There is a lot going on, but it is clear that Trump is going to be around for a while.
As the majority of analysts predicted, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, was acquitted this past Saturday* in his second impeachment trial in the U.S. Congress. The Democrats were not successful in adding enough Republicans to get to two-thirds of the Senate in their attempt to sanction him and disqualify him from running for future office. Only seven Republicans voted in favor of finding the previous occupant of the Oval Office guilty.
Thorough, minute-by-minute reconstructions of the events that took place this past Jan. 6 were done by the prosecutors — Democratic representatives from the House. But these reconstructions did not serve their purpose. It was made quite clear that what occurred that day was very serious, that it was to a great extent coordinated and that it was very close to producing a bloodbath — beyond the five people who died. However, in the opinion of the Republican senators who voted to find Trump not guilty of inciting the insurrection, it was not sufficiently demonstrated that those who broke into the Capitol did so in strict obedience to orders and to a plan orchestrated and directed by the man who was, at that time, still the U.S. president.
After learning about the results of the vote, many questioned the extent to which the stance of Trump’s supporters is because of their evaluation of the evidence, and how much because of their calculation of election prospects. Many who voted for these senators are also Trump supporters and would be inclined to punish them in the next election, spurred on by Trump.
Another question mark this episode leaves behind has to do with the future of the Republican Party. There is a split between Trump supporters on the one side and on the other, those who identify with the party’s ideals. But, like the seven senators in question, they know that the danger it embodies for democracy is starting to show on the horizon. There is a lot going on, but it is clear that Trump is going to be around for a while.
*Editor's note: Donald Trump was acquitted on Feb. 13, 2021.
Trump, ileso
Muchas cosas se conjugan, pero el hecho claro es que habrá Trump para rato.
Confirmando la mayoría de los vaticinios, el expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump fue absuelto el sábado pasado del segundo juicio político que el Congreso de su país adelantó en su contra. Los demócratas no lograron que se sumaran a su intención de castigar e inhabilitar al exmandatario suficientes senadores republicanos para alcanzar las dos terceras partes de la Cámara Alta. Solo siete votaron a favor de declarar culpable al antiguo inquilino de la Oficina Oval.
No sirvieron para estos efectos las juiciosas reconstrucciones que hicieron, minuto a minuto, los fiscales –representantes a la Cámara demócratas– de los hechos ocurridos el pasado 6 de enero, que motivaron la causa. Aunque quedó muy claro que lo ocurrido ese día fue muy grave, en buena medida coordinado y que estuvo muy cerca de producirse un baño de sangre –más allá de las cinco víctimas mortales–, a juicio de los senadores republicanos que votaron en contra de declarar culpable a Trump por incitación a la insurrección no fue suficientemente demostrado que quienes irrumpieron en el Capitolio lo hicieron en estricta obediencia a unas órdenes y un plan orquestado y dirigido por quien para ese día todavía era presidente del país del norte.
Tras conocer el resultado de la votación, muchos se preguntaron en qué medida la postura de los copartidarios de Trump obedeció a la valoración que hicieron de la evidencia y qué tanto a sus cálculos electorales. Muchos de los electores de estos senadores son también seguidores del magnate y estarían dispuestos a castigarlos en la siguiente cita en las urnas, azuzados por él.
Otro interrogante que deja este episodio es el del futuro del Partido Republicano. Una escisión que deje de un lado a los seguidores de Trump y del otro a quienes se identifican con las ideas del partido pero, como los siete senadores en cuestión, saben del peligro que encarna para la democracia comienza a asomar en el horizonte. Muchas cosas se conjugan, pero el hecho claro es que habrá Trump para rato.
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The elderly president, vengeful and bearing a grudge, is conducting an all-out war against individuals, private and public institutions, cities and against U.S. states.