Updated
Thursday, January 7, 2021 –
10:18
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Trump’s agenda is reduced to making “many calls” and rumors of a possible dismissal for “disability” spread
Acting Vice President Mike Pence at the tumultuous session of Congress to confirm Joe Biden’s presidency.
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To the email that the Communication Department from White House sends every night accredited journalists in Washington With the president’s agenda for the next day, there was no where to get it last night. He had only this sentence: “President Trump will work from early morning until very late at night. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
The literary style of the email suggests the possibility that the email itself Trump I would have dictated it. In any case, whatever the reason for such a nonsensical message, the president is isolated. The decision to mobilize the National Guard – a branch of the Armed Forces – was adopted by the vice president, Mike Pence, in coordination with the acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, the head of High Staff of the Armed Forces, The general Mark Milley, and the leaders – two Republicans and two Democrats – of the Congress. That is not news speculation: it is a message posted on the website of the Defense Department.
Nor was the cascade of resignations in the White House, although these only affect personnel of little political weight, such as the Social Secretary (which in the United States is the chief of protocol), Melania Trump’s chief of staff, or the deputy director of the Department of Communication. There were rumors, and many, of other more far-reaching resignations, including the director and deputy director of Homeland Security – the second of which, Matt Pottinger, has already made his resignation effective- and the Secretary of Transportation (wife of the Republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who will lose that position after the defeat of his party in Georgia). Even so, that does not affect the inner circle of Donald Trump. What is more, that intimate circle is reduced, in the last extreme, to two people: his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared.
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Other rumors, however, were highly speculative. Among them, the possibility that Mike Pence invoke her Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which opens the way for the president to be removed for “incapacity”. According to various media outlets, that was a possibility that was being considered “on a preliminary basis” by the Trump cabinet. Some Democrats from the House of Representatives They have asked Pence to start the process, but as long as they don’t have the support of any Republicans, the idea is not going anywhere. The reason is that the final decision would be in the hands of Congress, and it is highly unlikely that a sufficient number of Republicans would vote in favor to carry it out.
Something similar is possible to think of the possibility that Congress removes the president. A impeachment – a censorship of the House of Representatives – will go ahead. But the impeachment, again, would not be viable, because it would require the vote of 18 of the 50 Republicans who, today, are in the Senate, a figure that seems unattainable. There is, finally, the fact that there are only two weeks to go before the handover takes place. Thus, everything seems to indicate that Trump will continue in the White House, although probably with little contact with the rest of his team. Another thing, of course, is that the president, as is usual for him, surprise his allies – who, among the American political class, can be counted on the fingers of one hand – and his rivals.
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