{"id":2004419,"date":"2023-08-18T00:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-woman-sentenced-to-almost-22-years-in-us-jail-after-sending-poisonous-letter-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:44:09","slug":"canadian-woman-sentenced-to-almost-22-years-in-us-jail-after-sending-poisonous-letter-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-woman-sentenced-to-almost-22-years-in-us-jail-after-sending-poisonous-letter-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian woman gets nearly 22-year sentence in US prison for sending toxic letter to Trump."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanadian-woman-sentenced-to-almost-22-years-in-us-jail-after-sending-poisonous-letter-to-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2004419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Canadian Woman Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Poison-Laced Letter to \u200dTrump<\/h2>\n<p>A Canadian woman, Pascale Ferrier, has been sentenced\u2062 to almost 22 years in a\u2063 United States prison for sending a poison-laced letter to then-President Donald Trump in 2020. The ruling\u200c was\u2064 made by a U.S. district judge on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrier, a 56-year-old dual Canadian and French citizen, pleaded guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-woman-sentenced-to-almost-22-years-in-us-jail-after-sending-poisonous-letter-to-trump\/\" title=\"Canadian woman gets nearly 22-year sentence in US prison for sending toxic letter to Trump.\">violating biological weapons \u2064laws<\/a> \u200bby sending\u2064 letters containing the poison ricin to Trump and \u200dpolice officials in Texas. As part of her plea \u2062deal, she will also be removed from the U.S.\u2063 after serving her sentence.<\/p>\n<h3>Prosecutor Condemns Politically Motivated Violence<\/h3>\n<p>Prosecutor Michael Friedman emphasized\u2064 that there is no place for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anderson-cooper-other-networks-are-promoting-second-u-s-civil-war\/\" title=\"Anderson Cooper: \u2018Other Networks\u2019 Are \u2018Promoting\u2019 Second U.S. Civil War\">politically motivated violence<\/a> in the \u2063United States. He stated, \u201cThere is no \u200dexcuse for threatening public officials or targeting our public servants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter to Trump, intercepted at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-sentenced-to-nearly-22-years-for-2020-poison-letter-sent-to-trump-at-white-house\/\" title=\"Canadian sentenced to almost 22 years for 2020 poison letter sent to Trump at White House.\">mail sorting facility<\/a> in September 2020, referred to him as &#8220;The Ugly Tyrant \u2062Clown.&#8221; Ferrier had created the poison herself at her home in Quebec. The letter also contained a chilling message: &#8220;If it [the poison] doesn\u2019t work, I\u2019ll find a better\u200b recipe for another \u2063poison, or I might use my gun\u200c when I\u2019ll be able to come. Enjoy! FREE REBEL\u200c SPIRIT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ferrier was arrested while\u2063 attempting to \u2063enter the U.S. through the northern border near Buffalo, New York. \u200bAuthorities \u2062discovered that she was carrying a gun, a knife,\u2062 and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at the time of her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrier&#8217;s \u2062attorney, Eugene\u200b Ohm, highlighted that \u2064she had no criminal record prior\u200d to \u200dher arrest in Texas for refusing to leave \u2062a park after closing hours \u200dand the subsequent arrest in Buffalo. Ohm also described Ferrier as\u200d &#8220;inordinately\u200c intelligent&#8221; and mentioned her achievements as a single parent with a master&#8217;s\u2064 degree in engineering.<\/p>\n<p>While Ferrier claimed to be a\u2063 &#8220;peaceful and \u2062genuinely kind \u200bperson,&#8221; she expressed her frustration with abuses of power and unfairness.\u2062 She \u2063identified herself more as an &#8220;activist&#8221; than a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider \u200bmyself to be an activist, not a terrorist,\u201d\u200b Ferrier stated. \u201cActivists\u200b are constructive, terrorists are destructive.\u2064 The only\u2063 regret I have is \u200dthat it didn\u2019t work and\u2064 that I couldn\u2019t stop\u200d Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According\u200b to the plea agreement, Ferrier will be banished\u200c from the U.S. upon\u200c completing \u200dher sentence and will be subject to supervised \u2062release for life if she \u200cever returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian woman, Pascale Ferrier, has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in a U.S. prison for sending a poison-laced letter to former President Donald Trump in 2020. The 56-year-old dual citizen received a 262-month prison term as per a plea agreement, according to a ruling by a U.S. district judge on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}