The FBI arrested a former reporter Friday for allegedly making several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers, Jewish schools, and other Jewish organizations around the United States.
Juan Thompson, who worked for The Intercept before he was fired, made some of the threats using his own name, authorities said in a complaint on Friday at the Federal District Court in Manhattan, The New York Times reported. In a statement The Intercept said that Thompson had been fired in January 2016 after it was found out he had fabricated sources and quotes.
On Thompson’s Twitter feed, he appears to be advocating favorable opinions of communism, an ideology that left 100 million dead in the 20th century, and Marxism. “The FBI just visited me and asked if I was a Marxist. I said ‘By Marxist do you mean a defender of humanity?’” he tweeted. He also wrote in February: “I’m no liberal. And I believe every millionaire and billionaire should be robbed of their wealth. #resist.” Then he wrote a few days later: “We don’t want America like NY, we want it like Havana.”
His background picture is “Raising the Banner“ by Geliy Korzhev, a Russian communist painter who painted in the Soviet-approved style of Socialist Realism.” The “banner” appears to be a red communist flag.
