The outgoing US president, Donald Trump, explicitly acknowledged his defeat in the November elections this Thursday, stating in a video that a new Administration will be inaugurated on January 20, that of the president-elect, Democrat Joe Biden. In that video, he also issued the closest thing to a condemnation of the assault on the Capital by assuring that his followers who broke into the Legislative Assembly the day before do not represent the country and will pay for it if they committed crimes.
After the assault on the Capital and the ratification of the electoral results that give victory to Joe Biden, the Speaker of the House of Representatives – whose office was usurped by the protesters, Nancy Pelosi, has been clear and emphatic, The Congress will impeach Trump if Amendment 25 does not apply. The Democrat referred to this decision if the vice president, Mike Pence, does not decide to invoke it himself. The dismissal is an emergency of the utmost importance.
Pelosi has been the stepping stone for Trump during his past attempts to remove Donald Trump from power, and while he has failed to do so in the past, he is now back to the fray. He accused the outgoing president of being a very dangerous person who should not continue in his post. Pelosi added that those who stormed the Capital are terrorists. He has also called for the removal of the chief of police for the altercations on Wednesday.
THE RATIFICATION
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was in a hurry. He never wanted the senators of that party to question the result of the elections on January 6, in what is usually a process in which the results of the elections are simply ratified. And even less after the United States Legislative was assaulted by a mass of Donald Trump supporters. So you have used all your procedural tools, which are huge, to close the debate on the elections. He reduced intervention times to the maximum. And it got that, instead of six states, only three of them were questioned Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. It wasn’t just McConnell. The fact that Congress (which in the US is what the Legislative Assembly is called, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives) had been assaulted reduced the number of senators willing to support questioning the electoral results from 14 to 6. Finally, in a show that this was a gallery-front act, Sen. Kelly Loffler withdrew her objection from Georgia. On Monday, Loeffler had lost reelection in that state.
The result is that the debate, which had started at 8 p.m. Washington time, ended at a quarter past one in the morning. In the Senate, only six senators voted in favor of the challenge in Arizona, and seven in Pennsylvania. In the House of Representatives, 121 backed the objections in Arizona. The Pennsylvania vote did not go through either. But that was already irrelevant. Congress has ratified Joe Biden’s electoral victory on a black day for democracy in the United States.
ORDERLY TRANSITION
The outgoing US president, Donald Trump, ended up accepting that his presidency will be a single term and promised an “orderly transition”, after the ratification of the president-elect Joe Biden’s Congress. Although I disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts are on my side, however, there will be an orderly transition on January 20, Trump said in a statement distributed on Twitter by one of his principals. advisers, Dan Scavino, reports Efe. I have always said that we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the best first term in presidential history, it is only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!” he added, citing his electoral motto.
Trump’s reaction came through Scavino because the outgoing president’s own Twitter account is temporarily suspended, due to messages in which the president justified the assault on the Capitol by his supporters. Despite everything, Trump did not admit defeat in the aforementioned text, but he did accept his departure.US Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the session and whom Trump had previously evaded getting him not to ratify the results, declared in the session that congressional ratification should be considered “sufficient” to accept Biden’s election.
Pence thus ended a session that began early Wednesday afternoon and was interrupted by the extraordinary assault on the Capital by the followers of President Donald Trump, a siege that lasted almost four hours and left four dead, 14 police officers injured, and at least 52 arrested.
