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ck4829

(34,981 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 08:54 AM Oct 2018

The original MAGABomber

Lawyers for a man convicted of a terrorist plot to bomb a Kansas apartment complex are blaming President Trump for stoking their client’s fiery rhetoric about Muslims.

Attorneys for Patrick Stein — who was found guilty of planning to kill Muslim residents of Garden City, Kansas — claimed that Trump’s “brand of rough-and-tumble verbal pummeling” contributed to Stein’s homicidal thoughts.

“The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president,” the lawyers wrote in a sentencing memo filed on Monday.

The lawyers are asking for a lesser sentence in part due to the argument that Stein was a Trump supporter and the president inflamed Stein’s anti-immigrant hatred — ultimately influencing the man’s attack plans.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/29/trumps-rhetoric-pushed-man-to-commit-terror-plot-lawyers/

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BSdetect

(8,989 posts)
1. Obviously the vast majority of us saw drumph's idiocy for what it is.
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 10:59 AM
Oct 2018

Being stoopid is no defence in these cases.

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