We can only presume so much. it’s entirely possible that the stuff was planted on him. But if he did have the manifesto on a Reddit account, months to years prior, and other places…

When we saw the video we all looked at it and went that looks pretty professional. Then again Hollywood is the only reference most of us have.

He’s got a good bulldog of a lawyer coming. If he goes down it’s going to be because of a overwhelming amount of evidence not because there were a few plants in his bag.

The questions you should probably ask are:

was that license used to check into the hostel

Was that license used to get the bus ticket from New York City to wherever?

Does he have a good credible reason to be on a bus from New York to God knows where, stopping in Altoona.

If that bus ticket was bought with that ID… That’s pretty damning.

Why not ditch the stuff?

Maybe he was trying to get caught

Maybe he was planning to pull something else off (again smart money would be on getting new equipment/id)

Maybe he was planning on doing himself in, and hadn’t had the opportunity to ditch the ID after getting on the bus.

Carrying the manifesto however… If that’s not a plant, again it will be in his handwriting with his DNA all through it, That’s just bad form.

Bottom line, he’s not a professional. And maybe our collective got check of what a professional is, is someone off base.