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Donald Trump left the White House this morning, ending four years of his controversial presidency, and without waiting to complete the protocol for handing over command to his successor, Joe Biden.
Thus, a Republican government marked by the Power conflicts and racial and verbal tensions that evolved into deadly violence when his followers stormed the Capitol on January 6, in an attempt to stop the electoral confirmation of the Democratic candidate , leaving five people dead.
The coronavirus pandemic, which yesterday added more than 400 1,000 deaths in the US, marked Trump’s last year in power and the election campaign, leading him to fiercely question the legitimacy of the Results for the massive early voting to avoid contagions.
To their 74 years, Trump will not return to New York, his native state and habitual residence. Now Florida will be the home for him and his children, in different locations.
The now former president had already moved a few years ago his tax residence from NY to Florida. “Despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in municipal, state and local taxes each year, the political leaders of the city and the state have treated me very badly ”, complained in the fall of 2019.
Trump and his wife Melania took off in a helicopter at the White House for the base. Andrews (Maryland) bound for Palm Beach (Florida), around 8: 15 am, three hours before Biden’s inauguration as the number president 46 from USA
From 1992, when George HW Bush (R) was defeated, no other US president had lost reelection. Interestingly, he was also the last vice president to later become president (1988), a feat now Biden is repeating.
Biden’s running mate, former Senator Kamala Harris, will mark another milestone today, by becoming the highest ranking woman in the executive branch in U.S. history.
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President Trump to depart the White House.
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