Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California was the intended recipient of a suspicious package intercepted at a congressional mail sorting facility outside Washington, according to two sources.
The news comes as suspicious packages were sent to other high-profile Democratic figures, including former President Barack Obama and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Waters, whose office has not commented on the package yet, has been under fierce scrutiny this year from President Donald Trump and other Republicans after she encouraged people to publicly confront and „push back“ on members of the Trump administration over immigration policy this summer.
Trump regularly targets Waters in speeches and on Twitter, and he has accused her of urging people to „harm“ government officials, which Waters vehemently denies. Monday, he described her as „a very low IQ individual,“ repeating a moniker he often uses for the congresswoman.
Waters has said she’s faced an increase in threats since she made her controversial comments this summer. The California Democrat canceled two scheduled appearances in Alabama and Texas in June after saying she got threatening messages and „hostile mail“ at her office, including „one very serious death threat“ from an individual in Texas.
