Trump’s Insurrection Requires His Immediate Removal
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Weekly Column Thursday, January 7, 2021
** Trump’s Insurrection Requires His Immediate Removal
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Congress convened Wednesday to perform the largely ceremonial counting of Electoral College votes and to declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump countered with a rally that he had been planning for weeks. “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
“Let’s have trial by combat,” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disgraced personal lawyer, crowed from the rally podium. “Stand up and fight!” Trump’s son Don Jr. shouted, as he threatened Congressional Republicans unwilling to support overturning Biden’s election: “We’re coming for you and we’re going to have a good time doing it.”
After President Trump’s speech, he directed the raging crowd to march on the Capitol, where the counting of votes was underway. Trump’s mob swarmed the Capitol, overwhelmed police, then smashed windows and breached heavy, locked doors.
With Trump and Confederate flags waving, the violent insurrectionists rampaged through the halls. Both the House and the Senate...Read More→ ([link removed])
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