#Socialites, get into this! A Canadian woman who sent a letter laced with the deadly toxin ricin to former President Donald Trump at the White House was sentenced for the crime.
On Thursday, Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 56, a dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced to 21 years in prison. She pleaded guilty in January to sending the homemade poison-laced letters to Trump and eight Texas law enforcement officials from her home in Quebec in September 2020.
Prosecutors explained in their pre-sentencing report, “The hand-written letters mailed from Canada with the ricin toxin each referred to a ‘special gift’ for the recipient, which was described as being ‘in this letter.’ Each letter stated that if the special gift doesn’t ‘work,’ then the defendant would ‘find a better recipe for another poison,’”
So What Did The Letter Say?
According to NBC News, it read: “You ruin the USA and lead them to disaster. I have US cousins, then I don’t want the next 4 years with you as President.”
Before sentencing, Ferrier told the judge that she is a grandmother of four and an “activist,” not a terrorist… “The ricin I made didn’t have a harmful concentration. It was just a strong warning. I did not target innocent people. It was never my attention to harm innocent people, and in fact I did not harm anyone,” she said. She added that her “only regret” is that Mr. Trump did not heed her warning “and I couldn’t stop Trump before he put in action his plans to try to stay in power,” the news site quotes.
Welp, as a result of her crime, she was handed down the lengthy sentence. Prosecutors also said she will be deported after having served her sentence.
How Has Donald Trump Reacted?
While Trump hasn’t directly addressed this latest report, it appears that he has other things to worry about like his fourth indictment.
As we previously reported, Trump was charged in Fulton County with felony racketeering and numerous conspiracy charges in the 41-count indictment, which named 19 defendants. This is all over his efforts to overturn his 2020 general election defeat in the state.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reacted for the first time on camera to the Georgia indictment that accuses him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise.” He dismissed the criminal charges as a “witch hunt” and a “horrible thing for the country.”