High-level charges against the man suspected of crashing a U-Haul truck into White House security barriers have been downgraded to just one count of damaging government property. The news came shortly after it was confirmed that Sai Varshith Kandula is a non-white, foreign national.
Kandula, 19, originally faced charges of threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or family member, assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, and trespassing and destruction of federal property, according to the New York Post, citing U.S. Park Police.
Now, he faces only one count of depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000.
Non-White, White Supremacist?
Kandula, confirmed by prosecutors to be a non-citizen, allegedly praised Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, carried a Nazi flag in the U-Haul, and was threatening to “Kill the President If that’s what I have to do.”
When the presence of the flag was all legacy media members had to go on, they seemed to be cautiously anticipating that the incident would turn out to be a white supremacist attack.
“We have only a very beginning sense of the circumstances here, but we have some indicators,” said CNN host Jim Sciutto shortly after the crash was first reported.
“We know that, when you look at broader threats in this country from extremist groups, the FBI has said specifically that white supremacist groups are the greatest domestic terror threat,” he suggested.
Leftist institutions have expressed irritation that right-leaning personalities began making sarcastic remarks about the Indian-heritage suspect being a “non-white white supremacist” once his name and background were revealed.
The George Soros-funded Media Matters organization, for example, has insisted that “non-white people can push white supremacist… ideology.”
