With the unconditional support of the large ultra group that follows his instructions in Congress, plus the consent of a large part of the Republican Party apparatus and the absolute and shameless support of the Fox network, Donald Trump has just launched the total war against President Joe Biden with a view to the revenge he wants to turn the 2024 elections into.
Hours after confirming the decision of the special prosecutor Jack Smith to notify him of his probable imminent imputation for serious criminal crimes in the assault on the Capitol and in all his attempts to falsify the 2020 elections, the former republican president took advantage of a friendly interview in the Fox chain, on Tuesday night, to launch the neck of his opponent with a clear request to the conservative congressmen: “Why do you not accuse you Inas of millions of dollars (from China)? Why is Biden not under impeachment?
The question was a clear signal to his people in the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to launch the impeachment procedure that, with the imputation of a crime as a requirement, the United States has established so that Congress can investigate, accuse and, by qualified majority, remove its president if it is ruled that he actually committed a serious crime.
Hand in hand with the presenter Sean Hannity in one of the most complacent interviews seen in the US lately, the ultra leader argued that Biden is “a compromised president” because of his son Hunter’s businesses in China, among other countries: a matter for which the most Trumpist congressmen are leading an investigation into “the Biden family” in the House of Representatives. The investigation acquired new heights yesterday when a veteran agent of the criminal investigation division of the tax agency, the Democrat Joseph Ziegler, accused the Department of Justice of obstructing the tax investigation against Hunter Biden and of avoiding his indictment for crimes more serious than the offenses he recently admitted to having committed in an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office.
To the petition for impeachment against Biden precisely because of his son’s unclear activities, Trump added on Tuesday new accusations of instrumentalization of justice, by the president, in order to expel him from politics and sink him. “This situation bothers me,” Trump started. He was referring to the letter he received on Sunday from the Prosecutor’s Office to inform him that he is under investigation for the assault on the Capitol – which he instigated on January 6, 2021 in order to stop the proclamation of his electoral defeat – and for the rest of his attempts to falsify the result of the November 2020 presidential elections.
Jack Smith’s letter, where he gave Trump the opportunity to explain himself before the grand jury in the usual process prior to an indictment, mentioned – it was learned yesterday – three federal crimes and therefore three possible charges against the former president: conspiracy to defraud the US, witness tampering and deprivation of rights.
Given the high possibility of facing such charges, Trump accused Biden and the attorney general and attorney general, Merrick Garland, of having turned this department into “an absolute weapon for the Democrats”; a weapon that serves the same, he said, to manage the borders than to accuse him and, thus, condition the elections: “The people of our great country understand perfectly what is happening. It is electoral interference. It is an armament of justice, ”he said.
Trump’s attack as a result of this probable new indictment, the third after the recent formulation of 37 charges against him for hiding classified documents in his home and another 34 for bribing actress Stormy Daniels, coincides with the start of a debate within the Republican Party on the advisability of launching an impeachment, also, against Attorney General Garland. The Republicans had practically discarded the option of mounting this impeachment trial, considering that it could lack foundation and it was easier to do it with other high officials, such as the secretary of Homeland Security and head of federal policy on the border, Alejandro Mayorkas. But at the end of June the Republican president of the House of Representatives, the supposedly moderate Kevin McCarthy, surprised locals and strangers by suggesting the impeachment of Garland if it is shown that the Prosecutor’s Office lied in the Hunter Biden case: a significant turn, in the direction that Trump wants, by the parliamentary leader of the conservative formation.
In his conversation the night before last with the Fox presenter, the former president seasoned his attacks and political messages against Biden and company with insinuations of all kinds about the state and behavior of the ruler. Alluding to a reference to his mental health served by Hannity, Trump said that this is a “very serious” issue because you can’t joke about the fact that “we are in the nuclear age and we have a man running our country who has no idea.”
Trump even allowed himself to take advantage of the recent discovery of a small amount of cocaine in the White House, and dropped that this substance is “pretty bad” especially “if it is used by someone who is making decisions.”
Hours after his interview and the news of his third accusation, the former president received two other adverse notices from the courts yesterday. In the most striking, a federal judge in Manhattan rejected his claim that the civil trial be repeated or the sentence of the case in which, last May, a jury sentenced him to compensate the writer Jean Carroll with 5 million dollars for having sexually assaulted and then defamed her.
In the other unfavorable ruling for him, the Michigan Prosecutor’s Office charged a total of eight crimes to the 16 Republicans who posed as electoral delegates to falsify the results of the 2020 presidential elections in that state with the purpose of proclaiming the victory of the ex-president.
Until now, however, the problems with justice have not made a dent in the electoral prospects of the ultra leader. The latest polls show, on the contrary, that after his first two charges, Trump has increased the lead over his main Republican rival in the party’s primaries, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; the difference is already almost 30 points. And there is more than one poll in which the former president surpasses Joe Biden in vote expectation by 2024.
To what extent are the Republican electorate and the party itself willing to overlook the crimes attributed to their leader? It is the big question in the United States, with no clear answer in the short term.
