You’re damn right these bombs are Donald Trump’s fault
Now that rabid Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc has been arrested for sending bombs to prominent Democratic political figures, we’re hearing a number of pundits saying things along the lines of “No one is suggesting that Donald Trump is responsible for these bombs.” Wrong.
Donald Trump hasn’t merely criticized the specific Democrats involved here. He’s falsely accused most of them of serious crimes. Trump falsely claimed that President Obama illegally wiretapped Trump Tower, that Hillary Clinton illegally leaked classified information, that George Soros was secretly paying protesters to cause trouble, that Maxine Waters was trying to incite violence, and so on.
Trump told his followers that these Democrats were dangerous criminals on the loose, when he knew it wasn’t true. Sure enough, one of his supporters then tried to take out these supposed criminals. Yet, Cesar Sayoc is the one who chose to build and send these bombs. Trump didn’t tell Sayoc to bomb these Democrats. But Trump did tell Sayoc that these specific Democrats were committing specific crimes, when no such crimes existed.
We don’t know precisely what was going through the deranged mind of Cesar Sayoc when he sent these bombs. But we do know that he was under the impression that he was sending these bombs to criminals – because Donald Trump told him that these Democrats were criminals. In each of these instances, Trump used the megaphone of the United States presidency to falsely report a felony, and… well, here we are.
