Had a Selfie of Himself in a MAGA Hat on His Laptop
In January of 2017 Alexandre Bissonnette killed six people and wounded 19 others in a Quebec mosque. At his sentencing hearing Monday, prosecutors revealed he was, as the Montreal Gazette describes, “obsessed” with President Donald Trump, and checked the tweets of dozens of right wing pundits, right wing news organizations, right wing websites daily, members of the “alt-right,” and Trump daily.
Bissonnette also “was reading news about the U.S. president on a daily basis,” and in addition to Trump was also “obsessed” with Muslims, Dylann Roof, mass shootings and feminists. He reportedly held far right and white nationalist views.
The Montreal Gazette’s Andy Riga tweets that in the month before the massacre, Bissonnette performed searches for Trump on various platforms over 800 times:
“In the weeks before the attack, Bissonnette repeatedly checked the Twitter feeds of right-wing American commentators, as well as conspiracy theorists, and alt-right and white supremacist/neo-nazi leaders, a document presented at the hearing shows.”
Riga also posted some statistics of Bissonnette’s activities. He apparently checked the Twitter accounts of right wing pundits and members of the alt-right – some dozens of times – in the month before he attacked the Quebec mosque.
At the top of the list is right wing pundit Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart editor-at-large who founded The Daily Wire.
The list includes several prominent Fox News and Breitbart names, alone with those of white supremacists, white nationalists, or the so-called “alt-right.”
““I regret not having shot more people,” Bissonnette said. “The victims are in the sky and I’m living hell.”
A tweet Riga posted that links to his article says Bissonnette “was checking” Trump’s tweets “daily.”
He is facing a sentence of up to 125 years.