While Teixeira's motives aren't entirely clear one thing stands out about him - he fits the MAGA stereotype to a tee.
We do know the young national guardsman was stealing sensitive documents and posting them on his gaming group "Thug Shaker Central," which is apparently a racist joke about young black men.
Reports about posts on the chat group say that members shared racist and antisemitic jokes and memes.
The New York Times reported he posted documents to "teach the young followers who gravitated to him about actual war."
Normally teaching others about war does not include stealing top secret Pentagon intelligence documents.
In this case Teixeira and his little gang of gamers and racist Jew-haters, it was all about having fun by combining their love of video games, guns, and Christianity in a toxic mix of right-wing sludge.
After being charged with violating the Espionage Act, the right-wing media and political sphere turned him into a cause-celeb.
MAGA loon Margorie Taylor Greene quickly came to his rescue with a tweet, "Jake (it's actually Jack) Texeira is white, male, Christian, and anti-war. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low-level national guardsman? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine against nuclear Russia without war powers?"
Tucker Carlson was right there on the troll bandwagon claiming Texeira's arrest was some part of a vast conspiracy to cover up the secret involvement of American ground forces in Ukraine.
According to a Vice News report, "On the rabidly pro-Trump message board known as The Donald, members were openly hailing the racist hacker as a hero for what he did."
This is just the start of the lionization of a secret-stealer embraced by the far-right. They'll parade him around on their seditious media platforms calling him a "Fucking Legend."
As it stands, this is just another example of right-wing domestic terrorists trying to destroy our democracy.
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