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Domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc — a Donald Trump “super fan” who saw the president as a “surrogate father” — came to believe in an “alternative reality” because of Trump’s attacks and his media diet, his attorneys say: huffpost.com/entry/cesar-sa…
Sayoc “began watching Fox News religiously at the gym, planning his morning workout to coincide with Fox and Friends and his evenings to dovetail with Hannity.” huffpost.com/entry/cesar-sa…
“A rational observer may have brushed off Trump’s tweets as hyperbole, but Mr. Sayoc took them to heart.” huffpost.com/entry/cesar-sa…
“In this darkness, Mr. Sayoc found light in Donald J. Trump.” huffpost.com/entry/cesar-sa… 
Three domestic terrorist Trump fans who plotted to kill Muslim refugees in Kansas tried to pin it on Trump and Russian propaganda ahead of their sentencing earlier this year. The judge wasn’t having it: huffpost.com/entry/kansas-t…
A sampling of Cesar Sayoc's Facebook feed in the months before he mailed bombs to Trump's opponents: huffpost.com/entry/cesar-sa…
"As he grew older and more isolated, excessive steroid use increased his feelings of anxiety and paranoia.”
The sentencing memo by Cesar Sayoc’s defense team has 59 mentions of "Trump.” The government’s memo has zero. usatoday.com/documents/6209…
Cesar Sayoc's defense attorneys also filed close-up photos of the stickers on Sayoc's van:
