National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s Washington, D.C., home was targeted by a drive-by protest early Monday.
At about 8:20 a.m., a car driving past Sullivan’s residence threw manure at the house, according to Politico, which called it a “small amount of manure.”
District of Columbia workers eventually cleaned up the mess.
SCOOP: A person tossed manure in front of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s house in D.C. this morning, a law enforcement official told me. A small amount of manure was thrown from a car, and the incident is the subject of an ongoing investigation. https://t.co/kP5yQ7WoVP pic.twitter.com/7Ni9h7Ffhg
— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) March 25, 2024
Secret Service representative Anthony Guglielmi said Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and D.C.’s bomb squad did respond to a “report of a suspicious package” near Sullivan’s home at about 8:30 a.m., according to the New York Post.
“The Metropolitan Police Department’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal team responded and declared the scene as safe,” Guglielmi said. “The incident is under investigation.”
Politico said the area has traffic and red-light cameras that could be used to track down who the New York Post called the “manure-slinging per-poo-trator.”
Sullivan’s home has been the target of pro-Palestinian protests, including one on Christmas Day.
The left-wing group The People’s Forum, which organized that day’s protest, has called Sullivan a “war criminal.”
Sullivan’s house was the target of another odd misadventure last April, when Sullivan found a man in his house in the middle of the night, according to The Washington Post.
The house has round-the-clock Secret Service protection.