Feds Say Cesar Sayoc Was Still Tweeting After Soros Bomb Was Discovered

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Even after the first bomb was discovered at the New Jersey home of Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros was discovered, alleged mail bomber Cesar Sayoc tweeted images linking Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum to Soros.

The bomb reached Soros’s residence on Oct. 22. Two days later, Sayoc tweeted a series of images implying a conspiracy between Soros and Gillum.

“$500,000 Soros Puppet Florida Candidate – Andrew Gillum,” reads one of the images, with text emblazoned atop a photo of Gillum grinning.

The FBI confirmed that the Twitter account belonged to Sayoc in its criminal complaint against Sayoc.

“There is an account with username ‘Cesar Altieri’ that contains the following, among other things…A post dated October 24, 2018–i.e., after the recovery of the Soros Package–that is critical of, among others, President Barack Obama and George Soros,” the filing reads.

Before the bombs were sent to prominent Democrats and Trump critics, Sayoc actively posted to social media to praise President Trump and circulate conspiracy theories about Democrats.

Read the complaint here.

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  1. based on those muscles and belly, I’m thinking 'roid rage may be a factor here.

  2. Not that it was necessarily the key factor—the guy left a print and DNA on at least one of his packages—but raise your hand if you know people who got in bad trouble from running their mouths on social media. A girlfriend years ago was filling a position in her department and one of her employees found that one applicant was a member of a fairly odd sexual subculture. It’s not wrong or bad but they wouldn’t have been able to look at him without thinking about it and he wasn’t an especially strong candidate anyway and the hobby didn’t help. People don’t think about this as much as they should. I was talking about a different situation once with a friend and she put it in a nutshell—“It’s called,” she said, “the World Wide Web.:wink:

  3. The guy’s writing looks eerily like trump’s. Similar kind of brain malfunction perhaps?

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Another “stable genius” at work here. Or would that be “hidden genius”? Just imagine how horrible things would be if we didn’t have so many “geniuses” running the country.

  5. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    Feds Say Cesar Sayoc Was Still Tweeting After Soros Bomb Was Discovered

    Well, ya gotta admire his, uh, dedication.

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