“Trump is acting like a dictator.” How Joe Biden is prevented from taking office

Pentagon military sources told CNN that Donald Trump is currently acting “like a dictator,” according to a CNN analysis in which the Trump administration is being compared these days to a real “regime on the brink of collapse. “. and with an entire team barricaded in a “bizarre parallel universe” in which the current president would already have secured a second term.

Proof of this is the message from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who refused to accept Joe Biden’s victory and spoke of “a smooth transition to the second Trump administration”.

Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat at Biden has been compounded by measures that, according to CNN, endanger U.S. national security.

Recently, the White House leader fired his Defense Minister, Mark Esper, on Twitter.

Over the past few months, Trump’s relationship with Esper has gotten significantly tighter, which is why Esper has already been preparing for his resignation for weeks, in an attempt to step down before the president had a chance to fire him on Twitter.

William Cohen, former defense minister and Republican senator, called the Trump administration’s refusal to recognize Biden’s victory as a behavior specific to a dictatorship rather than a democracy. “

Among the new Pentagon leaders appointed by Trump is a general who made Barrack Obama a “terrorist leader”.

Esper fell out of favor after Trump said in June that he did not support sending soldiers to the streets to crack down on anti-racism protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.

Following Esper’s resignation, the Pentagon announced that three other prominent members had resigned: James Anderson, head of the Pentagon’s political department, Joseph Kernan, deputy defense minister for intelligence, and Jen Stewart, the minister’s chief of staff. of Defense. .

Among those who will fill the vacancies are Anthony Tata, a retired Brigadier General who made controversial comments on Islam and former Democratic President Barack Obama, whom he described as a “terrorist leader” the United States helped. Islamic countries more than any other American leader “.

“It’s scary, what’s going on is very disturbing,” a Pentagon official told CNN. “This is typical dictatorial behavior.”

Trump could now turn his full anger on CIA and FBI chiefs Gina Haspel and Christopher Wray, respectively, prompting a Democratic senator to declare:

“The United States has entered a dangerous period”

“I think Trump will be completely distracted by national or global security events,” Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said.

How Trump is trying to change the outcome of elections in key states that give Biden the winner

However, Trump’s chances of changing the election result appear to be dwindling by the day. Biden currently leads with over 46,000 votes ahead of Trump in Pennsylvania, about 12,000 in Georgia and 14,000 in Arizona.

In Michigan, where Biden won by a margin of over 150,000 votes, Trump’s team filed an appeal.

“To win, they (Trump’s team) have to contest enough votes, in every state, to try to change the outcome of the elections, but in none of the states where they appealed close to that goal,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican lawyer specializing in election law.

But the question is not whether Trump will leave the office of the White House, but how much chaos and destruction he risks wreaking in the US administration over the next 70 days, until January 20, 2021, when the US president-elect is officially sworn in. function.

Thus, until January 20, Trump holds all the reins of the power conferred by the office of president of the United States. It still has all the power, both institutional and political.

Donald Trump adopts the “scorched earth” policy in front of Joe Biden. How the president-elect is prevented from accessing federal funds

Traditionally, in the United States, the team that won the presidential election has government funds, offices and other federal resources to make the transfer of power as easy as possible given the management of a trillion-dollar entity such as the government. American. The president-elect is also beginning to have information on national security.

Normally, the whole process starts a few hours after the election result has been accepted.

But this is not the case with Trump, who refuses to acknowledge Biden’s victory. The government agency responsible for initiating these proceedings (government funding, etc.) and led by a Republican named Trump, has not yet initiated this process.

And the situation becomes even more complicated as the United States, like the rest of the world, is facing a coronavirus pandemic.

By comparison, in the 2016 election, when Trump was elected president of the United States, the Obama administration gave the green light to provide funds for the president-elect’s team the next day. In 2008, this happened right after the announcement of the election night results, around 1pm.

The only time in U.S. history that the release of federal funds for the president-elect’s team was delayed was in 2000, when George Bush was elected president following a Supreme Court decision, after Bush and Al Gore disagreed. of several hundred votes in the state of Florida.

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