United States: Donald Trump breaks silence after his defeat

Donald Trump, almost absent from any public event since the presidential election, the outcome of which he continues to dispute, will emerge from the shadows, Friday, November 13, for his first public speech since the announcement of his defeat. Refusing to answer questions from the press for 10 days, the outgoing president must give a speech at 4 p.m. (9 p.m. GMT), from the gardens of the White House, on operation “Warp Speed”, which coordinates the strategy government vaccine on the virus.

The horizon has darkened further for the Republican billionaire, after new results confirming his electoral defeat to Joe Biden, himself fortified by the congratulations of China on Friday, following those of historic American allies, France, United Kingdom. United and Israel in the lead.

Second mandat Trump ?

Donald Trump, however, still claimed on Friday to be the winner of the presidential election. “A rigged election! He tweeted, continuing his questioning of the results, an unprecedented fact in American political history. And the supporters of the president, a tide of red caps “Make America Great Again”, with whom Donald Trump did not stop surrounding himself in the last hours of his campaign, continue to be bombarded with requests for financial participation for “Defend the election”. Some of the more radical of them are scheduled to demonstrate in Washington on Saturday, even though the Trump side is unable to produce a single hard piece of evidence to prove the existence of large-scale electoral fraud.

Donald Trump wrote in a tweet considering going to this protest, “It is heartwarming to see all this huge support, especially these spontaneous gatherings that are popping up across the country, including one big Saturday in DC. I might even try to come and say hello ”. As in a parallel reality, his most loyal ministers and advisers also ensure that the ground is being prepared for “a second Trump term”. “I think the president will participate in his own inauguration” in January, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told Fox News on Friday.

“Smooth transition”

Democrat Joe Biden, however, consolidated his victory in the presidential election, winning Arizona, whose confirmation of results Thursday evening had been slowed down by the massive use of postal voting, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Grand Canyon State had elected only Conservative candidates to the White House since Bill Clinton in 1996. Joe Biden has made the pandemic the number one priority of his future term. This week, he unveiled the names of the members of the crisis unit dedicated to working on the subject, upon entering the White House, scheduled for January 20.

This pandemic, regularly minimized by the Republican billionaire, plunged the country into its worst health crisis since the Spanish flu of 1918, its worst recession since the crisis of 1929, and weighed down its re-election campaign. Fueled by the rampant spread of the epidemic in the Midwest, the average infection now exceeds 100,000 new cases every day. An emergency that requires accelerating the transition process, say the Democrats.

“There are currently officials within the Ministry of Health who are preparing a vaccination campaign for February-March, when Joe Biden will be president,” his future chief of staff, Ron Klain, told MSNBC on Thursday. “The sooner we can involve our experts in charge of the transition in meetings with the people who plan the vaccination campaign, the smoother the transition can be …” But it is currently very hampered: only a handful of elected Republicans recognized the victory of Joe Biden. “The election is over”, swept the Democratic President of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Friday, insisting on the 78 million votes won by Joe Biden, a record.