{"id":60668,"date":"2020-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/60668\/we-found-the-tea-its-with-the-guards-of-the-presidential-palace"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:23:35","slug":"we-found-the-tea-its-with-the-guards-of-the-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/60668\/we-found-the-tea-its-with-the-guards-of-the-presidential-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"We Found The Tea! It&#8217;s With The Guards Of The Presidential Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"After Lebanese people and journalists launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/60663\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">quest to find the donated Ceylon tea<\/a>, we finally have some answers. <br \/>  <br \/>  Last night, the Lebanese Presidency&#8217;s PR team released a statement thanking Sri Lanka for 1,675 KG of tea, explaining that it was safely distributed to the guards of the Presidential Palace and their families. <br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aestheticsurge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/OH-OK-GIF.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  While the Sri Lankan tea was originally provided as a donation to the victims of the Beirut blast, it somehow made its way to the homes of the president&#8217;s loyal guards. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMUym7RpvR\">pic.twitter.com\/gMUym7RpvR<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Lebanese Presidency (@LBpresidency) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBpresidency\/status\/1297844869264793601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Meanwhile, not ONE affected family has gotten a whiff of the tea. <br \/>  <br \/>  Here were some reactions to this&#8230; update:<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slinlebanon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@slinlebanon<\/a>, thank you for your donation of Ceylon Tea but I think you should seek legal actions against the Lebanese government. We did not receive the tea it was distributed to the members of the presidential guard not the people affected.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><\/p>\u2014 Alaa. (@TricksterSorry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TricksterSorry\/status\/1303593707480977408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><\/p>\u2014 Abou Jad (@MamdoYaacoubi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MamdoYaacoubi\/status\/1303569546670993409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jprkFCyPyg\">pic.twitter.com\/jprkFCyPyg<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Moustafa \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\udde7 (@MTB_1212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTB_1212\/status\/1303585496518582272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><\/p>\u2014 Eddy Al-Semani (@Eddysemani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eddysemani\/status\/1303594134557675520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Lebanese people and journalists launched a quest to find the donated Ceylon tea, we finally have some answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":434761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-60668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[180],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We Found The Tea! 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