Cesar Sayoc: Man who sent pipe bombs to Trump critics jailed for 20 years
Sayoc initially pleaded not guilty to the 65 charges against him, which included using weapons of mass destruction and mailing explosives with intent to kill. But he reversed his plea in March."Now that I am a sober man, I know that I was a sick man. I should have listened to my mother, the love of my life," he was quoted as saying by the Washington Post.
Sayoc's lawyers argued their client suffered from severe learning disabilities, childhood abuse and steroid abuse that caused him to be paranoid and isolated. At the time he was arrested, last year, they said, he was living in his van and was fixated on conspiracy theories he read about on social media.
His lawyers said:"In this darkness, Mr Sayoc found light in Donald J Trump. The combination of his cognitive deficiencies, steroid-induced delusional thinking, political naivete and his isolation resulted in Mr Sayoc being unable to critically evaluate these claims [he saw online]."
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