The Treasonous donald j. trump, America's Littlest Losingest Emotional Midget...

January 07, 2021

Yesterday trump laid out the final chapter in his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election. In so doing he solidified his legacy. trump will leave office as an impeached president and one who actively, over time, sowed the seeds of discontent, division, and then encourged his followers to engage in sedition and insurrection. Yesterday's events at the Capitol is who donald j. trump is. A "man", so narcissistic and self serving that he is willing to attempt destruction of our democracy and the republic.

His sedition and treason will live in infamy forever.

‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates

Wednesday’s Capitol Hill riot will reverberate for years, shaping Trump’s legacy and pushing Republicans to confront the GOP’s future.

POLITICO - It was, for many of President Donald Trump’s own allies, the final straw.

What began as a rally intended to support Trump became a permanent and irreversible stain on his presidency Wednesday afternoon, as fans of the outgoing president stormed the U.S. Capitol — shattering windows, prompting evacuations and injuring law enforcement officials in the process — to temporarily halt the certification of his opponent’s 2020 victory.

A distressing scene for many Americans watching from home, the uprising at the Capitol followed two months of provocation from Trump — subversive rhetoric about America’s election, threats against GOP figures who didn’t agree, broadsides against his own vice president. And it followed four years of rabble-rousing by a president intent on keeping a grip on the GOP, resulting in a climactic moment on Wednesday that could come to define Trump’s political future and the direction of the Republican party after he leaves office.

"He screwed his supporters, he screwed the country and now he’s screwed himself,” said a 2016 Trump campaign official, predicting his former boss would cease to remain a popular figure in GOP politics after Wednesday.

Donald Trump caused this insurrection with lies and conspiracy theories about the election being rigged against him,” said Scott Jennings, a former aide to President George W. Bush who is close to the Trump White House. “The election was not stolen but this madness was fomented by the president and his top advisers.”

For the first time in four years, Trump loyalty seemed to crack. Resignations started at the White House, while even some Republicans called on Trump to resign and other loyalists implored the president to stand down.

Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff and one of the longest serving Trump aides, said she would leave over the incident, while the top two national security aides and the deputy chief of staff all considered whether to quit, according to an administration official. Another senior White House official claimed they would have stepped down if they hadn't already departed. Sen. Tom Cotton, a 2024 Republican hopeful and prominent Trump ally, said it was "past time" for the president to accept defeat.

POLITICO DISPATCH: JANUARY 7

It's a day that will live in infamy. Rioters incited by President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in an attempt to overturn the results of the November election.

"Every day, every person chooses to be either part of the problem or part of the solution,” said former White House assistant press secretary Austin Cantrell. “President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders should immediately denounce today’s illegal action as an affront to the American experiment of self-government and take into account the power their words have to heal or harm our Republic.”

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It took approximately two-and-a-half hours from the time protesters first stormed the Capitol complex for Trump to release a video message — hastily taped outside the Oval Office — encouraging his supporters to “go home in peace.” But even then, he continued to feed the false and conspiratorial claims motivating those who had trekked to Washington in the first place.

“Trump’s video was an absolute failure of leadership," Jennings said. "It was half-hearted [and] completely inadequate.”

The former senior administration official, who was in close contact with advisers around the president on Wednesday, said it was unlikely Trump would be coaxed into saying anything beyond the video message and a few tweets.

“I don’t know who is getting through to him right now,” this person said.

Even after the video message, Trump seemed unrepentant: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away,” he tweeted shortly before Twitter locked his account for 12 hours.

“I don’t want to talk to him, said one Republican close to Trump, echoing a senior administration official who described the effort as futile. “What am I going to say? This is one of those moments when I don’t know if I want to be involved.”

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