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The Atlantic Just months after leaving office, the former president has all but disappeared. 6:00 AM ET Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic The president was insistent as he left office: “We’re not going anywhere.” It had been a turbulent end of the presidency—impeachment, appalling pardons, and a lengthy dispute over the outcome of the presidential election—but he knew that he had a devoted following, and he had every intention to remain a force in politics. And not just him: His famil...

The Atlantic The case against despair Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET on February 8, 2021. In 2020, President Donald Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to blackmail its president into fabricating dirt on Joe Biden. The House of Representatives impeached Trump for this act. The Senate acquitted him. In 2021, Trump incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Congress, in hopes of overturning his defeat in the presidential election. This act of incitement immediately followed Trump’s attempts to...

The Atlantic The most dangerous thing that happened Wednesday occurred after the mob dispersed. January 13, 2021 Anna Moneymaker / The New York Times / Redux January 6, 2021, will surely live in infamy—the day the United States Capitol was stormed by a mob, forcing legislators to evacuate in a rush and leaving five dead, including a police officer. The most dangerous part of that day for the country as a whole, however, was not what happened when the insurrectionists fought their way into the...