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Capitol riot a fitting end to Trump presidency built on lies (Commentary)
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.AP
Facebook Share is distinguished service professor of political science at SUNY Cortland and the author of several books on the presidency, including “The Presidency and the Constitution” He is a panelist on WCNY-TV’s “Ivory Tower.”
At the end of the 1949 Jimmy Cagney movie, “White Heat,” Cagney’s character, the vicious criminal Cody Jarrett, is finally chased to the top of a gas storage tank. In a final moment of self-destruction, he blows up the tank and himself, proclaiming “Top of the world, Ma!” On Jan. 6, shortly before Congress was to convene to unseal and count the electoral votes cast for president, the country witnessed President Donald Trump’s final act of political immol