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You don’t get to spend months attempting to undermine the results of a democratic election, and calling for your supporters to storm the Capitol, and then back away when an insurrection takes place.

The events of January 6, 2021, will go down in American history as a truly dark day, with pro-Trump mobs responding to Trump’s rhetoric with a violent, deadly attack during the certification of the electoral college vote.

Sorry for those who want to try and blame Antifa, because there is tape, and lots of it.

A week on from that insurrection, and the House convened in Washington D.C. yesterday to impeach Donald Trump for the second time.

As some Republican representatives turned on Trump (in the end, 10 would show a backbone and vote to impeach), he first released a written statement.

Usually, he would have tweeted it himself, but, you know…

Trump statement pic.twitter.com/ufdgSCInVC

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 13, 2021

Then, following the House impeachment becoming official (the US Senate will vote at some point after Joe Biden takes office on January 20, so Trump will serve his full term), the current president released this video statement:

If you can’t stomach listening to him, here’s some of what he said via Deadline:

“I want to make it very clear: I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week,” Trump said in the video…

He added that “no true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence.”

“We cannot tolerate it,” he said.

But you did, and your supporters turned violent.

Of course, there was a whine about his social media ban, too:

“The efforts to censor, cancel and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous,” Trump said. “What is needed now is for us to listen to one another, not to silence one another.”

From the man who is renowned for his empathy, and listening to others.

An interesting point – some Republican members of Congress are accused of leading people through the Capitol on January 5, in what one representative termed a “reconnaissance for the next day”.

On top of that, right-wing extremists are now using encrypted communications to call for violence against government officials on inauguration day, and sharing knowledge of how to make, conceal, and use homemade guns and bombs.

Let’s focus on Trump, though, who The Washington Post reports is “isolated and angry at aides for failing to defend him” after his second impeachment:

With less than seven days remaining in his presidency, Trump’s inner circle is shrinking, offices in his White House are emptying, and the president is lashing out at some of those who remain.

He is angry that his allies have not mounted a more forceful defense of his incitement of the mob that stormed the Capitol last week, advisers and associates said…

“He is feeling incrineasingly alone and isolated and frustrated,” this official said. “One of the metrics by which he’s often judged any number of things is: ‘Who’s out there saying good things about me or fighting on my behalf?’ And he never seemed to think there were enough people doing it strongly enough.”

Meanwhile, in excess of 4 000 Americans are dying a day of COVID-19, and it doesn’t even register on his radar.

Tiny hands, fragile ego, peak snowflakery.

Less than one week to go.

[sources:deadline&washpost]