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Less pomp, very different circumstances as DC prepares to inaugurate Biden, Harris Some pomp. Very different circumstances. Inauguration day is supposed to be a star-spangled showcase of inalienable democratic spirit, the sort of patriotic, bunting-festooned display that only happens in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Instead, Wednesday’s ceremony making Joseph R Biden, Jr, the 46th president of the United States is liable to feel more like a shotgun wedding. “It is going to look like a country under siege,” said Brett Bruen, a consultant and former US diplomat who worked as an adviser in Barack Obama’s White House. ....
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James McCarten People take photos through the extensive security surrounding the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, ahead of the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Susan Walsh January 16, 2021 - 3:39 AM WASHINGTON - Some pomp. Very different circumstances. Inauguration day is supposed to be a star-spangled showcase of inalienable democratic spirit, the sort of patriotic, bunting-festooned display that only happens in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Instead, Wednesday s ceremony making Joseph R. Biden, Jr., the 46th president of the United States is liable to feel more like a shotgun wedding. ....
Hundreds of furious Donald Trump supporters, rabid with the president’s lies of a grand conspiracy to deny him a second term, overpowered police and stormed the building as Congress was voting to certify Biden’s victory. Five people died, including a Capitol Police officer. The FBI is investigating the possibility there was a plan to make it much worse. And Trump has since been impeached again on a single count of “incitement of insurrection.” Law-enforcement officials, meanwhile, are bracing for widespread Trump-friendly protests in the city Sunday, as well as at state capitols from coast to coast, determined to avoid a repeat of last week’s violent pandemonium. ....