The United States faces an unprecedented (and dangerous) post-election scenario. The incumbent president refuses to accept that he has officially lost the elections and the president-elect is already acting as such despite the limitations of a blocked transfer of power. A train wreck dated: January 20, 2022, inauguration day.
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President Donald Trump, after months of feeding the narrative of possible electoral fraud, claims (without proof) that Joe Biden’s victory is invalid and has contested the results in decisive states. For the moment, his legal offensive has not borne fruit and no court endorses their claims. It’s more, election officials from across the country They assure that they did not see irregularities. The same has been said the electoral observation mission of the Organization of American States (OAS).
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This week, the Trump administration has passed from rhetoric to facts. He does not sign the necessary documents to initiate the transfer of powers, so the Biden team cannot access resources, spaces or intelligence reports. And, in another unmistakable sign of his decision to act as if he had won, the order to prepare budgets for 2022, which are presented in February, when the Democrats should already be in the White House.
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In parallel and with these difficulties, Biden strives to act as president-elect, with daily speeches in which he reels off his agenda and calls to foreign leaders. So far your strategy is downplaying Trump’s demands and blockades, so as not to fuel the conflict. But on Tuesday he already said that his behavior seems “shameful.”
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These are the five great dangers of this post-election scenario in the US:
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