U.S. President Donald Trump pauses whereas talking throughout a Easter blessing occasion within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington D.C., U.S., on Friday, April 10, 2020.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, U.S. Military Gen. Mark A. Milley, solutions a query throughout a digital city corridor on the Pentagon, Could 28, 2020.
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WASHINGTON – In a rare letter Tuesday, the nation’s high navy commanders condemned final week’s acts of “sedition and revolt” on the U.S. Capitol, whereas acknowledging Joe Biden’s election victory.
The message didn’t point out President Donald Trump by identify, however the Joint Chiefs of Workers, led by U.S. Military Gen. Mark Milley, made it clear that the navy intends to face by the constitutional switch of energy to the subsequent administration.
“As we now have performed all through our historical past, the U.S. navy will obey lawful order from civilian management, help civilian authorities to guard lives and property, guarantee public security in accordance with the regulation, and stay absolutely dedicated to defending and defending the Structure of the USA towards all enemies, international and home,” penned the nation’s highest navy officers.
“As Service Members, we should embody the values and beliefs of the Nation. We help and defend the Structure. Any act to disrupt the Constitutional course of just isn’t solely towards our traditions, values and oath; it’s towards the regulation,” the chiefs wrote.
The message comes one week after 1000’s of the president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, leading to 5 deaths, together with a Capitol Police officer. The pandemonium that ensued additionally derailed congressional proceedings to tally electors’ votes and make sure Biden’s win within the Nov. 3 election.
Biden’s victory was projected by all main information shops in mid-November and confirmed by Electoral School votes in mid-December. The Republican president has falsely insisted he received in a “landslide,” baselessly claiming his reelection was stolen via huge electoral fraud.
As protesters besieged the Capitol on Wednesday, Trump informed supporters in a tweeted video “it’s a must to go dwelling now.” The president stopped in need of condemning the violence and informed the mob “we love you, you are very particular.”
US President Donald Trump seems on after presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Celtics basketball legend Bob Cousy within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, DC on August 22, 2019.
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In an almost three-minute video posted on Thursday, the president acknowledged that “a brand new administration will probably be inaugurated on January twentieth.” He additionally mentioned, in his first handle to the nation for the reason that riot, that the for nationwide “therapeutic and reconciliation.”
A day later he mentioned that he would skip President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
