A former writer for the left-wing news site, The Intercept, has been arrested by the FBI in connection to multiple bombs threats made against Jewish community centers.

Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis. He made the threats in an attempt to harass his ex-girlfriend, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Before his alleged bomb threats against Jewish centers, Thompson was fired by The Intercept for making up quotes.

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Thompson’s alleged bomb threats had been used as political fodder against President Donald Trump. The mainstream media suggested for weeks that threats made against Jewish community centers were the result of Trump’s tone and policies.

They didn’t provide much evidence to prove that case, but that didn’t stop them from pointing the finger at Trump and his supporters as the menacing calls to Jewish centers continued. Leading the charge, ironically, was The Intercept.

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“Trump Can’t Accept That His Allies Are Targeting Jews — So He Blames His Opponents,” read a Feb. 28 headline at The Intercept.

The story, by writer Robert Mackey, claimed “the Anti-Defamation League has attributed the uptick in threats and attacks to white supremacists encouraged by Trump’s nativist political movement … Trump’s attempt to posit an alternative explanation for the incidents looked like an effort to deflect blame away from from himself or his supporters.”

Mackey and The Intercept were upset with comments Trump made in private to the Pennsylvania attorney general that the bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish cemeteries seemed like an attempt by people “to make others look bad.” In other words, Trump reportedly theorized that the threats and vandalism were not committed by actual hate groups, but by actors attempting to embarrass someone.

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The FBI now contends Trump was right — Thompson made the threats to embarrass his girlfriend. A communist and fervent anti-capitalist, Thompson could have also been trying to pin the hate on Trump supporters.

The Justice Department contends that in January and February, Thompson made at least eight threats against Jewish community centers, in an attempt to harass his ex-girlfriend. One was a Feb. 21 threat made against the Anti-Defamation League at their midtown Manhattan office.

Thompson was fired by The Intercept last year for serious journalism ethics violations, including making up quotes and sources — the definition of fake news.

Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, fired Thompson and apologized in a Feb. 2, 2016, note to readers.

“Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name,” Reed wrote. “Thompson went to great lengths to deceive his editors, creating an email account to impersonate a source and lying about his reporting methods.”

Again, there is irony in The Intercept’s dilemma with Thompson and his fables because The Intercept, through a rabid left-wing reporter, has attacked LifeZette for allegedly publishing “fake news” — a baseless charge a LifeZette editor addressed in Politico on Dec. 6.

“Some Fake News Publishers Just Happen to Be Donald Trump’s Cronies,” wrote The Intercept’s Lee Fang on Nov. 26. Fang is a former president of the University of Maryland College Democrats and a far-left political writer.

Reed and noted left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald, founder of The Intercept, did not immediately respond to a request from LifeZette for comment on Thompson and the Feb. 28 story by Mackey.