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No Escape for Trump

October 23, 2022

Published in La Razon
(Spain) on 18 October 2022
by Vicente Vallés (link to original link to original)

Translated from by Patricia Simoni. Edited by Laurence Bouvard.

The night of the 2020 American presidential election, when the vote counting had been in process for only a short time and the result could not yet be taken for granted, Donald Trump appeared before the world to declare himself the winner.

Almost two years later, we know that Trump was aware of his defeat but was determined, along with some of his hooligans, to announce his victory, whether he won or not. This has been stated by several eyewitnesses before the investigative committee of the U.S. Congress and verified by videos or audios recorded in those intense days. Trump and his supporters could not bear the idea of his failing to be re-elected.

Nothing is more humiliating for a president than to be thrown out of that position by the polls in his first attempt to get endorsement of his leadership. Trump received a creditable count of 74 million votes. But more than half of the country mobilized, willing to vote for anyone to replace him. Anyone but Trump. Anyone but Trump.

Joe Biden comfortably exceeded 81 million votes. The dozens of complaints that Trump brought to courts across the country about his phantasmagorical electoral fraud conspiracy theory all came to the same conclusion: There was no case, because there was not a single piece of evidence. Not even the judges chosen by the Republican Party were convinced by the harassment launched by Trumpism.

The assault on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, was the logical – and catastrophic – end of Trump's presidency. To this are added investigations into his propensity to fail to pay all taxes due and his kleptomania with reserved documents and secrets, taken by him from the White House to his Florida mansion. Not only does this suggest that crimes were committed, but it provides evidence that there were not always traces of intelligent life around him.

What could be in those papers, for Trump to steal them?

Now, Congress wants Trump to testify before the committee. If he does, the obvious will be confirmed. If he doesn't, the obvious will also be confirmed. Without question.

La noche de las elecciones presidenciales americanas de 2020, cuando el escrutinio de los votos llevaba en marcha poco tiempo y aún no se podía dar por seguro el resultado, Donald Trump se hizo presente ante el mundo para declararse ganador. Casi dos años después, sabemos que Trump era consciente de su derrota, pero tenía decidido, junto con algunos de sus hooligans, anunciar su victoria, ganara o no. Así lo han declarado varios testigos presenciales ante el comité de investigación del Congreso de Estados Unidos, y así se ha constatado en vídeos o audios que fueron grabados en aquellos días intensos.
Trump y sus corifeos no podían soportar la idea de no conseguir la reelección. Nada hay más humillante para un presidente que ser expulsado de ese puesto por las urnas en su primer intento por conseguir el refrendo de su gestión. Trump consiguió un meritorio resultado de 74 millones de votos. Pero más de medio país se movilizó dispuesto a votar a cualquiera para proceder a su sustitución. Anyone but Trump, cualquiera menos Trump. Joe Biden superó con holgura los 81 millones de votos. Las docenas de denuncias que Trump llevó a tribunales de medio país sobre su fantasmagórica teoría conspirativa de fraude electoral terminaron igual: no hay caso porque no hay una sola prueba. Ni siquiera los jueces elegidos por el Partido Republicano se dejaron llevar por el acoso del trumpismo.

El asalto al Capitolio el 6 de enero de 2021 fue el final lógico –y catastrófico– de la presidencia de Donald Trump, a lo que se suman las investigaciones sobre su propensión a no pagar todos los impuestos debidos y su cleptomanía con los documentos reservados y secretos que se llevó de la Casa Blanca a su mansión de Florida, lo que supone no solo un posible delito, sino la demostración de que no siempre hubo rastros de vida inteligente a su alrededor. ¿Qué habrá en esos papeles para que Trump los robara?
Ahora, el Congreso quiere que Donald Trump declare ante la comisión. Si lo hace se confirmará lo obvio. Si no lo hace, también. Sin escapatoria.

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