Washington D.C. – In another move to undo decisions the Trump administration had done in the past 4 years, President Joe R. Biden vowed that no family members of his are going to be involved in any government decisions.

He also added that the Biden administration is going to be run like the “Obama-Biden” administration, which brought a lot of relief to supporters who remember President Biden from his days as Obama’s VP.

“No one in our family and extended family is going to be involved in any government undertaking or foreign policy,” he added. “And nobody has an office in this place. They always have access to Pop and Nana but nobody (will have an office)” President Biden said.

Speculators say these comments could have come from President Biden after the problems his son, Hinter Biden, got into in Ukraine a few years ago.

Trump’s involvement in the Hunter Biden affair in Ukraine is what prompted the whole investigation led by Robert Muller in 2018 that led to Trump’s first impeachment.

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Washington D.C. – During his final hours as the President of the United States, President Trump and his administration have made a series of actions that were seen as a last-minute show of the power of the Oval Office.

Just a few hours before the inauguration of President-elect Joe R. Biden, Trump issued a series of pardons aimed at some of his most-loyal politicians and friends.

These pardons not only show how President Trump is being good to those who have been good to him, but it shows how many of his supporters ended up with corruption charges, especially after the investigation run by Robert Muller III between 2017 and 2019.

The list of those granted the Presidential pardon also includes some celebrities who have basically nothing to do with politics, if you exclude Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (Lil Wayne), who showed support in Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. The move was seen by many as a calculated stunt to persuade the president to grant him the pardon.

After an anonymous tip led Miami police as well as federal agents to search a private jet that Lil Wayne was in, they found a gold-plated, 45-caliber Glock handgun, $26,000 in cash, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, marijuana, and pain killers. The rapper later was charged with possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon, to which he pleaded guilty in December of last year.

Bill Kapri, better known as Kodak Black, also received the presidential pardon after he was sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for lying on background paperwork when he tried to buy guns.

In the last few hours of his presidency, Trump pardoned 73 and commuted prison sentences for 70 others. The list of people who were pardoned or have had their sentences commuted also includes people who were recommended to the White House by criminal justice reform groups.

Jawad A. Musa, who was sentenced in 1991 to life imprisonment for a non-violent drug charge, was also granted clemency after both his sentencing judge and prosecutor who worked on the case requested clemency on his behalf.

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Today’s world is overflowing with crises, and no country could steer clear of them. Internal and international issues, COVID-19, and direct and indirect conflicts are all challenges today’s America has to face. Amidst the chaotic and unclear atmosphere that surrounds the elections in the USA, Americans have become blinded by fear, anger, and acrimony and started losing faith in their country.

The country’s polarization is viewed as a curse as the two opposite parties in power, and their supporter, are enemies today. Ahmed Charai, a Moroccan publisher with a background in international studies, however, disagrees stating “America’s present-day polarization is not the first time in forty-five years … that millions of its citizens fear its finest days have passed … for [me], the problems of today look like just another catalyst for America’s relentless national spirit to innovate solutions”.

The weight will be heavy on President-elect Joe Biden’s shoulders, as he will face a range of unparalleled challenges. He will be in a fight with the pandemic and its implications, as Trump failed to handle the matter successfully. COVID-19 crisis goes hand in hand with a variety of crises related to economy, climate, and peace on a national level as well as on an international one. Ahmed Charai adds, “To tackle these issues, a new coalition of like-minded states must bond together for the sake of the common good.”

In the Arab World, the Trump administration achieved peace between Israel and four Arab countries: the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and more recently Morocco. “The Abraham Accords” is what these peace agreements brokered by the USA are called. Biden bares the same duty as Trump: help establishing people-to-people relations between Israelis and their neighbors. “The feasibility of bringing even more Arab countries into the circle of peace is deeply heartening in a region wracked by war, and I believe that Joe Biden will seize on that opportunity.” States Ahmed Charai.

The agreements, known as “the Abraham Accords,” have reshaped the Middle East, reflecting a shift from the traditional focus on the Palestinian struggle for independence and a mutual concern among numerous Arab countries and Israel about Iran. So, “Is it time for the United States to reenter the nuclear deal? Is there a better way to isolate the mullahs without doing so at the expense of their people? What policy actions can the United States and its allies take to empower those elements within Iran that would like to rejoin the civilized world?” Charai inquires.

Further east, there is the most powerful rival of America, China. The growing Chinese challenge is alarming to its Asian neighbors in the Indo-Pacific, conditioned by their alliances with the United States, regime characteristics and territorial disputes with China. “A way must be found to directly engage China in negotiating a Convivencia, avoiding an economic collision course, and opening spaces for cooperation on shared global challenges. These goals can only be achieved by a strategy that reinforces—rather than diminishes—these three interdependent priorities,” Ahmed Charai recommends.

Nobody would envy the president-elect for the daunting challenges waiting for him. “We pray for the man who places it on his shoulders, and places our faith in the unending optimism and winning attitude of America and its people. Expresses Ahmed Charai, as he adds, “for an outside observer who believes in the “American Dream,” the problems of today … will make the country stronger.”

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