“Welcome back”Joe Biden said to Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Behind the two men, the fire burned with worrying intensity in the chimney on Wednesday, November 13. The Democratic president followed the custom of courteously receiving his predecessor and designated successor. He promised her a “smooth transition” in the name of respect for the popular will. Donald Trump was also in a conciliatory mood, after shaking his host’s hand. “Politics is hard and, in many cases, the world is not very pretty. It’s a nice world that exists today and I really appreciate it. »
Their simple physical proximity made this moment extraordinary. Joe Biden was careful to respect the standards of a peaceful transition of power, after accusing Donald Trump of posing an existential danger to American democracy. The billionaire, for his part, pretended to forget that he had denied the same courtesy to Joe Biden, whose victory in 2020 he still does not recognize.
“What we want is to move forward”summarized White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. According to her, the meeting between the two men behind closed doors lasted almost two hours. he was “very cordial” AND “substantial”. The president-elect, for his part, described the Democrat as ” affectionate “ regarding him, in confidences made to New York Post. “We met again”Donald Trump said. The latter confirmed that he had asked his interlocutor for his opinion on the situation in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Surreal
This meeting seemed even more surreal to him when he discovered, a few hours later, the new appointments decided by Donald Trump. The president-elect has entrusted the position of director of national intelligence to Tulsi Gabbard. A former Democratic representative from Hawaii, she is a long-time critic of US-sponsored regime changes abroad, to the point of being much harsher on American hawks than on the world’s worst dictators.
In 2017, she told herself. “skeptical” on the use of chemical weapons by the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria, transmitting the lies of Damascus, opposing any Western military operation in this country. That year he met with the Syrian leader in the Syrian capital. The elected official later refused to call Assad a” enemy “ either“adversary” of America.
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