Why the Nashville bomber did it

We don't know for sure, but he may have been inspired by conspiracy theories about 5G technology.

Nashville is one of my favorite cities in the world. And on Christmas morning, it dodged a serious bullet. The bomber, Anthony Quinn Warner, was the only fatality when his motorhome, rigged with explosives, detonated on 2nd Avenue North.

Not surprisingly, people took time away from opening presents to speculate about who carried out the bombing and why. And by “speculate” I mean, “accuse the other team of doing it and say why it confirms all of my pre-existing political beliefs.” An anti-Trump Facebook group to which I belong was quick to blame the (hopefully) outgoing President, and someone even spread what purported to be a picture of the bomber wearing a Trump baseball cap. (When it was pointed out that it wasn’t him, the person who posted it did not delete the post.)

Investigators are now saying Warner, whose bomb went off near the AT&T building, may have been a 5G conspiracy theorist:

Law enforcement officials suspect that the man accused of detonating a bomb in downtown Nash…