Newly uncovered video and online chat logs have revealed the racist rantings, obsession with guns, and alleged violent fantasies of accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira.
The material published by the Washington Post on Saturday paints a disturbing portrait of the 21-year-old National Guard member, who was arrested last month and charged with leaking classified US defense documents in an online chat group.
One disturbing video clip revealed in the report depicts Teixeira at a shooting range, spewing racist slurs before raising a semi-automatic rifle and firing repeatedly.
‘Jews scam, n*****s rape, and I mag dump,’ he says, before aiming the rifle and firing 10 times at an unseen target, emptying the rifle’s magazine, or ‘mag’.
‘He did call himself racist, multiple times,’ a close friend of Teixeira’s from the online community Discord told the Post. ‘I would say he was proud of it.’
The person added that Teixeira had also spoken ‘multiple times about when he was younger, his desire to shoot up his school’, adding: ‘To my knowledge, he never hurt anyone physically, but he absolutely talked about it pretty often.’
In a video clip published by the Washington Post (above), Teixeira is seen at a shooting range, spewing racist slurs before raising a semi-automatic rifle and firing repeatedly
Jack Douglas Teixeira is seen in a court sketch making his initial appearance 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 on Saturday morning.
Teixeira worked as an information technology specialist with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, and is accused of using his top secret clearance to obtain and leak dozens of classified documents in the Discord chatroom he managed, where he was jokingly known as ‘Jack the Dripper’.
The documents posted online unveiled US concerns about Ukraine’s military capacity against invading Russian forces, and embarrassingly revealed Washington’s apparent 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 the ‘unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.’
Unlike other significant leakers charged in recent years, Teixeira does not appear to have considered himself a whistleblower, but rather sought to impress the teenagers and young men who congregated in his Discord chatroom, Thug Shaker Central.
‘I think he did think 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 that Teixeira also repeatedly referred to a ‘race war’ that he envisioned, and appeared to fear such a conflict following widespread racial justice protests in the summer of 2020.
‘He was afraid they would target white people,’ his friend said. ‘He had told me quite a few times he thought they need to be prepared for a revolution.’
FBI agents arrest Jack Teixeira, an Air Force National Guard member, on April 13 in connection with an investigation into the leaks online of classified US documents
An evidence photo released by prosecutors shows Teixeira’s room in his father’s home. Prosecutors say he amassed a ‘virtual arsenal’ of weapons in the home
This image contained in Justice Department motion for continued pretrial 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 component of prepping for a supposed ‘race war,’ the friend said.
Teixeira wanted his Discord companions to ‘be prepared for things the government might do, reinforcing 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 alleged.
In court last month, federal prosecutors claimed 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 ton of people’ because it would be ‘culling the weak minded,’ the prosecution wrote in a court filing opposing his release on bail.
Prosecutors also claimed that the airman sought advice from another Discord user about what type of rifle would be easy to operate from the back of an SUV, and that he searched mass shootings online.
They added that Teixeira owned ‘a virtual arsenal of weapons, including bolt-action rifles, rifles, AR and AK-style weapons, and a bazooka,’ with some of the firearms ‘just feet from his bed.’
The document said that Teixeira was suspended from school in March 2018 after a classmate ‘overheard him make remarks about weapons, including Molotov cocktails, guns at the school, and racial threats.’
A document depicting a Chinese spy balloon was among the trove of material Teixeira is accused of leaking to his online friends on Discord
Prosecutors argued that Teixeira poses ‘a serious flight risk’ and claimed that he might trade classified secrets to a foreign adversary if released on bond.
‘He accessed and may still have access to a trove of classified information that would be of tremendous value to hostile nation states that could offer him safe harbor and attempt to facilitate his escape from the United States,’ the filing said.
Teixeira’s lawyers have argued that Teixeira should be released into his father’s custody pending trial, insisting that he poses no ongoing threat to national security.
Defense attorneys argued in court filings that the prosecution ‘engages in hyperbolic judgements and provides little more than speculation that a foreign adversary will seduce Mr Teixeira and orchestrate his clandestine escape from the United States.’
US Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy has yet to rule on the question of Teixeira’s pre-trial detention status, and hearings on the issue have been repeatedly delayed.
Teixeira is next due in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts on the afternoon of May 19 for the continued detention hearing.
