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Donald Trump assured that despite disagreeing with the outcome of the elections, he promised that “there will be an orderly transition on 20 from January” Donald Trump promises “orderly transition” after ratification of victory by Joe Biden. Photo: Yuri Gripas / EFE
By: EFE 10 from January 2021
The outgoing US president, Donald Trump, accepted that his Presidency will be a single mandate and promised an “orderly transition”, after Congress ratified the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
“In spite of that I totally disagree with the outcome of the elections, and the facts are on my side, however, there will be an orderly transition on 20 from January “, said Trump in a statement distributed on Twitter by one of his main advisers, Dan Scavino.
” I have always said that we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While 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 slogan.
Trump’s reaction came through Scavino because his own Twitter account The outgoing president is temporarily suspended, due to messages in which the president justified the assault on the Capitol by his supporters.
Trump did not fully acknowledge defeat In his statement, something that he promised his followers that he would “never” do, but did admit that his term is coming to an end, and that he will have to leave the White House next 20 from January.
Your message arrived minutes after the US Congress ratified the President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in a normally ceremonial gesture that led to Or in one of the darkest days in the history of the United States.
The US Vice President, Mike Pence, who was chairing the session, declared in the session that the ratification of Congress should be considered “sufficient” to accept the election of Biden.
Pence thus ended to a session that began early Wednesday afternoon and was interrupted by the extraordinary assault on the Capitol by the supporters of President Donald Trump , a siege that lasted almost four hours and left four dead, 14 police officers injured and at least 52 detained.
About two hours After the authorities managed to clear the Capitol and its surroundings, both houses of Congress returned to meet Join to continue with the process of ratification of the election results, which was already confirmed in December by the competent body in the US, the Electoral College.
The new session lasted more than seven hours due to the debate in both houses on two objections to the result of the elections in Pennsylvania and Arizona, both submitted by Trump’s allies.
There was never any prospect that the objections presented in Congress would succeed, since each of them must pass a vote in the plenary session and the Democrats, Biden’s party, are a majority in the House of Representatives .
However, Trump insisted on pressure legislators and Pence to assume powers that do not correspond to them under the Constitution and interfere in the session.
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