The president of the United States, Joe Bidenwill attend Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, the White House said, even though the Republican skipped the Democrat’s own inauguration four years ago.
“The president promised that he would attend the inauguration of whoever won the elections. “He and the first lady will keep that promise and attend the inauguration,” Biden’s deputy press secretary told reporters. Andrew Bates.
After winning the elections on November 5, Donald Trump continues to accumulate victories. The special prosecutor’s decision Jack Smith dismissing this Monday the case of the assault on the Capitol and that of the classified documents brings the future president closer to emerging unscathed, despite being the first United States leader to be criminally convicted.
Aware of the rule that prevents the Department of Justice from proceeding with criminal charges against a sitting president, Smith had no choice but to present two judicial documents to request that the cases be dismissed, before the January 20 inauguration.
All this after last Friday the judge Juan Merchan of New York decided to postpone without a date the sentence against Trump for the only case for which he had been convicted, the falsification of business records for irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Far from damaging your image, each of his presentations in court ended up becoming another campaign act. In fact, he frequently commented that on his first day as president he would fire Smith and order the Justice Department to close the cases against him.
There was no need, since Smith has thrown in the towel before, both in Washington DC and in Florida. Trump will most likely emerge unscathed from having instigated violence on January 6, 2021, when a mob of protesters stormed Congress, leaving five dead, dozens injured and an unforgettable image, that of the invaded Capitol.
And he will not pay a sentence for having improperly stored – even in one of the bathrooms of his mansion – classified documents in his already famous club in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
In his trial in the Big Apple for falsifying business records, the judge decided on Friday to postpone the sentence without a date, which raises several scenarios: that he ends up dismissing the case, that he reduces his sentence – he faces up to four years of prison – or delay it until after his new mandate.
That of the irregular payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an affair he had with her, the only case for which he had been convicted, is therefore one step away from being dismissed. The judge announced the sentence in May and Trump then became the first former president found guilty.
Meanwhile, the electoral interference case in Georgia is also up in the air, waiting to see if the Fulton County prosecutor, Fani Willis, another of Trump’s most obstinate hunters, is disqualified after it was discovered that she had an affair with the special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
According to sources close to the case cited by US media, it is unlikely that a state magistrate will allow the case to go to trial once Trump is president.
Added to all this is the fact that the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, granted him partial immunity in July for crimes he may have committed while he held the position of president, a decision that had also given an impetus to the future president emerged unscathed in most cases.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
