Pentagon leaker fired shotgun while spewing racist bile, video reveals

Newly discovered video and online chat logs have revealed the racist tirades, obsession with guns and alleged violent fantasies of accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira.

The material, published by the Washington Post on Saturday painted a disturbing portrait of the 21-year-old member of the National Guard, who was arrested last month and charged with leaking classified US defense documents in an online chat group.

A disturbing video clip revealed in the report shows Teixeira at a shooting range, spitting racial slurs before raising a semi-automatic rifle and firing repeatedly.

“Jews scam, n*****s rape, and I can dump,” he says, before aiming the gun and firing 10 times at an unseen target, emptying the gun’s magazine, or “mag,” .

“He called himself racist several times,” a close friend of Teixeira from online community Discord told the Post. “I’d say he was proud of it.”

The person added that Teixeira had also “talked several times about when he was younger, his desire to shoot down his school,” adding, “As far as I know he never physically hurt anyone, but he definitely has talked about quite often.’

Jack Douglas Teixeira can be seen in a court sketch that will first appear before a federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 14

An attorney representing Teixeira did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com Saturday morning.

Working as an IT specialist in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, Teixeira is accused of using his top secret access to obtain and leak dozens of classified documents into the Discord chat room he ran, where he was jokingly known as “Jack the dripper’.

The documents posted online revealed US concerns about Ukraine’s military capability against invading Russian forces, embarrassingly revealing that Washington was apparently spying on allies Israel and South Korea.

Teixeira, who has not yet entered a plea, is charged with “unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information” and “unauthorized removal and retention of secret documents or material.”

Unlike other keynote speakers who have been indicted in recent years, Teixeira doesn’t appear to have considered himself a whistleblower, instead trying to impress the teens and young men who congregated in his Discord chat room, Thug Shaker Central.

“I think he thought it made him special,” the close friend told the Post. “I think there was a part of him that felt like he was cool or important because he got that access.”

The person said Teixeira also repeatedly referred to a “race war” he envisioned, and appeared to fear such a conflict following widespread racial justice protests in the summer of 2020.

“He was afraid they would attack white people,” his friend said. “He’d told me a few times that he thought they should be prepared for a revolution.”

FBI agents arrest Jack Teixeira, a member of the Air Force National Guard, on April 13 in connection with an investigation into the online leaking of classified US documents

An evidence photo released by prosecutors shows Teixeira’s room in his father’s home. Prosecutors say he had amassed a “virtual arsenal” of weapons at home

This image in the Justice Department’s motion for continued pre-trial detention of Jack Teixeira shows his room at his father’s home in North Dighton, Massachusetts

In addition to stockpiling what prosecutors describe as a “virtual arsenal” of firearms, Teixeira appeared to view his access to classified information as an important part of preparing for an alleged “race war,” the friend said.

Teixeira wanted his Discord companions to be “prepared for things the government might do, to reinforce to them that the government was lying to them,” the person said.

The new report adds disturbing new details about Teixeira’s background, on top of what federal prosecutors have already claimed.

Last month, federal prosecutors alleged in court that Teixeira had a history of making “violent” statements and owned numerous weapons.

He wrote on social media in November that he “wanted to kill a lot of people” because it would “clear the feeble-minded,” the prosecutor wrote in a court that opposed his release on bail.

Prosecutors also alleged that the aviator sought advice from another Discord user about what type of gun would be easy to operate from the back of an SUV, and that he searched mass shootings online.

They added that Teixeira possessed “a virtual arsenal of weapons, including shotguns, rifles, AR- and AK-style weapons, and a bazooka,” with some firearms “located just a few feet from his bed.”

The document stated that Teixeira was suspended from school in March 2018 after a classmate “heard him make comments about guns, including Molotov cocktails, guns in the school and racist threats.”

A document depicting a Chinese spy balloon was among the trove of material that Teixeira is accused of leaking to his online friends on Discord

Prosecutors argued that Teixeira poses “a serious flight risk” and claimed he could trade classified secrets to a foreign adversary if released on bail.

“He has accessed and may still have access to a wealth of classified information that would be of immense value to hostile nation-states that could provide him with a safe haven and attempt to facilitate his escape from the United States.” , the application said.

Teixeira’s lawyers have argued that Teixeira should be released into his father’s custody pending trial, insisting he does not pose an ongoing threat to national security.

Defense attorneys argued in court cases that the prosecution “engages in hyperbolic judgments, delivering little more than speculation that a foreign adversary will seduce Mr. Teixeira and orchestrate his clandestine escape from the United States.”

US Attorney General David H. Hennessy has yet to rule on the issue of Teixeira’s pre-trial detention, and hearings on the matter have been repeatedly postponed.

Teixeira is due to appear in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts on the afternoon of May 19 for the continued hearing.