Donald Trump Jr and his wife Vanessa have been seen in public for the first time after she was hospitalized after coming in contact with a suspicious white powder.
The couple was accompanied by Secret Service agents on Tuesday morning as they left their Midtown Manhattan apartment with two of their children, Spencer, five, and Chloe, three.
Mother-of-five Vanessa was seen wearing a black puffy coat and shielding her eyes with aviator sunglasses as she and her husband took the toddlers to school.
The former model, 40, was at her parents’ apartment on Monday when she opened a letter addressed to her husband and started coughing and feeling nauseous, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told DailyMail.com.
Law enforcement officials revealed that the letter said: ‘You’re an awful person and now you get what you deserve,’ according to the New York Post.
Going home: Vanessa Trump was seen on Tuesday afternoon returning to her building in midtown Manhattan
The president’s daughter-in-law appeared downcast and kept her head down as she walked into her apartment
Donald Jr, 40, was spotted with his wife and kids for the first time since she was hospitalized after coming in contact with a suspicious white powder on Monday
Above Don Jr is pictured walking behind Secret Service agents with his five-year-old son Spencer, while wife Vanessa (far left) 40, walked ahead with three-year-old daughter Chloe
Vanessa’s mother Bonnie Haydon had handled the letter before passing it on to her daughter.
Both Vanessa and her mother and another person were decontaminated and taken to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center as a precaution, New York City Fire Department officials said. They appear to be fine now.
Officials told the Post that the powder turned out to be cornstarch.
Officially though, an NYPD spokesman wouldn’t say what the powder was but said it was ‘deemed to be non-hazardous’ and is being taken to their lab for ‘further analysis.’
The NYPD’s intelligence division and the Secret Service are investigating the incident.
‘The Secret Service and our law enforcement partners in New York City are investigating a suspicious package addressed to one of our protectees received today in New York, New York. This is an active investigation and we cannot comment any further,’ the Secret Service said in a statement.
Donald Jr tweeted after the incident saying: ‘Thankful that Vanessa & my children are safe and unharmed after the incredibly scary situation that occurred this morning.
‘Truly disgusting that certain individuals choose to express their opposing views with such disturbing behavior.’
The family was seen leaving their Midtown Manhattan home and on their way to drop off the tiny tots at school on Tuesday morning
Vanessa Trump, who has been married to Don Jr since 2005, was hospitalized on Monday after opening a letter with a white powder inside of it. She’s pictured above with her husband in April 2016
Mother-of-five Vanessa sported a black puffy coat and shielded her eyes with sunglasses as she tried to keep a low profile
Rough day: Don Jr appeared tense as he walked with his son Spencer
The family was ushered into a car service before taking off
Don was the last to get into the car
President Donald Trump spoke to his daughter-in-law on Monday after she arrived at the hospital.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at around 4pm that the two had talked on the phone ‘in the last hour.’
Donald Jr’s sister Ivanka also sent her thoughts from Washington, DC.
‘Thinking of @MrsVanessaTrump & wishing I was by her side today. No one deserves to be frightened this way. There is no excuse,’ she tweeted.
President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, weighed in with a statement of his own.
‘How disturbed must a person be to do what they did to a mother of five young children? This dangerous and reckless act goes beyond political differences,’ Cohen said according to the Post.
The incident recalled the scary days after 9/11 when letters containing lethal anthrax spores were sent to the offices of several politicians and media outlets – resulting in five deaths.
Donald Jr and his wife are pictured above with four of their five children voting on election day in 2016
Donald Jr tweeted that he was glad that his wife and children ‘are safe and unharmed’
Sister-in-law Ivanka Trump sent her thoughts from Washington, DC after the incident on Monday
Donald Jr, 40, is the eldest son of President Trump, followed by his sister Ivanka, 36; brother Eric, 34; half-sister Tiffany, 24; and half-brother Barron, 11.
As a child of the president, Donald Jr and his family were assigned a Secret Service detail when his father was elected. He voluntarily gave up his Secret Service protection in September, wanting more privacy, but his detail was reinstated about a week later.
Don Jr and model Vanessa Hayden married in August 2005 at his father’s Mar-a-lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The pair were actually introduced by the future president when Don Jr attended a fashion show with his father the previous year.
Having met at the beginning of the show, Trump Sr was said to be so smitten with Vanessa that he re-introduced his son to her at intermission.
‘Donald comes back up to me again, “I don’t think you’ve met my son Donald Trump Jr,” Vanessa told The New York Times in 2006. She responded ‘Yeah, we just met, five minutes ago.’
The view outside NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where Mrs Trump was taken on Monday
A Hazmat truck is seen outside Vanessa Trump’s parent’s apartment building on Monday
The couple finally started a relationship after being introduced a third time at a party by a mutual friend.
Trump Jr, then 26, proposed to her in front of a jewelry store, complete with paparazzi, with a $100,000 engagement ring, which he is said to have wrangled for free in return for publicity.
They have five children, daughters Kai, 10, and Chloe, three; and sons Donald III, eight, Tristan, six, and Spencer, five – all of whom regularly feature on Don Jr’s Instagram account.
Since his father and sister Ivanka moved to Washington, DC., Donald Jr and his younger brother Eric have taken over control of their family company.
Last year, Eric was sent a threatening letter with a white powder in it to his New York City apartment as well.