Essayli to Newsmax: California Bomb Plotters ‘Hate America’

First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, told Newsmax that the five California residents recently arrested for planning a New Year’s Eve bomb attack in the state “hate America.”

Essayli told Newsmax’s “National Report” on Wednesday that, “These are the true antifa, anti-government. They hate America. They hate ICE. They want to destroy the country.”

He confirmed the people involved were planning to set off explosive devices simultaneously at five locations around Southern California at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

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