LOn Monday, January 6, Kamala Harris, unsuccessful candidate in the presidential election, had to, by her functions as vice-president and president of the Senate, drink the chalice to the dregs and certify, before the two chambers of Congress combined, the victory of Trump, this opponent she hates.
But, although the end of the game is imminent since in two weeks, on January 20, it will be Joe Biden’s turn to welcome Donald Trump, inaugurated president, to the White House, the controversy and the exchange of words assassins have started again between the newly elected and the outgoing president. And first on the events which marked the 2020 election, contested by Trump.
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It is exceptional for a President of the United States to sign an op-ed in a newspaper, even if it is one of the leading dailies in American politics. Also, it is obvious that Joe Biden wanted the text he published Monday in the Washington Post remains in history.
ALSO READ Joe Biden’s final days in the White HouseThe outgoing president warns Americans against the temptation “which has already begun for some to rewrite or even erase” the events of January 6 during which “an insurrectionary crowd of thousands of demonstrators attacked the Capitol, threatened the life of [leurs] elected officials and attacked law enforcement officers who opposed them. They were beaten, knocked unconscious, trampled. Some died from their injuries.” And Joe Biden recalls: “A nation that forgets its past is condemned to reproducing it. However, we cannot afford to repeat what happened four years ago, as if it were a banal protest that exceeded certain limits. We cannot afford for the truth to be lost. »
This warning comes at a time when Donald Trump, who has never stopped saying that the 2020 election was stolen from him, repeats throughout interviews that, from the first day of his presence in the White House , he will sign the decree pardoning the 1,549 men and women accused of having participated in the Capitol riots. Of which 650 were sentenced to prison terms, the heaviest sentence having been, last August, that imposed on David Dempsey, recognized as one of the leaders of the rioters: twenty years in prison.
ALSO READ What we can expect from the unpredictable Donald Trump in the White HouseThe risk of this presidential absolution, said Jacob Ware, a geopolitics specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations, is not only disastrous for American democracy; it will send a message to all countries of the world that, since it exists in a democracy like that of the United States, it is possible to challenge a legal transfer of power by an insurrectionary movement. Without any real consequences for the perpetrators of the disorder.
Even before making this pardon decision, which two-thirds of Americans oppose since there was violence, Donald Trump, who will also be absolved by the grace of his election of the four charges who threatened him, was once again angry with justice, which he said Biden had transformed into a political weapon: “There has never been a president treated in such a malicious manner,” he repeated. and illegal. »
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And then, by falsely attributing in an interview to New York Post the responsibility for the New Orleans massacre to one of these immigrants whom the Democratic administration allowed to enter American territory, he took the opportunity to repeat of the man he will succeed: “Joe Biden will have was the worst president in American history. It’s a complete and utter disaster. » And it’s not over: the day before his swearing in on the Bible at the Capitol, he will speak in a large meeting at the Capital One Arena, in Washington, in front of thousands of fanatic faithful, stimulated by his accession to the power. One more opportunity, let us be sure, to send a few compliments to his predecessor.
What makes one wonder what the two men will still be able to say to each other on the morning of the 20th, when Joe Biden receives Donald Trump at the White House, a symbol, said, without laughing, the outgoing president, of a transition that he wants “calmed down”.
