An Ohio man pled guilty this week against terrorism charges after federal investigators claimed he tried to help ISIS terrorists kill U.S. troops overseas.
22-year old Cole Bridges (who also goes by Cole Gonzales) was arrested in 2021 after communicating online with an FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter in 2020.
According to the Department of Justice, Bridges eventually gave the agent instructions for ways that ISIS fighters could attack U.S. forces in the Middle East.
“Among other things, Bridges diagrammed specific military maneuvers intended to help ISIS fighters maximize the lethality of attacks on U.S. troops,” the department says in a release. “Bridges further provided advice about the best way to fortify an ISIS encampment to repel an attack by U.S. Special Forces, including by wiring certain buildings with explosives to kill the U.S. troops.”
Later, in 2021, Bridges provided the agent with a video of himself wearing his U.S. Army body armor and standing in front of a flag often used by ISIS fighters while making a gesture symbolic of support for ISIS.
One week later, Bridges sent a second video, this one in which he narrates a “propaganda speech in support of the anticipated ambush by ISIS on U.S. troops” while using a voice manipulator.
“As he admitted in court, Cole Bridges attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his fellow soldiers in service of ISIS and its violent ideology,” Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in the release. “Bridges’s traitorous conduct was a betrayal of his comrades and his country.”
“Thanks to the incredible work of the prosecutors of this Office and our partners at the FBI and the U.S. Army, Bridges’s malign intent was revealed, and he now awaits sentencing for his crimes,” Williams continued.
Bridges pled guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS and attempting to murder U.S. military service members, and faces up to 20 years in prison for each charge. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 2.
This guy sounds like a potential option for Chris Christie’s running mate. They’re both a couple of traitors who should be stripped of their citizenship and dropped off in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Might be worth sending Mike “The RINO” Pence with them.
If Trump was still President, then this guy would be executed for his treachery! But since Biden holds the office (albeit illegally), the left wing loonies will probably give him some Medal of Honor or something…
So sad that America has come to this.