Bloomberg Article: MAGA Bomber? Gets 20 Years, Says He Read Trump on Self-Help
The Florida man who mailed pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday, the day after back-to-back mass shootings sparked a fierce national debate over the impact of incendiary political speech.
Cesar Altieri Sayoc, who plastered his van with pro-Trump messages and the faces of Hillary Clinton and others in crosshairs, sent a wave of fear across the U.S. for two weeks in October, targeting Barack Obama, Joe Biden, CNN and others -- 13 in all. None of the bombs went off, and Sayoc?s lawyers argued their client didn?t mean them to.
?While Mr. Sayoc was no firearms expert, he was perfectly capable of concocting pipe bombs that were capable of exploding,? said U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan, rejecting the government?s request for a life sentence. ?He hated his victims, he wished them no good, but he was not so lost as to wish them dead, at least by his own hand.?
Trump?s ?rhetoric? may have spurred Sayoc on, Amelkin said, referring to studies showing a spike in hate crimes in areas where Trump has held rallies. Rakoff questioned the link, noting that ?correlation and causation? are two different things.
?Sayoc?s domestic terrorism challenged our nation?s cherished tradition of peaceful political discourse,? Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.
Sayoc ?found light in Donald J. Trump,? they wrote. He ?found the sense of community that he had been missing for so many years.?
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Kim said in court that Sayoc ?created a climate of terror? across the country and that a 10-year sentence would be less than a year for each of the bombs he mailed.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-20-years-for-mailing-bombs-to-trump-critics
My comment: He created terror and fear during that period of time. I remember that I received a fed ex package at the time and I was like oh crap. Lol Maybe I over reacted but no one knew what is going on until after they caught that mofo.
I?m glad that guy is locked up..