U.S. President Donald Trump has finally accepted defeat and pledged to transfer power to President-elect Joe Biden in an orderly manner.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this is coming after Congress officially certified Biden as winner of the U.S. 2020 presidential election.
In a statement President Trump, following the electoral certification, said even though he disagrees with the outcome of the election, he would hand over power in an orderly manner.
The statement released by Dan Scavino, White House Deputy Chief of Staff quotes Trump as saying: “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th.
“I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again”.
…fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”
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— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) January 7, 2021
Meanwhile, Congress has certified Biden as winner of the U.S. 2020 presidential election, hours after Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election.
Vice-President Mike Pence started the resumed session on Wednesday evening, in which lawmakers counted and confirmed electoral votes, saying it had been a “dark day in the history of the United States Capitol”.
Some Republican lawmakers’ objections to overturn the result in Arizona and Pennsylvania were rejected. The session certified Mr Biden’s 306 votes to Mr Trump’s 232.
Hundreds of demonstrators on Wednesday breached security and scaled the steps of the building where lawmakers were due to certify president-elect Joe Biden’s win in the November election.
Hours earlier, Trump riled up his supporters repeating allegations of election fraud, and encouraged them to march to the Capitol.
The Senate and House of Representatives abruptly called off their sessions, where they had been debating Republican challenges to results in U.S. states that Biden won, as the building went into lockdown.
Congress reconvened in the evening, with senators from both sides of the aisle condemning the violence and vowing to complete the certification process.