New attempted attack against Trump, the judicial situation of Jordi Pujol and the political tension in Spain mark the agenda of the day. This is how Carlos Alsina summarizes the main news of the day.
Attempted attack against Donald Trump
The first thing is what you know about the attempted attack against Donald Trump. The third. Although like what happened at Mar-a-Lago, and the US president himself has confirmed, his life was not in serious danger as occurred during the Pennsylvania rally. In any case, the debate has once again been reopened about the functioning of the secret service and how a man was able to reach with relative ease a few dozen meters from the president, his government and hundreds of political correspondents.
This fact has precisely led Donald Trump to ask that the construction of his ballroom in the White House be accelerated because it is a high security space and is, according to him, what the secret service demanded of him. This is how he justifies the demolition of the East Wing half a year ago and thus criticizes that the works are suspended by court order as it was not approved by Congress.
Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old Californian professor, had traveled by train the four thousand kilometers that separate Los Angeles and Washington – stopping in Chicago – to be able to carry the weapons he was transporting and which he managed to get into the Hilton hotel without problem one or two days before the attack. The detainee is expected to be brought to justice in the next few hours. Trump has invented that what motivated the detainee to attack him is his anti-Christian sentiment.
The truth is that from what has been made public in that manifesto, the reason has nothing to do with religion but with the policies of the Trump administration. He is very critical of some of the latest decisions of the US government. He talks about rapes in detention centers, about hungry children, about abuse of teenagers. And there he does say that turning the other cheek is not being a Christian but rather being complicit in what he calls the crimes of the oppressor.
Jordi Pujol before the National Court
At nine thirty in the morning, the former president of the Catalan Generalitat from 1980 to 2003, Jordi Pujol, is summoned to the National Court. A forensic doctor will examine him so that the court can establish whether or not he is qualified to testify in the trial that is being followed by the family clan. If so, I would be the first to declare below.
Already at the beginning of the trial in November, a medical analysis was carried out due to the cognitive deterioration that he has at 95. He was then exempted from being present at the sessions but the case against him was not filed because, among other things, he explained that he knew perfectly well what he was accused of. It should be remembered that the Court did dismiss the case against his wife Marta Ferrusola in 2021 when the Alzheimer’s she suffered was proven.
The pro-independence parties, both Junts and Esquerra, have described the court’s decision to examine him as “derision.” Also the current president Salvador Illa who, without going so far, has asked the court for common sense. In this sense, the Minister of Justice Félix Bolaños himself has explained that there should be other ways to check the health status of a 95-year-old than by having him attend the National Court in person.
What was explained on Friday by the court presiding over him, presided over by Judge José Ricardo de Prada – the one who made Sánchez’s motion of censure possible with his phrase in the Gürtel ruling – who says that it is not about stigmatizing anyone but that it is necessary to avoid falling into ageism and to do so he must personally check how Jordi Pujol is doing.
Political tension and campaign in Spain
And curves again for the Government. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the validation of the rent decree that Sánchez accepted without much conviction from Sumar after his sit-in a month ago will be voted on. If it was already difficult, then neither the PSOE nor those of Yolanda Díaz have done much to convince Junts. Quite the opposite when the second vice president here described this party as racist and classist.
Next Friday the electoral campaign in Andalusia begins with the polls published this weekend indicating more and more clearly that Juanma Moreno could revalidate the absolute majority. The CIS also said it, although with a fork in which it is either very loose or very far away.
For now there is still no resurgence for the PSOE and María Jesús Montero. Despite the efforts of President Pedro Sánchez, who is dedicating himself to this campaign more than anything because the decision to make his number two candidate in the government and in the party was his. She thanks him with several minutes of excessive praise at each rally.
