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Right-wing commentator Nick Fuentes revealed that someone tried to assassinate him earlier this week when an armed individual targeted him in his home.
Why It Matters
Fuentes made headlines the night of the 2024 U.S. election after Donald Trump secured a second term. In response, Fuentes went online and declared there will “never, ever be a female president” in the United States and that it was “your body, my choice. Forever.”
Fuentes, 26, is a white nationalist podcaster known for a long history of misogynistic and antisemitic remarks. He hosts the America First show and works with a wide range of right-wing pundits, such as Laura Loomer.
He also played a significant role in helping Trump secure the “bro vote” through his show, which receives upwards of 100,000 views on the site Rumble. Trump ended up increasing his share among young men in the election.
Fuentes’s election night video, however, struck a nerve among leftists, who ended up leaking his home address online. He did not confirm if his address was actually leaked, but he did repost a video from conservative media giant Candace Owens who said she had heard about Fuentes pepper-spraying a woman who showed up at his home.
What To Know
Fuentes revealed the startling episode in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, revealing video of the alleged would-be assassin on his front porch.
The assailant approached his front door with a pistol and what seemed to be a crossbow while Fuentes was livestreaming.
After putting down the crossbow, the assailant rings the doorbell, tries his door, then yells “Yo Nick!”
Fuentes in his initial post claimed that the assailant carried “incendiary devices” and that he believed the man “intended to kill me.”
“According to police, the would-be assassin committed a triple homicide in southern Illinois early yesterday before he arrived at my doorstep with his pistol drawn, calling my name,” Fuentes wrote. “I am grateful to God that I am still alive today.”
Fuentes also wrote that the assailant “is now dead. I am okay!”
Fuentes said the assailant broke into his neighbor’s home to evade police and killed two of their dogs in the confusion. Fuentes called the incident “heartbreaking,” but he said that it “could have been so unimaginably worse. God have mercy.”
“Doxing is not a game. This nihilistic lynch mob behavior must end before anyone else is killed,” Fuentes wrote.
The killer parked his car in front of my house and approached my door with his pistol drawn and what appears to be a crossbow. I was livestreaming at the time.
He rings the door bell, tries the doorknob and yells “yo Nick!” pic.twitter.com/5y1LF3Dv56
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 19, 2024
What People Are Saying
The posts about the near-attack generated thousands of interactions: The initial post has over 3,6000 comments, 6,500 shares and 43,000 likes. Subsequent posts in the same chain each had between 12,000 and 16,000 likes and around 1,000 shares.
Fans offered their own homes as potential alternate broadcasting sites “free of charge.”
Others took aim at Fuentes asking for donations, with one asking, “You’re already wealthy, why are you begging for money?”
A smaller group focused on the claim that Fuentes was banned from banking services, demanding action be taken to get him “unbanned” while calling any such ban “unamerican” as a potential breach of free speech.
What Happens Next
“I will now have to uproot my life and relocate,” Fuentes wrote. “While I can handle whatever comes to my front door, it is irresponsible to expect my neighbors with young families to share that burden.”
“In the meantime I will have to contract 24 hour security to protect myself and my property,” he added, appealing to his followers to “contribute to defray the cost” of private security, which he claimed would cost $13,000 per week. The money would also go towards rebuilding his studio.
However, Fuentes said he could “only accept cryptocurrency because I am banned from banking services and CC processing. Thank you.”
It is not clear why he is banned from banking services, as he did not elaborate on this point.
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