#Neo-Nazi ex-soldier jailed for bomb plot to overthrow government

A neo-Nazi ex-soldier who wanted to bomb CNN and incite a race war has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison — after prosecutors described him a self-confessed Satanist hellbent on overthrowing the government.

US District Judge Daniel Crabtree decried having to follow such “low” sentencing guidelines for Jarrett William Smith, who committed “troubling and serious” crimes with “multistep plans to create chaos.”

“His planned actions, if executed, would have endangered countless members of the public,” Crabtree said at a sentencing hearing Wednesday.

Smith, 24, was a private first class stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas when he was arrested last year for sharing instructions online detailing how to build a bomb and make napalm.

Smith planned to start a race war to ultimately overthrow the government as part of his ties to the neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division, prosecutors argued — with bombing a news organization like CNN the first step.

Smith also discussed assassinating then-Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke for “fire, destruction and death,” according to court documents.

The former Army private told an FBI agent he was doing it “for the glory of his Satanist religion,” prosecutors said, although they gave little detail other than his love of “black metal” designed to attract people to Satan.

FBI bomb technicians said the weapon-making recipes he shared online were viable.

Smith, who was also previously stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas, was discharged from the military after pleading guilty in February to two felony charges of distributing explosives information.

Smith’s defense team blamed psychological troubles from trauma in high school when he learned he was on a “hit list” for a planned school shooting that was ultimately thwarted. He was also bullied for his cleft lip and palate, the court was told.

“What the defendant experienced is sad, and I have sympathy for him,” Assistant US Attorney Anthony Mattivi told the judge.

“But it has to be balanced against what he did.”

Crabtree also ordered three years of supervised probation for the first-time offender after his release from prison.

With Post wires