Damned by the findings of the January 6 committee and sidelined by his ‘loyal’ mob, the former president now faces political irrelevance. But the lasting damage he has done is evident in a Congress that struggled to elect a speaker
The January 6 committee reviews footage from past hearings as it meets for its final session on 19 December 2022.The January 6 committee reviews footage from past hearings as it meets for its final session on 19 December 2022.The former president faces the prospect of political irrelevance.
by just four votes to be elected speaker, led the Republican minority in 2021. Frightened by the mob’s incursions, he privately told colleagues that he had “had it” with Trump, and in a public statement the next day accused him of inciting an insurrection. Two weeks later, tail between legs, he travelled to Florida to beg forgiveness.
Though he worried that his supporters looked a little “trashy”, he loved the thought that they were prepared to die for him. The report makes it clear how scarily militarised they were: along with the inevitable assault rifles, they were also armed with scissors, needles, brass knuckles, bows and arrows, ingredients for Molotov cocktails, machetes, tomahawks, and flagpoles repurposed as battering rams or cudgels.
Washington DC, so proud of its white neoclassical democratic shrines, was renamed Fort Trump, a lawless town on the frontier where liberals were to be “drug through the streets” by cowboy vigilantes. Before the big day, helpful information circulated online about erecting gallows and correctly tying a hangman’s knot. The neo-Nazis who joined the revels had an even fouler scenario in mind.
Late in the afternoon, Trump emerged from seclusion, titivated his hair, dabbed at his orange make-up, and recited an unrepentant television message telling the mob to go home in peace.
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