SHARE: What a way to kick off a new year. Max Rose announced he would not run for mayor of New York City, but considering that happened on Sunday, that’s already ancient history. It really has been A Week™. So let’s just get into it. Trump mob storms U.S. Capitol As members of Congress convened on Jan. 6 to certify the election of President-elect Joe Biden, a band of Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol and forced senators and members of Congress to evacuate and hide, delaying the final vote for hours. It left at least five people dead, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer. Thousands of Trump supporters, including at least some displaying Nazi symbolism, Confederate flags and other white supremicist iconography, came to Washington to protest the certification of the election based on false claims of voter fraud perpetuated by Trump and other elected officials. The president has incorrectly insisted that he won the election and that Biden was propelled to victory by illegal votes. After a tweet instructing supporters to attend a rally on Jan. 6 that many right-wing extremists saw as “marching orders,” Trump further riled them up in a speech that directly preceded the violence. Many noted the stark disparities between how the right-wing extremists were treated by police compared to Black Lives Matter protesters. After rioters (some of them carrying firearms) violently pushed through barriers and broke into government buildings, Capitol Police allowed many of them to simply walk out after the insurrection. Peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in public streets, on the other hand, have been met by a militarized police presence shooting them with rubber bullets and tear gas, arresting demonstrators en masse after exhibiting the very police brutality that the people were protesting. Others wondered how the right-wing extremists were able to break into the Capitol so easily and questioned the apparent lack of preparedness by law enforcement. Trump issued two initial responses to the violence that were riddled with lies and equivocations that not only failed to call out the extremists for their criminal acts but deeply sympathized with them, saying “we love you” to the insurrectionists. Twitter and Facebook later removed both messages for violating their rules and temporarily banned Trump’s accounts. The attempted coup drew widespread condemnation of the president by those who observed that his rhetoric led to the violence at the Capitol. Several top administration officials and staffers have since resigned. And Democratic lawmakers are calling for Trump’s immediate removal from office. Both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office immediately. Democratic House members have also drawn up new articles of impeachment, which Pelosi said could be voted on in the coming days.