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Pictured: Anti-Trump lawyer who shot up ABC news station after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

By Editor,James Cirrone

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Pictured: Anti-Trump lawyer who shot up ABC news station after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

The man police say fired three shots into a California ABC News station made social media posts wishing death on President Donald Trump.

Anibal Hernandez Santana, 64, of Sacramento, was identified by police as the man who let off three rounds into a window of KXTV, a local ABC affiliate, on Friday.

Nobody was injured in the shooting, with Santana arrested after police identified a vehicle connected to the shooting, The New York Times reported.

Santana has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building and negligent discharge of a firearm.

Police have not identified a motive in the shooting of the station, but it occurred just two days after Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show was ‘indefinitely’ pulled off the air by ABC following comments the comedian made about Charlie Kirk.

Santana, who was released from custody and is due in court Tuesday, is a lawyer who used to be health policy analyst for the California Rural Indian Health Board, according to a LinkedIn account. He appears to be retired now.

A profile on X that bears his name is filled with posts that reveal negative feelings about Trump, with one being published a day before the attack.

‘Where is a good heart attack when we need it the most?? Please Join in my thoughts and prayers for the physical demise of our fearful leader,’ one post read, seemingly talking about Trump.

The account further wished death on Trump in another post, seemingly making a tenuous connection between the president and Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Kirk’s killing.

‘I support the death penalty for Tyler Robinson. Absolutely, as soon as the fed criminal code is amended to add the death penalty for a president who refuses to step down after certified election results and/or incites an insurrection. This has been a PSA for democracy. Thank you,’ the account wrote.

A day after Kirk was assassinated, the account posted a less-than-genuine tribute to the 31-year-old father-of-two.

‘Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk and his family. May the prudence of his cost-benefit analysis for 2A rights vs. school shootings live on forever,’ the account wrote.

Santana studied regional and city planning at UC Berkeley and law at UC Law San Francisco, according to a Facebook profile matching the other social media accounts.

On Thursday, the day before the shooting, about 15 people protested Kimmel’s demise outside the station, which is owned by Tegna.

Kimmel’s suspension has outraged liberals, who claim the Trump administration is not respecting freedom of speech.

This is because FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, suggested Kimmel should be suspended in a Wednesday podcast appearance. Hours later, ABC did just that.

Kimmel said in his Monday monologue that MAGA was ‘desperately’ trying to distance itself from the suspect in Kirk’s killing and implied that Robinson was on the political right.

Carr, and many other conservatives, pointed out that evidence released by authorities so far indicates that Robinson had drifted to the left in recent years.