President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an "orderly transition" after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
The education secretary, Betsy DeVos, has become the second person in Trump’s cabinet to resign in the wake of the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday by pro-Trump rioters who had been encouraged by the president. Her resignation on Thursday night came after the transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, stood down earlier in the day. In a letter to Trump, DeVos said the attack on the Capitol was unconscionable and blamed Trump’s “rhetoric” for “the.
With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality on Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he’ll peacefully leave after Congress affirmed his defeat.
With 13 days left in his term, President Trump for the first time admitted that his presidency would soon end though he declined to mention Joe Biden by name or explicitly state that he had lost.