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South Florida Man Who Sent Pipe Bombs Faces Sentencing

MIAMI HERALD
The white van of Cesar Sayoc had most of its windows covered in pro Donald Trump and right wing stickers.

The South Florida man who created a two-week crisis by mailing 16 packages of inoperative pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN is scheduled to learn his punishment Monday.

Defense lawyers urge leniency, saying Cesar Sayoc was burdened as a child by severe learning disabilities. Sayoc was living in a cramped white van and working as a strip club DJ and a pizza deliveryman in West Palm Beach when he became “increasingly obsessive, paranoid and angry.”

Sayoc believed enemies of President Donald Trump were trying to hurt him and other Trump supporters.

Read more at The Palm Beach Post.

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