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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
US Republicans deplore attempts ‘to terrorize’ officials
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Republican leaders say that the person or people who sent explosives to the homes of Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama should be brought to justice.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says they were “reprehensible acts” and “we cannot tolerate any attempt to terrorize public figures.”
The US Secret Service said today that it intercepted a bomb that was addressed to Clinton and also discovered a possible explosive sent to Obama.
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the House, says “this is a dangerous path and it cannot become the new normal.” He says the attempted attacks are “pure terror.”
Scalise survived life-threatening injuries after he was shot at a congressional baseball practice in 2017. He tweets that he’s experienced “first-hand the effects of political violence.”
— AP
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