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Three Explosive Devices Sent to Clintons, Obama and CNN Offices
Explosive devices were sent to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as to CNN's offices in New York, sparking an intense investigation on Wednesday into whether a bomber is going after targets that have often been the subject of right-wing ire.
A law enforcement official said the three devices were similar to one found Monday at the home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and liberal donor.
[...] The device sent to CNN was contained in a manila envelope addressed to John Brennan, who was the C.I.A. director in the Obama administration and is a harsh critic of Mr. Trump. The president revoked Mr. Brennan's security clearance in what was seen as an act of retribution. The return address bore the name of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman who formerly headed the Democratic National Committee.
In a statement, the White House condemned "the attempted violent attacks."
Update 1: The explosive devices have been described as pipe bombs. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says that a device was also sent to his office.
Update 2:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spokesman has identified the device sent to his office, originally believed to be suspicious, as a thumb drive containing files on the far right group Proud Boys. It does not appear to be related to the explosive devices.
[...] Another suspicious package has been intercepted at a Congressional mail screening facility in Capitol Heights, Maryland, according to CNN. [...] ABC News reported the package was addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)
I'll tell you, the exception is bigger than the everything else. Although, I happen to think that one wasn't just the Muslims. Obviously it was the Muslims. But, I think they had some help on that one.
This was an unbelievably powerful building. If you know anything about structure it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside. The steel. The reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows you had the steel on the outside, so you had steel on the outside of the building. That's why when I first look -- and you had big heavy I-beams -- when I first looked at it I couldn't believe it because there was a hole in the steel. And this is steel that was, you remember the the width of the windows of the World Trade Center. Folks, I think you know if you were ever up there. They were quite narrow and in between was this heavy steel. I said how could a plane, even a plane, even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been -- how could it possibly go through this steel? I happen to think that they had not only a plane but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously because I just can't imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Both buildings are built with the steel on the inside around the elevator shaft this one was built from the outside which is the strongest structure you can have. And it was almost just like a can of soup!
And, what about Building 7? No plane for that one. But it went down. Not right away. It stood until what, 5 p.m., right? But when it went down, it went down so fast. Like the cheapest hooker you've seen in your entire life.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:08PM
(cont) Building 7 went down faster than Colin Kaepernick goes down for our beautiful National Anthem. And we lost a lot of people that day. Almost 3,000 people dieing (RIP!!!). While thousands celebrated. And while Bush Jr. read about Goats. A book about Goats. You didn't have Donald J. Trump as your President. Very sad!
This one, fortunately we didn't lose anybody. Maybe some hurt feelings, right? But by the way, this one is Muslim. Because ISIS is Muslim. And, this one is ISIS. They did the ISIS Flag, the sticker of ISIS Flag. On the Fake bomb at Fake News @CNN [twitter.com]. I'll tell you, we haven't forgotten ISIS. We've been moving very strongly on ISIS. And we've absolutely obliterated ISIS. We blew up their capital, wiped out their capital. Raqqa. Something nobody thought we could ever do. We totally rocked that one. Back to the Stone Age. And we're very close to ERADICATING #IslamicState [twitter.com]!!