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A Canadian woman was sentenced Thursday in Washington to nearly 22 years in prison for mailing a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-President Donald Trump at the White House. Pascale Ferrier, 56, had pleaded guilty to violating biological weapons prohibitions in letters sent to Trum stanley cup p and to police officials in Texas, where she had been jailed for several weeks in 2019.Her defense attorney Eugene Ohm said Ferrier had no prior criminal record and is an inordinately intelligent French immigrant who had earned a master s degree in engineering and raised two children as a single parent. But in September 2020, prosecutors said Ferrier made the ricin at home in Quebec and stanley quencher mailed the potentially deadly poison derived from processing castor beans to Trump with a letter that referred to him as The Ugly Tyrant Clown and read in part: stanley cup 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. The letter from Ferrier, which also told Trump to give up and remove your application for this election, was intercepted at a mail sorting facility in September 2020, before it could reach the White House. File photo provided by the Hidalgo County Texas Sheriff s Office, showing Pascale Ferrier. Hidalgo County, Texas, Sheriff s Office, via AP File Puix Time s almost up: Scramble to avoid shutdown
ABCrsquo Jake Tapper predicted this week that Barack Obama will be the Britney Spears of 2009. Considering that Obama was deemed by some to be the Britney Spears of 2008, it wasnrsquo;t much of a leap.But a funny thing happened on the way to the cover of Us Weekly. While Obamarsquo political opponents were able to use his star power against him during the campaign ndash; remember McCainrsquo Celeb ad ndash; the entertainment pressrsquo fixation with the president-elect seems to be stanley drink bottle helping him as he prepares to takes office. With a faction of compliant, adulatory and skin-deep chroniclers added to the media mix, Obama has found a consistent wing of support, one that can be used to upend the traditional political media apparatus, bringing new storylines to the fore and changing the game of how a president is covered.The number of eyeballs that read People magazine are enormous compared to political publications, says veteran Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. If yoursquo;re able to communicate thro stanley vattenflaska ugh those outlets, yoursquo;re able to reach more people more quickly, without your message being lsquo stanley sverige ;translatedrsquo; by the historic gatekeepers. The mainstream media caught a glimpse at the future last week in Hawaii, when resourceful paparazzi nabbed beefcake shots of the president-elect on the beach as well as shots of him at a memorial service for his late grandmother. |
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