Posted on 05/25/2023 12:30:45 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
WASHINGTON — The man accused of ramming a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House earlier this week isn't a U.S. citizen, authorities said Wednesday.
Sai Varshith Kandula, a 19-year-old from suburban St. Louis, wore an orange jail-issued jumpsuit in his brief courtroom appearance — his first since the Monday incident — when prosecutors requested pre-trial detention.
A government prosecutor told the court that Kandula is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident. But later on Wednesday, a Department of Justice official clarified the open-court remarks and said Kandula does hold a green card for lawful, permanent U.S. residency.
The suspect's national origin wasn't mentioned in court.
In courtrooms across America, prosecutors and defense lawyers every day hash out charges against green card holders with deportation as a key bargaining chip. But under the circumstances of Monday night, immigration attorney Cori Alonso-Yoder said she can't foresee a scenario where Kandula would be offered any deal to remain in the U.S.
"Most likely, yes," he'll be deported if convicted, said Alonso-Yoder, who teaches law at George Washington University. "If he's convicted of those facts, then it's most likely a removable charge."
The suspect's loved ones will likely not face any repercussions from Monday night, no matter their immigration status. "It shouldn't have any impact on his family," said Alonso-Yoder. "He stands and falls on this own on this kind of charge. It doesn't open a door to any inquiry for all of his connection and their immigration status."
Kandula is accused of renting a U-Haul truck at Dulles International Airport before he crashed into a barrier on the north side of the White House at about 9:35 p.m. ET on Monday.
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According to the papers citing this foreigner, he said he put 6 months of planning into trying to carry out a coup with an empty Uhaul truck rented in Herndon, Virginia, and a freshly purchased Nazi flag. Did he believe he had Rambo in the back, or a team of ninja turtles? Where did this 19 year old get the money to buy an airline ticket to the Washington area? Did he have a job?
He planned, somehow, so these papers have been told, to get past the Marine Guards, the Secret Service, and Kamala Harris in order to install himself as President of the US.
This does not say much about the education he received in Marquette Senior High in Chesterfield, Missouri, if they gave him a diploma last year. Whoever graded his stuff should have their head examined.
Unless he has a brain tumor or a sudden onset of mental illness, or has taken some powerful drugs.
The whole story is quite possibly the dumbest plot I have ever heard of.... and this comes from some high school grad with an interest in computing? How much time was he even in school? Is he that dumb due to isolation during covid? Did they pass him just to get rid of him?
... “Sai Varshith Kandula, from the St Louis suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri, graduated from Marquette Senior High School in 2022, according to the Rockwood School District. ...”
I wouldn’t doubt it was just printed...or is about to be.
He supposedly flew from St. Louis to the DC area and rented the Uhaul in Herndon.
Why rent a Uhaul moving truck instead of a car if you have nothing heavy to carry? Did he think an empty moving truck was that much better for going through barriers? Why not be sure and load it with bricks or something?
Was the plan to just scare Biden into submission? Was he going to beat the bodyguards with the flag?
This reminds me of the really stupid “magic bloodhounds” story that the press ate up during Mueller’s Amerithrax investigation.
Of course. I knew it. He is an illegal. That is why they are going light on him.
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He whips out a Nazi flag for a bit of street theater just in time for Biden’s Defamation League antisemitism speech this week.
That was probably the plan but he got arrested instead of just leaving the flag at the scene and disappearing forever like the so-called bomb suspect in January 5, 2021 who left those egg timer fake pipe bombs... they have never caught that perp, makes me wonder if that was a foreign actor, too.
Works in the movies. Blame Hollywood or Bollywood.
He had the money to fly on top of renting a U-haul? Wow, I'd like to know who he works for. Oh wait, I forgot, the FBI pays their assets well.
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