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Trump accuses media of trying to 'score political points' after suspect charged for mail bombs | TheHill

posted onOctober 27, 2018
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Article snippet: arrested and charged a Florida man named Cesar Soyac Jr. with five federal crimes in connection with the explosives mailed to more than a dozen Democrats this week including former President Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee MORE. Soyac regularly posted pro-Trump and anti-Democratic content on social media channels and was taken into custody on Friday with a van that had a number of pro-Trump stickers and decals. When asked earlier Friday about Sayoc being a supporter of his, Trump acknowledged Sayoc as a "a person that preferred me over others" but claimed not to have seen the stickers on the van. "I did not. I did not see my face on the van," he said. CNN also uncovered a video of Sayoc at a Trump rally in 2017, where the suspect was holding an anti-CNN poster. CNN's Rene Marsh also noted that looking through Sayoc’s social media presence it was evident that “he had his eyes on his targets before he even mailed those suspicious packages." "Because you go through, there’s essentially a tweet for almost every person targeted from  Link to the full article to read more

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