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US Donald Trump resorts to the courts for the delivery of documents of the assault on the Capitol
The idea of a head of state and government advocating the hanging by an angry mass of a political leader is rare in the Western world. The idea that the person whose hanging the statesman in question advocates was his own 'number two', selected by himself, is unparalleled. It is something that is more reminiscent of Afghanistan in the period 1992-1995, when the prime minister, the propakistani Gulbuddin Heckmatyar, reduced to rubble the capital of the country, Kabul, where the president, Burhanuddin Rabbani was.
A quarter of a century later, and fortunately without the bombings, that same concept of the separation of powers seems to have been embraced by Donald Trump.
The former US president considers it "common sense" that his supporters wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence when they stormed the US Congress on January 6.
This is what Trump declares in an interview with the ABC television journalist Jonathan Karl when he tells him how "terrible" were the cries of
"We must hang Mike Pence!"
with which Trump supporters entered the Capitol where, precisely, the vice president was.
"Because it was common sense, Jon," says Trump, referring to the journalist by his short name.
"What can you do if the vote is fraudulent, how can you sanction a fraudulent vote in Congress, how can you do that?"
Says the former president, referring to the ratification, that same day, of the election results of the November 3, which was won by incumbent President Joe Biden. A year has passed since the election and Trump, who got seven million fewer votes than Biden, continues to say there was fraud.
All his legal initiatives have been rejected in court,
and the counting of votes in Arizona carried out by his supporters ended two months ago with more ballots for Biden than the official count. With his statements, Trump also denies his own thesis that the assault on Congress had been carried out by far-left groups disguised as followers of the former president.
The idea of Trump lends a certain morbid, in the literal sense of the term, to the presidential elections of 2024, since
both he and Pence are preparing to participate in them.
It will be interesting to see if in the debates of the primaries Trump advocates continuing the process that began on January 6 and finishing the job this time, that is, hanging the rival.
Although politics is already known to create strange bedfellows.
Returning to the case of Afghanistan, in 1995, after three years of war, Heckmatyar made peace with Rabbani and accepted the position of prime minister.
A new Trump-Pence 'ticket', therefore, is not, theoretically, discarded in 2024. But the vice president better be careful with his neck.
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