Washington – With his position in the history books about to be rewritten, President Donald Trump awaiting his moment of political judgment, anything no other president has ever faced, largely alone and silently.

For more than four years, Trump has ruled the national discourse like no one else before him, that’s exactly what made his position on the sidelines on Wednesday, when his legacy about to be definitively redefined, was even more surprising.

Trump would now be a time for none, the only president to be charged twice with a felony or misdemeanor, a new coda for a period explained through deepening the nation’s divisions, his slips into the worst pandemic in a century, and his refusal to settle for defeat at the ballot box.

Trump remained out of sight in an almost empty White House as the trial process took place on Capitol Hill, where the pain of last week’s riots was a visual reminder of the president’s insurgency he accused of inciting.

Abandoned by some members of his own party, Trump may simply do nothing by watching the story broadcast on television. The suspension of his Twitter account disadvantaged Trump from his tough tactics to keep Republicans online, giving the impression that Trump had been deactivated and, for the first time, his control over his adoptive party in question.

With only one week to the end of Trump’s term, there has been no bellicose message from the White House to combat the political trial or a settled legal response. Some Republican congressmen defended the president, the House debated the political trial, his words wearing the same area violated through the protesters The week before a siege of the Citadel of Democracy that left five other people dead.

It was a marked replacement for Trump’s first political trial. The December 2019 vote in the House, which made Trump the third president indicted in history, was conducted on the basis of partisan principles. tension in Ukraine to investigate his political enemy, now President-elect Joe Biden.

At the time, the White House criticized for not creating the kind of physically powerful “war room” that President Bill Clinton mobilized in his own struggle for political judgment. However, Trump’s allies have arranged their own rejection campaign. There were lawyers, courier meetings, at the White House and a media bombardment led through allies on conservative television, radio and websites.

Trump was acquitted in 2020 through the GOP-controlled Senate and his approval rates were not damaged, but this time, as some members of his own party subsidized him and accused him of committing impenetrable crimes, Trump remained remote and silent. the bombastic “I can only fix it” seemed to end up in a groan.

Third-place Republican in the House, Republican Liz Cheney of Wyoming, said there had never been a greater betrayal through a president. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican for Ky. , told his colleagues in a letter that there was no way he would vote in a political trial.

For the first time, Trump’s long term seemed uncertain, and what was once unthinkable, that enough Republican senators would challenge him and vote to remove him from the workplace, seemed at least possible, though unlikely.

But the White House has made no effort to align the votes with the president’s defense.

The team around Trump is shattered, the White House council’s workplace is not building a legal defense plan, and the legislative affairs team is largely abandoned. Trump trusted Senator Lindsey Graham, RS. C. , to pressure Republican senators to oppose the political trial. Graham’s spokesman said the senator made the calls of his own free will.

Trump and his allies believed that the president’s popularity among the republican electorate of lawmakers would deter them from voting against him.

The president was furious at McConnell and Cheney’s perceived disloyalty and deeply frustrated at not being able to retaliate with his Twitter account, which has kept Republicans online for years. his personal dining room next to the Oval Office.

His main concern, beyond his legacy, is what time the prosecution can mean for his political and monetary future, according to four White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing. They were not allowed to talk, talk about personal conversations and talk. under condition of anonymity.

The loss of his Twitter account and fundraising lists can complicate Trump’s efforts to remain a Republican kings doer and potentially return in 2024. In addition, Trump has been instiling punches into his business, adding the retirement of a PGA tournament from one of his golf courses. New York’s resolve to avoid taking care of its business.

A White House spokesman did not answer questions about whether someone in construction is seeking to protect the president.

A crusader adviser, Jason Miller, was releasing an investigation through the president’s pollster this week as he tried to argue that the electorate would prefer the country to skip political judgment and move on. Miller argued that Democrats’ efforts would serve to galvanize Republican base Trump. and in the end damage Biden.

The president’s only word mid-afternoon on Wednesday was a two-sentence sentence condemning the violence, a message that was largely a week earlier, when rioters marching on Trump’s behalf descended to the Capitol to try to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s Victory.

“Despite reports of further protests, I urge no violence, NO violation of the law and NO vandalism of any kind,” Trump said in a statement through the White House. “That’s not what I stand for, and that’s not what America stands for. I ask ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm spirits.

The Capitol Hill retreats went as the House was on its way to the appeal of a political trial.

Some of the Capitol’s doors were damaged and the windows damaged; a barricade had been erected outside the construction doors and there were new retainers; hundreds of Members of the National Guard patrolled the corridors, even sleeping on the city’s marble floors. the same roundabout that once housed Abraham Lincoln’s coffin.

And now, the Capitol is the most historic site, joining the bankruptcy that introduces Clinton, who was charged 21 years ago for mendacity under oath over sex with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and Andrew Johnson, who was charged 151 years ago for challenging Congress on reconstruction. Other access considerations Richard Nixon, who has moved away from the indictment by resigning during the Watergate investigation.

But Trump, the online guy who will be indicted twice, will be alone again.

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Lemire back from New York.