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United States: Donald Trump Accepts Term End, Promises 'Orderly Transition'

2021-01-07T11:22:44.044Z


Minutes after Congress certified Joe Biden's victory in the election, the outgoing president issued a statement in which he promised an orderly transfer. Anyway, he insisted that he "totally disagree" with the result.


01/07/2021 6:30

  • Clarín.com

  • World

Updated 01/07/2021 7:30 AM

Donald Trump accepted this Thursday, after a chaotic day in Washington, that his presidency will be for a single term and

promised an "orderly transition"

, after Congress ratified the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden.


"Although I

totally disagree

with the outcome of the election, and the facts are on my side, however, there will be an orderly transition on January 20," Trump said in a statement distributed on Twitter by one of his principals. advisors, Dan Scavino.


"I've always said that we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. Although this represents the end of the best first term in presidential history, it is only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!" he added, citing his electoral motto.


Trump's reaction came through Scavino because the outgoing president's own Twitter account is temporarily suspended, due to messages in which the president justified the assault on the Capitol by his supporters.


Trump did not fully acknowledge the defeat in his statement, something he promised his followers that he would "never" do, but he did

admit that his term is coming to an end, and that he will have to leave the White House on January 20

.


His message came minutes after the US Congress ratified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in a normally ceremonial gesture that led to one of the darkest days in American history.


The session in which Joe Biden's triumph was finally validated.

(AFP)

US Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the session, declared that congressional ratification should be considered "sufficient" to accept Biden's election.


Pence thus ended a session that began early Wednesday afternoon and was interrupted by the extraordinary

assault on the Capitol

by the followers of President Donald Trump, a siege that lasted almost four hours and left four dead, 14 police officers injured and at least 52 arrested.


About two hours after the authorities managed to clear the Capitol and its surroundings, both houses of Congress met again to continue with the process of ratifying the result of the elections, which was confirmed in December by the competent body in the United States. ., the Electoral College.


The new session lasted more than seven hours due to the debate in both houses on two objections to the results of the elections in Pennsylvania and in Arizona, both presented by Trump allies.

There was never any prospect that the objections raised in Congress would be successful, since each of them must pass a vote in plenary and the Democrats, Biden's party, are a majority in the House of Representatives.

However, Trump insisted on pressuring legislators and Pence to assume powers that do not correspond to them under the Constitution and interfere in the session.

(Agencies)

Source: clarin

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