Millionaire tech mogul John McAfee claims his ‘incompetent enemies’ tried to kill him

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On Friday, the millionaire and political activist tweeted a bizarre claim to explain why he had recently gone dark on Twitter. “I apologize for my three-day absence but I was unconscious for two days at the Vidant Medical Center in North Carolina and just woke up,” he wrote. “My enemies [managed] to spike something that I ingested. However, I am more difficult to kill than anyone can possibly imagine. I am back. 

I apologize for my three day absence but I was unconscious for two days at the Vidant Medical Center in North Carolina and just woke up. My enemies maged to spike something that i ingested. However, I am more difficult to kill than anyone can possibly imagine. I am back.

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 22, 2018

McAfee also posted two graphic photos of himself lying in a hospital bed adding, “And for those who did this — You will soon understand the true meaning of wrath. I know exactly who you are. You’d had better be gone.” 

And for those who did this – You will soon understand the true meaning of wrath. I know exactly who you are. Youh had better be gone. pic.twitter.com/URgz5BtMLF

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 22, 2018

He then shared a photo of him and Janice, his wife of five years, throwing up their middle fingers, writing, “My wife @themrsmcafee and I with a message to my incompetent enemies.”

My wife @theemrsmcafee and I with a message to my incompetent enemies pic.twitter.com/s7rT105OWy

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 22, 2018

Most people shared their concern for McAfee’s health, but when one individual questioned whether the story was true, Janice leaped to her husband’s defense. “He doesn’t need to be tough on Twitter,” she wrote. “Despite what you idiots think, he actually has real security threats against his life for speaking out against corrupt governments and three letter agencies. Just because it doesn’t make the evening news doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.”

McAfee’s representatives and the Vidant Medical Center did not return Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment.

The British-American techie has led a scandalous life, as some Twitter users pointed out. After developing his namesake anti-software program in the late 1980s — which he “wrote in a day and a half,” he told ABC News — he acquired a net worth of $100 million, only to lose it during the 2009 recession. “I wasted it, like everybody who has money,” he told the outlet, of his freewheeling ventures which included planes and vintage cars.

Later that year, McAfee decided to move to Belize, “because I’m a stupid man,” he told ABC News, only to become involved in a drug-and-murder investigation. He established a laboratory to manufacture antibiotics made from jungle plants, in the hopes of providing local jobs, however, the Belize government raided and destroyed it on suspicion that he was making methamphetamine. McAfee claimed the government demanded from him a $2 million-dollar extortion fee. As ABC reported, McAfee was cleared of drug charges and moved to the neighboring island of Ambergris Caye.

Trouble followed: His new neighbor Greg Faull took issue with McAfee’s nine dogs and threatened to kill them, throwing poisoned meat over McAfee’s fence, which caused the dogs to die. The following night, someone shot Faull to death in his home.