WASHINGTON ― 4 years after inciting a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol that injured 140 law enforcement officials and led to the deaths of 5 officers and 4 of his personal supporters, President-elect Donald Trump on Monday neither thanked Vice President Kamala Harris for overseeing a easy election certification ceremony nor apologized for his personal coup try final time.
As an alternative, he but once more boasted about what number of of his followers responded to his name to return to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, with a photograph of the gang that day, and inexplicably accused President Joe Biden of creating the transition between his presidency and Trump’s “difficult.”
“Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as as [sic] possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes,” Trump wrote in a social media put up three hours after posting a photograph of 1000’s of the followers he had assembled on the Nationwide Mall, between the Ellipse and the Washington Monument, 4 years earlier.
Trump’s transition workforce didn’t reply to HuffPost questions on his posts.
For a number of years, Trump has complained that though the information media lined the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, they by no means praised him for the dimensions of the gang he drew to participate. “You know the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen? January 6. And you never hear that,” he stated at a Nevada rally in 2022.
Additionally over the previous a number of years, Trump has ― with no proof ― accused Biden of coordinating the federal and state prosecutions in opposition to Trump for his numerous actions, from his try to overturn his 2020 election loss to his retention of secret paperwork at his South Florida nation membership to his falsification of enterprise information to cover a $130,000 hush cash fee to a porn star forward of the 2016 election.
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It’s unclear what his criticism about “lawfare” has to do with the transition. The 2 federal circumstances in opposition to him have been dismissed by particular counsel Jack Smith due to a standing Division of Justice coverage to not prosecute sitting presidents. The Georgia election interference case is stalled in pretrial appeals. And the New York state hush cash case is about for sentencing Friday after quite a few delays that Trump himself sought.
This whole transition interval, in truth, has been a return to norms between presidential administrations ― and a marked distinction between the tip of Trump’s first time period in November 2020 and the beginning of Biden’s in January 2021.
Trump started mendacity on election night time itself that Biden and Democrats had stolen his second time period from him, and he stored repeating that lie with the assistance of many Republicans in any respect ranges of presidency. He by no means invited Biden to the White Home after the election, as had been customary. For a month and a half, Trump even refused to permit members of his administration to cooperate with Biden’s workforce to make sure a easy switch of energy.
It was solely after his coup try failed on Jan. 6, 2021, that Trump acknowledged the election was over, and even after that date he continued to satisfy together with his allies about methods to stay in workplace. And on the day of Biden’s inauguration, Trump left city that morning and was ensconced in his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seashore for the time being Biden took the oath of workplace.
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Harris, previous to taking the dais within the Home chamber Monday to preside over the joint session formally certifying Trump’s election win, launched a video explaining that she supposed to “perform my constitutional duty as vice president of the United States to certify the results of the 2024 election.”
She stored to a script for the proceedings, which have been concluded in lower than a half hour ― with no assaults on U.S. Capitol Police, no threats in opposition to members of Congress and no intrusions on the ground itself by enraged supporters.
“One of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power,” she instructed reporters afterward.
