Showing posts with label mail bombs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mail bombs. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

October 26, 2018: Right-Wingers Claim Trump Critics Sent Bombs to Themselves

 

10/26/18: Right-wing nuts are floating the idea that the bombs sent in the mail to leading Democrats and Trump critics were sent by Democrats and Trump critics to make Trump look bad. 

This theory is similar to other right-wing nut-job theories: children were being held hostage as victims of sexual slavery in a Washington pizzeria; Obama was really born in Kenya (a Trump favorite for years); the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary was a government inside job to give Obama an excuse to seize all the guns; the Air Force used weather weapons to drown people in Texas; chemicals in our water are turning frogs gay; Robert Mueller has “raped kids in front of people” and gotten away with it. In other nut-job news, federal troops were going to come storming out of tunnels under abandoned Walmart stores and conquer Texas during Jade Helm. And the Parkland school shooting involved a bunch of “crisis actors.” (See: 10/28/18.)

 

Reporters ask President Trump if he has any plans to reach out to those who received bombs in the mail. That would include two of the men who have previously held the same office Trump tarnishes daily. 

You already know the answer. 

“Uh, if they wanted me to,” he responds. “But I think we’ll probably pass.” 





In fact, Trump bristled at the idea he was to blame in the slightest. “I think I’ve been toned down if you want to know the truth. I could really tone it up [emphasis added],” he tells reporters, “because as you know the media’s been very unfair to me and the Republican Party.” 

Even before most right-wing psychopaths in America were up and loading their guns, or making their bombs, Trump was awake Friday morning, and laying out a new conspiracy theory. “Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls,” he tweeted, “and now this ‘Bomb’ stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!” 

Also, keep making those bombs?

October 28, 2018: Bomber's Lawyer Says Client Saw Trump as a "Father Figure."

 

10/28/18: President Trump comes in for criticism, after commentators noticed striking similarities in the language that he uses to petrify supporters and the language used by recent right-winger attackers. Consider the stickers on the van of the mail bomber, Cesar Sayoc, now under arrest. 

 

Trump a “father figure” to a sick man. 

At rallies, Trump likes to listen as fans chant, “CNN sucks!” Sayoc has a “CNN sucks!” sticker on a window. 

Trump enjoys hearing supporters shout, “Lock her up!” referring to Hillary Clinton. Sayoc has a sticker with a gun sight superimposed on Clinton’s face slapped on his van. 

Trump likes to refer to members of the press as “enemies of the people.” Several recipients of Sayoc’s bombs are members of the media. 

Another image plastered on Sayoc’s van depicts a triumphant Trump standing, George Patton-like, backed by an American flag, holding an assault rifle, and bestriding a red, white and blue tank.



Sayoc's van.

 

The far-right has no choice but to begin claiming Sayoc is a registered Democrat. But this claim is undercut slightly by: 

A)    tapes and pictures of Sayoc at Trump rallies. 

B)     Sayoc’s social media posts. 

C)    His voter registration records.

 

Even Fox News can’t avoid reporting that Sayoc’s lawyer says his client saw Trump as a father figure.

 

Then we have the Pittsburgh killer, Robert Bowers. On a website called Gab, Bowers complained because sinister Jewish forces were supporting the migrant caravan headed toward America. I have noticed a change in people saying ‘illegals’ that now say ‘invaders’,” he posted six days before his rampage. “I like this.” Five minutes before he began his attack, he posted on Gab again, “can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” 

Who calls the people in the caravans “invaders?” 

Trump does. 

Who says Jews might be paying for the caravan? 

Trump does; or leaves that impression. As he does when asked a question he’d like to lie about, but knows he might be caught. So, he answers cleverly when a reporter wonders who he thinks might be funding the caravan. 

Is it George Soros, Jewish boogie man, hated by the right-wing nuts? 

“I don’t know who, but I wouldn’t be surprised,” Trump responds. “A lot of people say yes.” 

Yes, almost all the neo-Nazis who read The Daily Stormer say yes.

 

For people like Bowers, inclined to hate, primed for violence, that’s as good as a green light to start shooting.

 

So, shoot, he does.