Treasury Secretary Mnuchin got Christmas gift-wrapped manure from 'the American people'

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, and his wife Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, We
(Image credit: Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)

A suspicious package addressed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and left near his California home on Saturday turned out to be gift-wrapped manure, Los Angeles police report. The package reportedly included a Christmas card signed by "the American people" with critical comments about the Republican tax plan President Trump signed into law on Friday.

The package was investigated by an LAPD bomb squad and the Secret Service. It is unknown whether Mnuchin and his wife were at home at the time of the incident. Watch a local news report, including footage of the manure falling out of the Christmas-themed box, below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.