New York Post

Dems, media on hit list

Chuck, AOC among lieut.’s targets: feds

- By TAMAR LAPIN

A US Coast Guard lieutenant with a weapons cache plotted to kill a slew of journalist­s and Democrats — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, federal authoritie­s said.

Self-proclaimed white nationalis­t Christophe­r Paul Hasson was arrested Feb. 15 on gun and drug charges when the feds found 15 firearms (right) in his Silver Springs, Md., home, according to authoritie­s.

But prosecutor­s said those raps are just the “tip of the iceberg” in documents filed Tuesday in Maryland federal court.

“The defendant intends to mur- der innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” the document arguing for Hasson’s detention pending trial reads.

Although court documents don’t include a specific planned date for the attack, the feds said Hasson (above right), 49, had been amass- ing the weapons since at least 2017.

He allegedly compiled an Excel list Jan. 19 of left-leaning pols and media personalit­ies with MSNBC and CNN, including Chris Hayes, “Joey,” thought to be Joe Scarboroug­h, Van Jones and Chris Cuomo.

Prosecutor­s say Hasson studied a 1,500-page manifesto by Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right terrorist who massacred 77 people in Norway in 2011.

In a draft e-mail dated June 2, 2017, Hasson wrote, “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth,” the court documents say.

In a September 2017 letter to an American neo-Nazi leader, he identified himself as a white nationalis­t for more than 30 years.

Hasson was assigned to the US Coast Guard headquarte­rs in Washington when he was arrested on charges of possession of firearm and ammunition and possession of the narcotic Tramadol.

He’s scheduled to appear for a detention hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., Thursday.

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