Investigators have not disclosed information about the origin of the packages, and no evidence has surfaced connecting the acts to any political campaign. Still, a common theme among the targets was unmistakable: each has been a recurring subject of Trump attacks. Trump again shirked responsibility for his own inflammatory contributions to the political discourse and instead assigned blame to others. “We have examples of political violence in the United States in the age of Jackson, in the road to Civil War, during the Civil War, in the Progressive Era and in the cataclysm of the 1960s,” Meacham said. We reject that.”When asked Wednesday whether some of Trump’s rhetoric might have contributed to the mailings, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, defended the president.

Source: National Post October 25, 2018 11:48 UTC