Donald Trump alone on stage in Washington

In Washington

A strange silence reigns over Washington. The containment measures finally came into effect Tuesday evening in the district of Columbia, the small territory of the federal capital, at the same time as in the two neighboring states of Virginia and Maryland. Since then, deprived of its slammed inhabitants, the capital of the greatest power in the world has looked like a ghost town.

In deserted avenues, the traffic lights change from red to green to regulate missing traffic. The other bright spots in the twilight are those of the Liquor Stores signs. These stores authorized to sell alcohol, already often protected by Plexiglas hygiaphones and fences, are considered an essential trade and have the authorization to remain open. But the elegant restaurants where American political circles coexisted, the universe of The Hill, so nicknamed after the hill on which the Capitol rises, the

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