The American president obtained, Wednesday, by an attempted insurrection which he incited, what he has failed to obtain for two months by legal means: the suspension of the certification procedure of the victory for Joe Biden.
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Analysis. Two weeks before the end of a term that he stubbornly refuses to complete, President Donald Trump obtained by force a crowd of rioters he led, Wednesday, January 6, which he has failed to obtain for two months by legal means: the suspension of the certification procedure for the victory of Joe Biden, his Democratic opponent in the presidential election of November 3.
It is indeed a attempted insurgency, instigated by the President of the United States in person and broadcast live by the media, which the American nation and the whole world were able to witness as hundreds of demonstrators, heated to white a little earlier by Donald Trump, stormed the building inside which the two chambers of Congress met to certify the election results. The chief executive had encouraged them to march on the Capitol, assuring that he would march with them – which he did not do – to claim a victory which he continues to claim, against all evidence, that it was stolen from them. Mr. Trump was well aware of what he was doing: at the end of September, he asked the far-right Proud Boys, very similar to those who stormed Congress on Wednesday, to “stand by” (“stand back and stand by “).
As Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated by quickly overwhelmed police, Trumpists, some of them armed, invaded Parliament. Going to the end of his destructive and narcissistic madness, Donald Trump witnessed these images of chaos from the White House, sent two tweets asking the demonstrators to be peaceful but refraining from ordering them to withdraw. Then, judging that the show had gone on long enough, he ended up asking them to go home after two hours. In a video message, he told them he “loved” them and repeated that this election was “fraudulent”. At the same time, the National Guard and elite forces, finally arrived, were preparing to evacuate Trumpist supporters, before a curfew imposed at 6 p.m. local by the mayor of Washington.
figure> “It’s insurgency, bordering on sedition”
Speaking shortly before the message from Donald Trump, President-elect Joe Biden, who is to take his duties on January 20, did not hesitate to qualify the gravity of the political situation at the heart of the world’s leading power. “Our democracy is undergoing an unprecedented attack,” he said in a statement broadcast on television. “It is an attack on the rule of law, against the representatives of the people (…). the protest is insurrection, bordering on sedition. “Calling on Mr. Trump to” rise to the occasion “and to order the demonstrators on television to withdraw, Mr Biden pointed out that “a president’s words make sense: at best they can inspire, at worst they can incite.”
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