The hook: D.A. Bragg, the district attorney prosecuting President Trump, has recently received envelopes containing white powder. “White Powder! Anthrax!” I thought, because I remember the 2001 Anthrax attacks.
But here’s the thing I learned: A number of the anthrax envelopes in the famous 2001 attack didn’t contain white powder, but brown powder. It was a form of Anthrax that caused skin problems, not death. This lesser Anthrax was sent to the media instead of the politicians.
Back in 2001 when people freaked out over spilled Cremora, they should have warned us we needed to worry about brown powder too.
I then told myself that “D.A. Bragg probably got baby powder,” because my only other white powder references were hoaxes, like the baby powder sent to Donald Trump Jr. a few years back.
But of course, I forgot about ricin. Ricin seems far easier to make than anthrax, and it also comes in the terrifying white powder form. President Obama got an envelope of Ricin ten years ago.
It’s all moot, because the white powder sent to D.A. Bragg is harmless. Then again, that’s what I would have said about the ricin. Stay vigilant! Don’t trust powdery envelopes regardless of color.