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  • VIDEO: Joe Biden gets first impeachment threat in less than 24 hours as U.S. President

    VIDEO: Joe Biden gets first impeachment threat in less than 24 hours as U.S. President

    The new 46th United States President, Joe Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday and quickly got to work after his predecessor Donald Trump left the White House.

    The Democrat has already put the pandemic at the top of his list of challenges he faces in his administration’s early days, including rebuilding a devastated economy and addressing racial injustice.

    But Mr Biden may be facing a bigger threat from his opposition in just hours of starting his new role.

    Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she has filed articles of impeachment against the new President.

    Posting a video on social media, she told her followers: “I’ve just filed articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden.

    “We’ll see how this goes.”

    Ms Greene has made no secret of her support for Mr Trump during his term as President.

    The congresswoman claimed that he lost the US election to Mr Biden due to voter fraud.

    She was also recently blocked from using Twitter after the Capitol attack on January 6 for violating the rules of use by minimising Mr Trump’s role in the violence, while also attacking Black Lives Matter protests last year.

    She said: “He has held over 600 rallies in the last four years and none of them included assaulting police, destroying businesses or burning down cities.”

    Ms Greene previously claimed that Mr Biden should be impeached for an alleged abuse of power.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that some Republican senators also on Friday said the new U.S. president was making serious errors from his first day in office.

    Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell accused Joe Biden of taking “several big steps in the wrong direction” on his first day in office, suggesting the new administration should focus on “creating good-paying American jobs, not sacrificing our people’s livelihoods to liberal symbolism.”

    Speaking from the Senate floor, the minority leader said the new president should “remember that he does not owe his election to the far left.”

    Among the first actions of the Biden administration were executive orders aimed at tackling the COVID-19 crisis, rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and protecting gay and transgender people from discrimination in workplaces, schools and other areas.

  • End of the road for Donald Trump as Electoral College confirms Joe Biden next U.S. President

    End of the road for Donald Trump as Electoral College confirms Joe Biden next U.S. President

    Joe Biden was confirmed as the next US president on Monday as the Electoral College formalized his victory over Donald Trump, all but closing the door on the incumbent’s efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

    As Biden appealed to Americans to “turn the page” on the divisive contest, electors met across all US states to seal his win, with California pushing Biden over the majority of 270 votes — and clearing the way for him to take office on January 20.

    But with his ability to steal the spotlight still intact, Trump announced moments later that Attorney General Bill Barr, who contradicted the outgoing president’s claims that the November 3 election was marred by fraud, would leave his post next week.

    “Our relationship has been a very good one,” Trump tweeted, making no mention of their divergence. “Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.”

    While a senior administration official said Barr resigned of his own accord and was not pushed out, the extraordinary convergence of events highlighted the tensions underlying Trump’s “lame duck” final weeks in office.

    The 200-plus-year-old Electoral College procedure is merely a formality in confirming the will of the people expressed at the polls, but the process carried added significance given the turbulence of last month’s election and Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his own defeat.

    California’s electors burst into applause as the presiding officer read out the tally of 55 in favor of Biden and none opposed — confirming Barack Obama’s former vice president as the nation’s 46th president.

    “Democracy prevailed. We the people voted…. The integrity of our elections remains intact,” Biden said in excerpts from a speech he was expected to deliver in his home city of Wilmington, Delaware later Monday.

    “Now it is time to turn the page, to unite, to heal,” Biden said. “I will be a president for all Americans.”

    This year, the somewhat arcane Electoral College procedure was at the center of an ugly — and many warn dangerous — challenge led by Trump against the credibility of US democracy.

    Soundly beaten by Biden on November 3, Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that he was the real winner.

    Court after court has turned down the Republican team’s claims of election fraud and last Friday the US Supreme Court dealt a final legal blow when it threw out an appeal lodged by Trump allies from Texas and other Republican-led states.

  • ‘We don’t care who becomes U.S. president’

    ‘We don’t care who becomes U.S. president’

    Iran does not care who will take the office in Washington in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday.

    What matters is “Washington should reverse its hostile policies against Tehran,” Khatibzadeh told Tasnim news agency.

    “The UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the JCPOA),” should be honoured by the U.S., Khatibzadeh was quoted as saying.

    Besides, Washington should admit its mistakes of policies vis-a-vis Iran, stop the “economic war and terrorism” against Iran, return to its JCPOA commitments, and make up for the damage caused by its withdrawal from the Iranian 2015 nuclear deal, he stressed.

    Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif also said that “it is not important for us who will win the upcoming election in the U.S., but it is important for us to see Washington rectify its approach towards Tehran.”

  • U.S. not a fully developed country — Trump

    U.S. not a fully developed country — Trump

    President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States was not a fully developed country.

    Trump stated this at a news conference outside the White House that coincided with the U.S. Labour Day celebration.

    According to him, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) treats China as a developing nation, and the U.S. “as a nation that is fully developed”.

    He cited the U.S.-China trade agreement signed by the Obama administration under WTO conventions, describing it as one of the most disastrous trade deals in history.

    “We are not fully developed, as far I am concerned.

    “China didn’t t play by the rules. One of the reasons WTO is so bad is because China didn’t play by the rules.

    “We did, but their rules were easier because they are considered a developing nation.

    “So, their standards are much lower, but even at that they didn’t play by the rules,” he said.

    Trump said the U.S. lost millions of jobs and billions of dollars to China under the deal, which his administration had renegotiated.

    No country has ever cheated America like China did for many years and decades, the president said, adding that the U.S. was getting nothing other than losses.

    “But China was taking our money to build their military. You see they are building a very powerful military.

    “We are lucky I am building ours otherwise we would be dwarfed right now by China,” he said.

    Reiterating his claim that China would own America should Joe Biden wins the Nov. 3 presidential election, he said his administration was working towards decoupling the U.S. and Chinese economies.

    “So, when you mention the word decouple, it’s an interesting word.

    “Under my administration, we will make America enter the manufacturing super power of the world that will end our reliance on China once and for all.

    “Whether it’s decoupling or putting in massive tariffs like I have been doing already, we will end our reliance on China because we can’t rely on China,” he added.

    Trump said the WTO had become much better following his rough stance against international organisations that were unfair to the U.S.

    “We are looking at WTO. They have become much better. They have been very nice to us lately, I would say that, amazingly.

    “We never used to win anything at the WTO, we were losing every case, but all of a sudden we won a lot of cases.

    “We just won seven billion dollars, and they are talking to us much differently than they used to, because if they don’t shape up, we are going to shape out, that’s all.”