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Updated on Wednesday, 20January2021-02: 02
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The United States today celebrates
the most tense transfer of presidential powers in 160 years
, since Abraham Lincoln took office surrounded by armed men after seven states had unilaterally declared independence in fear that the new president would limit the expansion of slavery. towards the new territories of the West.
Five weeks later, civil war broke out between the secessionist defenders of slavery and the defenders of national unity opposed to its expansion.
That is not the case in the US in 2021. No one fears a civil war between supporters of the outgoing president, Donald Trump, and the winner of the November 3 election.
But even so,
the tension is enormous
.
In fact,
Lincoln, at least, had an audience
.
Some 25,000 people attended the event.
And it also had
the respect of its predecessor
.
The outgoing president,
James Buchanan
, carried out the tradition and accompanied the president-elect to the Capitol, the building that houses the two houses of the US Congress and in which the swearing-in ceremony takes place or, as it is known in the United States. United, the inauguration.
Buchanan had not run for reelection.
Instead, it had been his vice president,
John Breckinridge
, who, despite his defeat, was on Capitol Hill waiting for the president-elect.
Joe Biden won't have any of that.
For the first time since George Washington was sworn in on
April 30, 1789,
in New York City (in an event in which the Spanish Navy ship Galveston fired thirteen salvoes in honor of the new president),
there will be no audience in the inauguration
.
The Mall - the large park that occupies the center of the capital of the United States, famous for its presence in Hollywood films - will be completely empty, fearing that the supporters of the outgoing president carry out violent acts such as the one on 6 January, when they stormed the Capitol, in an action unprecedented in American history in which five people were killed, including a police officer.
The only thing that will be in the Mall will be
200,000 American flags in tribute to all the people who have not been able to attend
the ceremony.
THE TWO SCENARIOS OF THE CEREMONY
That 'field of flags' will be all that remains of the hundreds of thousands of people - the record, set by Barack Obama in 2008, is 1.8 million - who attend these events.
The only real witnesses to the
swearing in of the forty-sixth president of the United States
will be the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, the congressmen, the foreign ambassadors and the 'pool' of media that the White House covers daily.
All other invitations have been canceled
.
There will also be
25,000 soldiers with weapons of war
, who yesterday completed their deployment in Washington, a city of just 705,000 inhabitants, protecting the act.
At least
a dozen of them were relieved of their duties yesterday
after the FBI discovered that they are followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that Trump is fighting alone against a network of pedophiles that controls the world.
SECURITY PERIMETER PROTECTION OBSTACLES
It is another memory of Lincoln's inauguration when, as the writer
Julia Taft
, who was just 15 years old at the time and present at the event,
recounted
, "as soon as we occupied the places we had been assigned, we saw a line of snipers dressed in jackets. Greens go up to the roof. Rumor was that anyone who approached the president's carriage was going to be shot. "
In this inauguration,
the outgoing president
, Donald Trump,
will not be either
.
This is the first time that has happened since Martin Van Buren did not take the oath of office of William Henry Harrison in 1841.
Trump leaves Washington at 8 in the morning
(2 in the afternoon Spanish peninsular time), just at the time when preparations for the act of succession begin.
Also for the first time since this tradition was established, in 1825,
Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, will not receive their successor at their official residence
.
When the Bidens arrive, they will be greeted by the mayor of the White House, that is, the person in charge of maintaining the official residence.
His name is
Timothy Harleth
, and he has held that position since the first lady, Melania, took him from the Trump Hotel in Washington in May.
Trump will leave on Air Force One from
Andrews
Air Force
Base
, outside of Washington.
The outgoing president has demanded a red carpet and 21 salutes of honor in his farewell.
But the Armed Forces have not only rejected that request, but, on top of that, they
have canceled the act of farewell that they have rendered to the head of state for 40 years
.
Trump, thus, leaves without acknowledging his defeat at the polls,
abandoned by his own
.
Last night it was not confirmed that the vice president, Mike Pence, would attend Trump's march, but it was confirmed that he would attend Biden's inauguration.
And the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who had been one of Trump's greatest allies,
declared that the assault on the Capitol "was provoked by the president
.
"
Yet four-fifths of the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump insist there was voter fraud.
The result is the most tense opening in 120 years.
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