Second Suspicious Package Addressed to Joe Biden Found at Delaware Postal Facility
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A second suspicious package addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden turned up Thursday morning at a Wilmington, Delaware, postal facility.
The package is similar to others containing pipe bombs that were sent to high-profile figures, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a source told The Associated Press.
Postal supervisor Sherina Dawson told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that an employee called attentionto the package because it had Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., as the name on the return address. Dawson said the item inside the package was similar in shape to a flashlight.
Police shut down the area around the postal facility, WPVI reported.
Police also shut down a postal facility in New Castle, Delaware, around 6 a.m. Thursday morning after the first suspicious package addressed to Biden was located. The FBI has taken over the investigation of the facility, the station reported.
“This country has to come together. This division, this hatred, this ugliness has to end,” Biden tweeted Wednesday, before any suspicious packages addressed to him were located by law enforcement.
This country has to come together. This division, this hatred, this ugliness has to end.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 24, 2018
Law enforcement got a tip about a mysterious package addressed to the former vice president and arrived at his Delaware home Wednesday night before the first package was located.
Biden is the latest intended recipient of the mystery bombs. Other intended recipients of the explosives include former President Barack Obama, his former Attorney General Eric Holder, billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros, and former CIA Director John Brennan.
President Donald Trump addressed the bomb scares for a second time Wednesday evening at a rally in Wisconsin.
“Any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy itself,” Trump said, echoing an earlier statement at the White House, adding:
No nation can succeed that tolerates violence or the threat of violence as a method of political intimidation, coercion, or control. We all know that. Such conduct must be fiercely opposed and firmly prosecuted. We want all sides to come together in peace and harmony. We can do it.
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