Donald Trump: analysis of the last republican days in the US – US and Canada – International presidency

Three weeks after losing the presidential election in EE. UU., the outrageous efforts of the president Donald Trump for trying to reverse the result on the edge of political pressure and dark lawsuits they crashed this week with reality.

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Although the president still does not recognize his crushing defeat with over 6 million votes nationwide and 78 in front of the Electoral College (306 obtained by President-elect Joe Biden versus 232 by Trump), his main political and economic allies have finally begun to turn their backs on him, making it clear, in passing, that they do not intend to sacrifice American democracy to indulge their autocratic instincts.

The clearest signal, of course, was given this Monday by the General Services Administration (GSA) when he gave the green light to the transition process with the new democratic administration.

Although it was a formal step, Trump had halted the process, preventing the flow of millions of dollars Biden’s team needed to splice and halting his officials’ collaboration on key issues such as national security and the coronavirus crisis. .

Trump himself, through a trill on social media, authorized the launch, alluding to the good of the country. According to many, a gesture that amounts to an official recognition of Biden’s triumph. Or at least, the closest Trump will come to admit it as such.

But the GSA’s decision didn’t come for free. Rather, it was the result of a cascade of events that put Trump against the wall.

During this time, the president’s legal team managed to deposit more than 30 lawsuits in five states across the country with which they tried to stop certification of Biden’s triumph through various legal maneuvers.

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And while some are still alive, the vast majority have been categorically excluded by conservative and liberal judges across the country who spared no words to condemn them as absurd and unconstitutional.

In Pennsylvania, a state that Biden won with more than 80,000 votes, a conservative rejected one of the lawsuits after defining it a “Frankenstein’s Monster” based on speculation and forced legal arguments and without any merit.

According to Matthew Brann, judge of this trial, it was ridiculous to try to nullify the vote of more than 6 million people just because, according to Trump’s campaign, they had doubts about the validity of fewer than 500 who had not even added to the total. .
And history repeated itself Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, the other claims that Trump lost, but where he was still struggling.

The president’s effort to twist the arms of Republican officials to give him victory in some of these states or ignore Biden’s has generated national repudiation among members of the same party.

Like his brazen attempt to get state legislators to ignore the result of the vote and give the constituency the votes that matched the right-wing elected president.

This weekend, a group of over 100 former senior Republican officials asked their party leaders, particularly those in Congress, “Ask the president to stop his undemocratic assault on election integrity” and accept defeat as soon as possible to mitigate the great damage it had already caused to the country’s national security.

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Within hours, several senators from the party, including Pat Toomey and Rob Portman, joined another small group of lawmakers who asked Trump to step aside.

According to them, the president’s investigations were unable to document any fraud. “And the idea that the president is pressuring lawmakers to ignore popular will frankly has no place in this democracy.”said Toomey, who represents Pennsylvania in Congress.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, one of Trump’s closest allies, called his legal team’s efforts a “National shame” and begged the president to put an end to a madness that was putting the country at risk.

“I’ve always been a sympathizer of the president. I voted for him twice. But the elections have consequences and one cannot continue to pretend that something has happened here that has not happened. Outside the courts they claim that there has been fraud, but when they go to court they don’t even claim that there was. They have an obligation to present evidence, but they haven’t, ”said Christie, who is a lawyer and former prosecutor.

Like Christie, there are already many party voices who have started to distance themselves. Especially since Thursday of last week, when Rudy Giuliani, whom Trump appointed to head his legal team, came to the media to denounce an international plot, originally from Venezuela, to overthrow Trump.
His conspiracy theory was so outlandish that few in the party decided to echo it.

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Until Tucker Carlson, one of Fox’s main presenters and a “Trumpist” like no other said that if that were true, we would be talking about the “The greatest crime in the history of the United States” and requested the administration to present evidence to defend that charge.

And this week Laura Ingram, other of his strongest defenders in this medium, admitted it except “A dramatic and unlikely change” in the legal situation, “Biden will occupy the White House this January 20”.

Ingram, in fact, told his audience that he would lie to him if he claimed otherwise and that his new position was based on the “reality”.

But perhaps the most devastating blow against Trump has come where it hurts the most: the wallet. Again this week 164 of the presidents of the largest US corporations, including many Republicans who donated funds to the president’s campaign, asked him to accept the result and make way for the transition.

“Every day that passes without an organized transition of power, our democracy weakens in the eyes of our citizens and we lose relevance globally”Executives, including MasterCard, Goldman Sachs and others, say in the letter.

At the meeting where signatures for this letter were agreed, the directors also discussed suspending their donations to Republican politicians if this was not stopped as soon as possible.

Eight hours after the letter, and after another defeat in Michigan where the Republicans cast the necessary vote to certify Biden’s victory, the GSA cleared the transition.

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And while the drama likely won’t end until December 14, when Electoral College members vote and formalize the election results, what follows is a gradual burial of Trump.

“The dam is already broken. And what we’re going to see from now on is the vast majority of Republican politicians jumping off the ship before it sinks completely, “ a source on Biden’s transition team tells this paper.

Something that will accelerate in the coming days once Nevada and Arizona certify Biden’s triumph as expected.

Already in the White HouseThey are discussing a probable Trump speech in which, without acknowledging defeat, he will focus on the successes of his administration, his legacy and a possible candidacy for 2024.

A very questionable position if we consider that the president ended up confusing an electoral process in which the alleged fraud he so much denounced did not materialize, but which left half the country convinced of its existence.

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SERGIO GÓMEZ MASERI
Correspondent EL TIEMPO
WASHINGTON