In a Thursday night piece, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board argues that President Donald Trump’s incitement of the mob that invaded and vandalized the Capitol Wednesday in an attempt to overturn the November election warrants his early departure from office.
WATCH: GOPers Refuse To Wear Masks While Hiding From Pro-Trump Insurrectionists In Crowded Room
A group of Republican lawmakers refused to wear masks while they were crowded with their colleagues taking shelter from an angry mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.
Assaults And Camera Cable Nooses: How The Trump Mob Terrorized The Media During Their Insurrection
After a mob of Trump supporters were done storming the Capitol at the President’s urging, there was a bone-chilling message left behind that was scrawled on a door: “Murder the Media.”
Voting Machine Maker Dominion Sues Conspiracy Theory Pusher Powell For $1.3B
The voting machine company Dominion sued pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation Friday over Powell’s smear campaign against Dominion, in which she spent weeks accusing the company of being at the center of a voter fraud scheme to steal Donald Trump’s second term.
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Evidence Of Sedition?
If you haven’t seen Don Jr.’s pre-riot video from backstage, you REALLY must watch it. (Getting your Laura Branigan fix is just icing.)
Like A Bad Cold War Movie
Speaker of the House talks to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about keeping the nuclear codes from a deranged president. Nancy Pelosi’s actual words:
Pelosi Discussing Options To Stop ‘Unhinged President’ From Accessing Nuclear Codes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday announced in a letter that she had spoken with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley to discuss options for preventing “an unstable president” from accessing nuclear codes.
“The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to colleagues.
12 Days And Tremulously Counting
TPM Reader TJ:
The coup attempt is still on.
He has
812 more days. He is still president. He still commands the military. He now has even less to lose and even more to gain.
Of Course We Were Warned
Not only were we warned, we’ve done the warning.
Three Days in January
Events are moving so rapidly that commentary becomes dated almost immediately. So I want to step back a bit to see the events of the last week from a more distant perspective, particularly the interrelationship between three critical events. It is how I think history will likely eventually see them.
President Trump’s coup plot reached a high water mark at the end of last week when Republicans in Congress rushed to join efforts to contest the lawful electoral college vote which made Joe Biden the next President of the United States. It was at this point when first Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and then Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rushed forward to become the leaders of the coup on Capitol Hill as a way to burnish their Trumpite presidential resumes.