Live Updates: Suspicious Packages Were Sent To Robert De Niro And Joe Biden

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Live Updates: Suspicious Packages Were Sent To Robert De Niro And Joe Biden
By: Patrick Smith - Last updated on October 25, 2018, at 9:29 a.m. ET
RE: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...tes-bomb-scare

Video's on site if interested.

A nationwide manhunt is on for the person or group sending potentially explosive devices to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump.

Here's the latest:

- In an act of terrorism, at least nine suspect packages that authorities fear could hold explosive devices have been sent to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald
Trump around the nation.

- The most recent two packages were discovered on Thursday morning and were sent to the business of actor Robert De Niro — a frequent Trump critic — and reportedly to former Vice President Joe Biden, which was intercepted at a mail facility.

- So far, packages have been sent to: George Soros; Hillary Clinton; Barack Obama; CNN, care of to former CIA Director John Brennan; Eric Holder, care of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz; and to US Rep. Maxine Waters's Washington DC and California offices.

- Most if not all of the packages contain a return address for Wasserman Schultz, an obvious ruse.

- Trump, who has ushered in an era of political divisiveness, did not take any responsibility at a rally Wednesday night and instead blamed the media.

- And Twitter is promoting baseless conspiracy theories about the packages.

Photo of the package: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...t-quality=auto

Police in New York are investigating a suspicious package found at a business owned by Robert De Niro, the actor and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, on Thursday morning.

A suspicious package was found in the mailroom on the 7th floor of a building in Manhattan that houses De Niro's production company, Tribeca Productions, as well as restaurant that he partly owns.

It is unclear if the package was related to a string of pipe bombs addressed to several prominent Democrats and critics of Trump.