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Pentagon military sources told CNN that Donald Trump is currently behaving “like a dictator,” according to a CNN analysis comparing the Trump administration these days to a true “regime on the brink of collapse.” and with a whole team entrenched in a “strange parallel universe” in which the current president would have already secured a second term.
Proof of this is the message of the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, who refused to accept the victory of Joe Biden and spoke of “a smooth transition to the second Trump administration.”
Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat to Biden has been compounded by measures that CNN says endanger the national security of the United States.
The White House leader recently fired his defense minister, Mark Esper, on Twitter.
In recent months, Trump’s relationship with Esper has become significantly more strained, which is why Esper had already been preparing for his resignation for several weeks, in an attempt to resign before the president has a chance to fire him. On twitter.
Trump’s new Pentagon bosses include a general who has turned Barrack Obama into a “terrorist leader.”
Esper fell from grace after Trump said in June that he did not support sending the military to the streets to quell protests against racism sparked by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Following Esper’s resignation, the Pentagon announced that three other senior members had resigned: James Anderson, head of the Pentagon’s policy department, Joseph Kernan, deputy defense minister for intelligence, and Jen Stewart, chief of staff for the defense minister. .
Among those filling the vacancies is Anthony Tata, a retired brigadier general who has made controversial comments about Islam and former Democratic President Barack Obama, whom he described as a “terrorist leader” who has done a lot of damage. The United States has helped Islamic countries more than any other American leader. “
“It’s scary, what’s happening is very worrying,” a Pentagon official told CNN. “This is typical dictatorial behavior.”
Trump could now turn all his anger on the heads of the CIA and FBI, Gina Haspel and Christopher Wray, respectively, prompting a Democratic senator to testify:
“America has entered a dangerous age”
“I think Trump will be completely distracted from national or global security events,” said Democratic Senator Chris Murphy.
How Trump is trying to change the outcome of elections in key states that give Biden the winner
However, Trump’s chances of changing the election result seem to be diminishing by the day. Biden currently leads with more than 46,000 votes ahead of Trump in Pennsylvania, about 12,000 in Georgia and 14,000 in Arizona.
In Michigan, where Biden won by a margin of more than 150,000 votes, Trump’s team filed an appeal.
“To win, they (Trump’s team) must contest enough votes, in each state, to try to change the outcome of the election, but in none of the states where they appealed even close to this goal,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican attorney specializing in electoral law.
But the issue is not whether Trump will leave the White House office, but how much chaos and destruction he risks causing in the US administration in the next 70 days, until January 20, 2021, when the president-elect of the United States will lend. officially sworn in. function.
Thus, until January 20, Trump holds all the reins of power conferred by the office of President of the United States. He still has all the power, both institutional and political.
Donald Trump adopts the “scorched earth” policy against Joe Biden. How the president-elect is prevented from accessing federal funds
Traditionally, in the US, the team that won the presidential election has government funds, offices, and other federal resources to make the transfer of power as easy as possible, given the management of a trillion-dollar entity, like the government. American. The president-elect also begins to configure himself with information on national security.
Normally, this entire process begins within hours after the election result has been accepted.
But this is not the case for Trump, who refuses to acknowledge Biden’s victory. The government agency responsible for initiating these procedures (government funding, etc.) and which is led by a Republican named Trump, has not yet launched this process.
And the situation becomes even more complicated as the United States, like the rest of the world, grapples with a coronavirus pandemic.
By comparison, in the 2016 election, when Trump was elected president of the United States, the Obama administration gave the green light to provide funding for the president’s team the next day. In 2008, this happened immediately after the election night results were announced, around 1pm.
The only time in the history of the United States that the delivery of federal funds to the president-elect team was delayed was in 2000, when George Bush was elected president following a Supreme Court decision, after Bush and Al Gore they were in a difference. by several hundred votes in the state of Florida.
Editor: Mihnea Lazăr
