This Monday, the US Congress certified Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections last November. Under the shadows, four years after the assault on the Capitol carried out by the magnate’s supporters to protest against his defeat in the penultimate elections, Trump has already crossed out all the procedures to assume power on January 20 at his inauguration.
For now, and almost at the same time, Trump’s arrival has already been felt on both sides of the Atlantic. On the one hand, the resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and, on the other, the criticism in Europe from Starmer and Macron of Elon Musk accusing him of interference in the politics of the countries of the old continent.
This Monday marks four years since the assault on the Capitol, a moment that marked the United States with an insurrection motivated by Donald Trump’s unfounded speech about alleged electoral fraud in the November 2020 elections. Now, after his return to the White House At 78 years old, Trump has begun his second term with a transformative agenda full of setbacks and a clear path to extremist thoughts.
With a Supreme Court with a conservative majority thanks to the three justices he appointed during his first term, Trump has key support for his expansive vision of executive power.
The possibility of using executive power to weaken autonomous institutions like the Department of Justice worries experts. The nomination of controversial figures such as Pam Bondi for attorney general and Kash Patel for the FBI increasingly point to a politicization that threatens the independence of these entities.
Trump’s priorities include a massive deportation operation, new tariffs and the elimination of climate regulations. Furthermore, the cut of two trillion dollars in the federal budget will affect numerous essential and public services in a country of extremes and enormous inequalities.
The new government, which will take office in 14 days, is emerging as one of the richest in history, with billionaires in key positions. The most media? Elon Musk, who donated $277 million to the campaign, will lead, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the Department of Government Efficiency, a new entity that seeks to cut federal spending without traditional controls. At the same time, he will continue to run his companies despite the possible conflict of interest.
Meanwhile, in Europe they are preparing for the arrival of Trump and his hard core. Musk spent the weekend writing messages in British code and supporting the German Nazi party AfD.
The first has assured that with the recent death threats that one of his colleagues has received “a line has been crossed” holding Musk directly responsible. He has even used his social networks these days to ask for the release of the British far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as ‘Tommy Robinson’, in prison for spreading false accusations against a Syrian refugee, ignoring a court order that prevented him from doing so. .
The Frenchman has been clearer: he directly accuses Elon Musk of nurturing a “reactionary international” in his social network
“Ten years ago, what if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new reactionary international movement and directly intervene in elections, even in Germany? Who would have imagined it? Macron lamented in a speech this Monday before his ambassadors. “This is the world we have to live in and with which we have to deal through diplomacy,” he added.
Although the most heartfelt thing has been the first victim even before the ‘Trump era’ starts up again with the resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada.
“I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party elects its next leader,” he indicated early in the morning, pointing to the internal crisis in his party caused by Trump’s threats, which He has been adding fuel to the fallen tree after winning the election, referring to himself as governor of the “51st state” and threatening to impose heavy tariffs on Canada that would cause a huge crisis in the country.
In addition to issues focused on the public deficit, Trudeau lost less than a month ago Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the North American country, who presented her resignation.
An unprecedented political crisis on the eve of an election that greatly influences the measures to be adopted in the event that Donald Trump follows through on his threat and imposes 25% tariffs on Canadian products in an economy that is looking a lot to its neighbor to the south.
Objective: exemplary transition
The North American Government, still under the Biden administration, is not going to allow even a hint of the incidents of four years ago to be repeated. Before the meeting held by the US Congress, the Department of Homeland Security has declared the recount as a Special National Security Event in an unprecedented decision for this electoral protocol, until 2021 a mere procedure, if not a democratic celebration.
It is not for less. Apart from the political, media and social crisis, the assault left four dead, some 140 police officers injured, and images typical of a civil war insurrection in the heart of Washington. Trump was singled out by a House of Congress investigation that identified him as participating in a “multi-party conspiracy” to overturn the election results and for his negligence in preventing his acolytes from storming the Capitol, and he came to be formally charged by a federal court in a case ultimately dropped after winning the election and regaining his presidential immunity.
More than 1,400 people were charged with federal crimes related to the siege, and more than 900 of them have been convicted so far.
Trump has thus been certified in the midst of a transition period where he has already known political victories such as the re-election of the president of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and judicial setbacks such as the one that awaits him this coming January 10 where he must go before the judge to hear the sentence on the case of alleged bribery of former adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known as ‘Stormy Daniels’ and covering up a rape case.
In this act, Harris has carried out one of her last public acts, simultaneously certifying Trump’s victory in the elections and her resounding defeat as a candidate of the Democratic Party in the elections that faced the magnate by announcing the 312 electoral votes received by Trump at the hands of of the congressmen from each state and, finally, JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, will also declare as his successor as vice president of the United States.
Once both are certified, all that remains is to wait for next January 20 for the new ‘Trump era’ to begin.
