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Cesar Sayoc, the fanatical Donald Trump fan who mailed package bombs to the presidents political opponents, is a cognitively limited sexual abuse survivor who thought of the now-president as a surrogate father and came to believe in an alternative reality fueled in part by Trumps attacks on his political opponents, his attorneys told a federal court on Monday.
Sayoc has admitted to mailing pipe bombs to Democratic politicians, media figures and celebrities he perceived as Trumps enemies last fall, and pleaded guilty to several federal crimes in March. He could face life in prison when hes sentenced on August 5, but his federal public defenders said Monday he should serve 10 years in prison followed by community supervision (as well as mental health counseling and drug treatment).
Sayoc, his attorneys wrote in a sentencing memo filed in federal court in New York on Monday, was a Trump super fan and began to consider Democrats as not just dangerous in theory, but imminently and seriously dangerous to his personal safety.
President Trump did nothing to dissuade this message, they write. Their filing cites Trumps Twitter attacks on the figures Sayoc targeted.
Sayoc was a Trump fan before the reality television host ran for president, and viewed him as everything he wanted to be: self-made, successful, and a playboy, his attorneys wrote.
But Sayoc began watching Fox News religiously, started following political news on Facebook and and threw himself into Trumps campaign once he announced his candidacy because he came to view Trump as a personal championsomeone who had helped him through the most difficult periods of his life and who could do the same for other people across the country.
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