WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged politicians to stop questioning the moral character of their opponents. He organized a rally in Wisconsin to demand more civil policy after sending a series of suspicious packages to Democrats and the media.

"No nation can succeed who tolerates violence," said Trump, breaking with the scenario of his usually very partisan rallies to discuss packages. "The language of moral condemnation and destructive routine are arguments and disagreements that must stop, and those engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as morally defective."

Trump has blamed some of the responsibility of the current political climate for the media.

"The media also has the responsibility to give a civil tone and end the endless hostility and the always negative and often false attacks and narrations," Trump told the audience. "They must stop."

The president's remarks interrupted the usual natural flow at each gathering.

Trump regularly criticizes the "false" media, the "obstructionist" democrats, and remains silent while the supporters chant "enclose it" in reference to Hillary Clinton.

On Wednesday, a few hours before a Trump rally in Wisconsin, many of the president's favorite verbal punch bags have become the target of very real threats.

A series of suspicious devices, including homemade bombs, have been sent to renowned Democrats and across the country, as well as to the CNN office in New York. Former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have received threats. Packages were also sent to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Liberal philanthropist George Soros and California Democrat MP Maxine Waters.

All have attracted Trump's spirit and everyone has integrated his speeches and his Twitter thread over the years.

In the midst of the violence, which New York officials have described as an act of terror, what will the president's message be on Wednesday night in Wisconsin?

"I hope this will sound like an alarm clock and change the rhetoric," said Jacob Neiheisel, an associate professor of political science at the University of Buffalo. "But I do not know if that's okay."

Neiheisel said that it was likely that the person behind the attempted attack was suffering from some form of mental illness, but it was not difficult to connect the divisions in the country, to hear the attacks of the President against these individuals and consider it as a call to action.

"It does not take much for someone to hear that rhetoric and take it too far," he said. "It's an awakening for everyone, you do not know who will hear your words and it will be an invitation."

The president's rhetoric has been inflammatory since he announced his candidacy for the presidency.

Trump's career as a conservative politician took flight when he asked for the Obama birth certificate and helped spread a plot that the president was not born in America. He continued the attacks, blaming the country's problems on the former president, including that Obama "founded" the Islamic state.

CNN has also been a frequent target of criticism of Trump's "false news". Last year, the President retweeted a video showing a person wearing CNN's logo on his face. A singing "CNN sucks" also broke out at a campaign rally on Monday.

"Let 's lock it up," the chants have been a constant at almost every gathering, as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had been running against Trump at the time, said. 2016 election.

Trump, before signing legislation on opioid abuse at a ceremony at the White House, had pledged to "get to the bottom of things" to determine who had sent the parcels and why. He also had a message of unity.

"I just want to tell you that in these times we have to unify," said Trump. "We need to come together and send a very clear, strong and indisputable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America."

But some said that moderate rhetoric would not last.

"For years, people were wondering if the president would change or soften his rhetoric over time, but we saw that it would not happen," said Gregory Shufeldt, professor of political science at Butler University. "We are two years in the Trump presidency and this shows us that nothing will change."

Shufeldt said that if Trump did not target Democrats or the media on Wednesday, it would only be a temporary change. He said the incident could replicate the response to the congressional baseball game last summer, in which only one attacker targeted Republican lawmakers. There were brief calls to the unit that drowned with time.

"This tour consisted of gathering his base and the president knows what to look for," Shufeldt said. "The cynic in me says yes, maybe there is a little push for civility, but it will quickly return to tribalism."

Some of the president's critics quickly equated Wednesday's planned attacks with President's rhetoric and called for change.

Arizona GOP Senator Jeff Flake said the president should stop labeling the media as enemies or verbally reprimanding political opponents.

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"Words matter," Flake told CNN. "If he adopted a more civil tone, it would help … We all have to follow the rhetoric that we use, people listen to them and then follow them … Those of us who hold a position must The stakes are too high right now. "

He said he hoped the president would take his own advice into account and unify the country.

CNN chief Jeff Zucker also criticized the White House for its "total lack of understanding" of the seriousness of its attacks on the media, as its network office in New York was evacuated Wednesday for five hours in a row. of the discovery of an explosive device.

Democratic representative Bennie Thompson also called on the president to simmer political divisions.

"To be clear, these targeted attacks were acts of terrorism and we must work to counter these forces of terror and hatred, regardless of the source," said the representative of Mississippi. "Given the partisan nature of these attacks, it is time for the President to end his relentless political attacks and his assault on violence, including against the press."

Contribution: Associated Press

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