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Updated: Feb 17, 2021, 06:51 AM IST
It seems that the former US President Donald Trump s woes are far from being over. On Saturday Trump was acquitted of inciting the January 6 Capitol riots. Although, the former president was once again acquitted by the Senate on the charges of Incitement of Insurrection , it was a historic rebuke of a president by his own party as seven Republican senators joined Democrats to convict Trump.
Now a senior Democratic Congressman sued former president Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing him of violating the 19th century Ku Klux Klan Act by supporting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Bennie Thompson accused Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of violating the 1871 act by supporting efforts to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the new US president.
Washington, DC Tall fences topped with thick, spiralling razor wire encased the US Capitol area on Friday, as thousands of heavily armed National Guardsmen stood watch. Bridges leading into the city will be closed beginning this weekend. Access to the grounds will be highly restricted.
In many ways, the lead-up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden more resembles the visit of a head of state to a military encampment in a warzone than it does the swearing-in of the president of the United States at the building housing the nation’s legislature.
The swearing-in of the 46th president will lack not just the pomp and pageantry of years past, but also the symbolic openness characteristic of the peaceful transfer of power in what is perhaps the world’s proudest democracy.
Before Joe Biden s inauguration, a look at how the political event has developed into a cultural touchstone over the years Joe Biden’s inauguration will feature Tom Hanks, Justin Timberlake and Jon Bon Jovi but remotely. The transfer of presidential power in the US has always been a signature political event. However, Biden s inauguration will be different by necessity, in an age of illness and threats.
So many people thronged President Andrew Jackson’s inaugural reception that he was said to have escaped the White House through a window. President John F Kennedy enlisted a Rat Pack friend, Frank Sinatra, to arrange the entertainment when he took office. And, well, the Obamas danced to Beyoncé.