A woman who mailed then-President Trump a threatening letter that contained ricin weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to 262 months in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.

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Don’t do that. Just don’t. If someone kills him now, we will never see him rot in prison!

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Worse; if somebody kills him it’ll make him a martyr. He’s already looked at as an evil Jesus by these lunatics - there’s no need to encourage the legitimatization of their insane Cult.

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Observe as absolutely no democrats leap to her defense because they’re plenty of things but not terrorists.

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Good. I despise Trump, and look forward to seeing him and all of his crooked cronies behind bars. However, nobody has any right to threaten or attempt to harm anyone. This imbecile deserves the full weight of the law just like all of these morons threatening the judges and prosecutors overseeing Trump’s now numerous indictments.

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It’s always crazy to me that someone would risk so many people like that - poison doesn’t care who it kills, and anyone from postal workers to mail sorters to trump’s secretary could have gotten seriously injured or killed. Just crazy irresponsible and dangerous.

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I always wondered why we don’t hear about assassination attempts more often. I bet the secret service et. al. have their work cut out for them on that front.

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If it was a successful attempt by agent 47 the headline would be like “antique lavish chandelier falls upon Trump in freak accident at fundraising event in Mar-A-Lago. No foul play suspected, say police”

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If it’s in russia, the headline would read “[Name] fell from window and is yet another random victim in the string of freak window-related fall deaths.”

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“We are saddened to hear about [Name] committing suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of the head with a silenced pistol and then throwing himself off a roof”

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If I’m playing it’s more like “String of Bizarre Accidents Leave 16 Dead at Mar-A-Lago, Including President”

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