An explosion caused by a police ammunition during the protest of supporters of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in front of the Capitol. Leah Millis / REUTERS
Don't look at what it says, look at what it does and how it governs.
For four years, Donald Trump voters have taken the iron out of the Republican's incendiary rhetoric by arguing that “his tweets” - as if a threat posted on Twitter were less of a threat - unhinged the soft-skinned while his administration simply developed a lifelong conservative agenda.
How much do the words of a president matter?
What impact do astracanadas have?
The United States has been exploring these unknowns since January 20, 2017, the date the New York businessman was sworn in, and this Wednesday he has looked into the abyss.
Trump had been waving the specter of electoral fraud for months, as he did in the 2016 presidential elections, as polls pointed to him as a loser.
The difference is that this time, in effect, he was defeated by the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, and then began a forward flight in which he relentlessly encouraged the anger of his more anti-establishment supporters.
This Wednesday, in full panic, with thousands of his acolytes besieging Congress, his arsonist vocation reached a paroxysm.
“These are the things and events that occur when a sacred and overwhelming victory is wrested from aggressive great patriots who have long been treated badly and unfairly.
Go home in peace and love.
Remember this day forever, "he wrote on his Twitter account.
Earlier, in a videotaped statement after hours of fear and chaos, he had launched a first petition to his followers to leave the Capitol, but the short speech began by insisting on the conspiracy theory of fraud.
“I know your pain and your suffering, there has been an election that has been stolen from us, it was an election won with difference, and everyone knows it, especially the other side,” he said, but now, he added, “you must all go home, leave. in peace".
"It is a very hard time, there has not been another moment in which something like this could have happened, that they could take away [a victory] from you, from me, from everyone, in a fraudulent election," he added.
The republican intensified his crusade against the will of the Americans expressed at the polls as of November 5, when it was already known to have expired, although the result would be confirmed on 7. That Thursday afternoon he summoned the press in the same White House to drop a cluster bomb on the legitimacy of the United States electoral system, on the authorities of the territories that gave the victory to Biden and on the Democrat himself.
“If you count the legal votes, I win easily.
If you count the illegals, the ones who have arrived late, they can try to steal the elections from us, ”he said.
Along these lines, he accused the media, economic powers and big technology companies of "historic electoral interference."
The president and his allies maintained that there had been massive fraud in the states that had been decisive in his defeat - Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona and Michigan - that thousands of Trumpist votes had been destroyed, that Democrats they had filled the ballot boxes with the ballots of the deceased ... The judicial offensive began and neither the electoral authorities of those territories, nor the courts, nor the Department of Justice found evidence of such an operation.
Meanwhile, however, conspiracy theories did not stop growing, until reaching the grotesque.
The head of his legal team, Rudy Giuliani (former mayor of New York), denounced a "national conspiracy" on November 19, compared the count to the Joe Pesci film
My Cousin Vinny
and falsely argued that the votes were counted in Spain and Germany by a Venezuelan company of "allies of Maduro and Chávez" and also through a Spanish company, in reference to Indra, another lie.
The Trumpistas took to the streets.
They called a large demonstration on November 14 in Washington and another on December 12 the group "Stop the robbery."
Trump's team and his supporters lost more than 50 lawsuits in a conservative-majority Supreme Court, with three of its nine justices appointed by Trump himself, who also unanimously declined to intervene.
Still, Trump continued his campaign on Twitter, flagging Republicans who didn't follow him in his conspiracy campaign as traitors.
"Brian Kemp should resign from his post, he is an obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia," he said of the governor of that territory last week.
On Saturday, like someone who believes himself unpunished, he even phoned Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to urge him to "find" the "11,780 votes" he needed to reverse Biden's victory, insisting on this alleged fraud.
It didn't work.
This Wednesday, his faithful returned to the streets.
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