How the KKK’s secret plot to assassinate Barack Obama days before the presidential election was foiled by an undercover FBI agent

As it looked increasingly uncertain in late 2008 that Barack Obama would enter the White House, members of the Ku Klux Klan were plotting an assassination attempt on the man who would become America’s first black president.

This is evident from the recently published memoirs of Joe Moore, the undercover FBI agent who stopped them.

Moore infiltrated the Wayward, Florida, chapter of the KKK in 2007, impressing his fellow KKK members with an exaggerated military record as an honorably discharged war veteran.

After successfully being inducted into the group, he witnessed the planning process to assassinate Obama, just days before he was to be elected president.

They identified the day, time and location of the attack; obsessed over the then-Illinois senator’s schedule; obtained .50-caliber rifles; and had a plan to destroy the killer’s vehicles once the act was committed. the new york post reported.

Moore, who demonstrated his excellent marksmanship as a former army sniper, was chosen as the man who fired the fatal shot at Obama.

I had to follow [my orders] and do whatever it takes to prevent the assassination of Barack Obama,” Moore wrote in his new book, “White Robes and Broken Badges.”

‘Because I was the only one who could.’

This was the first time the FBI had conducted an undercover operation to target America’s oldest hate group, and the stakes were higher than ever.

Moore would ultimately provide his “brothers” in the Klan with misinformation, possibly saving Obama’s life.

In a recent NPR interviewHe said he made up a story about the Secret Service using drones to stop them from assassinating Obama.

“I said, ‘Hey, what are you going to do with the drones?’ And they looked at me with a shocked face, and they looked at each other and looked back and said, ‘Drones? What drones?’”

He continued: ‘I said, ‘…Now that Obama is the candidate, he has an increased level of Secret Service protection, and at this level that includes drones. I didn’t know that was the case, but neither did they.’

But before he could thwart their plans, he was forced to attend cross burnings, stand aside and tolerate barbaric acts of violence, and participate in bizarre rituals, all while wearing a recording device.

After years of pretending to be best friends with racists, Moore discovered that there were police officers, prison guards and sheriff’s deputies all over Florida who were active members of the KKK.

One Klan member showed him arsenals of firearms and tactical gear. Another showed him a backyard incinerator he called “my own personal crematorium.”

He said this double life took its toll and that he often used method acting techniques to pump himself up before going undercover again.

One of his favorite things to do to get into character was listening to the pessimistic cover of Guns N Roses’ “Ain’t It Fun” while wearing a cap with the American flag embroidered on it.

“The more deeply I became entangled in the Ku Klux Klan, the harder it became to leave it all behind when I went home to my wife and son,” Moore wrote.

“All I could imagine was members kicking down the door to come get me, once they discovered my true purpose.”

His fears did not stop him from going undercover with the KKK again in Bronson, Florida in 2013.

The Bronson chapter was 100 miles away from the Klan chapter in Wayward, where authorities had prematurely recalled him four years earlier because of the risk of his exposure.

Moore’s expertise was needed more than ever at the time.

Obama’s rise to presidency and the backlash over the police killing of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 caused white supremacist group enrollments to skyrocket across the country.

Moore accused four prominent Ku Klux Klan members of murdering a black man named Warren Williams out of personal spite.

That led to a SWAT team arresting the suspected perpetrators outside a Home Depot in Alachua, Florida.

This act of kindness unfortunately forced Moore and his family to start a new life and shed their old identities forever.

“I lay awake at night thinking that the revenge for the most successful infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan in the history of the FBI was the loss of my home, almost all my possessions, my friends, and, allegedly, my future,” Moore wrote.

All four Klan members were tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison in 2017.

The statement so frightened many within the KKK that they left the group altogether.

Some joined far-right groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

“I am proud that I delivered a devastating, nearly fatal blow to a hateful organization,” wrote Moore, who now lives with his family in an undisclosed location. “The movement as a whole, however, was far from dead or even in decline.”

Moore warned emphatically, writing that he understands better than anyone how divided America is, calling former President Donald Trump the instigator of that division.

He draws a connection between the KKK and modern white nationalist groups and the January 6 riots at the Capitol.

“The Klan and the like-minded groups it has spawned have learned to combine bullets with bluff and pistols with paper. Either method can do far more irreparable damage to the state of our democracy than the first,” he wrote.

“As the 2024 elections approach and democracy itself is on the ballot … we should be very afraid.”