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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:44 PM

Wicked Blue (4,471 posts)

Envelope addressed to Trump tested positive for ricin, officials say

By Devlin Barrett
September 19, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. EDT
The Washington Post

The FBI and Secret Service are investigating an envelope mailed to President Trump that tested positive for the poison ricin, officials said Saturday.

The piece of mail was apparently shipped from Canada, and a field test showed it contained ricin, according to an official familiar with the matter.

Ricin can be made from castor beans, but its effectiveness as a poison depends greatly on the care with which it is made; in some past ricin letter cases, the material was not concentrated enough to harm anyone.

The FBI’s Washington Field Office said in a statement that federal agents “are investigating a suspicious letter received at a U.S. government mail facility. At this time, there is no known threat to public safety.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/envelope-addressed-to-trump-tested-positive-for-ricin-officials-say/2020/09/19/01f681a2-fab1-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html

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Envelope addressed to Trump tested positive for ricin, officials say (Original post)	Wicked Blue	Sep 2020	OP
planted by kushner and team...	Eliot Rosewater	Sep 2020	#1
I wouldn't put it past them, for sure.	cspanlovr	Sep 2020	#3
They're really gettin desperate with dirty tricks-anything they can pull of of their...	brush	Sep 2020	#8
I definitely sense a diversion, attention seeking fake story.	FarPoint	Sep 2020	#13
Yeah, sure. Right.	brush	Sep 2020	#2
Yeah, one of those maggots sent it to get the Spotlight	Cha	Sep 2020	#4
...	Nevilledog	Sep 2020	#5
Which "officials"...	regnaD kciN	Sep 2020	#6
+1	2naSalit	Sep 2020	#14
Another distraction.	grumpyduck	Sep 2020	#7
I Don't Believe This	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2020	#9
Could have been any of a number of operators...	2naSalit	Sep 2020	#15
Meh	Skraxx	Sep 2020	#10
I don't really care.	bamagal62	Sep 2020	#11
It didn't work. Not interested	texasfiddler	Sep 2020	#12
Indeed.	2naSalit	Sep 2020	#16
Trumpian HOAX.	NCjack	Sep 2020	#17
I'm guessing it was faked in order to make Trump...	Crunchy Frog	Sep 2020	#18
I agree with you	Wicked Blue	Sep 2020	#19
+1000	smirkymonkey	Sep 2020	#20
"From Canada", eh? How convenient!	bullwinkle428	Sep 2020	#21

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:44 PM

Eliot Rosewater (29,166 posts)

1. planted by kushner and team...

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:46 PM

cspanlovr (1,464 posts)

3. I wouldn't put it past them, for sure.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:01 PM

brush (43,027 posts)

8. They're really gettin desperate with dirty tricks-anything they can pull of of their...

you know where. A ricin letter 45 days before the election in which he is badly trailing?

Nah, this is silly, jay vee team stuff, too amatuerish.

Like anyone who had access to ricin would be naive enough to send a letter directly to and addressed to trump. As if they wouldn't know that there are many security layers between who would first screen and inspect a WH letter and the actual president.

Come on, Kushner, you gotta do better than that. Better call Turd Blossom.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:21 PM

FarPoint (11,094 posts)

13. I definitely sense a diversion, attention seeking fake story.

He did this before with the campaign 2016...fake scene where the Secret Service rushes him off stage...all fake as a preacher in a tent revival healing someone in a wheelchair...they jump up and down, tossing the wheelchair " I'm healed":...then they pass the collection basket....That kind of fake is a trump campaign scheme.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:46 PM

brush (43,027 posts)

2. Yeah, sure. Right.

Not for second do I believe anything from Kushner or trump.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:47 PM

Cha (277,670 posts)

4. Yeah, one of those maggots sent it to get the Spotlight

off of RBG's passing

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:51 PM

Nevilledog (40,350 posts)

5. ...

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:51 PM

regnaD kciN (25,204 posts)

6. Which "officials"...

...and were they named "Bill Barr"...?

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:25 PM

2naSalit (61,553 posts)

14. +1

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:57 PM

grumpyduck (4,655 posts)

7. Another distraction.

Please, please, MSM, fuck this and concentrate on RBG and the push to get a new asshole in SCOTUS.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:08 PM

ProfessorGAC (53,953 posts)

9. I Don't Believe This

As the article says, and GREATLY understates, weaponizing ricin is a detailed process requiring very specialized equipment.
Failure to properly purify leaves a highly distinctive odor, that the PO dogs would smell form 15' away, at least.
The once purified, the crystalization required to make a very fine aerosol is expensive.
Anybody with the skills to do all that would have the ability to make something more dangerous than ricin.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:27 PM

2naSalit (61,553 posts)

15. Could have been any of a number of operators...

Don't forget Rudy and they gang. It came from a government source and was likely planted.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:10 PM

Skraxx (2,420 posts)

10. Meh

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:13 PM

bamagal62 (2,465 posts)

11. I don't really care.

Do you?

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:14 PM

texasfiddler (1,665 posts)

12. It didn't work. Not interested

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:27 PM

2naSalit (61,553 posts)

16. Indeed.

Next?

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:54 PM

NCjack (9,762 posts)

17. Trumpian HOAX.

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 08:58 PM

Crunchy Frog (26,153 posts)

18. I'm guessing it was faked in order to make Trump...

look like he's been the victim of some sort of nefarious terrorist plot.

A step on the way to claiming that his political opponents are engaged in insurrection, and can be stopped by whatever means are "necessary".

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Sun Sep 20, 2020, 10:39 AM

Wicked Blue (4,471 posts)

19. I agree with you

Firing up his cult

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Sun Sep 20, 2020, 10:42 AM

smirkymonkey (63,221 posts)

20. +1000

That and at the very least a distraction from the death of RBG. They are so pathetic.

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Sun Sep 20, 2020, 10:47 AM

bullwinkle428 (20,393 posts)

21. "From Canada", eh? How convenient!

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