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The final weeks in the White House: the dangerous end of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has to resign in 70 days. Until then, you can use all your power and, for example, forgive yourself.
Donald Trump still has all the power of a US president. Their predecessors used them in their last days for massive pardons.
Last night there was finally good news for Donald Trump: Alaska announced its election results. Trump won against Joe Biden and got three voter votes. This is balm to Trump’s soul, and yet victory in the Far North is of no use to him anymore. Trump lost the election. Even the judicial process with which he is now advancing against the alleged electoral fraud does not change anything.
70 days before he is due to vacate the White House seat, Trump still prefers to wrap himself in his cocoon of conspiracy theories and false victory claims than face reality. Joe Biden, the rightful winner of the US election, finds this behavior “embarrassing.” As long as Trump does not admit defeat, Biden will still have to give up the important daily secret service briefings, which he would now be allowed to do.
Biden, the elected besiegers, who is not allowed to enter from the moody lord of the castle into the White House – the most powerful democracy in the world is currently stuck at this insane point. But one should not be fooled by the deceptive calm surrounding the current US president, which is barely visible except on Twitter. Chris Cillizza, who is watching the tragedy in Washington for “CNN,” even warns that the “wildest days of American politics” are dawning.
When Bill Clinton got his half brother out of jail
It could go wild for two main reasons. First, with the removal of his defense minister, Mark Esper, on Monday, Trump indicated that he would wear his three silver medals, “You’re fired!”, Which was already popular as a reality star, in his old presidential days. . (“You’re fired!”) He wants to use more.
Christopher Wray, the FBI chief of the Federal Police, or Gina Haspel, the first woman to lead the CIA secret service, could be the next to be attacked. To Trump’s liking, both are doing very little to act against supposedly corrupt Democrats.
Second, Trump will draw the presidential red pencil in the final stretch of his term and exercise his right to forgive all kinds of people. The constitution establishes that the president of the United States can remove convicts from jail with a stroke of the pen or reduce their sentences (in Switzerland this right belongs to the parliament, which has only used it twice since 1997).
And American presidents like to show mercy toward the end of their term. Barack Obama, for example, pardoned 1,927 people, 330 of them on his last day in the White House. Gerald Ford pardoned thousands of conscientious objectors who had eluded Vietnam. And Bill Clinton released his half-brother Roger from jail, convicted of cocaine trafficking.
Steve Bannon’s bloodthirsty plea
Presidents of the United States generally do not sign clemency requests until the Justice Department declares them admissible. But Trump doesn’t believe in this bureaucratic detour. For example, he forgave his close friend Roger Stone in a very unbureaucratic way.
Stone had previously refused to testify in connection with Russian interference in the US elections. The fact that Trump later bailed him out earned him corruption accusations even from the Republican Party.
That should be just a preview of what Trump will do in the next ten weeks. Indicted former allies like his chief strategist Steve Bannon secretly await mercy. Bannon, who faces up to 40 years in prison for embezzlement, does so furiously against epidemiologist and Trump critic Anthony Fauci. He recently demanded that Trump behead Fauci and put his head in front of the White House.
It’s also possible that Trump also forgives Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-partner of pedosexual serial offender Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell faces a lengthy sentence for his alleged role in the crimes. Trump has already wished Maxwell “all the best” after his arrest.
The big question remains whether Trump will deliver the presidential coup de grace to crown his term. Under the constitution, there is nothing to prevent a president of the United States from being preemptively pardoned from any form of criminal prosecution. This has never happened before. The Supreme Court would have to decide on the legality of this pardon. Trump himself has already announced on Twitter that he has “absolutely the right” to “PAVE ME.”
On January 20, Trump’s presidency and his procedural immunity ends. And Justitia is ready. They threaten him with proceedings for secret money payments in alleged matters and obstruction of justice. In addition, 26 women accuse him of sexual harassment. I would need it, your grace.
