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Is this guy a victim, a casualty of war, or just someone who is trying to bring disgrace to a uniform which he never wore?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/01/veteran-threatens-biden-ptsd/
He threatened to kill Joe Biden. His family says he’s a casualty of war.

There is no evidence that Scott Merryman, a 37-year-old war veteran, was motivated by political hatred when he trekked a thousand miles to the D. C. area, vowing to “slay the Anti-Christ,” as he called President Biden on social media.
The former paratrooper, emotionally troubled for more than a decade, had suddenly become delusional, obsessed with the Bible’s Book of Revelation. Believing he was a God-anointed prophet of the world’s final days, he set out, in his words, to “lop the head off the serpent in the heart of the nation.” When Secret Service agents intercepted him in January, he was carrying three bullets, though no gun.



Weeks later, at a pretrial hearing, the burly, bearded ex-soldier from rural Kansas, charged in an indictment with threatening to kill the president, walked to the witness stand in a federal courtroom in Baltimore. Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder since 2009, and reportedly recovered from the temporary psychosis that led to his arrest, he moved with a weary gait, clad in a jail-issue orange jumpsuit, white socks and floppy shower sandals
Is this guy a victim, a casualty of war, or just someone who is trying to bring disgrace to a uniform which he never wore?
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