Pipe Bomb Found At Republican Headquarters, Suspicious Package Found At Democratic Headquarters
01/06/21 AT 4:53 PM Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington Photo: AFP / Brendan Smialowski
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DNC offices were evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious package.
This occurred only blocks away from where Trump supporters were storming the Capitol Building
As a mob breached the Capitol Building on Wednesday, a pipe bomb was discovered at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and a suspicious package was found at the Democratic National Committee.
Both the RNC offices and the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee have been evacuated.
In the aftermath, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Warner was not on our radar prior to the bombing. But a Metro Nashville Police Department report from August 2019 shows that local and federal authorities were aware of alleged threats he had made. … On Aug. 21, 2019, the girlfriend told Nashville police that Warner was building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence, the MNPD report states. Nashville police then forwarded the information to the FBI. Officers were called to the home of Warner s girlfriend, roughly a mile and a half from Warner, who lived at 115 Bakertown Road.
During the week of August 26, 2019, police called [Raymond] Throckmorton [Ed. Note: Warner’s former lawyer], who declined to allow police to interview Warner or go on Warner s property, the FBI told The Tennessean. In a statement Tuesday night from Aaron, he said officers recalled Throckmorton saying Warner “did not care for the police,” and that Throckmorton would not allow Warner to g
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Granted to Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner s father Charles
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