A 60-year-old woman who watched “too much MSNBC” left bomb threats at two different Trump properties, one in Florida and the other in Nevada.
“There is a bomb I left on the site. Hopefully you will get everyone evacuated, except for Trump.”
Because of a plea deal, she and her lawyers thought she would be sentenced to probation. But the judge didn’t agree and, because of two assassination attempts on Trump’s life since her arrest, sentenced her to a year in federal prison.
Here’s the report:
A 60-year-old manicurist with no criminal history will spend a year in federal prison for threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump — a crime her attorney blamed on exposure to too much cable news.
Martha Jane Schoenfeld left voicemails in June threatening to detonate bombs at two of Trump’s properties in Florida and Nevada. In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors recommended she be sentenced to one year of probation in lieu of prison.
Schoenfeld and her attorney agreed. Trump, notified of the plea bargain like all federal crime victims are supposed to be, did too.
The judge did not.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal took the rare step Tuesday of exceeding prosecutors’ recommended penalty. Made wary by the two assassination attempts on Trump that followed Schoenfeld’s arrest, he sentenced the Boca Raton woman to 13 months in federal prison instead.
Schoenfeld apologized Tuesday for the bomb threats, which she said she had neither the means nor the desire to carry out. According to prosecutors, Schoenfeld made the threats in voicemails to the Trump International Golf Club in suburban West Palm Beach and Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on June 6.
“There is a bomb I left on the site,” she said in one. “Hopefully you will get everyone evacuated, except for Trump.”
Faced with the possibility of 20 years in federal prison, Schoenfeld pleaded guilty to one of two threat-related charges in September — forgoing her right to a trial by jury but ensuring that prosecutors would recommend she be spared from prison.
“This was a lady in a condo that was watching too much MSNBC and got carried away,” her defense attorney Mark McMann said Wednesday. “We agreed the probation and the embarrassment was enough. She’s been through enough.”
This tells you something about both the graciousness of President-elect Trump, who was fine with probation, and the insanity that comes from watching too much of a news channel that called Trump a Nazi and claimed democracy would end if Trump won the election.
And it tells us something good about the judge who, in case you were wondering, was appointed by President Trump.
https://therightscoop.com/boom-msnbc-viewer-headed-to-prison-for-bomb-threats-against-trump/