“Well, I thought I had a way through the bulletproof glass, and I didn’t,” the user posted at 9:29 a.m. Thursday on Truth Social, Trump’s social media site. “If you haven’t heard from me, it’s true that I tried to attack the FBI and that will either mean I got kicked off the internet, the FBI got me, or the regular cops were sent in. It is not clear if the user was trying to write more, as the post stops after the “while”. An Ohio Highway Patrol spokesman said that at 9:37 a.m. authorities located and began pursuing the suspect’s vehicle. Authorities have not yet confirmed that the account belongs to the suspect. However, a law enforcement source told CNN that an image on the account matched a government ID photo of the suspect. The FBI declined to comment on the account and his posts, citing its ongoing investigation. On the Truth Social account, the user claimed they were present in Washington on January 6, but did not say if they entered the Capitol. The user’s push for violence didn’t start or stop with the FBI’s recent actions. The poster continually stated his belief that the 2020 election was stolen by Trump. The user has been communicating with others on the account — which has only been active for the past few weeks — with increasingly politically violent and revolutionary thoughts. The FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Trump’s Florida home was the start of the user’s intense obsession with responding with violence against the agency in recent days. “Guys, this is it,” the user wrote Monday, shortly after news of the search warrant broke. “I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is a call to arms from me.” In that post, the user encouraged people to go to gun shops and pawn shops to “get what you need to be battle ready.” “We must not tolerate this,” the user wrote. When another user responded, saying they were going to send his photo and information to the FBI, the user responded by saying, “Bring them on.” It is unclear whether the information was passed on to the FBI. “Evil already won, now we have to fight a civil war to take the country back,” the user later wrote on Monday. On Tuesday, the day after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the poster said people were going to rally in Palm Beach and that if the FBI broke up the group, “kill them.” When another user replied to his post, saying that no one should resort to violence, the user replied: “Why not?” Account user Ricky Shiffer, as he often did on the social networking site, sent a message of political violence, saying: “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” “Don’t forget how American tyrants operate,” the user wrote to another user on Wednesday, commenting on the same article. “They legislate elections and get away with it,” the user wrote on Tuesday.
