The Trump administration is losing its mind: not giving up

The party of madness surrounding the US presidential elections was not lacking except for Donald Trump’s belief that his judicial fight would return him to the presidency for a second term. Perhaps Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the best person to voice the refusal to surrender, promising a smooth transition to a second term for Trump. This certainty of return and victory does not seem innocent at all, especially since it comes in parallel with the current administration’s campaign of revenge aimed at obstructing the plans of the next administration and its foreign policy. In this context, Pompeo’s upcoming tour of the region, which includes the Gulf states, Israel and Turkey, will discuss “Trump’s historic efforts to create peace.” A tour means they intend to pick up their activities from where they stopped before Election Day – boosting the normalization engine with the Hebrew entity a few weeks before the end of Trump’s first presidential term on January 20, 2021, along with the culmination of the maximum pressure campaign on Iran, after announcing Yesterday, the administration announced a new package of sanctions that targeted it and cooperated with others against Syria. Signal spikes, as well as leaks, don’t seem reassuring. It indicates the possibility of a military attack directed at one of the countries on the axis of resistance, and shuffling the cards in the region, before handing over the keys to the White House to his successor. The removal of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and the resignation of three leaders of the “Pentagon”, namely: the Defense Minister’s agents for political affairs, security affairs and intelligence matters, according to the Politco website, are not far from this context.

Constitutionally, and under the 1973 “War Powers Act,” Trump’s margins appear to be limited. The powers of the presidency do not grant it the right to declare war, since those powers are vested in Congress, the only body constitutionally empowered to order the declaration of war. However, the law excludes certain situations in which the president can act on his own behalf; The text establishes that it can use force in case of “the declaration of war or the existence of a specific legal permit or in the case of a declaration of emergency at the national level when the United States, its territories or its armed forces are under attack”. In the middle of this year, the US president blocked a bill to Congress that would limit the scope for his military action against Iran. The bill, approved by both houses, after the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, stipulates that the president of the United States cannot declare war or give the green light to launch a military operation against the Islamic Republic, without the explicit consent of the Islamic Republic. Congress. This means that the powers of attorney remain controversial. There are many reliable examples where the coups were directed by order of the president and without notifying Congress: the attack on the Shayrat airport in 2018, and the largest “non-nuclear” bomb dropped on Afghanistan in 2017. There are many other examples: Barack Obama (Libya and the raid that killed Osama) Bin Laden in Pakistan); George W. Bush (the initial attacks after the September 11 attacks); Bill Clinton (Kosovo, Haiti and Iraq) George Bush Sr. (Panama) … There is another law against Trump, which allows the president of the United States to use force directly: the “Law on the use of force to respond to September 11 attacks “which was approved in 2001 to combat” Al Qaeda “and” the Taliban. ” This law was used to legalize the war against ISIS and associated groups in Africa. But his problem, according to a “Washington Post” report, is that it does not include Iran, which has not been listed among the entities or countries that the United States represented by the president can carry out attacks against it.

Pompeo announced that he will visit the Gulf states, Israel and Turkey to discuss “Trump’s historic efforts to create peace.”

Concerns around the transition process, in light of the Trump administration’s refusal to admit defeat to Joe Biden, intensified after Pompeo’s comments yesterday. The latter promised a “smooth transition” to a second term for its president. “We will count all the votes,” he said, emphasizing that world leaders realize that it is a “legal process that takes time.” The afternoon of January 20 (2021) will be a successful transition. He also stressed that “the ministry is fully vigilant to ensure that elections around the world are free, fair and safe, and that my employees risk their lives for it.” As the administration acts as if nothing has changed, the US Secretary of State announced his intention to visit France, Turkey, Georgia, Israel, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia to discuss a variety of issues, including historical efforts. of Trump to make peace in the region.
Despite legal experts confirming the impossibility of changing the results of the US presidential elections in favor of Trump, Trump continues to insist that the elections are stolen. With Biden beginning to assemble his transition team to take power, the Republican administration responded with steps to confirm that the United States had entered a constitutional crisis. The outgoing US president spoke again of stealing the election and contesting the victory of the Democratic candidate. In a tweet on Twitter, Trump wrote: “The election results will start to appear next week and we will win them.” At this time, the Washington Post reported that the White House had instructed federal agencies to avoid cooperating with the president-elect’s transition team. Federal agency officials had prepared offices and brochures for the transition process in preparation for Biden’s team, before the White House ordered the team not to be recognized until the General Services Administration certified the election results. . The law requires the current administration to provide $ 6 million to the winning candidate’s team, to be used to rent offices and purchase equipment and other means necessary for transition work. But the Trump administration refuses to release this amount to Biden’s team and prevents government agencies from sharing it with the financial, economic and intelligence data that the law requires to be provided to the winning candidate.

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