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Donald Trump, the master of provocation who never admits defeat
Always attack, never apologize and never admit defeat. They are the lessons that Donald Trump learned as a young man and a manual that has guided his life until today, when this businessman turned politician caresses his goal of returning to the White House despite his turbulent first term.
This Tuesday’s elections between former Republican president and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are the third to which Trump is presented, but in none of the previous polls had given him as many options to win as now.
This 78-year-old master of provocation has managed to re-elay a political career that seemed over when in 2021 he left the White House defeated with a country divided by a controversial presidency that had an explosive end with the assault on the Capitol.
For Trump, the duel with Harris is not only an opportunity to rewrite his legacy, but also a matter of almost personal survival since returning to power would allow him to avoid the pending accounts he has with Justice.
A tycoon turned president
Born on June 14, 1946 in Queens (New York) to a family of German descent, Donald John Trump graduated in Finance, at the age of 28 took over from his father’s real estate and built a millionaire empire not exempt from controversies over debts and tax evasion.
But his political career could not be explained without the fame he acquired thanks to the world of entertainment and television. He even presented his own program, “The Apprentice”, in which he dismissed contestants who intended to work in his company.
When in 2015 he went down the golden escalators of the Trump Tower to announce his first presidential race, the Republican Party took it as a joke, but his ‘outsider’ image catapulted him to the nomination.
He promised to build a border wall and, against all odds, won the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton. The tycoon had managed to connect with the white working class who felt like a victim of globalization and wanted to make the United States “big again.”
Thus was born Trumpism, one of the most important political movements in the history of the United States and that has influenced the populist right around the world.
Donald Trump and an incendiary mandate
Since he came to power, Trump embraced insult and confrontation as a political style and ruled on Twitter. Although he popularized the concept of ‘fake news’ to attack the media, he himself was a great diffuser of lies.
The questionable management of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial riots dynamited his re-election, which months earlier seemed assured by the good performance of the economy.
He lost in 2020 against Joe Biden although, true to his style, he never admitted defeat and spread the biggest of his lies: that of electoral fraud.
The courts rejected all their demands, but a mob of Trumpist fanatics assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a last frustrated attempt to stop the transition of powers.
“We will return somehow,” Trump said as he left Washington repudiated by his allies and when he seemed ostracized.
The resurgence
But the tycoon never disappeared from the front line; he capitalized on the discontent over the high inflation and used his various judicial messes to his advantage, including his accusation for the assault on the Capitol and the conviction for irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, the first conviction of a former president and who is still pending sentence.
He campaigned with a photo of his police file as if he were a politically persecuted and swept this year without rumsing his hair in the Republican Party primaries, which has been molded to his image and likeness.
A cult of the leader that reached its maximum splendor on July 13 when Trump dodged a bullet by the hair in an assassination attempt at an electoral rally, a scene that was immortalized in his iconic photo with his fist raised and his ear bloody.
Donald Trump, doesn’t change his rhetoric
The Republican has not moderated his rhetoric: he has insinuated that he would be “dictator for a day,” he has accused migrants of eating their neighbors’ pets and has refused to apologize after a comedian at one of his rallies called Puerto Rico a “garbage island.”
Although they live apart, her return to the presidency would also be the return as first lady of Slovenian model Melania Trump, her third marriage after Ivana Trump and Marla Maples.
With an unmistakable blond hairstyle and orange tan, Trump does not drink, loves hamburgers and is very superstitious: campaigning at a McDonald’s he spilled the salt and threw himself a little over his shoulder as a spell against bad luck. There is a lot at stake.
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Sheinbaum pledges support for mexican migrants amid U.S. border enforcement plans
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum assured on Monday that she will “always” defend Mexican migrants in the United States, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of former official Tom Homan as “border czar,” responsible for overseeing “all deportations of illegal foreign nationals back to their countries of origin.”
“We will always defend Mexican men and women on the other side of the border, who are also essential to the U.S. economy,” Sheinbaum stated during a press conference at the National Palace.
When questioned by Mexican media about the appointment of former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan to oversee U.S. borders under the new administration, Sheinbaum said she would reach out to the president-elect’s team.
“We have data, and we’ll share the information, but it’s also important to establish contact, understand their intentions, and, as much as possible, work toward coordination,” she emphasized.
Her remarks come just hours after the newly elected head of the White House announced on his Truth Social platform that Homan will be in charge of “all borders” in the country, as well as the massive deportations Trump has promised.
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Le procureur vénézuélien dénonce une campagne visant à présenter les “criminels” comme prisonniers politiques
Le procureur général du Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, a dénoncé lundi une campagne visant à montrer des “criminels” capturés dans le contexte de manifestations post-électorales en tant que prisonniers politiques, et a réitéré que dans le pays “il n’y a pas d’enfants détenus”, comme le dénonce l’opposition majoritaire.
Le chef du ministère public (MP, bureau du procureur) a assuré que, ces derniers jours, cette campagne s’est accrue, dans le but de “mal mettre, nuire et stigmatiser la démocratie vénézuélienne et ses autorités”, ainsi que de faire voir “ceux qui ont commis ces actes, qui sont détenus, comme s’ils étaient des héros”.
“Ces personnes ne sont pas des prisonniers politiques, ce ne sont pas des prisonniers d’opinion, ce sont des criminels qui se sont prêtés à des actions terroristes, criminelles, payées par les soi-disant commandits (…) et pour déclencher une guerre civile au Venezuela”, a déclaré Saab, en référence aux groupes d’organisation politique de l’opposition majoritaire.
En ce sens, il a qualifié d’”antiéthique” que “ces cas se présentent comme s’ils avaient un caractère politique”.
D’autre part, il a assuré qu’”il n’y a pas d’enfants arrêtés”, mais “des adolescents qui, malheureusement, ont avoué” que – a-t-il dit – “ont été utilisés” pour “provoquer ces actes de violence”.
Le procureur vénézuélien défend les forces de sécurité
Selon les chiffres officiels, les manifestations contre la réélection du président Nicolás Maduro lors des élections du 28 juillet ont fait 28 morts, dont deux militaires, et environ 1 000 blessés, pour lesquels plus de 2 400 personnes ont été arrêtées.
“Beaucoup d’entre eux ont reçu des coups de feu, des coups de couteau, des coups”, a déclaré le procureur, qui a assuré que, depuis lors, l’institution n’a pas reçu “une seule plainte” liant l’un de ces décès aux forces de sécurité de l’État, que le PUD accuse de répression.
Selon l’ONG Foro Penal, il y a 1 963 “prisonniers politiques” au Venezuela, dont 1 836 arrêtés après les élections présidentielles, dans lesquelles la principale coalition d’opposition – la Plateforme unitaire démocratique (PUD) affirme que son candidat, Edmundo González Urrutia, a gagné par une large marge.
Sur le total, 69 sont des mineurs âgés de 14 à 17 ans, selon l’organisation, qui affirme enregistrer “le plus grand nombre de prisonniers à des fins politiques connues au Venezuela, au moins au XXIe siècle”.
Les dirigeants de l’opposition et les ONG demandent quotidiennement, via les réseaux sociaux, la libération “immédiate” des détenus pour des raisons “politiques”, parmi lesquels les quelque 170 militants et militants de partis qui, dénoncent-ils, sont derrière les barreaux.
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Les migrants qui ont été retenus en Albanie par le gouvernement de Meloni arriveront ce soir en Italie
Les sept migrants détenus dans les centres fermés du gouvernement de Giorgia Meloni en Albanie seront transférés et arriveront ce soir en Italie, selon des sources officielles, après une décision ce lundi du tribunal de Rome qui a suspendu leur détention dans le pays des Balkans.
Les migrants – tous d’Égypte et du Bangladesh – devraient être transférés par les garde-côtes italiens au port de la ville de Brindisi, dans le sud de l’Italie, ont précisé les sources.
De là, ils seront envoyés dans des centres d’accueil de migrants de la région, où ils devraient faire appel du rejet de leur demande d’asile qu’ils ont reçues des autorités italiennes en Albanie, a précisé la presse locale. Tout cela semble suivre un scénario similaire au premier cas qui s’est produit il y a moins d’un mois.
De cette façon, les centres d’internement que l’exécutif de l’extrême droite Meloni a ouverts en Albanie dans le cadre de son pacte d’externalisation migratoire avec Tirana seront à nouveau vides. Cela s’est déjà produit en octobre avec un premier groupe de migrants envoyé dans le pays des Balkans, lors de la première mise en œuvre du plan controversé.
Invalidation des détentions
Cette fois-là a été la première fois où le Tribunal de Rome est intervenu pour invalider les arrestations, alléguant qu’il y avait un arrêt antérieur sur l’affaire de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) qui créait un précédent juridique.
L’arrêt de la CJUE a allégé que des pays comme l’Égypte et le Bangladesh ne pouvaient pas être considérés comme sûrs dans leur ensemble, et face à cela, la justice italienne a assuré que les migrants de ces pays ne pouvaient pas être détenus en Albanie et devaient faire le processus en Italie.
Après cela, le gouvernement de Meloni a réagi en protégeant par décret la liste des pays sûrs, en maintenant l’Égypte et le Bangladesh, dans le but de faciliter l’expulsion des nombreux immigrants de ces pays qui arrivent par la Méditerranée.
Cependant, cela a généré une friction entre la justice et le gouvernement, qui a de nouveau tenté d’envoyer des migrants en Albanie malgré les réserves judiciaires la semaine dernière. En effet, dans son arrêt d’aujourd’hui, le Tribunal de Rome a franchi une nouvelle étape : il a renvoyé d’urgence cette affaire à la CJUE et lui a demandé de déterminer quelle juridiction prévaut.
Après cela, il est prévu que le ministère italien de l’Intérieur se présente devant la CJUE pour exposer ses raisons et défendre le transfert et la détention de migrants en Albanie.
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