In the process of sending letter bombs to critics of US President Donald Trump, the accused confessed his actions. The 57-year-old Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc, arrested last October, pleaded guilty to 65 counts in a New York court yesterday.
At the same time he apologized for having sent a total of 16 letters with explosives to prominent critics of the President. He is threatened with life imprisonment at the verdict in September.
The former manager of a strip club and multiple convicted Sayoc had been caught after days of extravagance on October 26 in the state of Florida, where he lived in a van full of Pro Trump stickers.
The addressees of the potentially dangerous programs included former President Barack Obama, ex-vice-president Joe Biden, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, CNN television, multi-billionaire George Soros and actor Robert De Niro.
The letter bombs and the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh with eleven casualties had fueled the discussion of Trump’s aggressive rhetoric shortly before the congressional and gubernatorial elections on November 6. Many critics accuse the president of paving the way for political violence.
