Lawyer for mail bomb suspect's family: 'He found a father in Trump

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: The Hill

A lawyer for the family of Cesar Sayoc Jr., the man charged with mailing explosive devices to several prominent Democratic figures this week, said Friday that Sayoc "found a father" in President Trump.

Miami lawyer Ronald Lowy made the comments on CNN while discussing the arrest of Sayoc, someone he said he had represented in past cases and whom he described as a "sick individual" who seemed "lost" and needed help.

"He was looking for anything, and he found a father in Trump," Lowy said, noting that the man's father "abandoned him as a child" and "he was trying to create an identity."


Lowy said that he believes Sayoc was attracted to Trump’s messaging, which included reaching out to “outsiders” and “people who are angry at America.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/413446-lawyer-for-mail-bomb-suspects-family-he-found-a-father-in-trump

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So Donnie was more of a fatherly presence to the MAGAbomber than he has been for Tiffany

[PJMcK]

1. Interesting first step of the defense

Trump has already disavowed this guy but the lawyer is tying his client to Trump.

Fascinating.

[olegramps]

23. I find him no different than the low achievers and uneducated who blame others for their situation.

Low skill factory work that provided millions of relatively un-educated workers with a living wage is an era that is history. These people find that they have no marketable skills in todays economy. The situation will only worsen when demagogues, such as Trump, make promises that are an impossibility. Our leadership rather than analyzing the situation and take action to met the demands of the present and future mislead the people into believing that they will actually do something magically to turn back the clock. I see very little hope for significant change until the situation has become catastrophic and the people come to the realization that they have been duped by politicians whose only concern is their reelection.

[onetexan]

31. agree, this guy Sayoc fits the demographic of the undereducated lot

My inlaws chose to retire near the Ozarks where there's plenty of this type of people - predominantly WASPs. Many there have inherited their homes/land from their ancestors who've lived there for over 100 years and come from an agrarian background, or work in a plant or factory in town. They fear change, and in seeing their way of life dying out, lash back at the government and "liberals" (the word has a bad connotation in their limited view of course) for their plight. The way they see it, it's not them that's the problem, it's everyone else's, and that someone's got to pay for it.

The even sadder thing is i have well-educated WASP work colleagues who think trump is their savior. All that learning didn't teach them a damn thing about seeing diversity as a good thing. They raged when Obama was elected and reelected. They've been gloating since the DOTUS stole the election and continues on his rampage of wreaking havoc on our democracy, and they're fighting hard to keep the lunacy in place. White privilege is alive and well in this day and age.

[rampartc]

28. trump is as responsible for these rwnjs as manson was for those murders

but squeeky and the other girls all went to jail as well. .

[Marie Marie]

2. Sad and scary because I think it describes more than one of Trump's supporters.

He attracts these people and then validates their delusions.

[Grassy Knoll]

3. How Many More Trumpanzees Need A Daddy?

Thats Some Scary Shit.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Right Wing Extremeists outnumber Left Wing ones 9:1

CNN said last night. Don Lemon did a story on domestic terrorists. After ISIS came RW nut jobs! It takes very little to set them off and as we know the fucking moron does nothing "little". He is stoking the fires of extreme violence.

[Shipwack]

21. It's probably closer to 900:1...

Can anyone point out a left wing extremist who mailed a bomb, or shot a minority, or occupied government land with automatic weapons?

Right wing extremists want people dead. Left wing "extremists" want to give people healthcare.

But CNN must adhere to both-siderism...

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Mental defect

defense. You could see that one coming yesterday.

[xor]

11. To be fair, the guy is obviously not well.

Thanks to Trump and his supporter's hateful and divisive rhetoric he was pushed over the edge. We are lucky that he wasn't all there, otherwise he may have had more success with his attempts.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Ask Don Jr. how's that working out . . . . . .

[Harker]

7. He looked for a father there, too.

Desperation is an ugly thing.

[IronLionZion]

9. Eric wants to find a father too

[C_U_L8R]

8. He's almost 60 years old

Time to get over the daddy issues, pal

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[xor]

10. I already see sympathy for him popping up on the conservative social media

Still not as much as the false flag hoax nonsense, but with the release of this statement I am sure that will change sooner than I thought it would.

[YessirAtsaFact]

12. I feel for the guy-he was used but....

He still needs to be locked up, either in a prison or a mental hospital

[Dave Starsky]

25. We ALL have problems, for crying out loud.

Everyone has their own lifelong personal shitstorm to deal with.

We don't go sending bombs in the mail and shooting up churches.

Seriously, fuck this dude. Throw him in the hole for the rest of his life, as a lesson to others who may try to do likewise.

[YessirAtsaFact]

27. We aren't all crazy or mentally deficient

And yes, he should be locked up for the rest of his life, the only question is in prison or a mental hospital.

[ProudLib72]

14. So now that two father's have abandoned him, what will he do?

His biological father and the Rump abandoned him. What will he do when he learns of the Rump's disavowal?

[keithbvadu2]

15. MAGAbomber DADDY

MAGAbomber DADDY

[workinclasszero]

16. More proof that the GOP is now a religious right wing cult

Trump is the Jim Jones of our times.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. K&R. That was my first thought, too.

Just like religion, another way to escape human fears and emotional emptiness. Always a charismatic leader, father/god figure, bubble mentality and tons of symbolism (see the van).

Greed, hunger for power and psychopathic behavior are almost always found at the heart of cults - concealed as patriotism, nationalism and/or flim-flam religion.

[workinclasszero]

18. "Always a charismatic leader, father/god figure..Greed, hunger for power and psychopathic behavior"

Yup, you got it.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. I see tRump as a very vile, nasty copy of Reagan....

but with smaller shoulder pads and bad hair.

IMO, Raygun was the original master political cult leader, and he planted the seeds for what we have now.....

[BarbaRosa]

29. The phrase "Worshipping their golden idol" comes to mind.

[bonniebgood]

20. So did Kanye West find a 'father figure' in trump. just like The MAGAbomber

Kanye said when he put on that hat he felt 'manly' for the first time since he grew up
in a house with all females.

[truthisfreedom]

22. This is endlessly sick.

[Oneironaut]

24. I'm sorry, but all terrorists are messed up.

That’s why they’re extremists. I don’t see how this excuses extremism.

[lapfog_1]

26. Tiffany should be eternally grateful

that her biological father has taken almost no interest in her. Otherwise she might end up in prison along with her half-siblings.

[olddad56]

30. he must have been lookimg for a deadbeat dad.

[TomCADem]

32. Perhaps He Is Angling for a Presidential Pardon?

All you need to do is get him on Fox News, let him complain about how Hillary Clinton got away with murder, then Trump might pardon him on a whim.