Another apparent attempt on President Donald Trumps life has been thwarted, with a Georgia man now in custody after allegedly posting videos online that featured homemade explosive devices and explicit threats against the president.
According to Western Journal, The Post Millennial journalist Andy Ngo reported on Substack that 33-year-old Christopher Key-Torrion Carnes of Georgia was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, after a police K-9 alerted officers to possible explosives in his Dodge Charger. Authorities subsequently discovered PVC pipes and metal pins consistent with the devices Carnes had displayed in videos uploaded to Facebook between May and June, suggesting a disturbing overlap between his online posturing and the materials in his vehicle.
The News and Observer in Raleigh reported that Carnes had been living out of his car after driving from Georgia, claiming he had traveled to North Carolina to attend church. He had been prescribed medication for sleep issues and ADHD but had stopped taking it, allegedly telling authorities the drugs upset his stomach.
Police first encountered Carnes in May in the parking lot of a Target store, but he was not taken into custody at that time. He was finally detained on June 10, when he voluntarily appeared at the Raleigh Police Departments Investigative Division and informed officers there was a warrant for his arrest before becoming erratic with officers.
It was during that encounter that officers searched his Dodge Charger and located the devices seen in his social media videos. Ngo later posted footage to X showing Carnes addressing President Trump directly, with the most profane language and explicit threats censored for public viewing.
So, like Im saying, Donald Trump, Im going to f*** with you, Carnes declared in one of the videos, identifying himself on camera by his full name and date of birth. He then reiterated his intentions, adding, I gotta do what I gotta do to get in front of a f***ing judge so that way the f***ing judge can figure out what the f*** is going on.
The footage then cuts to Carnes opening his trunk and displaying what he described as a PVC blaster, a crude device that appeared to be constructed from the same materials later seized by police. As he showcased his homemade equipment, he issued a vulgar challenge to the president, daring him to f*** around and come find out.
Carnes is now being held on $500,000 bail as investigators assess the extent of the threat and the capabilities of his improvised devices. His case adds to a troubling pattern in which political rage, amplified by social media and stoked by a culture that increasingly normalizes hostility toward conservatives, spills over into explicit threats and apparent plots against President Trump.
The lefts ideology, as many conservatives have long warned, too often advances with a revolutionary and frequently violent undercurrent when democratic processes do not deliver the outcomes it demands. Institutional pathways namely elections have failed to stop Trump, and when lawfare, slander, and coordinated media campaigns also fail, radicals on the fringe appear ever more willing to embrace the darker tactics of their ideological ancestors.
The means being used now are foundational to the lefts success, rooted in a worldview that sees raw power as the ultimate arbiter when persuasion falls short. From the purges in Stalinist Russia to the Cultural Revolution in Communist China, where Chairman Mao chillingly observed that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, history shows how quickly rhetoric can harden into violence when extremists decide that opponents like President Trump must be eliminated rather than defeated in the public square.
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