New suspicious package discovered, sent to Robert De Niro

The son of billionaire George Soros wrote in a New York Times op-ed Wednesday that an “alert member" of staff “recognized the threat” of a suspicious package at their suburban New York home Monday afternoon and called police, who safely detonated the device.

“We are all grateful that no one was injured, and grateful to those who kept us safe. But the incident was profoundly disturbing — as a threat not just to the safety of our family, neighbors, colleagues and friends, but also to the future of American democracy,” Alexander Soros wrote.

Soros went on to say that his father, a Holocaust survivor whose philanthropic work is admittedly “political,” has long faced anti-Semitic attacks, but noted “something changed in 2016.”

“With Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, things got worse,” he wrote. “A genie was let out of the bottle, which may take generations to put back in, and it wasn’t confined to the United States.”

"Now we have attempted bomb attacks. While the responsibility lies with the individual or individuals who sent these lethal devices to my family home and Mr. Obama’s and Ms. Clinton’s offices, I cannot see it divorced from the new normal of political demonization that plagues us today,” Soros wrote.

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