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Three weeks after losing the presidential election in USA, the scandalous efforts of the president Donald trump for trying to reverse the result at the tip of political pressure and dark lawsuits they crashed this week with reality.
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Although the president still does not recognize his overwhelming defeat by more than 6 million votes at the national level and 78 before the Electoral College (306 achieved by President-elect Joe Biden vs. 232 by Trump), his main political and economic allies finally began to turn their backs on him, making it clear, by the way, 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 blocked the process, preventing the flow of millions of dollars that Biden’s team needed for the splicing and stopping the collaboration of his officials on key issues such as national security and the coronavirus crisis .
Trump himself, through a trill on social networks, authorized its start, alluding to the good of the country. According to many, a gesture that amounts to official recognition of Biden’s triumph. Or at least, the closest Trump will get to admitting it as such.
But the GSA’s decision did not come for free. It was, rather, the result of a cascade of events that put Trump against the wall.
Throughout this period, the president’s legal team managed to file more than 30 lawsuits in five states of the country with which they sought to stop the certification of Biden’s triumph through various legal maneuvers.
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And while some are still alive, the vast majority were categorically ruled out by conservative and liberal judges across the country who spared no words to condemn them as absurd and unconstitutional.
I have always been a sympathizer of the president. I voted twice for him. But the elections have consequences and one cannot continue to pretend that something happened here that did not happen.
Donald Trump has not found support in the Republican party after his refusal not to acknowledge defeat in the elections.
Brendan Smialowski. AFP
In Pennsylvania, a state that Biden won by more than 80,000 votes, a conservative dismissed one of the lawsuits after calling it a “Frankenstein monster” based on speculation and forced legal arguments and without any merit.
According to Matthew Brann, the judge in this process, it was ridiculous to try to overturn the vote of more than 6 million people just because, according to the Trump campaign, they had doubts about the validity of less than 500 that had not even added to the total .
And history repeated itself in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, the other states that Trump lost, but where he was still struggling.
The president’s effort to twist the arms of Republican officials so that they would give him victory in some of these states or ignore Biden’s, generated national repudiation among members of the same party.
Like his brazen attempt to convince state legislators to ignore the result of the vote and to give the electoral college the votes that corresponded to the president-elect on the right.
This weekend, a group of more than 100 former senior Republican officials asked their party leaders, especially those in Congress, “Demand that the president stop his undemocratic assault on the integrity of the elections” 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 party senators, including Pat Toomey and Rob Portman, joined another small group of lawmakers who have asked Trump to step aside.
With every day that passes without an organized transition of power starting, our democracy weakens in the eyes of our citizens and we lose relevance globally
According to these, the investigations of the president have not been able to document any fraud. “And the idea that the president is pressuring legislators to ignore the popular will frankly has no place in this democracy”said Toomey, who represents Pennsylvania in Congress.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of Trump’s closest allies, called his legal team’s efforts a “National shame” and he begged the president to end a madness that was putting the country at risk.
“I have always been a sympathizer of the president. I voted twice for him. But the elections have consequences and one cannot continue to pretend that something happened here that did not happen. Outside the courts they claim that there was fraud, but when they go to court they don’t even claim that there was. They have an obligation to present the evidence, but they have not done so, ”said Christie, who is a lawyer and former prosecutor.
Like Christie, there are already many party voices that have begun to distance themselves. Especially since Thursday of last week when Rudy Giuliani, whom Trump appointed as the head of his legal team, came out to the media to denounce an international plot, originating in 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 star presenters and a “trumpist” like no other said that, if true, we would be talking about the “Greatest Crime in All of US History” and required the administration to present evidence to defend such an accusation.
Donald Trump gave the green light for the transition and the junction with the new Democratic administration. However, he still does not acknowledge his defeat.
Donald Trump campaign.
And this week Laura Ingram, other of her strongest defenders in this medium, admitted that 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 be lying to them if he argued otherwise and that his new position was based on the “reality”.
But perhaps the most devastating blow against Trump came where it hurts the most: the wallet. Also this week 164 of the presidents of the largest US companies, including many Republicans who donated funds to the president’s campaign, asked him to accept the result and give way to the transition.
“With every day that passes without an organized transition of power starting, our democracy weakens in the eyes of our citizens and we lose relevance worldwide”Executives, including MasterCard, Goldman Sachs and others, say in the letter.
At the meeting where the signatures for this letter were agreed, the directors even 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 Republicans cast the vote necessary to certify Biden’s victory, the GSA authorized the transition.
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And although the drama probably won’t end until December 14, when members of the Electoral College vote and make the election results official, what follows is a gradual burial of Trump.
“The dam has already broken. And what we will see from now on is the vast majority of Republican politicians jumping off the ship before it completely sinks ”, a source on Biden’s transition team tells this newspaper.
Something that will accelerate in the coming days once Nevada and Arizona certify, as expected, Biden’s triumph.
Already in the White HouseIn fact, they discuss a likely Trump speech in which, without acknowledging defeat, he will focus on the successes of his administration, his legacy, and an eventual candidacy for 2024.
A very questionable position if one considers that the president ended up muddying an electoral process where the alleged fraud that he denounced so much has not materialized, but which left half the country convinced of its existence.
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SERGIO GÓMEZ MASERI
EL TIEMPO correspondent
WASHINGTON
