Just days ago, the nation was seconds away from seeing the executions of members of the United States Congress at the hands of insurrectionist thugs gleefully chanting that they would hang Mike Pence. And with the capital s heightened security measures for entire days surrounding Joe Biden s inauguration, the worst could be yet to come. President Trump spent two months lying to millions of his supporters that the election was stolen, and politicians like Josh Hawley angling for a 2024 run bet that they could go along with it.
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After the glass was swept from the floor and the furniture that had been used to bar the doors against rioters at the U.S. Capitol was put back in its place, Congress certified the results of the presidential election in the early hours Thursday.
At the end of the historic and unnerving day, Joe Biden was still president-elect, one step closer to the Oval Office after winning the American presidency in November by a resounding margin of 7 million popular and 74 Electoral College votes.
An expected wave of challenges to some of the Electoral College votes by Tennessee s Republican lawmakers never materialized after the energy was sucked from the movement by the shock of the rioters descending on the Capitol with President Trump s encouragement in a move designed to overturn the election s results.
Ex-CIA chief, former sheriff grapple with the whys of Wednesday s Capitol chaos
Though myriad questions swirl around Wednesday’s events in Washington, DC, the former head of the CIA is sure of one thing: The intrusion wasn’t a failure of security; it was someone s political decision.
Sanibel s Porter Goss, who spent more than a decade in the CIA after graduating from Yale, was also a Republican Congressman from 1989 until 2004, then took the helm of what’s now the Central Intelligence Agency.
During that time, Goss helped engineer the post-911 hardening of internal defenses nationwide as well as in DC. “I was very much involved in the gates, guns and guards type of security that we put into the capitol 20 years ago.”
"Today was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol," Vice President Mike Pence, the president of the Senate, said as he resumed the session.
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