![]() Only now, after a summer of blockbuster televised hearings from the House select committee, is the full scale of Trump’s political malfeasance becoming clear. And President Joe Biden fired off his most disdainful criticism yet of his predecessor over the “medieval hell” that Trump visited on police officers who fought his “Make America Great Again” rioters at the US Capitol. The House select committee investigating the attack released damning new evidence of Trump’s dereliction of duty as his mob ransacked America’s democratic citadel. Pence's former chief of staff Marc Short appears before January 6 grand jury (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images Barrett Prettyman Courthouse on Friday, July 22, 2022. UNITED STATES - JULY 22: Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is seen outside the E. Revelations on Monday that a senior aide to ex-Vice President Mike Pence testified to a federal grand jury offered the first possible glimpse of a Justice Department probe into events surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection. ![]() The eve of a visit that will encapsulate Trump’s still vibrant threat to democracy as he fires up a 2024 campaign was no different. While he’s been exiled from Twitter and has been fuming away in his palace at Mar-a-Lago, Washington has spent almost every day since he left struggling with his legacy. And on Tuesday, Trump will return for the first time since he slunk out of a city traumatized by his coup attempt and ringed in steel to deter his insurrectionists. The 45th President never really went away as his baleful influence lingers and his election lies fester with most Republican lawmakers still scared of his personality cult. PRI party leader Alejandro Moreno said Monday that speculation about the PRI’s demise was wrong and that the party would survive, but as part of a broad opposition coalition of left, right and center groups that will seek to field an alliance candidate in the presidential elections a year from now.Before he left Washington in disgrace on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump vowed: “We will be back in some form.” On this, at least, he was truthful. But the PRI is now a shadow of the old days when it ruled Mexico with a combination of hand-out programs and corruption. The PRI managed to hold on to the governorship of the sparsely populated northern border state of Coahuila, and governs the neighboring state of Durango in coalition with other opposition parties. The result was a new low for the PRI, which held Mexico’s presidency uninterrupted for 71 years until losing power in 2000 elections the party had governed the State of Mexico and its 17 million inhabitants for 94 years until its loss Sunday. With over 99% of precincts counted in a preliminary report, electoral authorities said Monday that Morena’s Delfina Gómez won 52.7% of votes in the State of Mexico - which surrounds Mexico City on three sides - to 44.3% for the PRI’s Alejandra del Moral.ĭel Moral later gave a concession speech acknowledging her defeat. ![]() MEXICO CITY (AP) - The ruling party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the governorship of the country’s most populous state, dealing a life-threatening blow to the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Part y - or PRI - which had governed the State of Mexico without interruption for nearly a century.
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