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Palisades Arsonist & Murderer Not a Conservative

TCC Analysis • October 8, 2025

By Art Harman, Senior Vice President – Policy  ·  October 8, 2025

The Conservative Caucs

Published: October 8, 2025

Washington, DC

Palisades Arsonist & Murderer Not a Conservative

The criminal suspect who started the devastating firestorm that destroyed the Palisades has been caught. Democrats wanted you to believe it was an accident. But it was deliberately set.

Both California’s governor and the Mayor of Los Angeles have refused to let the residents rebuild their homes, or even to clear their lots. They want to appropriate the land to build ‘affordable housing.’

Arrest Announced

Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht and charging him with starting what became the Palisades Fire in January.

Online users note his shift from an honors student to someone obsessed with “fascists in government.” That’s a common left-wing obsession seen with in many of their crimes.

Posts label him as potentially Antifa-linked based on the dystopian themes. Others argue the lack of media and Democrat spokesmen gloating indicates no discernable right-wing tie.

Political Connections Revealed

TCC President Jim Pfaff revealed that “Rinderknecht was a donor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

“As with many Democrat-linked crimes, the media usually pretends ignorance of obvious and provable motivations. In fact, ABC-7 claimed on July 11, 2025 that ‘the cause of Palisades Fire remains unknown 6 months after.'”

Pfaff continued, pointing out that “the link between violence and the Left wing cannot continue to be buried. Whether this fire or the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the attempted assassinations of President Trump, and daily crime reports of murder and violence in big Democrat-run cities—the link cannot be buried anymore.

“We note that the media abandoned the story unusually fast. We ask the media to responsibly investigate and report on this deadly crime given the identity of the suspect. And we ask the media to investigate the glaring link between radical left-wing activists and the most unspeakable crimes.”

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