‘We Believe That There Was a Political Motive’: Man Who Shot Up ABC Affiliate Had Anti-Trump Writings in His Car, Said Cabinet Officials Were ‘Next’

The suspect in Friday’s shooting at an ABC affiliate’s Sacramento office left anti-Trump writings in his car, including a handwritten note warning that FBI director Kash Patel, FBI deputy director Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi are “next.”

“For hiding Epstein & ignoring red flags. Do not support Patel, Bongino, & AG Pam Bondi. They’re next.—C.K. from above,” suspect Anibal Hernandez Santana’s note reads, according to the DOJ’s Monday press release. Investigators found other anti-Trump writings in the car, as well as a note on a calendar stating, “Do the Next Scary Thing,” scheduled for the date of the shooting.

“We believe there was a political motive behind [Hernandez Santana’s] actions,” Sacramento County district attorney Thien Ho said, citing “the notes that he left behind and the target in place and the recent dismissal of the Jimmy Kimmel show,” according to NBC News. Disney, ABC’s parent company, briefly suspended Kimmel’s show last Wednesday after the host made what the network called “ill-timed” and “insensitive” remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The network announced Tuesday that it was reinstating Kimmel.

In addition to the notes, an X account that appears to belong to Hernandez Santana “contains a steady stream of anti-Trump commentary,” Variety reported.

“The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete,” the account posted in July. “CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping down, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to ‘fight like hell’. Rules don’t apply if election was stolen. FIGHT!”

Local authorities on Friday arrested Hernandez Santana, 64, after he allegedly fired one shot toward and three shots into ABC10’s Sacramento office. While officials released him the next day on $200,000 bail, the FBI rearrested him within hours and filed federal charges.

If convicted, Hernandez Santana faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for possessing and discharging a firearm within a school zone, plus up to one additional year in prison and a $10,000 fine for interfering with a radio communication station, according to the DOJ’s press release.

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