United States: in the last days of a heated presidency, Trump is firing on all cylinders
US President Donald Trump was arraigned in Congress, a second historic impeachment a week before the end of his term (illustration).
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The president, who is facing a historic second impeachment attempt, is very isolated, especially since he has been cut from his favorite social networks, Twitter among others.
But he is still President of the United States of America for a few days and he is on all fronts.
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Nuclear fire: this is the threat that the Democrats immediately put forward after the
invasion of the Capitol
, that of Donald Trump, an "
unbalanced
", according to the words of Nancy Pelosi, pressing the nuclear button like the Constitution l 'allows it.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives assured last week that she spoke with the American Chief of Staff Mark Milley, "
to discuss the precautions available to prevent an unstable president from launching military hostilities or acceding launch codes and orders a nuclear strike,
”wrote the Speaker of the House of Representatives in a letter to her fellow parliamentarians, AFP reported.
General Milley's spokesperson confirmed the discussion but not its content.
What is certain is that the president is still taking very concrete measures: on the diplomatic level, he has thus put
Cuba back on the list of countries supporting terrorism,
which, without making it impossible, will complicate Joe's task. Biden when he wants to reconnect with Castro power.
The Cuban president said last December that he was open to a discussion “on all subjects” with the future American president.
In the same vein, its Secretary of State Mike Pompeo affirmed that Iran was an important base of al-Qaeda… So many banana peels thrown under the footsteps of the future administration, headlined NBC News there a few days.
Chain executions
Domestically, Donald Trump revived federal executions last July, suspended for 17 years.
Executions authorized by a Supreme Court shaped by the president during these four years in power.
A woman was executed on
Wednesday January 13, the first time in 70 years.
Thursday, January 14, an African-American was killed, another is to be this Friday.
The two men had contracted Covid-19 in December and a judge decided on Tuesday to postpone their executions for several weeks because they had not fully recovered.
The injection of pentobarbital risked causing them suffering prohibited by the Constitution, which bans “cruel” sentences, the court had estimated.
But an appeal court, seized by the Ministry of Justice, overturned this decision on Wednesday, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor Thursday evening.
And capital executions at the federal level have accelerated over the past six months, denounce human rights organizations.
So many messages sent to Donald Trump's most extremist electorate, the one who was on Capitol Hill last week.
But also to Joe Biden and his new administration.
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