The suspects accused of plotting an attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House hoped their actions would “jumpstart” a revolution and were upset about the government’s handling of the Epstein files, according to an FBI complaint.  A complaint from FBI task force officer Christopher Betts alleged that 19-year-old Tycen Proper of Knox County, Ohio, joined a group that wanted to unleash mass terror at the UFC event. The group wanted to target Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and other elected officials they said had compromised themselves by taking money from “pro-Israel PACs,” according to the complaint.  In messages plotting the attack, the FBI alleges that Proper wrote, “I got a possible target Marsha Blackburn is senator for Tennessee” because “she’s taken money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them.” The suspects planned to use explosive drones to drive a crowd in the direction of snipers, according to investigators. Betts said that Proper, whom local law enforcement arrested last week, “admitted to planning with others a coordinated attack against the United States government during the UFC event scheduled to take place.” Other elected officials seen as targets were Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Carol Miller, and Rep. Riley Moore — all of whom hail from West Virginia — Betts said a review of a chat planning the attack revealed.  “The four images of these members of Congress appear to have been taken from the website ‘TrackAIPAC.com’ and appear to include information about how much money each Congressperson received ‘from pro-Israel PACS,’” Betts said.  Proper joined a TikTok group called “Vanguard of the Old” in March 2026, where members discussed how they believed the United States needed to be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up, according to the complaint. Proper allegedly told the FBI that he believed “many of the group members had prior military experience.” “The members of that group stated that they wanted to protect the United States, which they believed was headed in the wrong direction,” the complaint said. “Members of that group believed that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt.” “Some expressed a desire that people who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein should not govern the country,” the complaint said.  The FBI said that local law enforcement first detained Proper after his parents flagged behavior they viewed as suspicious. During a subsequent investigation, law enforcement obtained a search warrant for Proper’s phone and interviewed him.  The group was set to rendezvous in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the days leading up to the UFC event before local law enforcement notified the FBI. Proper is set for a detention hearing June 17 and a preliminary hearing June 29, both in the Southern District of Ohio.