INTERVIEW – The discovery of new confidential documents at the home of the American president has set fire to the powder in an already explosive context, analyzes the specialist in American political life.
Jean-Éric Branaa is a lecturer at the University of Paris II, specializing in the United States.
LE FIGARO.- The American president is overtaken in turn by a case similar to that which embarrasses Donald Trump. Will these confidential documents found at Joe Biden’s house bring him to prosecution?
Jean-Eric BRANAA.- From the first media announcements on the CBS channel at the start of the week, all the elements are in place for this affair to become a major political scandal. I am also surprised that the French press was slow to echo it. The political context in the United States was already explosive: two camps face each other and hate each other to a degree rarely equaled so far. They describe each other as ultra-conservatives or wokists, and no longer talk to each other. The country is divided into 45% of sympathizers for each camp, and 10% of Americans who belong to neither of the two… and on whom business and scandals therefore make a…
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