Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, and a citizen of India, pleaded guilty to a single count of damaging federal property. He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in August.

As part of an agreement with US justice department prosecutors, Kandula admitted to investigators that it was his intent to “replace the democratically elected government with a dictatorship fuelled by ideology of Nazi Germany and for himself to be put in charge of the US.”

Kandula, who was carrying a Nazi flag at the time of his arrest, also admitted to investigators that he would have “arranged for the killing of the US president and others if necessary to achieve his objective.”

Kandula was diagnosed with schizophrenia following his arrest, according to court documents. As a citizen of India, he faces deportation following his release from prison.