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The group was created just a day before on Nov. 16, 2015, so Carlineo鈥檚 introductory message helped set the tone for what would become a small hub for hardcore nativism and ugly caricatures of Muslims.

鈥淚鈥檓 flattered,鈥� he wrote of being accepted into the group. 鈥淟ock and load America!鈥�

On Friday, April 5, a 55-year-old Donald Trump supporter with the same name was arrested by the FBI in New York for allegedly threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., by putting 鈥渁 bullet in her f------ skull.鈥� Omar is a Somali refugee and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.

In a , an FBI special agent wrote Carlineo called the congresswoman鈥檚 office on March 21 and made the threat.

鈥淒o you work for the Muslim Brotherhood?鈥� Carlineo allegedly asked one of Omar鈥檚 staffers. 鈥淲hy are you working for her? She鈥檚 a f------ terrorist. I鈥檒l put a bullet in her f------ skull.鈥�

When questioned by the FBI eight days later at his home in Addison, New York, Carlineo described himself as a patriot and said he was a supporter of President Donald Trump. According to , he initially told FBI agents that he鈥檇 told Omar鈥檚 staff member, 鈥淚f our forefathers were still alive, they鈥檇 put a bullet in her head.鈥� But after being told that lying to the FBI is a crime, Carlineo said he could not remember precisely what he鈥檇 told the staffer.

Carlineo told the agents he had a shotgun and what was described in the affidavit as 鈥渁 .22 caliber firearm鈥� in his house.

The Facebook page under Carlineo鈥檚 name lists Corning, New York, as the place he lives. That鈥檚 about 11 miles from Addison, where the FBI agents interviewed him.

The Facebook page shows a number of posts dating back to at least 2014 that display similar rhetoric to what was outlined in the federal affidavit as well as an affinity for conspiracy theories and racism that align with the antigovernment 鈥淧atriot鈥� movement.

In February 2014, the Facebook page under Carlineo鈥檚 name posted a variation on a meme popular within the world of antigovernment extremism. The meme showed a picture of a bullet. The text read: 鈥淥ur forefathers did not politely protest the British. They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king, march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. They f------ shot them.鈥�

Along with the meme, the owner of the Patrick Carlineo page included commentary about Barack Obama, who was president at the time.

鈥淭his president has changed this country for the worse,鈥� the person wrote. 鈥淲ith all the scandals he鈥檚 pulled any white president would be impeached. Keep all your heads up your asses sheeple. If you don鈥檛 want your kids living in a FEMA camp you had better wake up and do something.鈥�

The notion of so-called FEMA camps is a foundational component of the New World Order conspiracy theory 鈥� that the government will disarm Americans and usher them into concentration camps run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and surrender American sovereignty to a cabal of international socialists.

The Facebook account under Carlineo鈥檚 name returned to the FEMA camp idea in March 2014 with a post of a map of the U.S. that supposedly showed 800 鈥渃oncentration camps in America.鈥�

鈥淭hese camps are to be operated by FEMA should Martial Law need to be implemented,鈥� said the text below the map.

Also in March 2014, the Facebook account posted a meme that included photos of several Muslim figures and policymakers. The meme described the men pictured as 鈥渢he new boys in the Soetoro Regime.鈥� The name Soetoro was part of the racist birther conspiracy theory that claimed President Obama, the nation鈥檚 first black president, was not a natural-born U.S. citizen and had used fake documents in his path to the Oval Office. The birther conspiracy theory was spread by Trump years before he ran for president.

鈥淢uslim pigs,鈥� was written under the photo of that meme.

That same month, the account posted a photoshopped picture of Obama wearing a headscarf. The words 鈥淢uslim Brotherhood Member鈥� accompanied the image.

In November 2017, the person behind the same Facebook account posted what appeared to be a complaint about black professional football players kneeling during the National Anthem to protest police violence.

鈥淪o why wasn鈥檛 the National Anthem offensive when obama was president? F--- the NAAPC,鈥� it read, with an apparent misspelling for the acronym for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

A relative chastised the writer in the comments of the post.

鈥淣ephew, it鈥檚 the NAACP,鈥� the relative wrote. 鈥淵ou have a lot of hate built up in you. would you like a Xanax?鈥�

Carlineo鈥檚 Facebook account responded with a racist rant that described black people as gorillas and Obama as a 鈥淢uslim plant鈥�:

No I just get sick of hearing the anti-Trump silverbacks crying every f------ day about bullshit. The NAACP is a bunch of racist motherf------ that act like they just came out of the cotton fields. This president has done more by himself than the muslim did in 8 years. So tired of hearing the lies. It's not hate Uncle Pete, it鈥檚 just hearing enough of the resistance antifa f---, etc. Democrats only obstruct, that鈥檚 not what our founding fathers wanted I鈥檓 sure. You guys still cheerlead for a muslim plant that gave Iran 150 billion in cash, went and played golf with a smirk when that guy was burned alive. Hard to believe you would support a man that hates Christians. But he is a good speaker.

More recently, the Facebook page included a complaint about being censored by Facebook and locked out of the account for brief periods of time.

鈥淛ust got out of facebook jail after 30 days,鈥� the February 2018 post read, adding a misspelled dig at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: 鈥淏low me Zuckerburg security.鈥�

At a 聽about hate crimes and white nationalism this week, Facebook鈥檚 public policy director, Neil Potts, testified about the difficulty of moderating content on the site.

鈥淲e believe in embracing diverse views,鈥� Potts said in . 鈥淯nless we are confronted with a specific potential harm, we tend to err on the side of allowing content, even when some people find it objectionable or offensive. These can be difficult decisions, and we will not get them all right, but we strive to apply our policies consistently and fairly to a global and diverse community.鈥�

A hearing on whether to continue to detain Carlineo is scheduled for Tuesday, April 16, according to . He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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