One week after President Donald Trump retook office, a trans-identifying radical marched on the U.S. Capitol with the intention of killing an incoming Cabinet official. That would-be assassin was handed down his sentence on Tuesday.
Ryan Michael English — a 26-year-old man from South Deerfield, Massachusetts, who pretends to be a woman named “Raleigh Jane” — intentionally traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 27, 2025, with the knowledge that that was the day of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s confirmation vote.
English was armed with a folding knife and a pair of Molotov cocktails, each constructed of a 50-milliliter bottle of vodka affixed with gray starter cloths soaked in an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, according to the Justice Department.
In a letter to his roommate that police later found in English’s pocket and referenced on Tuesday by the DOJ, the would-be assassin stated, “This is terrible but I cant do nothing while nazis kill my sisters. I love you. This is awful. Im so sorry. I love u. Please stay alive and heal. you can. you are strong enough. Fk them for pushing us so far. you dont deserve this. Im so sorry for lying and plotting and lying.”
