President Trump incited a mob to attack the U.S Capital after disparaging free and fair elections for months. In the midst of the Trump Team encouraging "trial by combat" the President took the time to disparage his followers, calling them low class.
Update 1-12-21:
Trump watched the attack live on television.
President Donald Trump was too busy watching the Capitol insurrection violently unfold on TV to help quell it, advisors told The Washington Post.
Several lawmakers trapped in the Capitol during the siege told The Post that they tried reaching out to the president for help but that their calls went unanswered. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he called the president's daughter Ivanka Trump when the president failed to pick up the phone.
Trump was described as mesmerized by footage of his followers storming the Capitol and, perhaps, reluctant to turn away from the screen.
Rep.Liz Cheney (R-WY), the 3rd ranked Republican in the House indicated she will vote to impeach Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection.
Cheney: I Will Vote To Impeach The President
Washington - Wyoming Congresswoman and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) released the following statement ahead of votes in the House this week:
"On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes. This insurrection caused injury, death and destruction in the most sacred space in our Republic.
"Much more will become clear in coming days and weeks, but what we know now is enough. The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.
"I will vote to impeach the President."
Update 1-13-21: President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told a Des Moines audience Tuesday that his former boss can’t admit to making a mistake because “his manhood is at issue here.”
“You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump told VP Mike Pence, according to two people briefed on the conversation, “or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
Once Pence became a pussy in Trump's eyes did the President grab him? Violent toddler Trump needs to go.
Trump served 1,453 days as a divider. On day 1454, the date of second impeachment, President Trump released a scripted video calling for unity. Risk management?
Update 1-17-21: Business leaders want Trump out, gone:
In a survey of roughly 40 CEOs of major US companies just hours before the House of Representatives voted, 96% said Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
"We're at a point where an attack on our system requires our system to respond," one of the CEOs, speaking anonymously, told Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who conducted the survey as founder of Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI).
"Impeachment is an imperative," the CEO added.
Every respondent to the institute's survey answered "yes" to the questions "is Donald Trump unfit to be President?" and "did President Trump help incite last week's violent attack on Congress?"
President Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 29%, a historic low, heading into his last week in office, a new Pew Research Center survey found.
Update 2-6-21: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that Trump bears at least a moderate amount of responsibility for the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including half who say he bears a great deal or quite a bit.
Update 2-8-21: House Minority Leader Keving McCarthy went from blaming MAGA to "all of us." McCarthy also showed his fealty to the titular head of the Republican Party.
Update 2-13-21: During the Capital Riot Mr McCarthy called and begged Mr Trump to intervene,
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” replied Mr Trump said, according to lawmakers briefed later by Mr McCarthy.
The California congressman lost his cool and told the president that rioters were trying to break into his office, and asked him, “Who the f*** do you think you’re talking to?”
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin......
WSJ Editorial Board said Trymp is forever stained by the January 6th insurrection:
Trump’s legacy “will be forever stained” by the deadly violence that rocked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and “by his betrayal of his supporters in refusing to tell them the truth” about his 2020 election loss in the weeks leading up to the insurrection, said the newspaper’s conservative editorial board.
Update 10-13-21: Former President Donald Trump remains in firm control of the Red Team.
Update 10-15-21: Trump asked his followers not to vote in 2022 and 2024 unless the Red Team goes full throttle on his election fraud fiction. Those who don't get the job by vote may do so by force.
Update 1-3-22: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is calling the committee investigating January 6th a "partisan political weapon." The Sunday letter to his colleagues came after the public learned President Trump sat on his keister in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the Capital attack on television, ignoring two requests from daughter Ivanka to intervene.
Update 6-19-22: Among self-described independents, 62% think Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in Jan. 6th and 61% think he bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility.
Update 2-18-23: Trump called into Fox News
as the insurrection unfolded but the network refused to put him on the
air. Tucker Carlson referred to Trump as "demonic" in an e-mail that
day.
