis kill my sisters“.
English, who had traveled on Sunday from Massachusetts to Washington, acknowledged before the first agents he wanted “matar a Scott Bessent“, while in later interrogations he revealed similar intentions with respect to Johnson and Hegseth, a” Nazi “in the words of the now detained.
The suspect bought several vodka bottles to which he intended to set fire to throw them to Besent and planned to stab him if he managed to approach the Secretary of the Treasury enough, whose appointment was endorsed by the Senate precisely this past Monday.
Among his plans, and with the aim of getting to Besent, English was also willing to kill “at least” three police officers in the Capitol, even knowing that he could fall down by security forces, official documents pray.
