Before Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s last warning

Without mentioning the latter’s name during his seventeen-minute speech, the Democrat notably denounced “the concentration of power in the hands of a few wealthy individuals” which undermines democracy and institutions. An allusion to his successor, of course, but also to the very wealthy personalities who surround him and influence his choices. Starting with the entrepreneur Elon Musk, the richest man of the planet who joined his inner circle after having participated in the financing of his victorious campaign and was charged with a mission to drastically reduce federal spending.

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He also highlighted the “real dangers “what does the convergence of” pose?wealth, power and technology“. “ In his farewell address, President Eisenhower spoke of the risks of the military-industrial complex (…) Six decades later, I am also concerned about the potential rise of a techno-industrial complexhe warned. Americans are buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, the free press is collapsing… Some social networks are giving up on fact checking“. A reference to the recent announcement by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, on the abandonment of its verification system carried out by independent press outlets in favor of notes written by users. This gesture was seen as a gift to Donald Trump.

Time limit on the mandate of judges at the Supreme Court, ban on money from secret sources flooding electoral campaigns (“dark money”), tax reform so that the richest “pay their share “…The outgoing president has outlined several projects, while being less talkative about his own results, including the ceasefire announced a few hours earlier between Hamas and Israel.

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He notably pleaded for amending the country’s constitution in order to “clarify that no president has immunity for crimes committed while in office “. Again, it was an obvious attack on Donald Trump, who was prosecuted for his alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and became the first president in American history to be criminally convicted – in a case of corporate accounts to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign.”The power of the president should not be absolute“, Joe Biden continued.

Unsurprisingly, he did not mention his own responsibility in the return of his rival to power, he who ran for a second term even though he had promised to give way to a new generation of leaders.

His speech marked the end of the political career of this stuttering kid from Pennsylvania, which began half a century ago as a simple local elected official. “After fifty years in the middle of it all, I know that believing in the idea of ​​America means respecting the institutions that govern a free society“. And to conclude: “Thank you for this great honor“. A page turns.

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