Texas, United States
Eight days before the end of his tenure, United States President Donald Trump assured Tuesday that he will not be removed and called for calm on his first outing since the Capitol’s seizure by his supporters, killing five. and the land shook.
“The 25th Amendment poses no risk to me,” he said in Alamo, Texas, referring to the Democrats’ pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump from power with cabinet support as unfit to practice. The charge.
“This is the time for our nation to recover and it is the time for peace and tranquility,” added the Republican president in a speech that contrasted with the virulent speech he delivered on January 6 to his supporters just before the attack on the Capitol.
More isolated than ever in his own party, Trump He could become the first US president to face impeachment twice.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives will discuss the accusation of “inciting violence against the government”, the vote of which is expected the same day.
Leaving Washington in the morning Trump he condemned this Democrat-initiated procedure, calling it “utterly ridiculous” and affirming that it was causing “immense anger” across the United States.
Trump declined to acknowledge any responsibility for the coup, assuring his speech was “perfectly appropriate” and denouncing the “catastrophic error” of social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, which suspended his account and accused him of inciting violence.
Trump met with Pence on Monday, who has apparently decided to decline requests to remove him from service.
In Texas, the president celebrated the wall on the border with Mexico.
“I kept my promises,” he said, referring to the 725km barrier erected on the 3,200km common border.
Muro de Trump
However, the “great, beautiful” wall is promised through Trump in 2016 it was not completed. Of the total number completed, only about 20 km have been built in areas where there was no physical barrier before. The rest corresponds to improvements or reinforcements of existing barriers.
And Mexico never paid for the wall, as Trump promised.
The US president took the opportunity to praise his Mexican counterpart, the “great gentleman” Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“I want to thank you for your friendship and your professional working relationship,” Trump said, emphasizing his support for common border control.
– Second “accusation” –
With the support of a host of Democrats, and possible support from Republicans, the impeachment against Trump is expected to pass easily in the House.
Trump has already been subject to “impeachment proceedings” when he was accused in December 2019 of pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate an alleged corruption case of Joe Biden, the current president-elect who then appeared as his main rival. Trump was eventually acquitted by the Senate with a Republican majority.
The question remains about the course and outcome of the trial that will then have to take place in the Senate, currently with a Republican majority.
Democrats will take charge of the Senate on Jan. 20, but they will need the support of many Republicans to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to condemn the president.
Remove Trump from power
A political lawsuit against Trump It would also risk hampering legislative action by Democrats early in Biden’s presidency by monopolizing Senate sessions.
At the same time, Democrats want to pass a resolution on Tuesday evening asking Vice President Pence to remove the president from office.
Until he is removed from power, the Republicans’ “complicity” with Trump will “endanger the United States,” powerful Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi warned Monday.
Biden will be sworn in on January 20 under a large security apparatus, right on the steps of the Capitol, the seat of the United States Congress.
Criticized for the delay in dispatching the National Guard on Wednesday, the Pentagon approved the deployment of 15,000 soldiers to the inauguration ceremony.
“I’m not afraid,” Biden said Monday of the risks of further pro-Trump demonstrations.
The president-elect called for prosecution of all those involved in the acts of “uprising” last Wednesday.
Biden faces major challenges: he will face a rampant Covid-19 pandemic, a chaotic vaccination program, an unstable economy and now the aftermath of violent political opposition from much of Trump’s massive voter base.