This is nonsense. I don’t believe for a second he’s crazy. It’s his schtik.
Maybe there was a greater goal for Santiago. Perhaps this is another case of “weaponizing the mentally ill”. Maybe when he told the FBI that U.S. intelligence people were forcing him to watch ISIS videos, it was TRUE!
As in Creamer tactics — find mentally unstable people, rev them up- or hypnotize them -or psychologically work on them to incite violence and mayhem. Maybe this was a covert intelligence operation (maybe one of many ongoing) to get someone to go to Florida or NY and target Trump. Santiago only got the Florida part right. Wonder if he had a rental car reserved that was never claimed or some other means of transportation.
It has the makings of a good conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, some stuff people call conspiracy theories have been turning out to be true.
How come these mentally ill don’t want to wrestle monkeys or pluck every flower in Central Park?
There’s legal crazy. And there’s clinical crazy. Islamists will take either.