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Someone sent Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin a package of horse manure for Christmas

Published 9:30 am, Sunday, December 24, 2017


A bomb squad was sent to investigate a suspicious package sent to Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin's neighborhood in Bel Air.

The package turned out to be full of horse manure.

It also contained a Christmas card with negative references to Mnuchin, President Donald Trump, and the massive tax bill Trump signed into law on Friday.

RayThom wrote:That's funny. Mnuchin probably thought it was his lunch delivery by private courier.

However, mix a couple of pounds of fertilizer with a couple pounds of ammonium nitrate and you get a bomb that can deliver devastating results. The Sterling Hall Bombing was the result of this mixture.

Bicycle Bill wrote:... Sterling Hall?  That was in 1970.  You're showing your age, Ray...

A psychologist for LA County who thinks President Trump’s tax bill stinks to high heaven likened himself to Jesus when he admitted delivering a crappy Christmas present to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Robby Strong told AL.com he dropped off the box of horse manure at Mnuchin’s house as an “act of political theater” to hammer home the point that “Republicans have done nothing for the American worker.”

“What I did, I would like to compare to what Jesus did when he went into the temple and overturned the tables of the money-changers, who were exploiting the people financially in the name of religion,” Strong told 89.3 KPCC.

“I feel like that’s what the GOP has done to the American people,” added the psychologist with the LA Department of Mental Health.

Strong — who said he was an organizer for the Occupy LA movement — sides with critics of the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul who say it favors corporations and the wealthy, CBS Los Angeles reported.

He told KPCC that he “borrowed” some poop from a pal who owns horses and gift-wrapped it in a festive box.

Strong added a card addressed to Mnuchin and Trump.

“We’re returning the ‘gift’ of the Christmas tax bill. It’s bulls—. Warmest wishes, The American People. P.S. – Kiss Donald for me,” he wrote.

On Saturday, the bearded man posted several images on Facebook, one of which shows him posing with a shovel next to the box, and another that shows the box full of what appears to be dung.

“I need someone to ride along and document my Secret Santa project. I’m going to hand deliver boxes of horse s—t to Steve Mnuchin over in Beverly Hills,” he added in a message.

“No disguises, no fake names. Totally owning this one. You’re only powerless if you do nothing!!!” he wrote.

Strong said he delivered one box to a home Mnuchin owns in Beverly Hills, and another to his mansion in a tony Bel Air neighborhood where the LAPD’s bomb squad responded to.

Mnuchin was not in Los Angeles when he received the putrid presents, CBS reported.

He said he realizes his stunt might have put his job at risk – and that he was surprised he has not been arrested by the Secret Service, which questioned him at his home.

“I just got interviewed by the Secret Service and I’ve now joined some of my heroes like Timothy Leary and Martin Luther King,” he told AL.com. “[The agents] just showed up in my yard.”

The LAPD, Secret Service and Treasury Department have not commented on the probe.

Strong pooh-poohed suggestions the prank could have alarmed Mnuchin or his family.

“LOL!” Strong wrote on Facebook. “It was pure organic horse–, just like everything that administration’s done so far. Bomb scares certainly were not my intention, but maybe they should be a little scared, eh.”

Strong insisted that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights.

“A few years ago when [a Supreme Court ruling] said that corporations are persons and money equals free speech, that is so absurd and my rule of thumb is now that if corporations are free speech, then so is horses—t.”

He also said he didn’t violate laws about mailing hazardous waste.

“It was a gift-wrapped package of poo,” Strong told AL.com. “I kind of dodged that whole issue. Is there a law that you can’t drop off a box of poo? Not really.”

Strong pooh-poohed suggestions the prank could have alarmed Mnuchin or his family.

Burning Petard wrote:for those who hang around a race track or farm, used horse feed, or bull feed, does not smell particularly bad. Now the liquid waste from a modern hog farm is another matter.

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