translated from Spanish: Give 20 years to follower of Donald Trump who sent bombs to Obama and Hillary Clinton and CNN

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The United States– Cesar Sayoc, a fanatical supporter of President Donald Trump who last year sent explosive devices to prominent Democrats and media figures, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after a judge concluded that Sayoc hated his victims but had not intended to kill them. .
Prosecutors sought a life sentence for the 57-year-old former pizza delivery man and strip club worker whose “terror campaign,” they said, coincided with the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections. In total, he mailed 16 inoperant pipe bombs against, among others, former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CNN’s New York offices, depicting his paranoid delusions and intense adoration of Trump.
“I’m so sorry for what I did,” Sayoc told federal district judge Jed Rakoff. “Now that I’m a sober man, I know I was sick. I should have listened to my mother, the love of my life. Prosecutors and defense attorneys spent much of Monday’s hearing arguing about how dangerous packages were really for those who handled them.
“What counts is what he did and what he intended at the time he did,” Rakoff said, calling Sayoc’s actions “to any extent horrendous.”
The judge concluded that Sayoc, “although he was not a firearms expert, was fully capable” of building a bomb that would work if he wanted to. Sayoc’s defense attorney, Ian Marcus Amelkin, loathed for a 10-year sentence, saying he was using large amounts of steroids when he became obsessed with his support for Trump, consuming fox News conspiracy theories and other places that fueled his increasing paranoia.
Sayoc’s sentence comes just two days after the massacre of nearly two dozen people inside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a horrific act of violence allegedly performed out of anger toward immigrants. Several Democrats seeking to challenge Trump in the 2020 election have connected the president’s rhetoric to Saturday’s bloodshed.
Source. The Palm Beach

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