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This is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.
For weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November s election and keep the presidency in his hands.
On Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.
Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through trial by combat .
Donald Trump Jr, the president s oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not fight for their president.
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Pence declares Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election
Replay Video Vice President Pence declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election at the end of a violent and deadly day at the Capitol. Pence also announced that Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) had won the vice presidency, after the Senate and House rejected Trump loyalists’ challenges to Biden’s win in Pennsylvania and Congress finally counted the electoral votes.
Nor is it vaguely right-wing.
Not wholly unrelated, CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently applied a label to Trump supporters that left little to the imagination
According to the newsman, those who endorse The Donald are, starkly, members of “a nihilistic death cult.”
Nihilism, per Merriam-Webster:
a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
As you well know, there was tumult in Washington Wednesday.
A group stormed the Capitol as Congress was scheduled to certify votes from the Electoral College.
Amid the chaos, lawmakers were evacuated, to later re-convene.
What does Anderson surmise from it all? That no sane person would endorse the Republican president.
The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror
Dan Zak, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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Chidanand Rajghatta / TNN / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 15:36 IST
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WASHINGTON: Leaders have a choice. They can inspire, or they can incite. Donald Trump, raging furiously against the dying of the light, incited an insurrection, goading a violent mob into rampaging through the Capitol, the symbol of American democracy. Already defeated, he will end his tenure thoroughly disgraced.
Over the years, many commentators have compared Trump to a dementor the fictional dark creatures imagined by JK Rowling who glory in decay and despair, and drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them . Whether it s name-checking the Proud Boys, or supporting other groups that embody the worst human impulses, Trump has constantly provoked violent, impulsive behaviour. On Wednesday, he finally drove his supporters over the edge and beyond even his control, as is usu