NEW YORK Furious at the traitors who abandoned him like the Republican leader in Congress, Mitch McConnell, but also at the allies who, he says, did not defend him as vigorously as Fox host Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump lives the his last week in a now semi-deserted White House, in growing isolation. With the government agenda empty, after the mission to the anti-immigrant wall in Texas, unable to type, as usual, hundreds of tweets, the president spends his time on the phone, watching TV political programs and studying revenge against those who have turned their backs on them or have not achieved the promised results.
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The most grotesque case is that of Rudy Giuliani. The former mayor of New York, today his personal lawyer who, in an attempt to overturn the outcome of the elections, has waged legal battles as obstinate as they are inconsistent, with aspects that are also comical, will not be paid: Trump has ordered to suspend the liquidation of his maxi-parcel ($ 20,000 per day) and said he wanted to personally review all expense claims.
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They seem like the last days of the tragic fall of an empire. The phase of the boss barricaded in the bunker with the last loyalists has now also been overcome: even the few who have remained faithful to him can’t wait for everything to end. On the day of the second impeachment, Trump was convinced by his daughter Ivanka, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the deputy head of cabinet Dan Scavino and the vice-president Mike Pence (with whom he resumed talking after the breakup of recent days) to record a video in which he invites the rebels he urged last week not to commit violence or illegal acts. He talks about the reunification of the country and pacification in a language that sounds like Biden’s, not his own. And he never mentions impeachment. He recorded it, although in private he continues to say that the elections were stolen from him and Biden will be an illegitimate president, because those who remained close to him convinced him that it was the only way not to lose the consent of the Republicans.
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Although always obsessed with an electoral defeat that makes him look like a loser and from the humiliation of leaving the White House, Trump begins to realize that he will soon face other problems as well: an impeachment which, if a patrol of Republican senators turns against him, could cost him the chance to reapply in 2024 and loss of all the benefits enjoyed by former presidents, starting with safety. But the thing Donald most wants is to win back the Twitter account. His transfer to Parler was thwarted by the blackout of this platform and Kushner and the others advised him not to enter the dark web.
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Financial troubles are also in sight (as well Deutsche Bank, one of the last financiers of his group, broke with him) and judicial, with the accusations of inciting violent riots that resulted in deaths that add up to those, from tax evasion to violation of the rules on the use of electoral funds, ready to become civil and criminal proceedings as soon as he loses presidential immunity. Troubles that will not be eliminated even by a possible self-loss.
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They sound like the stories of a leader who has definitively fallen into the dust, already condemned by history, but not so. Jason Miller, the most extreme and loyal of his collaborators, argues that Trump isolated in Washington but not in the country. Net of his typical threatening expressions towards Republicans who voted for impeachment, Miller says one thing true: Trump continues to enjoy broad support in conservative America, polls say that despite fueling the fire of the uprising which led to the onslaught of Congress, 64% of Republicans continue to approve of his behavior and 57% still want him as a candidate for the 2024 presidential elections.
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