Instead of a peaceful transfer of power - the "hellish battle", arranged by supporters of Trump

The drama with the summarizing of the US presidential elections, held on November 3, was supposed to end at a joint meeting of both chambers of Congress, gathered in accordance with the Constitution on the sixth day of January at 13 o’clock in the east coast (21 hours Moscow time). Instead, America and the whole world were seen by events that have not taken place since 1814, when the British troops captured Washington, including Capitols.

This time, the supporters of Donald Trump, who went to the capital at the presidential call, after his rather provocative speech moved to the Capitol Hill, broke through the numbers arranged by the Capitol police and, breaking the windows and doors, despite the tear gas, broke through the building, after which they held it for several hours. The "Trumpists" entered the cabinet of the speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and were photographed in the main hall of meetings. Shots were heard. The injuries of several people, including the police officer, are reported. In the hospital from the wounds, one of the protesters - Ashley Babbitt, a veteran of the army, a convinced support of Trump, died.

Unlike protests related to the Vietnamese War, this time the crowd actually stormed the main building of the American legislative power.

Well, Trump promised the "hellish battle" instead of the peaceful transfer of power. However, neither the police nor legislators - no one expected such a development of events.

The governor of the neighboring state of Virginia introduced the police forces into the capital, the National Guard was involved. The vice president of the penalty and members of the Congress were hastily evacuated, they were given a gas mask. The Congress library was previously closed, the staff was hastily evacuated. 4 hours after the start of excitement, when the elected President Joe Biden and, finally, the main culprit of the “assault on the Capitol” Trump, the building of the Congress was cleared of the crowd bursting there, made the crowd bursting there. The forces pulled into Washington acted decisively, but without excessive violence - displacing the protesters to the outside and from the Capitol Hill. In Washington, as well as the nearby cities of Alexandria and Arlington, a curfew was announced - from 6 pm to 6 in the morning.

About everything in order.

Procedure

As the founding fathers also decided, at a meeting on January 6, the president of the upper house of Congress-the Senate (he is the current vice president)-must hear and approve the results of the voting college, which took place on December 14. This year, there were no so -called “dishonest electors” in the presidential election. 538 Electors voted strictly in accordance with the results recorded and approved by election commissions of 50 states and the Columbia District. Biden has 306 votes, Trump has 232. 270 enough to win.

Donald Trump did not recognize the election, but was defeated in the courts. Over 60 claims demanding to cancel the results filed by his team in various states were rejected due to the lack of evidence of abuse and election fraud. On December 1, the Prosecutor General William Barr appointed by Trump, who showed himself a consistent supporter of the president during the investigation of the special prosecutor Muller and the impeachment procedure in Congress, this time went against Trump and said that the Ministry of Justice he headed did not find evidence of falsifications in the elections. On December 12, the US Supreme Court (where the conservative majority was strengthened by 3 judges who put forward Trump to the college) rejected Texas’s claim to the “oscillating” states where Biden defeated. There were three recounts of votes in the state of Georgia. The latter - December 31 in the Cobb district - completed a check of signatures on ballots sent by mail, and found two errors. At the same time, Trump previously declared thousands of errors.

Incitement

It seemed that there was no thin one without good. Although all the ill -wishers of this country, the principles of separation of powers (an independent court) and the resistance of officials to the president, if they believed that the head of the White House exceeded the authority, showed that the system of “retirement and counterparts” are working, were openly mocked over the American elections (in connection with the protracted procedures).

Nevertheless, the president called on his supporters to gather in Washington on January 6 - on the day of approval of the results of the elections. Trump called on Vice President Mike Pence, no less on the election results. According to the rules, certificates received by Congress from the States to December 23 (according to the results of voting on December 14, 538 electors) are read and approved in alphabetical order. In order to challenge the results of the elections in any of the states, at least one legislator from each chamber must object to state voters. Legislators do not need to explain in detail why they object; They simply object in writing, which the penalty reads out loud. On the eve of the session, the Vice President Pence said that he has no authority to reject the votes of the college of electors, calling his role in a joint meeting of the Congress to calculate the ballots “largely ceremonial”. Always loyal penalty also refused Trump.

In a letter to Congress, published after President Trump called him to take measures in his speech to cancel the elections, Pence wrote: “My deliberate position is that the oath of me to support and protect the constitution does not allow me to claim unilateral powers to determine which votes of voters should be calculated and which are not.” According to New York Times, the Vice President announced his position to Trump on Wednesday, the president habitually called the publication a “fake”.

“If Mike Pence will act correctly, we will win the elections,” Trump told thousands of supporters who gathered in the Ellipse park near the White House, an hour before the start of the vote in Congress.

“All that Vice President needs to be done is to send the results back to the States for re-certification, and I will become the president, and you are the happiest people,” Trump said. He spoke 75 minutes. “Mike Pence will have to go through this for us,” said Trump, “and if he doesn’t, it will be a sad day for our country.” “We will never give up, we will never give in.

You do not give way when it comes to theft, ”Trump said to the crowd of supporters who chanted“ USA! ” And they waved anti -Biden banners.

Trump said Biden will be an “illegitimate” president.

His speech became a detonator of the followed events that developed in parallel: inside and outside the Capitol. Remember, on the television battles Trump, instead of condemning the militarized group “Proud Guys”, which affirms the superiority of the white race, said: “Step to the side and be ready.” So, on Wednesday, proud guys were in Washington.

Attempts to challenge

The day before, more than 100 Republicans in the House of Representatives said that they would try to challenge the election results, and a dozen senators from the Republican Party promised to join them. Senators Josh Hawie from Missouri and Ted Cruz from Texas demanded to organize a ten -day audit of elections in those states where, according to Trump, he “stole victory”. It is curious that the leader of the Republicans in the upper house Mitch MacConnell said that “we must move on”, “too late” to challenge the election results. If we cross out the vote of voters, we will cause irreparable damage to the state, said Mitch MacConnell. The Republican Party split in this matter, but the "Trumpists" fulfilled the plan, which delayed the statement as Biden and Harris.

The first to challenge the voting results in Arizona. In accordance with the procedure in this case, the general meeting of the two chambers is interrupted, they diverge to sit separately. According to the rules, the procedure for discussing elections in each state can last a maximum of 2 hours, each congressman has 5 minutes for the performance, then both chambers vote separately, making a decision. To cancel the elections, most in both wards are needed, which is impossible. The Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, and in the repeated elections in the state of Georgia, they, according to media reports, won two more places (the black preacher Rafael Waronka won-the first African American senator from the southern state-and a 33-year-old journalist-investigator who worked in the BBC, John Ossoff, who became the youngest Senator of the United States), thus getting control in this way) And above the upper house.

That is, Trump has no objectively chances. You can delay, but not cancel Biden’s final victory, which should take the oath of the president on January 20. Meanwhile, events developed rapidly.

Storm

So far, in two chambers discussed the results of the elections in Arizona, after 22 hours Moscow time, shots flew around the whole world, as supporters of the 45th president broke through the police barriers and penetrated the main building of Congress.

This happened contrary to the law, contrary to the statements of many republican politicians, contrary to the position of the vice president and the Prosecutor General.

Political observers on the air admitted: "We have not seen this."

All national television channels, interrupting regular broadcasting, conducted direct reports from the capital. Biden made a television one an hour and a half after the capture of the Capitol, calling what was happening as a rebellion rather than a protest, since its participants "threaten the safety of elected officials." Biden noted that the events in Washington will disgrace the United States to all humanity. He called on Trump to immediately perform on television and demand to stop the siege of Congress. “The president’s words are important, no matter how good or bad he is. In the best case, the president’s words may be inspired. In the worst case, they can incite, ”said the elected president. Almost 2 hours after the start of the unrest, Trump posted a video message on Twitter, in which he said that he “shares the pain” of protesters and indignation with “falsified” elections, but asks them to disperse home for the sake of peace. The social network administration banned the copying of this tweet and accompanied it with a comment: "The statement of falsification of elections is controversial." The commentary also states that the opportunity to put “like” under the president’s statement is also blocked, because “it can light violence.” Later, Twitter and Facebook temporarily blocked Trump notes - respectively for 12 and 24 hours.

Many Republicans of the Congress condemned Trump’s actions: first, an appeal to the supporters at the rally, then a long silence, when they broke into the Capitol and fought with the police, and, finally, his ambiguous call to “disperse for the sake of peace”, but at the same time expressed by the leaving president, support for protest. Breeding into the Capitol and tore off the statement of the elections of the elections can threaten 20 years in prison. The congress sounds immediately, without waiting on January 20, to remove Trump from office for incitement to violence and riots, for example, in accordance with the 25th amendment (“Inability to perform the duties of the president”).

Consequences

Having gathered on Wednesday late in the evening, both chambers of the Congress approved the results of the presidential election. Biden is officially the 46th president of the United States, who will take office on January 20.

The Pentagon is transferring to Washington more than 5,000 additional military personnel of the National Guard from the six states, and these troops will remain there until the inauguration of January 20. After the desperate call of the mayor of Washington, Muriel Bower Pentagon mobilized all 1,100 troops of the National Guard of the Colombia district to confront the crowd that stormed the Capitol.

Donald Trump, after a 12-hour ban on Twitter, published a video in which he said that he would provide a “peace transition of the power of the new administration”, although he does not recognize his defeat. Trump later said that he would not attend Biden's inauguration. They promised to come Clinton, Bush Ml. And Obama. In his video, Trump claims that he "immediately unfolded the National Guard" to "expel attackers." However, the media, referring to sources in the White House, report that he resisted these calls and that it was in fact that the vice president of Pence ordered to deploy the National Guard. “The demonstrators who penetrated the Capitol defiled the place of American democracy, those who violated the law will pay for this,” Trump says now, although the day before he finished the video message, in which the rebels said “go home”, “I love you, you are special.”

After the events of January 6, Trump from a politician, to which many predicted victory in the elections in 2024 and returning to the White House, turned into a paria in his own party. The most important art for a politician - to leave in time - turned out, as they say here, "not his cup of tea." Now, according to reports from the White House, while the president is still discussing the possibility of declaring pardon with the staff ... to himself in the event of future claims. Two ministers - the transport of Elaine Cao and the formation of Betsy Devos - resigned in protest. In his petition, Devos writes to the president: “There is no doubt about what influence your rhetoric had on the situation, and for me this is a turning point ... A peaceful transfer of power is that it separates American representative democracy from the banana republics.” All ministers, with the exception of the Secretary for Army Veterans, condemned the actions of the crowd bursting into the Capitol.

The congress sounds immediately, without waiting on January 20, to remove Trump from office for incitement to violence and riots in accordance with the 25th amendment: “The inability to fulfill the duties of the president.” If the Vice President Pence does not initiate this issue, the House of Representatives in the middle of the week initiates the Trump impeachment procedure, the second president for this. At least two republican congressmen said they were ready to consider new impeachment. The vice president of Pence rejects Trump’s removal on the 25th correction, believing that this can lead to a deterioration in the situation. It is reported that the members of the Cabinet of Ministers informally discussed with the employees the application of the 25th amendments regarding the outgoing president. It is unclear how quickly the Democrats will be able to achieve the impeachment of Trump. There is no clear precedent in order to judge the already former official in the Senate, especially since a few days remained until the end of the term.

In the editorial article “Wall Street Journal”, the American flagship of the newspaper empire Rupert Murdok, Trump is condemned for inciting the crowd of his supporters to the assault on the Capitol, such behavior “worthy of impeachment”. The editors of WSJ calls for Trump to resign to prevent a second impeachment. And the conclusion: "This week probably closed Trump as a serious political figure."

“What happened yesterday on the Capitol Hill is a direct result of the fact that Trump poisoned people's minds with lies and fraud,” said the former head of the presidential administration, John Kelly, who left the post two years ago. And the newly resigned, prosecutor general William Barr said that President Trump “betrayed his office and supporters”, encouraging the crowd to intimidate the congress so that he canceled the election results.

The Ministry of Justice said that it does not exclude the charges of accusations to President Trump of encouraging the crowd of his supporters to the march against the Capitol just before thousands of people stormed the building. “We look at all the characters, and not just the people who entered the building,” said Michael Shervin, a prosecutor in the district of Columbia. And he repeated this answer when the journalists directly asked if he had in mind Trump, adding: "If the evidence corresponds to the signs of a crime, the charges will be brought."

So Trump, who wants to pardon himself in advance, the current advisers and family members - the daughter of Ivanka, the son -in -law Jared Kushner - have reasons to fear judicial persecution as soon as he leaves the White House. As the media noted, lawyers believe that “self -watering” may not work, there are no precedents and the legal framework.

The full -time propagandists, who these days on Russian federal television channels colorfully describe the “fall of the Capitol and sunset of America” and, showing the collisions of the crowd with the police, ask the Russian electorate: “Do you want as in Vishinton?”, It is in this place that you want to ask the question: “Are you serious, do not see the difference”?

PS

While the text was preparing for the publication, according to the police of the Columbia district, it became known that at the moment four of the dead, dozens of people were injured, two police officers were hospitalized. The emergency mode in Washington is extended to the inauguration of Biden.

On the night of January 7, both wards of the US Congress officially approved the votes of electors and the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the race for the presidency.