Remember the pipe bomber who has never been caught?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

This person is still out there

Say what now???

On Jan. 7, 2021 – a day after he and thousand of other law enforcement personnel responded to the Capitol riot – USCP Officer Michael Angelo Riley sent a Facebook message to a man he’d friended just two days earlier. In the message, Riley suggested the man – Jacob Hiles, of Chesapeake, Virginia – remove parts of a public post he’d written about entering the U.S. Capitol Building a day earlier.

“Hey Jacob, I’m a Capitol Police officer who agrees with your political stance,” Riley wrote in the message. “Take down the part about being in the building they are currently investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charges. Just looking out!”

[...]

Macchiaroli made clear he would be pitting the Justice Department’s theory against Riley’s 26 years of service, including his role on Jan. 6. Jurors heard Tuesday that Riley was the first officer to respond to the scene when pipe bombs were discovered at the RNC and DNC headquarters near the Capitol.

  WUSA

And you know the pipebomber has never been found, right? So I don't know that this fact HELPS his case.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Remember the pipe bomber?

I know it was ages ago in terms of the news cycle, but Cesar Sayoc didn't actually disappear.

The Florida man accused of sending pipe bombs to prominent critics of Donald Trump was indicted on more than two dozen new charges Friday, including ten which carry a possible life sentence if convicted.

The 30-count indictment against Cesar Sayoc was filed in Manhattan federal court, where Sayoc made an appearance earlier this week. Sayoc, 56, was initially arrested on 26 October on five charges carrying a potential sentence of nearly 50 years.

[...]

The new 26 page indictment includes five counts of use of a weapon of mass destruction, and five of “using and carrying a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence”, all of which carry a possible life sentence.

[...]

Prosecutors say evidence against Sayoc includes DNA linking him to 10 of the [16] explosive devices and fingerprints on two of them. It was not immediately announced when Sayoc will be arraigned. At that time, he will enter a plea.

[...]

“Sayoc’s alleged conduct put numerous lives at risk. It was also an assault on a nation that values the rule of law, a free press, and tolerance of differences without rancor or resort to violence,” said US Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a statement, who also referred to the mailing spree as a “reign of terror”.

  The Guardian

I'm not sosure about those national values.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

OK, but he doesn't give a shit

Eleven members of the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice penned a letter to Trump following the Saturday shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

“Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted,” the group wrote. “You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday’s massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country.”

[...]

The president has “spread lies and sowed fear about migrant families in Central America,” the group wrote.

“The Torah teaches that every human being is made b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. This means all of us,” the leaders wrote. “In our neighbors, Americans, and people worldwide who have reached out to give our community strength, there we find the image of God.”

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

The same could be said about Trump

Like Trump and likely a very good percentage of Trump supporters.

And the Trump family doubles down

Encouraging more pipe bombers.

Trump argued during a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday night that the “media has a major role to play whether they want to or not” in repairing the civility of political discourse.

The crowd responded by chanting "media sucks."

“The media’s constant unfair coverage, deep hostility and negative attacks only serve to drive people apart and to undermine healthy debate,” Trump continued.

The president then accused the news media of attempting to use the mail bombing case as ammunition against him and the GOP.

“We have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me and the Republican Party," Trump charged.

[...]

"When a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to murder congressional Republicans … we did not use that heinous attempt at mass murder for political gain because that would have been wrong," Trump said.

“Nor do we blame the Democrat Party every time radical leftists seize and destroy public property and unleash violence and mayhem," he said.

“Yet, the media has tried to attack the incredible Americans who support our movement to give power back to the people.”

  The Hill

He has no intention of toning it down. Ramping it up suits him better.  He's proud of it:

Donald Trump Jr. blasted Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) at a boisterous rally in his home state on Friday, calling him a “piece of garbage” for sinking Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson’s nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.

Trump Jr., who headlined a rally for Tester's GOP Senate rival Matt Rosendale and Rep. Greg Gianforte (R), slammed Tester over Jackson's failed VA nomination, saying the Democratic senator had “ruined this guy’s life" after a bitter confirmation process.

President Trump's eldest son accused Tester, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, of putting out “all sorts of baseless accusations” on the orders of Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.).

“To go after and try to assassinate with no proof, no basis, no nothing, a good man simply because my father wanted to elevate him and put him in charge of an organization,” Trump Jr. fumed. “When Jon Tester, who is this lap dog, does that, what happened?"

“Where’s the accountability to Jon Tester who did that? Because that makes you a piece of garbage in my mind, and it should to all of you and anyone I know in this state,” Trump Jr. said.

  The Hill

Both Eric and Junior have been on the campaign trail for a while now. Both were supposedly going to stay out of politics in order to run the Trump Organization, which was supposed to be how Trump was avoiding the conflict of interest and emoluments issues.

It's a corrupt and slimey family.

They'll never back down - Part 2

As Trump supporters streamed into Bojangles’ Coliseum on Friday afternoon, many soaking wet from hours in relentless rain, the prevailing response to the arrest and charging of Cesar Sayoc, 56, was profound skepticism. At best, the connection between the Florida resident and the president was tenuous. At worst it was an outright lie.

Terry Pennington, 52 and from the outskirts of Charlotte, had waited in the rain since 9pm on Thursday, some 22 hours before Trump was scheduled to speak. He was wearing a camouflage jacket he had customized to read “Constitution Enforcement – protected by the 2nd Amendment”. He had no doubt about what lay behind the arrest.

“I bet $500 they are lying,” he said. “I bet it was a liberal who did it. Have you stopped to think why those bombs were only sent to high-level Democrats? They are trying to make it look like Donald Trump is encouraging terrorism.”

He added: “The truth is, the liberals are the terrorists.”

His wife agreed.

“It seems like a lot’s been planted to make it look like a Trump supporter did it,” said Carrie Pennington, 48.

[...]

“They’re just trying to deflect us from voting and focusing on the red tsunami that’s about to hit,” she said.

References to a Republican or “red” electoral “tsunami” were among memes reportedly posted to social media by Sayoc.

[...]

Kathy Chenette, 62, a realtor from Mooresville, North Carolina, said she had read on Twitter that the same configuration of stickers on the back of [Sayoc's] van had been photographed on the side of the van.

“This was obviously Photoshopped,” she said. “I think it’s a distraction against the invasion of illegal immigrants at the border. It’s all set up by Soros.”

[...]

“We just don’t know,” said Tyler Yelton, 43, who works as a landscaper. “Maybe he bought the van already with the stickers on it, or maybe this whole thing is a setup.”

  Guardian

If (should I say "when"?) Trump commands these people to come armed to the White House to prevent him being ousted, or to take out protesters, how many of them will do it?

And even if he does eventually leave office, these people won't just disappear.

They'll never back down

He's been very nice

This very large asshat is the president of the United States.  You get that, don't you?  This is not a fable.  Hard as it is to believe.

Another one

And, possibly one to Tom Steyer.

Hardly a breath taken before he's back at it

He's rubbing people's faces in it now.

Impeach.

Geraldo Rivera "outsmarted" himself

But don't be too quick to give him credit, because, honestly, that's not very hard to do.



What you did, Geraldo, was fan the flames of Trump's worst qualities and provide cover for the rabid mob that follows him.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

This "bomb" stuff happens

Before the arrest:



He could hardly have made it any clearer without saying the actual words that he's blaming the pipe bombs sent to Democrats he has railed against continously (12 at last count, the last two going to James Clapper and Corey Booker) on a Democratic false flag maneuver.

After the arrest:



Another speech written for him and delivered in a very lackluster manner.

How long before he reverts to his normal screed and name-calling?

Here's a picture of the suspect, Cesar Sayoc, his Twitter account, and his van:



Yeah, a Democrat false flag operation.

Also, before the arrest:



Gee, I don't know.  Maybe those were the Russian bots and violence-promoting Nazis Twitter has been trying to cull.  Obvious to all?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.





Note the Democrats with sight targets on them.

Is Sarah Sanders a liar or an idiot?

The fact that we have to point these things out is a sign that Trumpism is winning.

And, if Trump isn't responsible, why was he told to avoid his usual campaign encitement in Wisconsin?


...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

More bombs to Dems

Up and at 'em

Don't know how to "chand", but I believe he'll do it.



Of course.  It's the media's fault.



What do you tweet from?

He "doesn't have time" to correct it.  LOL.


UPDATE:

That's what I thought.  And he's tweeting every morning, and often times throughout the day.


UPDATE:

The Times responds:

And NBC backs up the story:

U.S. officials told NBC News on Thursday that they have been concerned for months that President Donald Trump has been discussing sensitive information on an unsecured cellphone with informal advisers, including Sean Hannity of Fox News.

The information comes after The New York Times reported that Chinese and Russian spies have been listening to personal phone calls Trump has made from his cellphones.

[...]

A former aide to Trump — Omarosa Manigault Newman — disputed his response later Thursday, tweeting that the president "ALWAYS" used his personal iPhone in the White House “even after being told over and over again about the security risk.”

"He disliked his secure gov issued cell — he said it was slow and 'buggy,'" she tweeted.

  NBC

Not even a blip

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Not terror

They are literally suggesting that these pipe bombs were not terrorism if they don't find that a Middle Easterner or Muslim is responsible.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Do they understand?

I wouldn't bet that they don't understand.

And right on cue:



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.