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Trans Man Plots to Kill Treasury Secretary | US News
A 25-year-old transgender man from Massachusetts, Ryan Michael English, got six years and one month in federal prison for plotting to assassinate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with a knife and Molotov cocktails—targeted for the day he was Senate-confirmed. The judge, citing no injuries and questionable bomb efficacy, reduced prosecutors’ 10-year push, granting credit for 20 months already served. Originally aiming at GOP figures like House Speaker Mike Johnson and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, English pivoted after seeing Bessent on TV discuss minimum wage. Police found his weapons near…
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