I agree, that is the likeliest explanation. His ex-wife was ethnic Japanese and his girlfriend was Filipina and from his months and months of hanging out in Nevada casinos he probably knows lots of illegal Filipinos and Hispanics working in the casinos. And if he listens to the mainstream media pound the drumbeat that Trump and his supporters are white supremacists and the loss of Las Vegas as a sanctuary city and many people, maybe even his girlfriend being exposed to deportation. So he went Democrat/Antifa terrorist on the ‘fascists’.
I don’t rule out ISIS though. The life of a supposed professional video poker player must be pretty empty spiritually and incredibly boring after the first day or two. Doing that for months on end? Soul-crushing. And he’s probably been involved with criminal activities, with perhaps a lot of guilt to be rationalized away. The signs add up to a career not as a professional gambler but as a money launderer. Perhaps for the cartels and others who need to launder money, into the many residential real estate properties he seems to have been involved in over the years. I saw one press report that he was listed at 27 different addresses in Nevada, Florida and Texas in recent years. And that excludes California where he lived for many years.
He seemed to steer scrupulously away from anything that might bring contact with law enforcement. He kept aloof from neighbors, telling them only that he earned a living as a professional gambler (perhaps to conceal money laundering). Maybe he was himself for a while involved in drug transportation using his private planes. He might well have come into contact with ISIS types in these activities.
Good post
California? Enough said.
Very interesting ideas. This man has an astounding personal history. His last formal employment was in 1988, since then he has moved around becoming ever more wealthy.