Two suspicious packages were discovered at a Pentagon mail facility Monday, the Associated Press reports. Then, this evening, the Secret Service announced that another envelope addressed to President Donald ***** was intercepted before it got inside the White House. There’s no word yet about what might have been tainting the president’s mail — but an unnamed federal official said that early tests detected ricin in the Pentagon packages, NBC Washington reports.
It might not be ricin — after all, it takes a day or two for the FBI to fully run its tests. But ricin is an oddly popular choice for attempting to poison presidents. A man from Mississippi and a woman from Texas, for example, were sentenced to prison for mailing ricin-filled…
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