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The first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, said goodbye this Monday with a message in which urged Americans to “choose love over hate” and “peace over violence” two days before leaving the White House and in a great atmosphere of tension in the country over the assault on the Capitol on 6 January.
“When Donald and I concluded time in the White House, I think of all the people who I carry it to my heart with its incredible stories of love, patriotism and devotion“He said in a seven-minute video distributed by the White House.” We must focus on all that unites us, he remarked, “overcome what divides us, and always choose love over hate, peace over violence.” Despite the kind words, the Trumps will break one of the most enduring traditions of the investiture andthey will leave the White House without receiving their successors, Democrat Joe Biden and his wife Jill.
The outgoing president and his wife are expected to be on their way to their private mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. when Biden takes over the presidency in a formal ceremony this Wednesday, January 20th.
In the only apparent reference to the violent assault on the Capitol, which left five dead, by Trump supporters, Melania said that “you have to be passionate about everything that is done, but always remembering that violence is never the answer and can never be justified. “
Trump has not formally acknowledged Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election and it maintains its allegations, without evidence and dismissed by the courts, of “electoral fraud.”
The growing polarization and political tension in the country reached its peak with the capture of the Capitol, and has forced the deployment of a huge security device in Washington, with more than 20,000 members of the National Guard, to avoid a violent day like the one experienced in early January.
Biden won the election with 306 votes from the polling station against Trump’s 232, to whom he outnumbered by more than 6 million votes in the popular vote.
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