Trump shuns responsibility for violence unleashed on Capitol Hill

No forgiveness, no regret, no hint of a change in tone.

In his first public appearance since hordes of his followers stormed the Capitol last Wednesday, in a coup that left five dead and numerous officers injured, Donald Trump said Tuesday that his comments haranguing the rebellious crowd were "totally appropriate ”.

And, again playing on the fire of anger from his rank and file, he added that Congress' efforts to destroy it are causing "tremendous anger."

On the fateful Wednesday the 6th, on the stage set up next to the White House for the "March to save America", the president encouraged his thousands of followers, from all over the country, to "fight like the devil" and march towards the Capitol to protest.

"People believe that what I said was totally appropriate," said Trump on Tuesday, before undertaking a visit to the border with Mexico in Texas, responding for the first time to journalists since the assault on the Capitol.

After suspending Twitter and Facebook their profiles on social networks, considering that their activity in them incites violence, the president has lost what has been his main means of communication in recent years, which has banished him from the public conversation in a country shocked by the violence perpetrated in his name last week.

Trump has evaded questions about his responsibility for the events and wanted to downplay the historic assault on the Capitol, comparing it to the protests for racial justice, also violent at times, that swept the country last summer.

"If you look at what other people have said, high-level politicians, about the riots during the summer, that was a real problem," he defended.

While the FBI and the Pentagon warn that the extreme right plans new violent marches before the inauguration of Joe Biden next week, both in Washington and in the legislative houses of all states, the president has not hesitated to accuse the Democrats of causing "tremendous anger" in the country with the attempt to seek

impeachment

for the second time.

The House of Representatives is preparing to vote this Tuesday night on a resolution formally requesting Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to declare President Trump incapable of carrying out his duties and obligations and stripping him power.

The vote was set one day after the Democratic majority in the lower house presented an

impeachment

article

accusing the president of "inciting violence against the state" by leading hordes of his followers to attack the Capitol to torpedo the democratic process.

If at the end of the 24-hour period the vice president does not intervene, the Democratic congressmen have announced that they will vote this Wednesday on the

impeachment

of the president, just the week before his term officially ends and the president-elect, Joe Biden, is sworn in in Washington.

"It is a really terrible thing that they are doing," Trump has said about the initiative of the Democrats in Congress, who seek to make him the first president in history to face

impeachment impeachment

trial twice

.

"I believe that continuing on this path is causing tremendous danger to our country, and is causing tremendous anger," he added.

Despite everything, he added: "I don't want violence."

In a maddened final stretch of a dizzying presidency, it's not just Democrats who believe Trump shouldn't even finish his last week in power.

At least two Republican senators have publicly declared to date that the president must leave "as soon as possible."

But it would not be far enough to remove Trump if the House of Representatives, with a Democratic majority, approves the

impeachment

article

drafted on Monday and sends it to the Senate, still controlled by the Republicans, to be hold the trial.

If held, the

impeachment

process

in the upper house could complicate the agenda of the first days of the Biden Administration, which will take over the country next Wednesday.

Among his immediate priorities is the promotion of a new legislative package to help an economy hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

The president-elect has suggested, in the event that the impeachment goes ahead, that the Senate divide its day in two, to dedicate half the time to the trial against Trump and the other half to advance the rescue package, as well as to the mandatory confirmation of the senior officials of the new Government.

Although the Senate ruled on

impeachment

with Trump outside the White House, supporters of the initiative argue that a guilty verdict would prevent him from starting a possible presidential race again.

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