FBI Foils White House Plot That Targeted Netanyahu and Trump

Federal indictments unsealed Wednesday say five suspects planned a mass-casualty terror attack at Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. The alleged plot was aimed not only at President Donald Trump, but at a wider list of international figures, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was marked as a key assassination target under the code letter "N."

Court documents say the group was led by Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, who used an encrypted chat to label the targets as "high-value targets". Trump was referred to as "1", Vice President J.D. Vance as "2", Elon Musk was named directly, and Netanyahu was coded as "N". Investigators say the suspects also carried out visual identification preparations for the leaders during the event.

The alleged attack plan involved drone-borne explosives to trigger panic and drive the targets toward a preplanned southern evacuation point, where five sniper teams were waiting. Those teams were reportedly ordered to kill the targets first, then take on responding forces, including the Secret Service, the National Guard and police special units. When the suspects realized they lacked the expertise to build homemade bombs, they shifted to a backup plan to steal weapons from an Army ammunition plant in Parsons, Kansas.

According to the indictment, Daniel Askridge claimed to have someone on the inside gathering intelligence on the facility, an effort prosecutors described as active preparation that drew tighter FBI surveillance. Nineteen-year-old Tyson Proffer, the youngest suspect, allegedly used about $3,000 from a graduation gift to buy much of the arsenal, including an AR-style rifle, a bullpup rifle painted like the U.S. flag, thousands of rounds of ammunition and protective gear. The group also allegedly prepared for the aftermath, with Askridge turning a roughly six-acre Missouri farm into a safe house with a hidden bunker, Alvarez identifying an abandoned church in Nebraska as a fallback refuge, and Michael Allen Thomas saying, "We’ll try to break them out of jail if we have to." Investigators say the suspects were driven by extremist, antisemitic beliefs, including fantasies about a government run by a baby-sacrificing elite. Proffer’s journal also contained an anti-Semitic list of 46 people marked for killing, and he and Askridge used the site TrackAIPAC.com to identify politicians who had received donations from a pro-Israel lobby.