US bomb threats: Critics blame Trump's toxic rhetoric

[nitpicker]

https://www.dw.com/en/us-bomb-threats-critics-blame-trumps-toxic-rhetoric/a-46034365

US bomb threats: Critics blame Trump's toxic rhetoric

Date 25.10.2018

Deep divisions and the specter of political violence erupted in the United States Wednesday after a string of parcel bombs were sent to prominent Democrats and news outlet CNN. At least seven packages were intercepted before they reached former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others. None of the parcels exploded and nobody was hurt. The FBI has launched an investigation.

US President Donald Trump condemned political violence and called for unity, but Democrats and critics were quick to put the blame on the president's often vitriolic rhetoric.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan, who had a parcel bomb addressed to him at CNN's office in New York, said he may have been targeted because of his strong criticism of Trump. Brennan is actually an analyst for NBC.
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CNN president Jeff Zucker issued sharp criticism of Trump's verbal assaults on the media. "There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media," said Zucker. "Words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that."

Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi, two top Democrats, said in a statement that Trump's "words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence."
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The spree of parcel bombs started on Monday with one sent to the New York home of George Soros, a financier of liberal causes who is a bete noire of the far-right. In recent weeks, Soros has been accused by conservatives of trying to undermine Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination and backing a caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States.

Laura Silber, a spokeswoman for Soros' Open Society Foundations, blamed toxic political rhetoric for the bomb scares.
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[duforsure]

1. While out and about yesterday and waiting in a store

Overheard one person talk about the bombings and said He was done with them , and this convinced him, it sounded like, to vote only for Democrats, and mentioned both the bombs and against the new white nationalist party his reason. I think a lot more people will join him very soon. Expect trump to incite more violence when he loses big in a couple of weeks , and incites them even more with made up claims they were robbed , or something to promote others to become violent. I don't know anyone that supports a President that would do this , ever.

[murielm99]

2. Someone is going to die because of this.

It may be someone prominent.

There has to be a way to stop him and his extremist followers.