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Running out the clock on Trump is cowardly and dangerous
If the mob and its enablers â the president and his allies â walk away unpunished, then the mob will return.
Jamelle Bouie
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The most shocking thing about Wednesday s assault on the Capitol is that it happened.
A mob of Trump supporters, some of them armed, stormed and vandalised both chambers of Congress, sending duly-elected lawmakers into hiding and interrupting the peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next.
A worker in a protective suit cleans the US Capitol in the wake of its ransacking.Â
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That this was whipped up by the president â We re going to walk down to the Capitol and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them â makes it an actual attack on the separation of powers: an attempt, by the executive, to subvert the legislature by force and undermine the f