Trump tries to reconcile the message of the campaign with violent events

While Donald Trump's political rise was made possible by his angry and provocative inflections during the 2016 presidential election campaign, it was harder to keep that same tone in a week of violence and death. motivated by political reasons.

While a large part of the nation announced Saturday that the suspect Robert Bowers had opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing at least 11 people and wounding six others, the president was confronted with a decision – for the second time this week – to cancel a planned political rally.

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The balance that Trump must now achieve in the last nine days before the mid-term, whose outcome could delay his program, is how difficult it is to hit his political opponents and the media that make account of his administration. This uncomfortable dynamic was highlighted at the North Carolina president's rally on Friday night, just hours after the death of Cesar Sayoc, an apparent Trump superfan, for allegedly sending homemade bombs to the president's critics. .

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Compared to Trump's mute speech on Thursday, the day it was learned that bomb pipes had been sent to Democratic personalities, among other things, Friday's speech returned to Trump's shameless arsonist rhetoric that defined his gatherings.

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A similar trend was observed on Saturday as the president began with a dark tone before turning to face his political rivals again.

"Well, I want to thank everyone because it was a tough day for us," Trump began at his rally in Illinois in an effort to boost Republican Rep. Mike Bost.

"Before I go further, I want to talk about the terrible shooting that took place earlier in the day," Trump said. "The heart of all Americans is filled with grief after the monstrous massacre of American Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."

Trump, whose daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism after marrying Jared Kushner, then criticized "the devilish anti-Semitic attack," claiming that "we will all have to work together to extract the heinous poison from Anti-Semitism of our world ". Bowers has a series of antisemitic publications on social media.

"We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and defeat the forces of hate, that's what it is," said Trump before calling for the reestablishment of the laws. national laws on the death penalty.

"We must bring back the death penalty. They have to pay the ultimate price, "said Trump, adding," We have to draw a line in the sand and say, 'Never again'. "

Trump's speech in Illinois was missing any mention of "globalists", but the president used the term a few hours earlier in Indiana.

"We do not worry too much about the globalists. … We have to take care of ourselves before we start worrying about others, "Trump said Saturday.