In the News: United States, Impeachement or not impeachment for Donald Trump?
Donald Trump speaks in front of his supporters who then headed for the Capitol to launch an attack on the day of the officialization of the results of the American presidential election won by Joe Biden, January 6, 2020. AP - Evan Vucci
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In the US, "
Impeachment Race As Pelosi Urges Government To Act
" headlines the
New York Times
.
But, notes the
Financial Times
, senators from both camps "
resist
" this request from the President of the House of Representatives.
A Democrat explains that he “
does not want the impeachment procedures to interfere with the first months of Joe Biden's presidency
,” in order to act, adds the
Washington Post
,
on the pandemic and the faltering economy
”.
Only, notes the newspaper, "
some Democrats admit not knowing how to slow things down given the passions that are increasingly unleashed against Trump.
".
In fact, the "Opinions" pages of major dailies are bloody: "
Destroy and condemn Trump."
Congress must defend itself,
"writes
a political scientist
in The
New York Times
, insisting that"
one of the three branches of the federal government has incited an armed attack against another of its branches
".
For its part,
Politico
asserts that "
we must investigate Donald Trump's efforts to reverse the election results as we did for September 11
": "
the comparison may at first seem excessive
", admits the columnist, “
But in both cases it is the basic functioning of American institutions that has been attacked.
Each time, weaknesses in our habits and procedures were revealed, weaknesses that had not been sufficiently taken into account before the disaster
”.
According to the
Boston Globe
, the House of Representatives could meet as early as Wednesday to vote for Trump's impeachment.
As for the vote in the Senate, among the Democrats several options are on the table so as not to interfere with Joe Biden's first 100 days,
Politico
notes
: for example postpone the opening of a trial in the Senate until later by keeping the text in the House.
Republican "lackeys"
"
Trump's lackeys must also be punished,
" said the
New York Times
in an editorial
, saying that the Republicans "
knew full well how much Trump lacked in experience but also in character, morals and intelligence.
Much is said before his election
"- and the journalist quotes Lindsay Graham speaking at the time of a"
bigot xenophobic who does not represent my party
".
But since then, "
Republicans have
knowingly
turned their backs on everything they believed
in," ultimately leading to the events of last Wednesday.
The
Houston Chronicle
asks its readers "
not to condemn all Republicans
", rather to question the role that they, Americans, "
could have played in the weakening of democracy
(...)
by allowing our politicians , and some of our media, to continually transform our legitimate differences into social and cultural war, seeing our side as just and noble and the other wrong and bad
”.
The "rabid" at the Capitol
The press has also investigated those who invaded the Capitol last Wednesday, and which federal and local authorities are pursuing across the United States: "
a group of rabid full of bitterness and disillusion
" headlines the
Washington Post
: "
Attracted by Trump, rioters came from all over the country, enraged by the masks, lockdowns and the election
.
The
Wall Street Journal
thus tells the story - and the life - of Doug Sweet, a Trump supporter, "
from his first visit to the Capitol in New York, at the age of 13, in 1975
", when he watched the "
Shimmering white dome telling himself it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen
", on his second trip to the Capitol, 45 years later, when he joined a raging crowd to enter the Capitol and "
finish handcuffed, face down
”.
Between the two, explains the daily, there was "
a bright idealism, the belief in dark conspiratorial theories, a lonely existence, and then a new fraternity with those who are convinced that Joe Biden could never beat Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election.
"
In Mexico, the British variant of the Covid
The British strain of Covid has arrived in Mexico,
December 28 precisely, specifies
El Universal
, which like the rest of the Mexican press echoes the press conference given yesterday by José Luis Alomia, Director General of Epidemiology.
The patient is 56 years old, details
Excelsior
, he came from Amsterdam in the Netherlands when he landed in the state of Tamaulipas "
where his case was detected at the airport
".
Currently he is intubated in hospital.
Regarding the people who were on the same flight as him, 31 have no symptoms, explains José Luis Alomia, the two who had tested negative and twelve are now wanted.
More broadly, recalls
El Universal
, the country has more than 133,700 deaths from Covid, including 502 in the last 24 hours, with a mortality that has increased by 8% this last week.
As for the occupancy of hospital beds, Mexico City is at 92%, close to saturation ... The Political Council of the Senate, reports
Excelsior
, therefore asked lawmakers to stay in their states, the extraordinary session scheduled for this Friday has been suspended.
And, symbolically,
La Jornada
tells us that the spokesperson for the presidency himself, Ramirez Cuevas, has tested positive.
Lack of screening tests in Haiti
"
Covid-19 screening tests are running out in the boom of the pandemic
",
laments Rezo Nodwes
, suddenly Haiti "
temporarily reduces these tests
".
One of the "
few laboratories in the country to perform (them)
" indicates that suddenly "
priority must be given only to those who need it most
".
Rezo Nodwes recalls that "
the country has recorded since March 10,241 confirmed cases
,
237 deaths and 8,745 cured cases
".
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