the hostility that weighs on the American presidential

President-elect Donald Trump meets with President Barack Obama on November 16, 2016, in the White House.
President-elect Donald Trump meets with President Barack Obama on November 16, 2016, in the White House. KEVIN LAMARQUE / REUTERS

William Barr showered the heat of Donald Trump. The attorney general of the United States has indeed ruled out, Monday, May 18, the prospect of a criminal investigation whose president has been threatening for several days his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, as well as his opponent in November, Joe Biden, former vice-president of the former.

" We live in a very divided country right now, and I think it is essential that we have an election where the American people can make a decision, make a choice between President Trump and Vice President Biden based a solid political debate "said William Barr, who has intervened twice since the beginning of the year on behalf of the president’s relatives.

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According to the conspiratorial thesis advanced by Donald Trump and part of the conservative press, Barack Obama would have mobilized the means of the federal state in the last days of his presidency (2008-2016) to cause the fall of his successor to the government. using a "Imposture" : interference attributed to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. President Trump has repeatedly denied the reality of these Russian maneuvers, even if they were confirmed by the investigation of the Senate intelligence committee where the Republicans are majority.

The President of the United States, who had previously accused the Democrat of having wiretapped him in 2016 without evidence, denounced " a crime " liable to prison. When a reporter from Washington Post Asked May 11 what he was referring to, Donald Trump was evasive. "You know what crime it is. It’s obvious to everyone. You only have to read the newspapers, except yours "replied the president.

Duel

The upcoming presidential campaign explains this new episode of the duel in which the two men have been engaged for many years. Family origins, backgrounds, personalities: everything has always opposed them. It would also be difficult to deny the importance of the racial factor for Donald Trump. In 1989, the businessman had assured against all evidence in an interview with the NBC chain that" a well educated black (had) a huge advantage over a well-educated white man in terms of the job market ". He was brought to power by a convinced base that discrimination against whites is a bigger problem than that against African-Americans and other minorities, which socio-economic statistics formally deny.

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