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Nearly one yr in the past, an adolescent murdered his dad and mom as a part of a plan to go after a much bigger goal.
That concentrate 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 finest we will, what his thought course of might have been.
It appears like he desires 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 dad and mom, The Related Press studies.
In alternate for these pleas, prosecutors dropped seven extra expenses.
These expenses embrace theft, hiding a corpse, and working a motorized vehicle with out consent. A lot much less critical expenses, as you may see.
When he was 17, Casap allegedly killed his dad and mom as a way to achieve the autonomy and monetary assets to assassinate Donald Trump.
On February 28, 2025, police appearing on behalf of relations performed a welfare verify on 35-year-old Tatiana Casap and 51-year-old Donald Mayer.
Mayer had not been to work. Casap had not been in school.
In each circumstances, they’d been lacking from the general public eye for about two weeks.
Authorities discovered that they had been each useless — 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 finest)
In keeping with courtroom paperwork, Nikita Casap allegedly shot each dad and mom on or round February 11.
He then spent a reported 12 days dwelling 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 performed a welfare verify, they positioned him. Police in Kansas arrested him on February 28.
It was a comparatively easy matter to trace the GPS of the lacking automobile of a pair of murder victims.
What was much less easy was figuring out the stays.
As a result of decomposition, forensic analysts had to make use of dental data to determine 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 need 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 moderately 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 conflict — and that white Individuals would triumph.
Accelerationists are white supremacists who imagine {that a} race conflict is inevitable. They need for it to occur now (or quickly), after they imagine that they will win, as a substitute of sooner or later, after they imagine 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 pal 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 conflict.
Happily, as we see with many evil-doers, his harebrained scheme was riddled with incompetence.
