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President Trump's anti-democratic and aggressive rhetoric is electrifying the political climate in the United States (photo illustration). REUTERS / Joshua Roberts

In the United States, parcel bombs were sent to prominent figures, including prominent party figures like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. These attempts of attacks intervene in full campaign for the elections of mid-mandate, whereas the political climate is particularly electric.

According to the investigators, some of these packages, at least those sent to the Clinton and Obama, could have the same origin. It was also reported that white powder, being analyzed, had been found in some packages. There is, for the moment, no arrest or claim. Several officials spoke of the specter of intra-US political terrorism.

Democratic targets

Because this wave of parcel bombs has a clear target: essentially democratic figures , often critical of the American president and to which the head of state attacks regularly.

Among the personalities targeted - in addition to Hillary Clinton, whom Donald Trump wanted to " lock up " and Barack Obama, " the supreme scarecrow of the Republicans " - Jean-Eric Branaa, lecturer at the University Paris II, points out that there also has John Brennan, former CIA director, " a big opponent " to Donald Trump, as Eric Holder, who is also a likely contender for 2020.

Added to this is CNN, " the flagship anti-Trump chain ". " In this list, it misses only the New York Times to make all the targets of Donald Trump , summarizes the specialist of the United States. That's why we think of someone a little disturbed who was influenced by the rhetoric of the president . "

Electric context

A rhetoric that helps fuel the tense atmosphere that currently prevails in the country, whether between political opponents or the media, which President Donald Trump calls "enemies of America." And all this to a few days of mid-term elections .

" We immediately saw that we were very close to the polls ," says researcher Jean-Eric Branaa. Since after passing to the police report, the elected officials - who usually are content with that - have gone into the political dimension by attacking implicitly Donald Trump, making it clear that it is perhaps he who, by a very strong rhetoric Warrior and the climate of hate installed in the United States, has aroused this . "

" The climate is very electric currently in the United States, especially as these elections are announced very tight and we are announced a record participation. These attempts to attack were certainly made to add confusion to a climate that absolutely did not need, "concludes Jean-Eric Branaa.