{"id":351623,"date":"2025-01-07T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=351623"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:18:47","slug":"us-congress-certifies-donald-trump-as-47th-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/07\/us-congress-certifies-donald-trump-as-47th-president\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress certifies Donald Trump as 47th President"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>The president-elect spent much of his campaign facing prosecution over the 2021 insurrection, when his supporters \u2014 fueled by his false claims of voter fraud \u2014 rioted to halt the certification of his defeat to Joe Biden<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump capped a historic political comeback on Monday as Congress certified his election victory, in a remarkable turn from four years ago, when a mob he had summoned to Washington ransacked the US Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/06\/trump-seeks-us-canada-merger-after-trudeaus-resignation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president-elect<\/a> spent much of his campaign facing prosecution over the 2021 insurrection, when his supporters \u2014 fueled by his false claims of voter fraud \u2014 rioted to halt the certification of his defeat to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump, 78, was voted back into office in November and Monday\u2019s ceremony went much more smoothly, even with a major winter storm blanketing the capital and much of the country in snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald J Trump of the state of Florida, has received 312 votes. Kamala D Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes,\u201d Harris herself declared to assembled lawmakers after the counting was complete.<\/p>\n<p>Harris \u2014 who oversaw the certification as part of her vice-presidential duties \u2014 said the official count \u201cshall be deemed a sufficient declaration\u201d for Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance to take their oaths of office on January 20.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony marked the final blow to efforts to have the Republican leader face justice over the riot, the culmination of a multi-pronged alleged criminal conspiracy that prosecutors said Trump led \u2014 before they dropped all charges upon his election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has vowed to pardon an unspecified number of the rioters \u2014 around 900 of whom have admitted federal charges from trespassing and vandalism to assaulting police \u2014 describing them as \u201chostages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Washington Post op-ed, Biden slammed Trump\u2019s allies for downplaying the violence of 2021 and urged Americans to be \u201cproud that our democracy withstood this assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot accept a repeat of what occurred four years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cAn unrelenting effort has been underway to rewrite \u2014 even erase \u2014 the history of that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indiana conservative Mike Pence had Harris\u2019s job \u2014 certifying his own defeat alongside Trump \u2014 in 2021 when, in a desperate bid to cling to power, the then-president demanded that he reject Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in both parties have occasionally used the certification process to challenge elections, but more than half of House Republicans rejected the results in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Emotional trauma\u2019 \u2013<br \/>\nNo Democratic leaders followed the Republican example this time around and there were no objections to certifying Trump\u2019s victory \u2014 a process that took barely half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The former reality TV star was impeached for inciting the 2021 insurrection after delivering a raucous speech outside the White House early in the day, demanding that supporters march on the Capitol and \u201cfight like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands attacked the citadel of American democracy \u2014 battering police with metal bars and flag poles, smashing windows, sending lawmakers running in fear and chanting \u201cHang Mike Pence!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four people died \u2014 two from heart attacks, one from a potential overdose, and a rioter fatally shot by police as she tried to force her way into the House chamber. Four police officers committed suicide subsequently.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has vowed to investigate the House committee that probed the riot and found that Trump had instigated it after the failure of a host of other schemes to overturn an election he knew he had lost.<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement the Justice Department had over the last four years charged more than 1,500 people suspected of involvement in the \u201cunprecedented attack on a cornerstone of our system of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The certification \u2014 which launches a two-week countdown towards Trump\u2019s January 20 inauguration \u2014 was designated for the first time as a national security special event, with 500 National Guard personnel on standby.<\/p>\n<p>But the federal government and Washington public schools were closed Monday with up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour years ago today, our nation watched in horror as a 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