Anti-Trump posts by Palisades Fire suspect Rinderknecht revealed

The person accused of beginning the lethal Palisades Fireplace on New 12 months’s Day in Southern California recurrently posted anti-Trump posts on social media and shared how international warming was inflicting local weather change.

A narrative that Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, shared got here from ProPublica, titled “Local weather Change Will Pressure a New American Migration,” which confirmed a hillside on fireplace in California.

He additionally shared one other article, “Senator Kamala Harris Says Meat Is Destroying the Planet,” and posted a hyperlink to contribute to former President Joe Biden’s 2020 election marketing campaign.

Different posts from Rinderknecht included photographs of Trump supporters crying after dropping the 2020 election, and a publish claiming President Donald Trump inherited a terrific economic system from former President Barack Obama, saying he “destroyed” it throughout COVID-19.

WHO IS JONATHAN RINDERKNECHT, EXPECTED PALISADES FIRE, ACCUSED OF STARTING DEADLY FIRE?

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, was charged Wednesday with beginning the blaze that ultimately grew to become the Palisades Fireplace in Los Angeles. (VSAttyEssayli/X)

Rinderknecht posted recurrently about local weather change and shared one other story in 2020: “The Nice Local weather Migration has begun.” In one other story, he shared a narrative titled “Summers can get ‘too scorching for folks.'”

Though Rinderknecht hasn’t posted many photographs, one picture from 2014 exhibits him sporting face paint, which depicts a cranium with its mouth open and pretend blood dripping down his neck.

Rinderknecht was arrested Tuesday in Florida and charged with destruction of property by fireplace, Appearing United States Lawyer Invoice Essayli mentioned. A federal choose ordered him to stay behind bars Thursday after prosecutors mentioned Rinderknecht has the traits of an arsonist.

“The grievance alleges that one individual’s recklessness brought about one of many worst fires Los Angeles has ever seen, leading to loss of life and widespread destruction in Pacific Palisades,” Essayli mentioned. “Whereas we can’t carry again what the victims have misplaced, we hope this prison case brings some measure of justice to these affected by this horrific tragedy.”

CALIFORNians CONFREE WITH MAN ACCUSED OF STARTING LA FIRE UNTIL POLICE MAKE ARREST

Firefighters watch a helicopter drop water on the Palisades Fireplace in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles, January 11, 2025. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)

Federal authorities mentioned Rinderknecht labored as an Uber driver in Los Angeles from New 12 months’s Eve 2024 to New 12 months’s Day 2025, including that two of his passengers mentioned “he appeared irritated and indignant that night after dropping off a passenger in Pacific Palisades.”

After allegedly beginning the hearth after parking on the Cranium Rock trailhead, Rinderknecht referred to as 911 after which requested ChatGPT, “Are you at fault if fireplace is cleared? [sic] due to your cigarettes?”

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Flames from the Palisades Fireplace burn a constructing on Sundown Boulevard throughout a robust storm on January 8, 2025, within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Apu Gomes)

ChatGPT responded “Sure” and defined, in accordance with the grievance.

Whereas prosecutors allege Rinderknecht fueled the Lachman Fireplace, which was extinguished on Jan. 2, heavy winds reignited underground embers, resulting in the Palisades Fireplace. In whole, the Palisades Fireplace claimed the lives of twelve folks and left many displaced.

Fox Information Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.