Trump vindicates himself in his farewell speech before leaving the White House
Removed from the spotlight in the last week and banned from his main communication channel, the social network Twitter, Trump took a 19-minute and 47-second video tour of the four years of his mandate and presented himself as a president of unity
The outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, claimed on Tuesday what will be his legacy as the 45th president of the country and wanted to distance himself from the violence that occurred two weeks ago on Capitol Hill, on the eve of his departure from the White House.
Removed from the spotlight in the last week and banned from his main communication channel, the social network Twitter, Trump took a 19-minute and 47-second video tour of the four years of his mandate and presented himself as a president of unity despite having exacerbated the divisions in the country.
"WE HAVE DONE WHAT WE CAME TO DO"
"As I conclude my term as the 45th president of the United States, I stand before you tru much more," he said at the beginning of his speech, in which he appeared surrounded by four country flags.
Since the assault on the Capitol by hundreds of his radical followers on January 6, in which five people were killed, Trump has hardly made public appearances and has spent most of his time confined in the White House.
In his speech this Tuesday, he made mention of that attack on the headquarters of the US Congress and stressed that, although we must not forget that Americans will always have their disagreements, this is a nation of "incredible, decent citizens, loyal and lovers of peace ", who desire the progress of the country.
"All Americans were horrified by the storming of our Capitol. Political violence is an attack on everything we hold dear as Americans. It can never be tolerated," Trump said.
DOUBLELY PROSECUTED POLITICALLY
Trump is the first US president that the lower house has twice approved impeachment indictments (the first in December 2019 and the second last week).
On this last occasion, he has been politically charged with "inciting the insurrection" by haranguing his followers in front of the White House before they stormed the Capitol.
The head of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, is expected to hand over impeachment indictments against Trump this week for the start of the impeachment process in the Senate.
The assault on Congress took place when both houses were meeting to count the Electoral College votes and ratify the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential elections on November 3. The session had to be interrupted for a few hours until it was finally resumed and Biden's triumph was endorsed.
Despite having fed without evidence all kinds of suspicions that there was electoral fraud and that Biden's victory was not legitimate, Trump urged unity in his farewell speech.
"More than ever we must unite around our shared values and rise above partisan bitterness, and forge our common destiny," said Trump, who presented himself as an "outsider" of politics who ran for President to scale new summits. .
AN AGENDA WITHOUT JUST SPECIFIC DETAILS
As in previous days, Trump's agenda for this Tuesday, which is his penultimate day as president, indicated that he would work "from early morning until late at night" and that he would have "many calls and many meetings." without offering details.
Unlike his predecessors in office Barack Obama (2009-2017) and George W. Bush (2001-2007) who held meetings with the media in their last days in office to discuss their journey as presidents, Trump has remained away from the spotlight.
As has been tradition in the United States, it is expected that sometime this Tuesday, although he could also do it the same Wednesday before noon, when he will cease to be president, Trump will issue several pardons and commutations of sentence.
Several media have reported that the list of winners for the measure of the outgoing president could be made up of between 50 and 100 names, among which there may be financial criminals and the occasional rapper.
Sources quoted by the television network CNN stressed that Trump is not expected to grant himself a preemptive pardon, as some media had conjectured.
Among those affected by the pardon could be rapper Lyl Wayne, who pleaded guilty last year to carrying a firearm while traveling on a private jet to Florida, and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who was arrested last summer. for fraud.
Trump is scheduled to leave the White House early tomorrow morning, before Biden's inauguration, with whom he will not meet before the ceremony, as has happened with power transfer processes in the past, the last in 2017, when Obama he had a meeting with the now outgoing president before being sworn in.
Trump is expected to travel to Florida on Wednesday to go to his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, where he will live the end of his presidency.
