Donald Trump was to leave Washington on Wednesday morning, January 20, after a ceremony held at the Andrews military base in neighboring Maryland, home port of Air Force One. He then had to take the presidential plane one last time, before his mandate expired, at noon, to go to Florida, to Palm Beach, where he will now reside.
Among the latest measures announced on Tuesday was a temporary protection device against deportation for Venezuelan emigrants illegally in the United States, as well as the declassification of documents related to the investigation into interference attributed to Russia in the presidential campaign of 2016, which became an obsession of his presidency.
A final list of presidential pardons was also to be published before the fateful hour. According to the American press, it gave rise in the evening of Tuesday to final arbitrations. This list was to combine complete pardons, that is to say the cancellation of convictions, and commutations limited to a reduction of sentence.
Donald Trump has often used this discretionary power for the benefit of people who have remained loyal despite legal uncertainties. The presence of relatives was particularly watched on Tuesday even if a self-amnesty, the possibility of which is fiercely debated between lawyers, seemed however excluded.
A final message to his fellow citizens
The outgoing president formally bade farewell by broadcasting a final message to his fellow citizens on Tuesday afternoon in which he extensively listed his successes. He started it by noting the arrival ” this week “ of“A new administration”. “We pray that she will succeed in ensuring America’s security and prosperity. We send her our best wishes and we also want her to be lucky, a very important word ”, assured Donald Trump.
This recorded speech was devoid of the slightest digression and delivered in the tone of speeches on the State of the Union, by far the most solemn of a presidency rich in verbal slippages. Donald Trump, however, was unable to name his successor, Joe Biden, whom he was not to meet before leaving the White House, contrary to tradition and the rules of decorum.
In his speech, the outgoing president also congratulated himself on having been the first not to have started a war. He only briefly mentioned the events of January 6, at the origin of an impressive deployment of security forces in the heart of the federal capital, on the eve of the swearing in of his Democratic successor.
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