– As soon as it was learned that Hillary Clinton was one receiving a pipe bomb in the mail, it is reported that the first potential suspects interviewed by the FBI were Tom Perez, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Bill Clinton who was at a downtown cafe for a late breakfast when he and Mrs. Clinton’s mail was to be delivered.
– Soon after news broke that another recipient of a pipe bomb was Robert DeNiro, FBI agents arrested comic Kathy Griffin at a Hollywood post office as she attempted to mail herself a pipe bomb.
– As news of the attempted pipe bombing attacks was unfolding, an angry Senator Kamala Harris, a likely potential presidential candidate in 2020, told MSNBC that she wanted to know why “the hell that old has-been Debbie Wasserman Schultz got one!”
– Meanwhile, an aide to another prominent Democrat who was not a pipe bomb recipient, told a press conference that, despite the “obvious threat to key national figures like the senator”, Cory Booker would nevertheless personally check his mailbox. Soon after, accompanied by a film crew, Booker was seen picking up his mail, unaccompanied by security personnel. He was quoted saying, “if you’re afraid to pick up your own mail, then the Republican terrorists have already won”. (ABC News noted it was Senator Booker’s second “Spartacus Moment” in a little over a month.)
– Some early news reports name a former script writer for Saturday Night Live as a “person of interest”. The writer was fired by SNL producer Lorne Michaels earlier this month for submitting a script for the show in which a seriously demented anti-Trump star of a TV comedy show invents a scheme to discredit the Trump administration by anonymously mailing dozens of fake ‘pipe bombs’ to well-known political enemies of the president.
Michaels reportedly rejected the script because it “too obviously seemed to discredit a member of the show’s own cast”, although he did consider the idea itself as”perhaps plausible”. (Authorities are also looking into the recent activities of the person allegedly alluded to in the rejected script. A spokesperson for the law enforcement agency refused to confirm that the “demented star’s” initials were allegedly “AB”.) DLH
