'Mr. Sayoc came to believe that prominent Democrats were actively working to hurt him, other Trump supporters, and the country as a whole.' Mail bomber Cesar Sayoc obsessed with Pres. Trump, Fox News, chilling new court filings show.
New defense filings in the case of admitted serial bomber Cesar Sayoc paint a grim picture of a man who"lost everything in the Great Recession," had"cognitive limitations and severe learning disabilities" and was"abandoned by his father and sexually abused by a teacher at his Catholic school.
Sayoc would eventually construct and send through the mail 16 improvised explosive devices that his lawyers say in his mind were hoax devices to"try to intimidate and scare Trump’s perceived enemies." The defense filing draws a thread through Sayoc's"religious" viewing of Fox News programs like"Fox and Friends" and"Hannity," to his following of Trump supporters on social media and his connection to hundreds of right-wing Facebook groups, many of which"promoted various conspiracy theories, and more generally, the idea that Trump’s critics were dangerous, unpatriotic, and evil.
But prosecutors have countered the blaming of Trump and claims of dud devices. The government’s sentencing memo calls for a sentence of life in prison for sending the 16 improvised explosive devices to 13 victims around the country. Though they acknowledge that the"IEDs would not have functioned as designed," prosecutors say, as a legal matter, that the devices meet the requirement that the"bomb be capable of exploding and intended to be used as a weapon."
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