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Posted: 2019-03-21T21:12:01Z | Updated: 2019-03-21T21:18:04Z

The man charged with sending pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump , including Bill and Hillary Clinton and CNN , pleaded guilty Thursday to mailing the devices.

Florida resident Cesar Sayoc , 56, was arrested last October after authorities determined that he mailed explosive devices to former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama , among other Democratic leaders. Sayoc is also accused of sending bombs to actor Robert De Niro and to CNNs New York office which prompted an evacuation of the Time Warner building. None of the devices went off.

Sayoc, who has been referred to as the MAGA bomber in tabloids , pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to 65 counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction, the New York Daily News reported .

In October 2018, I made devices that were designed to look like pipe bombs and sent them in the mail, Sayoc said in court.

During his arrest, authorities took possession of his van, which was plastered with images of Trump and other images of Democrats with crosshairs on their heads. Debra Gureghian, Sayocs former employer at New River Pizza in Florida, told HuffPost in October that the van let no light through the windows and was littered with fast food wrappers and severed doll heads.