Texas, United States
Eight days before the end of his term, US President Donald Trump assured on Tuesday that he would not be removed and called for calm during his first exit from the confiscation of the Capitol by his supporters, which left five dead and shocked the country. .
“The 25th Amendment is a zero risk to me,” he said in Alamo, Texas, alluding to Democratic pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump from power, with Cabinet support, as unable to exercise. The accusation.
“Now is the time for our nation to recover and it is time for peace and calm,” the Republican president added, in an address that contrasted with his virulent speech to his supporters on Jan. 6 just before the assault on Chapter.
More isolated than ever at his own party, Trump he could become the first American president to face double charges.
The House of Representatives will consider on Wednesday the accusation of “inciting violence against the government”, whose vote is expected on the same day.
Leaving Washington in the morning, Trump He denounced the Democrats’ procedure as “totally ridiculous” and said it had caused “immense outrage” across the United States.
Trump refused to acknowledge any responsibility for the coup, saying his speech was “totally appropriate” and denounced the “catastrophic error” of social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, which suspended his account, accusing him of inciting to violence.
Trump met with Pence on Monday, who apparently decided to reject requests to remove him from office.
In Texas, the president celebrated the border wall with Mexico.
“I kept my promises,” he said, referring to the 725-kilometer barrier at the 3,200-kilometer common border.
Trump’s wall
However, the “great, magnificent” wall promised by Trump in 2016 it was not completed. Of the total completed, only about 20 km were built in areas where there was previously no physical barrier. The rest corresponds to improvements or reinforcements to existing barriers.
And Mexico never paid for the wall, as Trump had 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 working relationship,” Trump said, stressing his support for controlling the common border.
– The second “dismissal” –
With the support of a large number of Democrats and the possible support of Republicans, the accusation against Trump is expected to pass easily in the lower house.
Trump has already been indicted when he was accused in December 2019 of putting pressure on the Ukrainian president to investigate an alleged corruption case of Joe Biden, the current president-elect and who then emerged as his main rival. . Trump was eventually acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate.
The question remains about the course and outcome of the process that will then have to take place in the Senate, currently with a Republican majority.
Democrats will take control of the upper house on Jan. 20, but will need the support of many Republicans to get the two-thirds majority needed to convict the president.
Get Trump out of power
A political process of Trump It would also risk thwarting Democratic legislative action at the start of Biden’s presidency by monopolizing Senate sessions.
At the same time, Democrats want to pass a resolution Tuesday night calling on Vice President Pence to remove the incumbent president.
Until he is removed from power, the Republicans’ “complicity” with Trump “will endanger the United States,” the powerful Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, warned on Monday.
Biden will be sworn in under a large security device on January 20, right on the steps of the Capitol, the seat of the United States Congress.
Criticized for his delay in sending the National Guard on Wednesday, the Pentagon authorized the deployment of 15,000 troops for the inauguration ceremony.
“I’m not afraid,” Biden said Monday about the risks of new pro-Trump demonstrations.
The president-elect called for the prosecution of all those involved in the acts of “insurrection” last Wednesday.
Biden faces major challenges: he will face a rampant COVID-19 pandemic, a chaotic vaccination program, an unstable economy and now the consequences of a violent political opposition in Trump’s huge huge voter base.