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US President-elect Joe Biden launched a violent attack, described as the most violent attack on outgoing President Donald Trump. For the Republican billionaire’s refusal to admit defeat in the elections, accusing him of “not respecting the will of the people.” Meanwhile, Republicans are preparing to contest the elections before Congress, coinciding with the resignation of the Minister of Justice, and the withdrawal of a senator from the Republican Party in protest at the continued questioning of the elections.
And in a speech he delivered in his stronghold in Wilmington, Delaware, following a vote that took place yesterday, during which the electoral college (the Electoral College) officially confirmed his victory in the elections; Biden said yesterday: “This is a very extreme position that we have never seen before; a position that refuses to respect the will of the people, refuses to respect the rule of law and refuses to respect our constitution.”
One of the outgoing president’s latest attempts to alter the election results was a lawsuit filed by Republican officials, supported by Trump, to overturn Biden’s victory in several major states, but the Supreme Court dismissed this lawsuit on Friday.
In his speech, Biden praised voters who had cast their votes in record numbers despite concerns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate that prevailed in the electoral process and witnessed “tremendous political pressure, verbal abuse and even threats of physical violence “directed at election officials.
He added: “I sincerely hope that we will never again see anyone subjected to the threats and violations that we have witnessed in these elections,” calling the harassment of the officials in charge of conducting the elections “unreasonable.”
The president-elect said: “The flame of democracy was lit a long time ago in this country. We now know that nothing, not even a pandemic or abuse of power, can extinguish this flame.”
Biden stressed that Trump has exhausted all legal methods to challenge the election results, but “no reason or evidence was found in any of these lawsuits to invalidate (the election result) or make it questionable or disputed.”
“In the battle for the soul of the United States, democracy has triumphed,” he added.
New stabbing
Biden’s remarks coincided with the Axios website’s disclosure that Republican lawmakers plan to challenge the electoral college vote results when Congress meets on the sixth of next month to ratify them.
Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior campaign adviser, reiterated that the outgoing president had won the presidential election.
Miller said – in an interview with “Fox News” – that the president’s campaign will exhaust all available legal methods, indicating that the battle to overturn the results continues despite the electoral college vote.
But Republican Senator John Cornyn has warned his party not to question the results of the council’s vote.
Cornin said he only hoped they would realize that such a stabbing would be useless and unnecessary, as well as a grave mistake.
The US media also reported that Republican Senator Roy Blunt will deal with the president-elect after the Electoral College vote.
Blunt said President Donald Trump still had every option to proceed with his appeals, describing the Electoral College vote as indicative.
withdrawal
And Michigan Republican Rep. Paul Mitchell announced his retirement from the Republican Party. To protest against the continuing doubts about the results of the presidential election, which Joe Biden won.
In a tweet, Mitchell attached the text of a message sent to the president of the Republican National Committee, Rona McDaniel, and the leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, with the reasons for his decision.
Mitchell expressed his disgust at Trump’s failure to accept the loss and his criticism of the Supreme Court justices.
He expressed fear that the Republican Party’s involvement in some efforts to question the election results could harm American democracy in the long run.
The resignation of the Minister of Justice
Moments after the electoral college confirmed Biden’s victory, US President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Attorney General William Barr and said Barr would leave office before Christmas.
Trump added in a tweet that he had a very good relationship with William Barr, adding that Barr did a great job.
On the other hand, Trump announced in a separate tweet that Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rozen had been assigned the duties of Acting Attorney General.
In his resignation letter to President Trump, United States Attorney General William Barr said he would step down from office on the 23rd of this month and that he briefed Trump on the progress of investigations into allegations of election fraud.
Bar said that the country is in a state of division and that it is the duty of all government agencies to do everything possible to ensure the integrity of the elections and increase people’s confidence in the outcome.
The French Press Agency quoted a senior US official as saying that “Barr resigned of his own free will and was not pressured or forced to resign,” noting that the meeting between the resigned minister and the outgoing president was “cordial.”
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