Envelope addressed to Trump tested positive for ricin, officials say

[Wicked Blue]

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

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. planted by kushner and team...

[cspanlovr]

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

[brush]

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.

[FarPoint]

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.

[brush]

2. Yeah, sure. Right.

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

[Cha]

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

off of RBG's passing

[Nevilledog]

5. ...

v

[regnaD kciN]

6. Which "officials"...

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

[2naSalit]

14. +1

[grumpyduck]

7. Another distraction.

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

[ProfessorGAC]

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.

[2naSalit]

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.

[Skraxx]

10. Meh

[bamagal62]

11. I don't really care.

Do you?

[texasfiddler]

12. It didn't work. Not interested

[2naSalit]

16. Indeed.

Next?

[NCjack]

17. Trumpian HOAX.

[Crunchy Frog]

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".

[Wicked Blue]

19. I agree with you

Firing up his cult

[smirkymonkey]

20. +1000

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

[bullwinkle428]

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