It is a turning point that Donald Trump is giving in to the budget dispute. He reaches the limits of his power. America’s liberals, on the other hand, find their strength and voice again.
Two years of slandering Donald Trump, two years of despair over the decline of American politics. But now the picture brightens up. The capitulation of the president in his showdown with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic majority leader in the House of Representatives, is a turning point in Trump’s term.
When last Friday the closure of New York’s La Guardia Airport threatened, as more and more air traffic controllers reported sick, Trump gave up. He knew he could no longer sustain the shutdown. For 35 days the government apparatus was already largely silent. The President had taken the nation hostage to force household funds to build his wall on the Mexican border. Government employees who no longer received salary applied for unemployment assistance and went to the kitchen for a meal.
The Democrats, who have held a majority in the House of Representatives since the midterm elections in the fall, did not yield a millimeter. They saw the President slip further into the polls: in the end, only 34 percent of the population agreed to take office. The ultimate humiliation was reached when Nancy Pelosi first canceled Trump’s speech on the state of affairs in the Chamber of Deputies. Because of the shutdown, she announced innocently, there were not enough security guards on duty.
The judiciary continues to work professionally
Trump raged. The 78-year-old Nancy Pelosi remained unmoved. She was a fivefold mother and a ninefold grandmother, she said, and therefore familiar with tantrums. Finally, when six Republican senators agreed to the compromise proposal of the Democrats for a Provisional Budget, which did not provide an extra dollar for the construction of the Wall, Trump’s defeat was sealed.
The same day, heavily-armed FBI officials in Florida turned around and arrested Roger Stone, one of Donald Trump’s closest associates, special secretary Robert Mueller raises false testimonies to Congress, intimidation of witnesses, and obstruction of investigations. Once again, the President learned that even closest associates are not safe from access by the judiciary. His former lawyer Michael Cohen and his former campaign director Paul Manafort have already been sentenced to prison terms.
Despite some fears, Trump’s US judiciary is continuing to work professionally, aware of its independence. Special investigator Mueller continues his work consistently, unimpressed by the President’s curses. His report is expected shortly.
