The vice president shies away from publicly criticizing President Trump, but was frustrated by the president’s lack of action to stop Wednesday’s violence on Capitol Hill.
Jan. 7, 2021 8:46 pm ET
In the wake of the riot at the Capitol, companies moved to cut ties with President Trump and his supporters and fired workers who participated.
Facebook Inc. banned Mr. Trump indefinitely and Canada-based Shopify Inc. closed online stores associated with Mr. Trumpâs campaign and businesses. Publisher Simon & Schuster said it would drop a coming book by Sen. Josh Hawley, a key backer of Mr. Trumpâs election claims. Dozens more executives and trade groups denounced the takeover of the Capitol and called for the removal of the president.
A number of companies said they fired employees who participated in the riot at the Capitol after seeing employees in photos and videos posted to social media.
Trump Erases His Legacy
He also destroyed any chance of a political future, all on a single Wednesday afternoon. Potomac Watch: A politician has to work hard to destroy a legacy and a future in a single day. President Donald J. Trump managed it. Image: John Minchillo/Associated Press By Jan. 7, 2021 6:22 pm ET
A politician has to work hard to destroy a legacy and a future in a single day. President Donald J. Trump managed it.
By this Wednesday afternoon, media outlets had called both Georgia Senate runoffs for the Democratic candidates, handing Sen. Chuck Schumer the keys to that chamber. We now have a Democrat-controlled Washington. The Georgia news came as a mob of Trump supporters egged on by the president himself occupied the U.S. Capitol building. Now four people are dead, while aides and officials run for the exits.
Donald Trumpâs Final Days
The best outcome would be for him to resign to spare the U.S. another impeachment fight. By Updated Jan. 7, 2021 7:15 pm ET
An image of President Donald Trump appears on video screens before his speech to supporters from the Ellipse at the White House on Jan. 6. Photo: Bill Clark/Zuma Press
The lodestar of these columns is the U.S. Constitution. The document is the durable foundation protecting liberty, and this week it showed its virtue again. Despite being displaced for a time by a mob, Congress returned the same day to ratify the Electoral College vote and
Sen. Kelly Loeffler appointed last year to fill a vacated Senate seat ran in a special election against Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s former church in Atlanta.