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A deaf dialogue has been established between a section of the press and the American president since the discovery of improvised explosive devices.
THE WORLD
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By Pierre Bouvier
In the midst of the election campaign for the mid-term elections on 6 November, several bomb packages containing homemade explosive devices were discovered between Monday 22 and Thursday 25 October. Their common point? They were addressing Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former candidate Hillary Clinton, billionaire George Soros, actor Robert De Niro, elected Democrats and CNN, all of whom and all embody opposition to Donald Trump.
The next day, the American press devoted its "some" to this episode. The political information site Axios summarizes a striking historical rapprochement: the United States is at "The medium of the biggest campaign of terrorism by postal vote since 2001, threatening to eclipse Unabomber", the nickname of Theodore Kaczynski, who terrorized America with his parcel bombs between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s.
Photos of the bomb and package sent to CNN https://t.co/nBq3ArtChJ
Much of the media designates a culprit: Donald Trump. The Washington Post summarizes the situation of a pithy sentence: "In incendiary rhetoric, people targeted by Trump's words become bomb targets. " The daily recalls that over the past few days, the president has compared the Democrats to " wrong ", calling them "Too dangerous to govern".
The tenant of the White House has attacked a member of the House of Representatives, Maxine Waters, describing her as weak ("Low IQ individual"). He also violently criticized former CIA director John Brennan and billionaire financier George Soros. Finally, he described the media as"Enemies of the people", and CNN's reports from "False news". This week, "The targets of Trump's rhetoric have become targets of real violence," reiterates the daily.
"The discovery of homemade bombs targeting prominent Democratic politicians and CNN poses a threat of violence during an election period previously unknown in the United States and rests on the issue of political leaders' vitriolic rhetoric"rebounds the AP agency.
The point on the case:
What to remember from the nine suspicious packages sent to anti-Trump figures in the United States
Demonization of opponents
CNN wonders: "From the first bombs, the debate on the role of violence in political discourse has begun. But this debate has been going on for quite some time, as evidenced by President Trump's praise for from Greg Gianforte. In Montana, this Republican candidate had molested a journalist from Guardian, not being able to ask him a question insistently. Mr. Gianforte was sentenced to six months in prison and forty hours of public works.
In the New York Timesit is Alexander Soros, the son of George Soros who draws the alarm. He recalls his family history, his father, of Hungarian origin, growing under the Nazi threat, then communist, before fleeing to the United States. " Bombs (…) are the result of the demonization of opponents in politics. "
Alexander Soros also puts himself directly in question Donald Trump: "White supremacists, anti-Semites like David Duke have supported his campaign. " He refers to the latest campaign clip Mr. Trump, November 4, 2016, with anti-Semitic hints: "He released a [mauvais] genius [de l’antisémitisme] which will not be easily put in its place, and not only in the United States. "
Donald Trump hastened to denounce these parcel shipments. "In times like this, we have to come together"he said from the White House. "The acts and threats of political violence, of whatever nature, have no place in the United States. We are very angry », he added, promising to "Make all the light" on this case.
If the New Yorker notes that Donald Trump's condemnation of these shipments is welcome, he reminds the President of his past statements, insisting that the line between incitement and political violence is tenuous. "Unless Trump responds by changing his behavior, his words will be meaningless. Will he now stop his attacks on the media? "wonders the magazine.
Firefighter
politico recalls the past firefighter's arsonist who had hinted in August 2016 that "Second amendment supporters" could take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton wins the election. A year later, he had posted on Twitter a video of himself attacking a man with a CNN logo overlaid on his face, under the hashtag #FraudNewsCNN.
#FraudNewsCNN #FNN https://t.co/WYUnHjjUjg
Thursday, October 20, the day after his appeasement, the president has not failed to relapse on his account Twitter : "Much of the anger we see today in our society is provoked by the deliberately false and inaccurate information of the traditional media, which I call fake news. It has become so negative and hateful that there are no more words to describe them. Traditional media must change its attitude, QUICKLY! "
After the discovery of the first shipments, Republicans and Democrats joined forces: Steve Scalise, Republican MP for Louisiana in the House of Representatives, shot and wounded in June 2017, tweeted : "Violence and terror have no place in our political life or anywhere else in our society. " Even Eric Trump, the president's son, usually pugnacious about Twitter, split a message condemning these shipments.
Conspiracy Theories
Other supporters of the president do not hesitate to wave the conspiracy theory. Rush Limbaugh, the radio spokesman for the American right, evokes in his own way the "October surprise" supposed to upset the course of the election, reports the Daily Beast. The radio host suggested that these sendings had a political purpose: "It's October. There is a reason for this. " Continuing in his logic, Rush Limbaugh decided: "Republicans do not do that kind of thing …"
These rumors naturally resonate with far-right websites: "These so-called" suspicious shipments "come at the right time before the mid-term elections", thus tweeted Jacob Wohl, one of the contributors to the extreme right website The Gateway Pundit.
Michael Flynn Jr., the son of Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's former national security advisor and active character behind the "pizzagate" – viral delirium around a pedophile network allegedly led by Hillary Clinton's relatives in a pizzeria Washington – also questioned himself, with much hint, on the relationship between these shipments and the mid-term elections.
They are certainly figures of the far right, but they are far from being marginal. Rush Limbaugh has a large audience and President Donald Trump was the guest onst August, while Michael Flynn Jr. was a member of the transition team between the Obama administration and the Trump administration.
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