‘Satanic Cult’ Follower Allegedly Plotting Trump’s Murder Sought Help From Ukrainian, Russian Contacts, DOJ Says

The Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed in an affidavit that an assassination plot against President Donald Trump is tied to eastern Europe through alleged accomplices located in Russia and Ukraine.

Wisconsin teenager Nikita Casap coordinated with overseas contacts to discuss weapons and other logistics for his alleged plans, marking the second reported plot against Trump linked to Ukraine, according to court documents. Casap was arrested Feb. 28 in connection to the murder of his parents that the DOJ says stemmed from a “nihilistic” ideology he embraced.

A March 18 FBI affidavit says 17-year-old Casap became immersed in the online world of a Satanic cult and a Russian neo-Nazi group called National Socialism/White Power (NS/WP). Casap had been texting a contact “in Russian” and someone with a Ukraine-based phone number about his plot to kill Trump and overthrow the government, the FBI said. Casap allegedly talked to his associates about plans to obtain a drone that could “drop a bomb” and later flee to Ukraine after the assassination.

Casap allegedly shot and killed his mother and stepfather in early February and then lived with their corpses for two weeks before his Feb. 28 arrest, WTMJ reported. Wisconsin police said they found a video Casap recorded of his stepfather’s corpse with candles around the room where it lay. The teenager now faces state charges for the murder of his parents, which the FBI says he committed “to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out” Trump’s killing.

An attorney for Casap did not respond to a voicemail from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Casap also allegedly declared allegiance to the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a group the FBI calls “a Satanic cult that encourages violence, terrorism, sexual abuse, and child pornography” and holds “anti-Judaic, anti-Christian, and anti-Western ideologies.”

Individuals embracing O9A’s Satanic symbolism have previously been charged with targeting children online for sexual abuse and extortion and spreading child pornography.

The FBI also said it interviewed a classmate of Casap who claimed that the 17-year-old talked about being “in contact with a male in Russia” about his plans. Casap also allegedly texted someone in an unknown location that he was in online group chats for NS/WP, a Russia-based white supremacist group that the country officially considers to be a terrorist organization.

“How long will I need to hide before I will be moved to Ukraine?” Casap allegedly texted someone with a Ukrainian phone number.

“So while in Ukraine, I’ll be able to get a normal job and have a normal life?” his texts said, according to the FBI. “Even if when it’s found out I did it?”

The FBI links Casap to an emerging trend of people it calls “Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVEs),” who are driven by “a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability,” the affidavit says.

“As to why, specifically Trump, I think it’s obvious. By getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president, that is guaranteed to bring in some chaos,” Casap allegedly wrote in a “manifesto” document the FBI discovered. “And not only that, but it will bring further into the public the idea that assassinations and accelerating the collapse are possible things to do.”

An unidentified associate texted also Casap, “Russia will be blamed for it, this is the goal,” the FBI said.

Casap’s alleged manifesto declared, “Jewish occupied governments must fall. The white race cannot survive unless America collapses.”

Another man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump in September is accused of doing so out of support for Ukraine. The DOJ alleges 59-year-old Ryan Routh texted someone he “believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons” in August and asked whether the person could “ship” an anti-aircraft weapon to him.

“Do you think Trump will be good for Ukraine?” Routh allegedly asked the person, referring to the country’s war against Russia that he enthusiastically supported.

An attorney for Routh did not respond to a request for comment.