Fri Aug 18, 2023 – 3:53 pm EDTFri Aug 18, 2023 – 4:42 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian woman who tried to poison former President Donald Trump has been punished with nearly 22 years in jail.
On August 17, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney L Friedrich sentenced Quebec resident Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier to 262 months, almost twenty-two years, for sending ricin-laced letters to then U.S. President Donald Trump and Texas officials in addition to various other biological weapons charges.
“The only regret I have is that it didn’t work and that I couldn’t stop Trump,” 55-year-old Ferrier told the court.
“I consider myself to be an activist, not a terrorist,” she said. “Activists are constructive, terrorists are destructive.”
Ferrier sent the letters in September 2020, just a couple months before the election. According to a press release from the United States Department of Justice, in early September 2020, Ferrier wrote on social media, asking someone to “please shoot [T]rump in the face.”
“I found a new name for you: ‘The Ugly Tyrant Clown’,” Ferrier wrote in her poison laced letter to Trump. “I made a Special Gift for you to make a decision.
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