The United States lived a horrifying day on Wednesday, after booby-trapped booby traps reached prominent democratic figures, including former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in a horrifying wave that deepened political tensions two weeks before the midterm elections.
None of the seven bombs exploded and no one was hurt when authorities in New York, Washington, DC, Florida and California confiscated the suspicious packages, but sparked a major debate over the political polarization in Washington that is attributed to the right-wing groups being encouraged to commit such acts.
A law enforcement official said the bombs were about six inches long and each contained a small battery packed with powder and shrapnel. The bombs were made of plastic tubes and covered with black strips, he said.
The first rudimentary bomb, discovered last Monday, was sent to the home of a billionaire contributor to the George Soros campaign in suburban New York.
The FBI said another bomb was addressed to former attorney general Eric Holder, but arrived at the office of Democratic Rep. Deby Wasserman Schultz, who wrote her address as the sender of the parcel.
Later Wednesday, the FBI said he had intercepted two more suspicious consignments sent to McCain Waters, California's Democrat.
Trump owes
President Donald Trump strongly condemned the attacks, saying at a rally in Wisconsin, "There is no place for these violent political acts or threats in the United States.
Law enforcement officials said all parcels were similar, with "Manila envelopes" with six stamps and the sender's address to Shultz in Florida, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, accused by Clinton's rivals of covert assistance to the party's presidential candidate.
CNN was sent to another station to pay for the evacuation of the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, where there are offices for the station there.
Characters in the President's range
The targets are long-standing figures criticized by President Donald Trump, who is still attacking Clinton at rallies as his supporters chant "imprison her ..." - two years after her defeat and departure from politics. He also attacked CNN as a representative of "false news".
The attacks, which have caused evacuation of buildings and panic among workers, add to concerns that hectic political rhetoric could lead to deadly violence as both parties engage in battles over immigration, the Supreme Court and the treatment of women.
Democratic politicians in the US Congress have sharply criticized President Trump, describing his ongoing assault on politicians and the media as providing grounds for these crimes.
Senate President Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement that "the president consistently condoned physical violence and split the Americans with his words and actions."
They added that Trump's call to the Union "will not resonate unless it retracts its statements that condone acts of violence."
He also accused the US president of "expressing his support for a parliamentarian who put a journalist on the ground and the neo-Nazis who killed a young woman in Charlottesville and his supporters during meetings where they showed violence with demonstrators and to dictators around the world who kill their citizens."
Schumer and Pelosi also noted that the US president describes "the free press as the people's foe."
Analysts said the two main parties should soften their mutual rhetoric, while words began to turn into deadly acts.
The authorities have yet to announce who is suspected of being behind the attacks, but many observers have blamed the far-right groups, which are hostile to liberal political institutions, led by the Democratic Party.
Conspiracy theory
But it was also upset not without a conspiracy theory, the face of many conservative commentators prominent - including more defenders enthusiastic president - the finger to the left, accusing the instigators of the liberals did not disclose their names to send the parcels trick to make the Republicans seem Kmtpartyan before the midterm elections.
Rush Limbaugh, who offers one of the most popular radio programs, wondered whether the terrifying parcels were part of an elaborate ploy by Democratic supporters of Hillary Clinton.
"Clinton, this is your party, forgive me, he is encouraging this kind of thing," Limbaugh said in his program on Wednesday. "The Democratic Party is the home of all these mobs"
Alex Jones, one of the leading proponents of conspiracy theory and managing Infowars, said in his daily online program, "Make it look like target victims."
