Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the US Capitol Building in Washington, on January 6 2021. Picture: REUTERS/STEPHANIE KEITHHe was able to give yet another rambling, ludicrous speech claiming that the presidential election was riddled with fraud and stolen from him. He told throngs of his supporters assembled in front of the White House that he loved them, and they shouted back that they loved him, too.
He couldn’t initially bring himself to ask his seditionists to leave the Capitol. Because he was getting what he wanted. “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country,” he tweeted amid the ferocity. “No violence!” Translation: “I lit the match, poured fuel on the fire, adore the flames and revel in the heat — but please, support your local firefighters.
Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who was one of the ringleaders in a push on Wednesday to scar, if not stop, the certification of the presidential election, was fulminating about voting fraud on the Senate floor just as rioters began stalking the Capitol. Claiming that he was “not arguing for setting aside the result of this election”, he nonetheless said that voters’ concerns that the election might be rigged should be “taken seriously”.
“These guys better fight for Trump. Because if they’re not, guess what? I’m going to be in your backyard in a couple of months!” Donald Trump Jr shouted at attendees as he strutted, swearing, across the dais. “This gathering should send a message to them: this isn’t their Republican Party anymore! This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party!” Later, as violence ensued, Trump Jr threw up his hands. “This is wrong and not who we are,” he tweeted. But this is exactly who they are.
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