For the expert in international relations, Dominique Moïsi, Donald Trump is the big loser of the day of violence on January 6 and could risk prison after leaving the White House.
Can Donald Trump be sued after the Capitol invasion?
DOMINIQUE MOÏSI.
There should be very serious legal consequences when he leaves the White House.
I hear those who speak today of impeachment, or of resorting to the 25th Amendment, but the deadlines are too short.
Furthermore, it can present a political risk, making Trump a martyr in the eyes of his supporters.
He signed his political end on Wednesday?
The big loser of this day is Donald Trump himself.
For the first time, the Republican Party has distanced itself from him, Vice President Mike Pence has shown himself worthy of his role as defender of democratic institutions, as has the President of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell.
Trump is ending his presidency as a tragic, somewhat mentally disturbed figure.
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Could he risk jail after the White House?
Yes, absolutely.
With his encouragement of sedition resulting in chaos, he could be held criminally responsible for the deaths of American citizens, driven by his speech to take over the Capitol.
It will be up to American justice to decide, Donald Trump will be a citizen like any other, he will be alone before the judges.
How to explain his relentlessness?
It would be necessary to appeal to psychoanalysis, to deepen his relationship with his father, the total absence of moral principles in his education, his playful side, his absolute narcissism.
He is unable to accept defeat, he who did not expect to be elected four years ago.
He saw it as a revenge for the social humiliation inflicted on him by good New York society, which had never accepted him as one of its own despite his money.
Psychology plays more than the fear of criminal and financial prosecution.
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Can the Republican Party Really Separate from Trumpism?
That's the whole question!
We can believe it, listening in particular to the statements of party officials in Georgia: they claim that the responsibility for the defeat of the two Republican candidates for the Senate is 100% attributable to Donald Trump.
He sees himself treated as a losing machine for the party, having achieved the feat of losing the presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives in four years!
On the one hand, the elites have rallied to the positions hitherto held by Mitt Romney alone, the former Republican presidential candidate.
And on the other side ?
There are the steadfast supporters.
It remains to be seen whether this day of January 6 will appear in history as that of the end of Trump, as his last stand of dishonor ... or on the contrary as the trial run of Trumpism.
That is to say ?
The historical comparison that comes to mind is the Munich putsch, when Hitler tries to seize power on the night of November 8-9, 1923. A failure, Hitler is thrown in prison, but this becomes the founding moment in mythology of Nazism.
Will this January 6 play that role for Trump?
It would be the most terrifying scenario, that of the founding moment in the mythology of the American far right.
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What consequences can be drawn from this for the rest of the world?
What happened in the United States concerns all of our democracies;
the yellow vests could have taken the Elysee.
Our democratic systems are fragile because they suffer from polarization, from a total division within our societies.
There are two Americas, just as there could be two France, two Great Britain, etc.
This phenomenon is accelerated and reinforced by the revolution of communication, Internet, Twitter ... Social networks can no longer distinguish the true from the false, are a weapon at the service of extremists.
In addition, society is very weakened by the explosion of inequalities at the time of Covid-19.