Damascus-Sana
US President Donald Trump and his White House aides are having a hard time following scandals one after the other. Gather credible data on Robert Mueller's 2016 presidential election probe and add to a new economic scandal over his tax fraud.
Trump, who has not yet recovered from the shock of the intelligence complaint against him over his contact with Zelinski and pressuring the latter to discredit his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, received a new shock yesterday after the New York Times revealed that he had asked Morrison in a phone call to help the US Attorney General Bill Bar in order to gather information to open an investigation aimed at undermining the credibility of Muller's investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US elections.
The White House blocked access to the transcript in the same way as Trump's last transcript with Zelinsky, but it went out of control after an intelligence informant filed a formal complaint about the president's abuses, which gave Democrats in Congress the courage to start. By formal accountability procedures.
What the New York Times revealed was not the only blow to Trump in a matter of days. The Washington Post came to deal a stronger blow by revealing another secret complaint against the US president, this time about his tampering with his tax statements, which could be a crucial point in accountability measures against him and boost Democrats' pursuit. isolation.
The president of the House of Representatives Committee on Democratic Ways and Media has consulted with House attorneys about the publication of a new complaint filed by a federal official and revealed what it said about Trump's "inappropriate efforts" and his administration to influence the scrutiny of his tax statements.
In July, Trump filed a lawsuit to block the Commission on Ways and Media to obtain his tax records from New York state after the White House refused to hand over his tax data to Democrats despite their repeated requests, in contravention of prevailing tax control laws for US presidents.
The Washington Post is likely to reveal the new complaint, if it is made public, as embarrassing for Trump as his legally questionable financial dealings or reveal his use of his presidency for private profits.
Trump's successive slaps have made him flounder in the face of what is happening, especially as the American public is clearly inclined to continue with the accountability and isolation measures, where a new opinion poll published on the website "US News" showed that 55 percent of Americans support accountability Trump in order to isolate him.
Trump's efforts to contain the scandals made him fall into more mistakes and problems as he continued to attack his Democratic opponents and launch inappropriate words to describe them in addition to throwing indiscriminate charges on officials in his administration and attempts to show himself as a victim. There have been 87 tweets in the past few days, most of them involving stinging attacks on Democrats and videos of excerpts from a talk show on Fox News aimed at defending him and covering up his apparent abuses or denying them even though they were documented in the phone calls. He made his own or through attempts to distract attention by focusing on the identity of the informant who filed the complaint in the first place and demanding its disclosure.
The chaos that has become apparent in Fox News's pro-Trump programs reflected the confusion and impotence that Trump is currently feeling and revealed his full readiness to do anything to meet the challenges in Congress. The outbreak of a "civil war" in the United States, if isolated, is a clear threat to what he can do in return for saving himself.
Bassima Kenoun