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.