The bearded Idaho wacko accused of trying to kill President Obama with a long-range rifle round thinks he is the second coming of Jesus Christ.
A bizarre video of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who was charged with attempted assassination, shows the 21-year-old making a pitch to Oprah Winfrey to cast him on her show.
“You see, Oprah, there is still so much more that God needs for me to express to the world. It’s not just a coincidence that I look like Jesus,” Ortega-Hernandez said, with his hair slicked and a crucifix around his neck, in the rambling, 20-minute video.
“I am the modern day Jesus Christ that you all have been waiting for.”
In the footage, obtained by an Idaho TV station, Ortega-Hernandez reads from a note pad as he discusses his stint as a gangbanger, pushes for the legalization of marijuana and wonders aloud about why people spend time drinking and partying.
“Please do not take me as a joke or as a deception. I have never felt so sure that I was sent here by God to lead the world to Zion,” Ortega-Hernandez professes.
Reportedly, the video was shot in September by Ramon Bailey, a student at Idaho State University. Bailey said he filmed the spot after Ortega-Hernandez approached him and said he wanted to shoot a “commercial.”
Bailey said the taping was so off-the-wall and disturbing that he didn’t even bother to edit it.
Authorities say Oscar Ortega-Hernandez fired 9 rounds at the White House last Friday, one of which penetrated an outer window of Obama’s living quarters before being stopped by an inner layer of bullet-proof glass.
The President was en route to Hawaii at the time of the attack.
According to court documents, a witness told investigators that Ortega-Hernandez had reportedly said Obama was the “Anti-Christ,” the “devil” and that he “needed to kill” the President.
If convicted, he faces life in prison.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is due back in Federal court in Washington, D.C. on Nov 22.
