WHITE PLAINS – Authorities locally and around the country are continuing their investigation into pipe bombs being sent to Democrat politicians, an actor and news media, all critical of the Republican Trump administration.
Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat, said the president has “blazed a new trail with his loose relationship with the truth,” but you can’t put all the blame on him. “It does not mean he is personally responsible for the criminal and violent acts of some deranged person, but it means all of us in public life have a responsibility to conduct ourselves in a way that doesn’t encourage it or that doesn’t contribute to it,” Maloney said.
The first pipe bomb was delivered to billionaire George Soros, who lives in Maloney’s district.
Democratic Westchester County Executive George Latimer said the rhetoric needs to be lowered.
“The targets of these bombs nationwide were political targets and we hope that this climate that we are living in, that we can have the disagreements that we have in the society, it’s a small democratic society, where we have the right, almost the responsibility to discuss and debate issues,” Latimer said. “We do it all the time here in county government, but to do that in the context of a peaceful discussion, and not have it lead, as these things did, into violence.”
Former President Bill and Hillary Clinton’s home, also in Westchester, received pipe bomb.
Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, also a Democrat, said he is “deeply troubled” by the events. He said it is “a horrible attempt to create and division, and a concerted effort to disrupt our democratic society.”
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