Demands grew late Wednesday to invoke the 25th Amendment to immediately remove President Trump from office after he cheered supporters who assaulted the U.S. Capitol and chased Congress out of the building.
“We didn’t sign up for what you saw last night,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation. The president has a long list of successes that we can be proud of.”
He said, “But all of that went away yesterday, and I think you’re right to ask the question as to ‘how did it happen?’”
Mr. Mulvaney said that Mr. Trump is “not the same as he was eight months ago.”
“Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,” Mr. Mulvaney said.
Mr. Mattis resigned in late 2018 over differences with Mr. Trump’s policy in Syria.
Mr. Esper, meanwhile, was fired shortly after last November’s election and has quickly become a top Trump critic.
“This afternoon’s assault on the US Capitol was appalling and un-American. This is not how citizens of the world’s greatest and oldest democracy behave,” Mr. Esper said on Twitter. “The perpetrators who committed this illegal act were inspired by partisan misinformation and patently false claims about the election. This must end now for the good of the republic.”
“I commend Congressional leaders for meeting tonight to complete their Constitutional task of counting the electoral college votes that will affirm Joe Biden as the next president of the United States,” he continued in a series of posts on Twitter. “As this transition plays out over the next two weeks, I am confident the U.S. military will stay out of politics, and remain true to its sworn oath to support
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Rouhani said storming of the US Capitol proved failure of the Western . more > By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Iranian leaders said Thursday that President Trump has done irreparable harm to the U.S. and that the storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters a day earlier represented the “annihilation of Western democracy.”
During a speech in Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the incident on Mr. Trump, who has taken a tough stance toward Iran during his four years in office.
How to Get Someone to Apologize
Advice from therapists, religious leaders and people who suffered terrible wrongs on ways to find repentance and resolution.
Credit.Hannah Buckman
Jan. 7, 2021
Despite President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s plea to let our “better angels prevail” and the comedian Dave Chappelle’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue where he told Americans, “We have to forgive each other,” reconciliation and forgiveness can be a long, difficult process. I learned that the hard way when the person who hurt me most wouldn’t apologize or express any remorse.
I’d always thought I was the type who could forgive anyone anything. But when the mentor I’d trusted for 15 years lied to me and refused to explain or atone, I was inconsolable.