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Singularity
10-26-2018, 03:32 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pro...221700074.html


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Trump promises major investigation after Clintons, Obama and other critics of president receive pipe bombs in 'act of terror'
The Independent Andrew Buncombe, Chris Riotta,The Independent 22 hours ago
The FBI are hunting for suspects after a series of explosive devices and suspicious packages were sent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, a major news network and other Democrat officials.


Basic devices described as “pipe bombs” containing shards of glass were sent to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s house in New York and another sent to Barack Obama in Washington as well as to the New York offices of broadcaster CNN.


The announcement arrived just two days after a package containing a similar explosive device was discovered at the home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who lives in the same county as the Clintons.


The two packages to the Clintons and Mr Obama were intercepted before arriving at either residency, US Secret Service said in a statement. The package for the Clintons was discovered on Tuesday night, the one for Mr Obama on Wednesday morning.


The bombs, each with a small battery, were about 6in long and packed with powder and broken glass, according to a law enforcement official who had seen X-ray images. The official said the devices were made from lengths of PVC pipe and covered with black tape.


The “live explosive” device delivered to CNN’s building was removed and sent for testing on Wednesday afternoon, alongside an envelope containing white powder that arrived with it. Law enforcement officials said the CNN device was similar to the one sent to Mr Soros


Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, described the attempted bombings as “an act of terror”.


Federal officials declined to discuss potential motives, but many of the individuals who were sent the packages all appeared to have at least one thing in common: their public criticisms of Donald Trump. The news of the bombs comes less than two weeks before crucial midterm Congressional elections.


Suspicious packages were also sent to California Democrat Maxine Waters, which was intercepted at a congressional mailing facility in Maryland, former CIA director John Brennan, whose name was on the CNN package, and former attorney general Eric Holder, whose package had been returned to former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose Florida offices were listed on several of the packages’ return labels.


The FBI said that a number of the devices found so far were in matching envelopes with similar address labelling and stamps. Authorities warned that more packages may still be undiscovered.


Mr Trump said a “major federal investigation” had been launched with authorities looking into whether an individual or group were behind the devices.


“In these times, we have to unify, we have to come together, and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America,” Mr Trump said


Mr Trump added: “We are extremely angry, upset, unhappy about what we witnessed this morning and we will get to the bottom of it.”


A number of Democrats said that Mr Trump needed to start unifying the country by tempering his own language. Even some from Mr Trump’s own party, such as Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake, said that the president needs to look at his tone and not refer to the press as the “enemy of the people”


Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the two most senior Democrats in the US Congress, later attacked Mr Trump’s call for unity, saying his words “ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence”.


At a rally in Wisconsin later in the evening, Mr Trump called on the media to play their part by not printing what he claimed was “false” stories.


“The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and often times false attacks and stories,” the president said.


“Let’s get along,” he added. “By the way, do you see how nice I’m behaving tonight? Have you ever seen this?”




The Secret Service said it had already “initiated a full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible.”


The news spurred numerous evacuations nationwide, including at the Time Warner headquarters housing CNN’s New York newsroom, as well as Ms Wasserman Schultz’s offices, which reportedly received the package originally addressed to Mr Holder on Wednesday.


Outside the Time Warner Center, staff were shaken by the discovering of the explosive device. ”It’s like you work there, you’re not safe at home, you’re not safe anywhere,” said Catherine Diaz, 27, a CNN employee from Manhattan. ”It’s just scary not to know what’s going to happen after this.”


California Democrat Kamala Harris’ field offices were also evacuated, along with the San Diego Union Tribune, which shares the same building; however, a suspicious package discovered in the area was not addressed to the lawmaker and no longer considered a threat after a brief investigation.


New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s offices also received a suspicious package, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday, though it did not appear to be connected to the series of explosives. Rather, the package included a thumb drive containing informative literature on the Proud Boys, a right-wing, all-male organisation.


None of the devices appeared to have detonated, and several explosives experts said they were “unimpressed” by the sophistication of the rudimentary devices — though several appeared to be functional.


FBI officials are reportedly working with local law enforcement to follow any leads in each case, and have been combing over surveillance footage to learn whether the package found at Mr Soros’ home was hand delivered or sent by mail.


The suspicious packages sent to Mr Soros — a major donor to the Democratic party — and former high-power Democratic leadership arrived during an especially tumultuous midterm election season, as both sides attempt to address an apparent lack of civility in the nationwide political discourse.


Ms Clinton was another who called for the country to come together. “It is a troubling time. It is a time of deep divisions,” she said. “We have to do everything we can to bring our country together”.
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Singularity
10-26-2018, 06:24 PM
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b055bc948b4c90

POLITICS 10/26/2018 01:25 pm ET
Bomb Mailing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Was A Big Trump Fan With A Criminal History
Online, he targeted many of the Democratic officials who received suspicious packages.
By Andy Campbell, Sebastian Murdock, and Ryan J. Reilly
A 2015 mug shot of mail-bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc.
HUFFPOST
A 2015 mug shot of mail-bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc.
The man arrested on suspicion of mailing at least a dozen suspicious packages to Democrats criticized by Donald Trump is a big fan of the president, with a long criminal history.

Cesar Sayoc, 56, was taken into custody by federal authorities on Friday in Plantation, Florida, according to multiple press accounts. Law enforcement also took possession of a van covered in stickers supporting Trump and criticizing Democratic officials. The Justice Department scheduled a press conference on the case for 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Sayoc is a registered Republican and called himself a promoter and booking agent. He was arrested numerous times, including for felony grand theft in the third degree in November 2013; he pleaded the next the next year. He was found guilty of a misdemeanor retail theft charge that stemmed from a May 2015 incident, along with multiple traffic violations.

Sayoc declared bankruptcy in 2012, when he had $21,109 in liabilities. The filing indicated he lived with his mother, owned an 11-year-old Chevy Tahoe with 285,000 miles on it, had collected unemployment and was working as a store manager. His attorney’s office was flooded with phone calls after his name emerged.

A Twitter account made in 2016 that appears to belong to the suspect has more than 1,000 images, many dedicated to baseless conspiracy theories. A spam of posts from this year all claim that Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor David Hogg was a protester paid by billionaire George Soros. Another post claims Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) took money from the Russians and is a “poverty pimp.” And in a July post, he claims that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-Fla.) is known for “ripping off the elderly.” Soros, Waters and Wasserman Shultz were all targets of suspicious packages this week.

Other intended recipients of the packages included former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Robert De Niro, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former CIA Director John Brennan.

A van used by Sayoc, covered in stickers supporting President Donald Trump and criticizing Democratic officials.

A Tampa resident who said he encountered Sayoc in a hotel parking lot in Miami last May told HuffPost that the suspect was quirky — given the stickers on his van — but didn’t seem “violent” during their hourlong conversation.

“He wasn’t talking violent or anything like that but basically talked about fake news, Obama, Hillary Clinton, stuff like that. He said his family didn’t agree with him, that he only associated with other Trump supporters,” said the man, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Korey.

When Korey, a 40-year-old black Trump supporter, saw the van on TV Friday morning, he immediately identified it as Sayoc’s. Korey said he couldn’t believe the “regular Republican” he had spoken to was the bomb suspect.

“It was crazy, man. He never said nothing verbally hateful. He didn’t say, ‘I wanna kill Obama.’ He railed against him but never threatened,” Korey said.

Korey said he was one of those who initially believed the bombs being sent to top Democrats were a false flag operation perpetrated by the left, as Trump implied Friday morning.

“I was thinking it too. I thought it was someone doing this to send a message to scare people. Maybe a Democrat,” he said. “Finding out that this guy did it — it was kinda like, I can see him doing it, just due to how much support or how passionate he was about the news media and Hillary Clinton. I put two and two together, and now I’m like, wow, he really was crazy.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.
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