Publication of the investigation report on the Capitole assault, tax authorities, republican dissensions at the Congress … The former American president has multiplied the reverse this week, without finding real support on the side of the Grand Old Party.
by piotr smolar (washington, correspondent)
This silence does not speak. He shouts. The absence of republican reactions in defense of Donald Trump was striking, after the recommendations made by the commission of inquiry on the assault of January 6, 2021. The elected officials of the House of Representatives called the Ministry of Justice, the December 19, to trigger criminal proceedings against the former president for four reasons.
their final report, 845 breathless pages, published in the evening of Thursday, December 22 , draws the central role of Donald Trump in the contestation of the lost election in November 2020, the campaign of lies and manipulations on imaginary fraud and mobilization of his supporters in front of the Capitol, whose violent potential he knew. Among the final suggestions made by the authors is that of making ineligible, in the future, the assault officials, including the former president.
“The whole nation knows who is responsible for this day,” said Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, in a statement earlier this week. Relations between the latter and Donald Trump are long -standing. But the fact that Mitch McConnell allows such remarks shows the weakening of the former leader.
While elected Maga (“Make America Great Again”, Donald Trump’s slogan) stood for a classical condemnation of the commission, accused of political vendetta, the former president had to charge himself of his defense. He welcomed the conclusions with unconvincing nonchalance, on his social social network: “These people do not understand that when they attack me, those who love freedom come together around me. This strengthens me . What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. “
In reality, this last week before Christmas is particularly painful for Donald Trump, also revealing gaping fractures within the Republican Party. They are illustrated by the passage in extremis in the Senate on Thursday, a train of gigantic expenses of $ 1,700 billion. This so -called “omnibus” law concerns many subjects, including a new Ukaine assistance package, up to $ 45 billion. The negotiations were very intense between the two parties – a tradition, at this time of the year – in order to avoid a “Shutdown”, a stop of activity of non -essential federal government missions. The vote in the Senate required the reinforcement, for the Democrats, of ten Republicans. The text went through 68 votes against 29.
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