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By An Wentzel• 17 February 2021 National Guard soldiers with riot shields head to the Capitol Visitors Center after being deployed to secure the grounds around the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, USA, 13 January 2021. US President Donald J. Trump has become the first sitting President to be impeached twice after he incited a mob of his supporters to riot on the US Capitol in an attempt to thwart Congress from certifying Bidens election victory. At least twenty thousand troops of the N...

As the US reels from the insurrection and attack on the Capitol, calls to remove Trump grow. Foreign Editor David Pratt looks at how his presence in or out of office will continue to bedevil and imperil America Amid the flurry of responses in the US press these past days to the unprecedented scenes in the Capitol, some lines from one article caught my eye. They were written by David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and seem to distill the poison that plagues America right...

AMID the flurry of responses in the US press these past days to the unprecedented scenes in the Capitol, some lines from one article caught my eye.