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reThe United States experienced rampant hours on Monday, just under three weeks after its presidential election and a good two weeks after the victory of Democrat Joe Biden. Until now, current President Donald Trump (“I won the election”) still had the reins firmly in hand. But on Monday everyone can see how Trump’s power is dissolving, politically, symbolically, specifically.
On Monday morning, Trump had to read in the “Wall Street Journal,” among other things, that he had little chance of reversing the election result. Republicans called on the incumbent president to surrender. “It’s over,” said Rep. Fred Upton. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan rebuked Trump: “We are beginning to look like a banana republic.” Trump should put an end to his “nonsense,” said Hogan, whose goal is to try to win the Michigan Congress to reverse the election result.
Undeterred by Trump’s claims (“pervasive voter fraud”), his conspiracy theories, and the unintentionally bizarre and absurd appearances of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, 76, acted as President-elect Joe Biden, 78. He attacked Trump , 74, for his refusal to accept a To enable the transfer. He accepted advice on the Covid epidemic. He spoke with advisers and, on Monday, with mayors of both parties, practically of course. Regardless of Trump’s inability to admit defeat, Biden nominated several seasoned bosses to important positions in his future administration Monday afternoon.
Including his longtime confidant Antony Blinken, 58, who will become Foreign Minister. A little later, the “Wall Street Journal” announced that former Fed chief Janet Yellen, 74, should become Biden’s Secretary of the Treasury. Message from Biden: We are on our way to the White House. The processes are running. We are preparing to rule.
Biden had held important positions in quick succession in recent days. And the incumbent president? Quiet, very unusual for Trump. Over the weekend he took part in the G20 video discussions nonchalantly and briefly, so they could take him to his golf club both days.
The White House announced for Monday: “THE PRESIDENT has no public events planned.” It has been read frequently in recent days. While Trump’s election campaign sends out appeal after appeal, it appears that Trump has already resigned from the government. He refers to the president as a lame duck between electoral defeat and the end of his term in the United States. But who would have thought that the recently so energetic and energetic Trump would suddenly look so lame?
Trump had to hear on Monday how desperate his various demands were against the election result. He had long since lost momentum. Now there was a rift between his lawyers. Giuliani distanced himself from his colleague Sidney Powell, who made even crazier accusations than Giuliani himself, and that means something. The Trump campaign later parted ways with Powell. Trump, in turn, is said to be angry at Giuliani. Last week he had enraged himself at a press conference until the hair dye ran down both cheeks. Furthermore, Giuliani now admitted that he had probably “exaggerated” a bit in his electoral fraud slogans.
While Trump did not send a single tweet for 18 hours on Monday, Biden telephoned NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU Commission Chair Ursula von der Leyen, and Jordanian King Abdullah II. Biden thanked everyone for congratulating them on their choice.
And Trump? Nothing else could be heard from him, nothing to see. Only the first lady was seen. Melania Trump accepted the traditional Christmas tree for the White House at lunchtime Monday, a twenty-foot-tall Fraser fir from West Virginia. This is now to decorate the blue room of the White House.
But the first lady – black and white plaid coat, black gloves, and black boots with high heels – was in a hurry. He showed up at 12.11pm (US East Coast time), walked around the tree, waved at the cameras and posed for photos. When asked how the president was doing, he did not respond. She said alone: ”Merry Christmas.” As mentioned, on November 23rd. At 12:14 p.m., after three minutes of publicity, Melania Trump returned to the White House. Then a brass group from the United States Marine Band played “Oh Tannenbaum.”
At around 4:40 p.m., a severe setback followed for Trump, his campaign, Giuliani, and several conspiracy theorists – the state of Michigan officially confirmed Biden’s victory. Trump’s team tried to reverse the outcome of the Michigan election with legal attacks. At an election commission meeting, broadcast live on the Internet, the two Democrats and one of the two Republicans voted to confirm the results. A Republican member abstained. Biden is more than 150,000 votes ahead of Trump in Michigan, receiving all 16 voters.
The pressure on Trump now also came from the economy. “With each day that an orderly process of president transition is delayed, our democracy weakens in the eyes of our own citizens and the nation’s power on the world stage is diminishing,” wrote more than 160 corporate executives in New York. York on Monday in an open letter. Among them were the CEOs of Mastercard, Visa, Goldman Sachs and Met Life.
Late that night, news leaked that Trump had instructed his administration to work with Biden. The General Services Administration (GSA) should initiate the official procedure for the transfer of duties (“transition”) and “do whatever it takes,” Trump’s first tweet said Monday at 6:16 pm. Instruct your team to do the same. At the same time, he announced that he would continue fighting to remain in office. With the beginning of the “transition,” Biden’s team can now receive intelligence reports and use government infrastructure to force an effective fight against the corona epidemic after Trump’s removal from office.
The letter immediately circulated from the GSA administrative authority, written by its boss Emily Murphy, 47. The latter addressed the letter to Biden, but did not address him as president-elect. The style of writing suggests the closest cooperation with the White House. In the second paragraph, Murphy complains that she has been threatened in recent days, as have her family and pets. This is how the transfer of power begins in the most important democracy in the world. It would be as if a letter from the Federal Administration Office announced a change of government in Germany.
“Today’s decision is a necessary step to begin addressing the challenges facing our country,” said Biden’s transition team. The orderly transfer of office after a presidential election has been anchored in the law for nearly 60 years. A Republican with close ties to the White House told CNN: “It’s over.”
“The election was not fair,” complained later that night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a loyal Trump supporter. At 9:10 p.m., Trump aired a video clip of Carlson’s complaint about the election. That was only his third tweet this Monday.
The subject of an email from Trump to supporters Monday night reads, “I have great news.” Despite attempts by the left to undermine this election, Trump writes here: “I will NEVER stop fighting for YOU.” Then the sitting US president asks: a donation.
In Biden’s milieu, the work gets done quickly, the symbolism always in view: Starting Monday night, the website for Biden’s transition team will have the ending “gov,” which stands for US government.
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