Queens Man Who Threatened Lawmakers Wanted Trump To Be Like Hitler: Prosecutors

“Trump should just declare martial law, cancel the transfer of power and round up the domestic enemies of our Republic,” Hunt told his father, John Hunt, a retired Queens family court judge, according to a text message in November presented in Brooklyn federal court. “The military and the American people will back him.”

During “Hitler’s first term in office, circumstances were such that it was necessary for him to override the democratic process and become the absolute leader of his country,” Hunt told his father in a text read by an FBI agent in court. “Trump should prob do the same if necessary.” 

He also texted his girlfriend about reading Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf,”  Courthouse News Service reported.

In one of his videos posted on social media, presented to the jury on Friday, Hunt talked about how to encode words in messages. 

“If I want to talk about who runs the world,” he’d call it “juice,” Hunt explained. “I don’t want to kill the juice just yet ,” he added.

In his social media posts, Hunt also encouraged armed extremists to return to Washington on Inauguration Day to challenge the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden by violently overthrowing the government, prosecutors said.

In opening arguments Wednesday, Hunt’s lawyer, Jan Rostal, said that his Internet messages were constitutionally protected speech and were not intended to be taken seriously. She said his social media posts were not real threats, The Washington Post reported.