The 19-year-old man alleged to have plotted to kill Joe
Biden was the son of a prominent Jewish attorney who helped broker the first
meeting between a U.S. president and the Dalai Lama.
News broke Friday about the May arrest of Alexander Hillel
Treisman, a teenager who a court document says had purchased an automatic rifle
and traveled to multiple states, and who allegedly had a checklist in his car
whose final item read “execute.” Treisman has also been charged with three
counts of child pornography, according to court documents that were obtained
this week by local North Carolina station WBTV and reported on Friday in The
Washington Post.
Treisman is the son of a Jewish human rights activist and
one-time Senate candidate in New Mexico. Eric Treisman was known for his work
with Tibetan immigrants and was once called an “Oscar Schindler for Tibetans,”
an allusion to the German famous for saving more than 1000 Jews during the
Holocaust. Eric Treisman died in 2009, days after finalizing his divorce from
Alexander Treisman’s mother.
A close acquaintance of the family during Alexander
Treisman’s childhood confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the man
who was arrested was the son of Eric Treisman.
According to the court document, he posted about
assassinating Biden on iFunny, a social network popular with extremists,
searched Biden’s home address and stockpiled weapons and ammunition that police
found in an abandoned van. The van also contained more than $500,000 in cash
that the court document said was assumed to have come from his inheritance.
Treisman is also alleged to have downloaded more than 8,000
videos and images of child pornography.
The 19-year-old had allegedly been discussing committing gun
violence since last year. According to the court document, he created a note in
his phone in October 2019 planning a mass shooting on Black Friday or
Christmas. He also downloaded images from video of the Christchurch shooting
and posted on Reddit about executing people he hates.
In April, the plans allegedly became more concrete.
According to the document, he posted on social media on April 8 that he was
“going to do a columbine for a while, [but] I think it would better to put it
towards something more memorable.”
Later, after Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the
Democratic primary, Treisman posted on Reddit that he had to “save bernie.”
According to the court document, on April 15 he posted on iFunny, ““should I
kill joe biden?” He then bought an AR-15 rifle in New Hampshire, searched
Biden’s personal address in Delaware and traveled to a Wendy’s four miles away.
He wrote the checklist in which the last item was “execute.”
More than a month later, Treisman was arrested after police
found the abandoned van. (Source:JTA) See Less
