The Latest on Explosive Devices Sent to Trump's "Enemies"

[Content Note: Terrorism; eliminationism.]

After "suspicious packages" were sent to George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Maxine Waters (D.C. and L.A.), Eric Holder, John Brennan (at CNN headquarters), Joe Biden (New Castle and Wilmington), and Robert De Niro, two more "suspicious packages" have been intercepted by law enforcement this morning: One to Senator Cory Booker and anther to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

That's 12 devices in 5 days. Chilling.

And here is what Donald Trump tweeted early this morning: "Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, 'it's just not Presidential!'"

Then later: "Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this 'Bomb' stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows — news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!"

Note the quote marks he puts around the word bomb.

He is as revolting as he is dangerous.

UPDATE: MSNBC's Kyle Griffin tweets: "NBC's Pete Williams just reported on MSNBC that a man in Florida has been taken into custody for questioning in the mail bomb case, according to two law enforcement officials."

UPDATE 2: Sarah Isgur Flores, Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, tweets that the DoJ will hold a press conference to discuss the arrest at 2:30pm ET. Please note that I will not be posting a separate thread. Use this thread for discussion of the presser and any additional news items regarding the arrest.

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