Trump's Legacy: Leave a Country Traumatized and Outraged (Analysis)
The United States will take a long time to recover from the grim spectacle of the assault on Congress. But the shame, outrage and disgust now felt throughout the country by this unprecedented act of sedition will endure.
Never in its history of two and a half centuries has a nation's president, Donald Trump, been seen to incite his thousands of supporters to occupy Congress and prevent the peaceful transfer of power to an elected president, Joe Biden.
And once Congress was occupied, the mobs, with flags of support for his idol, Trump, looting the offices of the leaders and taking "selfies" photos. And all this, for an hour without police presence.
And the president that he did? Nothing, like everyone else, watching on television what he had caused and doing nothing to prevent it. And, even worse, without feeling guilty.
The Capitol Building, with its cupola, is the most sacred historical symbol of American democracy. This is the second time in its history that it has been desecrated. The first was on August 24, 1814, when British troops set it on fire, as well as the White House.
The two most important newspapers in the country, "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" have called, in separate editorials, for the "immediate" removal of Trump from power and that he be held accountable to justice.
And in Congress, as a result of what happened last Wednesday, the president ("speaker") of the House of Representatives, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, and the leader of the minority (next majority), in the Senate, the also Democrat Chuck Schumer, have called for Amendment 25 to be invoked "immediately".
Through this, the vice president, Mike Pence and the cabinet can fire Trump, for not being able to exercise the presidency.
And if that is not possible, that Congress initiates, for the second time, an "impeachment" (a political trial) against Trump. Those two options and for the time left, they don't seem feasible.
The pertinent question, in this case, is: Why such a rush if Trump has to leave power on January 20, when Biden takes office?
The answer: Because they do not trust Trump, since in the ten days they give him in the White House he can commit any other atrocity such as last Wednesday or Saturday January 2. On that day, he made an illegal and unconstitutional attempt to reverse his electoral defeat to remain another four years in the Casa Banca.
It is the first time in the history of the United States that a president, and from the White House, tries to reverse with all the means at his disposal, the will of the electorate, that of the 81 million who voted for Biden, when he only achieved 74 million. A seven million Democratic lead. And in the vital Electoral College, by 306 votes to 232.
That was what Trump did a week ago when he tried, in a telephone call of almost an hour, to intimidate the highest electoral official in the state of Georgia into seeking 11,780 votes for him to overcome, by one vote, the 11,779 votes he took from him. Biden advantage.
In short, a president ordering that an election be stolen in his favor and suggesting that the easiest thing to do is to "recalculate" the final results. And, on top of that, he threatens him that he runs the risk of being prosecuted for breaching an order from a president.
The recording of that conversation was exclusively disclosed by the newspaper "The Washington Post", the same newspaper that in 1972-73 revealed the so-called "Watergate" scandal that caused the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
"The Trump thing now is much worse than" Watergate "", says no less than the journalist Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward exposed the dirty laundry of Nixon, when they both worked for "The Washington Post."
In addition, he leaves a country sick with an uncontrollable COVID-19 (20 million infected and more than 350,000 dead from the virus) due to his government's mismanagement of the pandemic. Since the Nov. 3 election, Trump has been more focused on exposing alleged electoral fraud and playing golf.
It also leaves a country heavily polarized between Democrats who want him to leave as soon as possible and his loyal Republican allies who have blindly supported, both in Congress and in court, his failed attempts to overturn former Vice President Joe Biden's undisputed election victory. .
Trump will leave the White House almost like a "stinker", discredited and grumbling that the elections have been stolen from him by a massive fraud, which only exists in his fantasy.
And with the bitterness that until recently loyal Republican allies are leaving him alone.
