Thursday, June 18, 2026

Who Were The People Plotting To Attack The White House UFC Match?

You've probably already heard that the FBI arrested 5 individuals for plotting an attack on the attendees of a UFC fight being held at the White House. If not, the Daily Mail reports on it here. It is a somewhat odd article because it desperately wants to paint the attackers as a right wing group--and perhaps they are--but some points suggest otherwise:

  • First, the article reports (bold added), "the group's plan to target the UFC fight was carefully orchestrated to maximize confusion and present the gunman with opportunities to target Trump administration officials and billionaires - what he considered 'HVTs,' high value targets." This suggests a Leftist worldview. 
  • Second, the leader of the group had "mused about targeting Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, noting on his phone how 'she's taken money from the Israel pro Israel lobby.'" Similarly, "[a]lso on the alleged target list were politicians who received donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), according to sources." This point cuts both ways, but the pro-Palestinian movement is definitely Left wing and Sen. Blackburn is a Republican. 
  • Third, per the article, "[o]ne suspect allegedly told authorities the group was targeting 'capitalist elites' and 'billionaires.'" That is pretty much communist rhetoric. 

 And then there is this article, "Alleged ‘ringleader’ of disrupted attack on White House UFC show arrested in Nebraska," which reports: "Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha was arrested Sunday in a raid on an old church in the small town of Western, Neb. According to federal court records filed Tuesday, Alvarez is not a U.S. citizen." The piece continues:

    “From his home here in Nebraska, Alvarez allegedly directed and recruited others across the country to conduct a horrific attack against government officials in a mass casualty event. Our team worked around the clock to locate and apprehend Alvarez, take him into custody, and collect crucial evidence,” Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel of the FBI Omaha field office said in Tuesday release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

 [snip]

    According to court records, Proper said the group would meet up in Fredericksburg, Va., and use drones during a demonstration to blow up the north side of the UFC arena built outside the White House, then shoot the crowd as they evacuated to the south. The snipers would focus on high-value targets, like wealthy people and politicians, in order to jumpstart a revolution, the documents state, listing top targets as President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and multiple members of Congress. Messages in the e-communications identified Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Jim Justice (R-W. Va.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), and Reps. Carol Miller (R-W. Va.) and Riley Moore (R-W. Va.), as potential targets as they were recipients of AIPAC funds. 

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