The man who pleaded guilty to sending pipe bombs to CNN and prominent Democrats across the nation last year was radicalized by Fox News and President Trump’s tweets, his lawyers have reportedly argued in a memo.
BuzzFeed News reports attorneys for Cesar Altieri Sayoc, 57, argued their client suffered from “cognitive limitations and mental illness” in a sentencing memo filed Monday.
The lawyers argue that through daily consuming of Trump’s tweets and Fox News shows, Sayoc came to believe that “prominent Democrats were actively working to hurt him, other Trump supporters, and the country as a whole.”
“After months suffering from these delusional beliefs and while using large doses of steroids, his heightened paranoia and anger pushed him to commit these offenses,” the outlet reports the memo said.
Lawyers said Sayoc grew increasingly “isolated,” fueling his “feelings of anxiety and paranoia,” but “in this darkness” he “found light in Donald J. Trump,” BuzzFeed reports.
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Lawyers say suspect who mailed pipe bombs to CNN, top Dems was radicalized by Trump tweets, Fox News https://t.co/QmQnReZ9aZ pic.twitter.com/69VV1wOmhl
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