The apartment complex where many Somali immigrants live, targeted by Patrick Stein and his coconspirators. In a sentencing memo asking for leniency, Stein’s lawyers wrote that Trump’s rhetorical influence on their client could not be ignored.

Garden City, Kansas

Stein then texted Brian that he was emotionally prepared to carry out an attack.

‘I will just tell you the game plan. We are going to blow up a mosque when they are at their prayer time and they are packed in there like sardines. This is in a location where a select few pieces of shit property owners in this town are housing these bastards. They have taken some of the apartments and converted them into their mosques. So we were going to use trashcans (sic) that were modified on the inside to make a directional blast and set them on the outside of the mosque both sides of the building set them off at the same time and throw a fucking party! LOL’


United States v. Stein, No. 19-3030 (10th Cir. 2021).


BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN

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