Now only three weeks before the US presidential election on November 3, the situation is becoming more complicated for Donald Trump, who was to resume his meetings on Monday, October 12, in Florida, after an interruption following his contamination by the coronavirus. His first debate with his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, on September 29, was considered spoiled. His hospitalization then recalled his carelessness vis-à-vis the Covid-19 epidemic. And the week devoted to a spectacular recovery was marked by confusing announcements.
The outgoing president thus refused to participate in the second debate with Joe Biden scheduled for October 15, which had to be organized remotely because of his illness. A decision that led to its cancellation, regretted Sunday by the White House. The planned format, a question-and-answer session with voters, was seen as pro-Democrat. The latter is always more at ease when it comes to interacting with an audience, unlike the president.
During lengthy interviews Thursday and Friday with media deemed benevolent, the conservative channel Fox News and the radio program of pamphleteer Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump attacked arguably the most loyal members of his cabinet, the attorney United States General (Minister of Justice) William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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He particularly criticized the first for the slowness of the investigations devoted to “The Russian investigation About the interference attributed to Moscow during the 2016 presidential election. While no result is now expected before the presidential election, Donald Trump felt that William Barr should immediately initiate proceedings against former President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, vice-president at the material time.
The day after his return from Walter-Reed military hospital, where he had spent three nights, the President of the United States had already surprised his camp, on October 6, by announcing abruptly on his Twitter account that he had ended negotiations with Congress on a new plan to support the economy, eagerly awaited by part of the population, as well as by the US Federal Reserve. Donald Trump had partly changed his mind, a few hours later, by demanding the vote of targeted measures, in particular in favor of airlines.
At the end of the week, he ended up proposing an envelope of 1,800 billion dollars (approximately 1,500 billion euros), instead of the 2,200 billion demanded by the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. But the president did not come up against the only democratic outbidding. The Republicans of the Senate have indeed let him know that there is no longer any question for them of supporting such an increase in the federal debt.
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