Critics of the US president's rhetoric blame the mail bomber's actions on Trump's calls for violence against Democrats.
Following the arrest of suspected domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc for sending mail bombs to at least 13 prominent Democratic lawmakers and their supporters, conservative Republicans and their right-wing voter base are struggling to acknowledge that the alleged perpetrator is an avowed supporter of US President Donald Trump, according to APnews.com.
As evidence mounts against Sayoc for violent threats using what the FBI has affirmed “are not hoax devices,” many Trump supporters are claiming the crime to be a ‘false flag' directed at steering fence-sitting Republican voters toward Democratic candidates in the upcoming 2018 midterm US elections.
Even the US president, referring lightly to the threat as “this ‘bomb' stuff,” according to Latimes.com, sought to distract attention from the severity of what many are calling an act of domestic terrorism at the hands of the fringe right-wing, according to a new report from the Associated Press.
Critics of Republican conservative lawmakers have noted a significant right-wing move to separate the apparent motives of the 56-year-old Sayoc from the actions and behavior of Trump, according to the Washington Post.
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