Pelosi attack raises fears of more attacks

Washington Where just a few minutes earlier the beats of “Push it” were crashing through the hall, all of a sudden it was quiet. Barack Obama called on tens of thousands to pray for “my good friend, Paul Pelosi.” The ex-president is touring the United States these days to convince Democratic supporters to vote.

At his opening rally in Atlanta on Friday, he expressed his dismay at the attack on the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the powerful Democrat and Speaker of the House. Politics is becoming “more and more agitated, more and more heated,” Obama warned. He blamed social networks, “the platforms that often find conflict and controversy more profitable than facts and truth”.

US President Joe Biden went a step further than Obama and blamed the violent attack on the extremist rhetoric of many US Republicans. The Republicans, on the other hand, see the act of violence as a symptom of rising crime rates – especially in large cities that are often governed democratically.