{"id":104497,"date":"2024-02-27T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/donald-trump-jr-receives-unidentified-white-powder-in-envelope-at-florida-home\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:05:46","slug":"donald-trump-jr-receives-unidentified-white-powder-in-envelope-at-florida-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/donald-trump-jr-receives-unidentified-white-powder-in-envelope-at-florida-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr. receives unidentified white powder in envelope at Florida home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-27\/donald-trump-gty-jr-lv-240226_1708999197417_hpEmbed_3x2.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Donald Trump Jr. speaks to supporters at a rally for his father, Republican Presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 23, 2024 in Charleston, S.C. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(JUPITER, Fla.) &#8212; Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President Donald Trump, received and opened a letter containing an unidentified white powder Monday evening, sources tell ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>A hazmat team visited Trump Jr.\u2019s home in Jupiter, Florida, after he received the piece of mail, a source with knowledge of the incident told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The test results of the substance came up inconclusive on what it was exactly, but officials on the scene do not believe it is deadly,&#8221; a spokesperson for Trump Jr. said in a statement to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The Jupiter Police Department did not immediately return ABC News&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second known incident where the younger Trump has received an envelope containing a suspicious white powder.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, during the Trump&#8217;s presidency, Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s then-wife Vanessa opened an envelope addressed to him and was rushed to the hospital as a precaution. A man from Massachusetts was subsequently arrested and sentenced to five years of probation in connection to sending numerous threatening letters containing suspicious powder to multiple high-profile individuals, including Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The police said at the time that a preliminary test showed the substance was not dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr. has been on the campaign trail with his father, speaking at events in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>He is also slated to appear at a major fundraiser for his father in Washington, D.C., next month alongside Trump&#8217;s allies in Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sens. Steve Daines, Tim Scott and JD Vance.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast was the first to report the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr. speaks to supporters at a rally for his father, Republican Presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 23, 2024 in Charleston, S.C. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images) (JUPITER, Fla.) &#8212; Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President Donald Trump, received and opened a letter containing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/donald-trump-jr-receives-unidentified-white-powder-in-envelope-at-florida-home\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}