Posted on 02/06/2026 3:40:00 AM PST by DFG
A Maryland man who told federal agents he feared a “fascist takeover” by President Trump has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly showed up at the home of White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought armed with a gun.
Colin Demarco, 26, was charged last month with attempted murder, criminal solicitation to commit murder, carrying a concealed weapon and wearing a mask in public to conceal identity, stemming from the Aug 10, 2025, incident, according to the Arlington County Police Department.
He is being held without bond and is due to appear in court on Feb. 23.
Police were dispatched to Vought’s Northern Virginia neighborhood after a witness reported a “suspicious person” on the OMB director’s porch wearing “a surgical mask and rubber gloves, carrying a backpack” and who “appeared to be concealing a firearm under his shirt.”
“The suspect subsequently approached the witness and inquired about the victim before leaving the scene,” Arlington County police said.
The incident was captured on home surveillance video which allowed authorities to identify Demarco as the suspect.
“We are grateful for the work of law enforcement in keeping Director Vought and his family safe,” an OMB spokesperson told The Post.
Demarco’s arrest and the criminal complaint filed against him were first-reported by CBS News.
The case was investigated by the agents with the US Marshals Service, who spoke to Demarco before his arrest and said he told them he admired Luigi Mangione – the accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson – and that he was distraught by Trump’s 2024 election win, according to the outlet.
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Who programmed this idiot?
A few days without Weed and he is going to be pretty distraught
Another white perp?
What will furry do all day?
The media likes to talk about “Right-wing violence”, but I never see it. But I always see the other thing.
> Who programmed this idiot? <
The reckless mainstream media did. According to them, Trump is not just wrong. He’s evil. He’s a Nazi, and a dozen other bad things.
The late-night talk shows gleefully reinforce this false narrative.
Propaganda works.
A “Maryland man”. Poor guy, just celebrating his constitutional rights.
/sarc
This is a direct result of stochastic terrorism by Dem leaders. They’ve been calling us Nazis and such for 50 years, but have really hyped it up in the Trump era.
“Stochastic terrorism is an analytic description used in scholarship and counterterrorism to describe a mass-mediated process in which hostile public rhetoric, repeated and amplified across communication platforms, elevates the statistical risk of ideologically motivated violence by unknown individuals, even without direct coordination or explicit orders.”
Say this stuff loud enough, long enough, and one of the Left’s nutcases will eventually act out. And here we have the perfect example. There are others. The attempts on Trump’s life probably qualify, as well as the murder of Charlie Kirk.
We are over a year of Trump’s presidency now.
At what point will these left-tards start realizing the “takeover” was and is never going to happen?
Leftist leadership all the way up to people like Schumer and Pelosi and the Fake Media. See my previous.
They don’t want to kill us because we’re Nazis. (We aren’t.)
They call us Nazis so they can kill us.
YES
Exactly.
Times one trillion.
Which is not your error, it's the error of the author of this article, and the rules here stipulate that you must use the actual title of the article you are posting. 😁👍
OMD is Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, which is a band that started in the late 1970s.
To paraphrase an old expression, they don’t want to kill you because you’re a fascist. They call you fascist so they can kill you.
His initials are.... China.
People like this are the Democrat’s foot soldiers - useful idiots.
Marxist thugs in Main Stream Media.
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