Nabbing the pro-Trump mail bomber after three days of packages terrorized the public, the FBI finally closed in a arrested 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc Jr., an AutoZone employee, at his job in South Florida. Wiretapping his cell phone and finding DNA evidence on his numerous packages mailed to anti-Trump elected officials, celebrities and pundits, the Department of Justice, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms and numerous local and state law enforcement agencies arrested Sayoc, a petty criminal with a history of domestic abuse and bankruptcy. Sending crudely wrapped and labeled packages to billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, actor Robert De Niro, former VP Joe Biden, former CIA Director John Brennan, former National Security Director James Clapper, etc., all having one thing in common: Their hatred of 72-year-old President Donald Trump.
Sayoc got his grandiose day of fame throwing the U.S. intel and law enforcement for a loop, showing that the U.S. postal Service has no safety-checks or procedures in place when the same individual mails packages to elected officials and celebrities. U.S. postal officials should have realized that the return addresses were marked Rep. Debbie Wassterman Schultz (D-Fl.), the former head of the Democratic National Committee. Sayoc even sent her a package, with our without a fake pipe bomb, comprised of material he picked up at his AutoZone. With all the sophisticated intel and law enforcement agencies, it took at 24/7 effort by the FBI and other federal, state and local agencies to apprehend Sayoc. While the media wants to blame Trump for his spirited rhetoric at campaign rallies, Sayoc is just one more garden variety psychotic looking for his day of fame.
When CNN received one of Sayoc’s fake pipe bombs in Columbus Square Oct. 24, CNN’s 53-year-old Jeff Zucker immediately blamed Trump for inciting violence, not admitting his 24/7 anti-Trump network parades most of the anti-Trump critics receiving Sayoc’s packages. Zucker knows that Trump’s a counter-puncher, responding on Twitter to the daily-and-nightly personal attacks on him and his presidency. If Zucker and other anti-Trump network heads mitigated their extreme prejudice against Trump, unstable individuals like Sayoc would be less inclined to lash out at his critics. Zucker won’t admit his network’s extreme prejudice against Trump and his White House. Trump’s been the best thing for ratings for all the network and cable news programs. Without attacking Trump, CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC would all watch their Nielson ratings tank.
When the FBI makes it case against Sayoc, they won’t question his motives, other than figuring out he’s mentally unstable. But with today’s biased reporting about Trump, there’s more out there that are disgusted with the coverage of the president. Zucker of other partisan Democrats can rail against Trump all they want but as long as today’s media takes a position against the president it’s going to continue the bitter divisiveness in public opinion. With all TV and cable news show slamming Trump, with the exception of Fox News, it’s no wonder that mentally unstable nuts like Sayoc get triggered. Nothing justifies Sayoc’s terrorist acts but to prevent them in the future, it’s more than Trump’s campaign rhetoric tha motivates the lunatic fringe like Sayoc. Sending packages to many of CNN’s Trump worst critics, underscores Sayoc’s sick motives.
With a history crime, Sayoc was the perfect candidate to go over the deep end, this time earning him national notoriety. Whether domestic abuse, grand theft, battery, etc. Sayoc, like so many disenfranchised people, figured he made to the big time sending harmless, but threatening, packages to Trump’s media’s enemies. Sayoc need only listen to TV and radio pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to work his ire into a lather, finally deciding to send the packages to terrorize Trump’s critics. But when you really look at who’s at fault, there’s plenty of blame to pass along, especially the Post Office. Postal officials must urgently change their policies and train clerks or package processor to find anything suspicious. When Postal workers see an elected official, like Wasserman-Shultz, as the return-to-sender that should trigger the alarm bells.
Today’s political atmosphere has become so toxic it’s difficult to control the reactions of poorly adjusted individuals, like Sayoc. If nothing else, the Postal Service must have policies-and-procedures in place for delivering packages, especially to elected officials and celebrities. Had any Postal worker noticed the return sender was Wasserman-Schultz, they should have tagged the packages as suspicious Trump condemned Sayoc’s actions in the strongest terms possible but that’s not enough for CNN and the other anti-Trump cable and TV networks. Listening to Zucker and all his hosts and pundits blame Trump for Sayoc’s sick behavior shows, for all to see, the extreme prejudice against Trump in the mainstream media. Before today’s politics can return to civility, credentialed media organizations need to get back to principled journalism, not political grandstanding.
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