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US President-elect Joe Biden asked the Senate leadership to approve the appointments he made and the decisions he intends to make at the beginning of his term, in parallel with the Council’s duties to hold a trial of the outgoing president. , Donald Trump, as Washington witnesses unprecedented security measures in preparation for the inauguration ceremony on the 20th of this month, after several media outlets have warned of receiving calls indicating that bombs can be dropped at Congress during the inauguration ceremony or of armed protests in the capital.
The strict measures include closing main streets, especially those leading to the Congress and White House buildings, and providing deployed National Guard members with different weapons than usual, as soldiers formed a security cordon and a iron fence around the building.
The residence of soldiers of the National Guard in Congress is something that had not happened since the days of the Civil War. There are demands from the Pentagon to deploy 20,000 soldiers during the inauguration ceremony, which is still under study, while so far it has been decided to deploy 15,000.
Yesterday, the US president called on his supporters to avoid violence, and said in a statement that in the face of reports of more demonstrations, he urges to avoid violence, not break the law and avoid acts of sabotage, whatever it may be.
He added that he does not support violence, sabotage and the violation of the law, and that the United States does not support him either, according to him, calling on all Americans to help calm and reduce tension.
He said his true supporters cannot threaten or attack an American citizen, nor do they support political violence, adding: “I clearly condemn the violence that we witnessed last week.”
He stressed that those who participated in the violence last week will be brought to justice and said the United States is witnessing an “unprecedented attack on freedom of expression.”
On the other hand, in his first comment on the indictment issued by the House of Representatives against Trump to be tried for a second time before the Senate with the intention of indicting him, Biden said in a statement that the United States is suffering the weight of the pandemic of the Covid-19 and its suffocating economic repercussions and needs the Senate to quickly approve the appointments in the new administration, to be able to face these challenges, after taking office on January 20.
Trump’s Senate trial will not begin until after Biden takes office.
“I hope that the Senate leadership will find a way to simultaneously address its constitutional responsibilities for impeachment and other urgent matters of this nation,” the president-elect said in his statement.
Trump’s trial in the Senate threatens to hamper the work of the Biden administration and the legislative measures that Democrats intend to pass at the beginning of his term, as the Senate cannot constitutionally, if it feels like a court, do any other work before for this trial to end.
In his statement, Biden recalled that the bloody acts of violence carried out by a crowd of Trump supporters a week ago when they stormed and wreaked havoc on Capitol Hill were “a planned and coordinated criminal attack carried out by local political extremists and terrorists. incited by President Trump to this violence. What happened was an armed rebellion against the United States. And those responsible for it must be held accountable. ”
“Today (the day before yesterday) members of the House of Representatives exercised the power granted to them by our constitution and voted to impeach the president and try him,” he added. It was a bipartisan vote of members who followed the constitution and their conscience.
Donald Trump became the first president in the history of the United States to be referred to the Senate twice for trial with the intention of impeaching him, after the House of Representatives accused him on Wednesday of “inciting rebellion” in the context of a crowd of his supporters that stormed the Capitol building on the 6th of this month.
The leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, did not rule out voting in favor of Trump’s impeachment if he was tried before the said House.
“I have not made my final decision on how to vote,” McConnell wrote in a letter to fellow Republicans. “I intend to hear the legal arguments as they come up in the Senate.”
Yesterday, Biden offered the basis for the next financial aid package, promising Americans “billions of dollars” and acting quickly as soon as he takes office in the White House.
It will give Biden the priority of accelerating the rate of vaccination against the Corona epidemic.
Economists agree that the pace of economic recovery will depend on the rate of vaccination of the population against the emerging Corona virus.
(AFP – Reuters)
