Former President Donald Trump‘s would-be assassin was sentenced to 262 months in prison this week.
On Thursday, Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, a 56-year-old dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced to nearly 22 years behind bars in Washington, D.C., for mailing a letter containing the poison to then-President Trump. According to Fox News, she pleaded guilty in January to violating biological weapons prohibitions.
In the letter, Ferrier reportedly referred to Trump as “The Ugly Tyrant Clown” and laced it with the potentially deadly ricin, saying, “If it doesn't work, I'll find better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I'll be able to come. Enjoy! FREE REBEL SPIRIT.”
Authorities arrested Ferrier in 2020 while trying to drive across the U.S.-Canada while carrying a gun, a knife, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
The letter was intercepted at a mail sorting facility before it could reach the White House.
In September 2020, Ferrier also posted on X, then called Twitter, that someone should “please shoot [T]rump in the face.”
Ferrier told the judge that she considers herself a “peaceful and genuinely kind person” but admitted she gets angry about problems like unfairness, abuses of power and “stupid rules.” She also said she considers herself to be an “activist” rather than a “terrorist.”
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich handed down the 262-month sentence outlined in a plea agreement with prosecutors, which also would expel Ferrier from the U.S. once she is released from prison. Ferrier will be required to be under supervised release for life if she ever returns.
“That isn't really activism,” the judge said while handing down the sentence. “I hope you have no desire to continue on this path.”
Prosecutor Michael Friedman called the sentence an “appropriately harsh punishment” that sends a clear message.
“There is absolutely no place for politically motivated violence in the United States of America,” he said. “There is no excuse for threatening public officials or targeting our public servants.”
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ONLY 22 YEARS for the Attempted Assignation of a Great American President? John Hinckley spent 40 years in a Nut House before being released! A Foreigner should be Executed. What Is she a democrat?
I thoroughly agree with what you wrote.
Now this article is surprising! I would have guessed probation, after all the democrat party and their propagandists are trying to drive people to violence against conservatives. Just look how the January 6th mostly peaceful protestors are treated, and how quiet 🤫 that is kept!
Oh well, that would be assassin probably has it made. Biden will no doubt pardon him.
Yet media loud when Biden gets same treatment
Better than the guy who threatened biden, they killed him. JMO