Trump: "On January 20 I will not go to the Biden settlement"

• Trump concedes victory for the first time and condemns the assault on Congress

• Trump removes three contents from Twitter, the account remains blocked

• Usa, 25th amendment: the hypotheses for the removal of President Trump

• Trump sets fire to the US, his supporters attack Congress: four dead

• Trump now promises "an orderly transition": "The greatest mandate in history is over"

• Biden: America is democracy, we've never seen anything like it, Trump intervenes

• Assault on Congress.

  Trump intervenes in a video on Twitter: elections stolen, but now go home

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January 08, 2021 Donald Trump will not attend Biden White House inauguration ceremony.

The outgoing president announced it on twitter.

In another message he addressed his supporters: "The 75 million great American patriots who voted for me, for America first, to make it great again, will have a giant voice long in the future. They will not be scorned or scorned. treated unfairly in any way or form ".

After the video posted yesterday in which for the first time he recognizes the victory of Joe Biden, Donald Trump therefore returns to address his constituents while the House thinks about a possible impeachment. 

To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2021

Impeachment to vote next week

The US House could vote on Donald Trump's impeachment articles as early as mid-next week if Vice President Mike Pence doesn't invoke the 25th amendment.

"Donald Trump must be removed from office. And we will proceed with every tool available to make sure this happens in a way that protects our democracy," Katherine Clark, assistant speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told CNN. 

"If the news is true that Vice President Pence will not honor his oath and will not remove the President to protect our democracy, then we will proceed with the impeachment," he added, stating that in this case the articles of impeachment could be voted "for the beginning, half of next week".

Trump's term will end on January 20 with the inauguration of Joe Biden.

"We have a president who urged the crowd to attack the Capitol, we have five people dead and the damage done to our democracy is unimaginable," concluded the Democrat.

Republican Senator Ben Sasse announced that it will take "into account any article of impeachment because" I believe the president has violated his oath. "Other sources have told CNN that there are other Republican leaders who could vote impeachment.

The initiative would make the tycoon the first president in American history to undergo a political trial twice. But time is very tight: President Trump's first impeachment took one month, two weeks and four days, from the start to his rejection ; the second would have less than two weeks to complete and, theoretically, the president would face the process in a Senate still controlled by the Republicans (the two new dem senators have to wait until the end of the month for the certification of the results of the ballots in Georgia) and in hiatus until January 19, the day before Joe Biden was sworn in. The leader of the senators of the Grand Old Par

ty Mitch McConnell, despite having condemned Trump's behavior, has yet to say whether he would reconvene the Senate if the House approves the articles of impeachment.

In any case, two thirds of the votes are required to convict and remove the president. 

Democratic leaders have asked Pence to appeal 25th Amendment to 'neutralize' the president, but Pence - according to the New York Times citing informed sources - would be against.

"Despite the break with Trump, the vice president in private conversations ruled out invoking the 25th amendment clause to remove him, speaking to many who are asking him and ministers to do so," the New York daily wrote.

On the extent of the split between the two, the Wall Street Journal publishes revelations about the fight Trump had with Pence on Wednesday morning, just before going to the rally during which he harangued the crowd that then stormed Congress.

According to the sources of the conservative newspaper, the vice president reiterated to Trump that, contrary to what he had been repeating for days, he does not have the powers to block the votes of the Electoral College.

And that, even if he had, he would do nothing to avoid creating a dangerous precedent.

Pence's frankness infuriated Trump who, according to the reconstruction, in an attempt to impose on him the obedience that the Republican has always shown him in these four years, would have shouted: "I don't want to be your friend, I want you to be the deputy president ".

The possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump would also be discussed between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The two held informal conversations to explore the president's removal process.

Among the objections, there was that of the duration: one week, while there are just two to the inauguration.

Another objection was that of the risk of further tensions among the exponents of his base, who would have considered Trump, a hero of the far right, with devastating long-term consequences.

"The master plan now is to let the time run out," said a former senior official familiar with the discussions.

"There will be a showdown with this president, but it doesn't need to happen in the next 13 days."

It is certain that of the two roads, resorting to the 25th amendment or impeachment, the second seems to carry greater weight: it would prevent the tycoon from holding public office in the future.

But Joe Biden wouldn't like it either.

According to the elected president it would not help to unify the country.      

Meanwhile, after his Twitter account was reset,

in which he declared himself "outraged by violence, lawlessness and chaos" and told those who broke the law that they will "pay" for it, going so far as to admit the defeat: "A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20," he said.

“My focus now is on ensuring a smooth and seamless transition.

This moment requires healing and reconciliation. "

According to a reconstruction of the CNN, it would have been the daughter Ivanka Trump, the legal adviser of the White House Pat Cipollone (who according to the CNN, which cites sources of the administration, has already discussed his resignation with Trump ) and chief of staff Mark Meadows to persuade the outgoing president to record the video explaining that he was in danger of being ousted, by Congress or members of his cabinet, if he did not report the raid on Congress. For the New York Times, the president was persuaded when he realized he could be indicted for inciting the crowd after Washington prosecutor Michael Sherwin announced an investigation into "all the actors" of the raid on Congress, "not just who is entered the building. " 

With just twelve days ahead of leaving the White House, the Trump administration has finally

body ordered thousands of politically appointed officials - including ambassadors - to resign no later than the Inauguration Day: a due act, however, which remained blocked for weeks due to the objections raised by President Donald Trump on the legitimacy of the electoral victory of Joe Biden.

The order issued by Deputy Chief of Staff Chris Liddle came in the wake of a series of resignations of senior officials and ministers in dissent with the assault on the Capitol by a mob of Trumpian ultras.

The announcement paves the way for the publication of the "Plum Book", the big book with a plum-colored cover that the Washington of the buildings awaits with bated breath at every change of government because it lists the politically appointed jobs that will return to be on the market.

Joe Biden's will still be an armored settlement, amid the limitations on the ceremony imposed by Covid and now the pressing new security concerns in the aftermath of the assault on Congress that the president-elect called "the unprecedented assault on our democracy ".

However, the program of the ceremony will not change: the president and vice president Kamala Harris will swear, as is tradition, on the steps of the Capitol, which on Wednesday was the scene of the assault of Donald Trump's supporters, who climbed the steps already assembled for the guests, expected in numbers significantly lower than in the past, again for Covid, and which could still decrease.

Obviously, the Secret Service, the special service responsible for the security of the president and other members of the White House, is mobilized on the front line.

"There will be barriers placed where they were not placed on Wednesday - reveals a former Secret Service agent who knows the plans of the inauguration - and instead of having only the Capitol Police to defend there will be thousands of agents of other security forces deployed".