FBI intercepts another suspicious package addressed to Dem donor Steyer

The FBI says it intercepted another suspicious package addressed to Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer earlier this week. 

The agency found the package at a mail processing facility in Burlingame, Calif., on Thursday before it arrived at the recipient’s address, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“The package was very similar in appearance to the others,” Katherine Zackel, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s San Francisco office, told the newspaper.

Zackel added that the package was later “rendered safe” by FBI bomb technicians.{mosads}

Officials did not comment on the package’s contents, the Chronicle reported. 

The report comes about one week after a different suspicious package addressed to Steyer was intercepted at the same facility.

The Democratic donor, who has been an outspoken critic of President Trump and has launched a group to impeach the president, was among more than a dozen Democratic figures who were mailed such packages last week, along with former President Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, among others.

The Justice Department announced last Friday that Cesar Sayoc Jr., a 56-year-old resident of Aventura, Fla., was arrested and charged with five federal crimes in connection with the incidents. 

Officials have not said if they believe Sayoc to be responsible for the packages addressed to Steyer, according to the Chronicle.

Last week, Steyer renewed his call to impeach Trump after reports surfaced about law enforcement authorities intercepting a package addressed to him. 

“We’re thankful that everyone we work with is safe. We are seeing a systematic attack on our democracy that extends much further than just one isolated terrorist in Florida,” Steyer tweeted. 

“That’s why we are running an impeachment petition to end the culture of lawlessness in our country,” he added.

Prosecutors wrote in a court filing on Wednesday that Sayoc committed a “domestic terrorist attack.”

His actions, as well as a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 people dead last weekend, have led to bipartisan calls to cool what has become increasingly heated political rhetoric.

Trump on Friday denied that his rhetoric may be linked to violence, saying “a lot of reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth.”