“Just for the record,” she wrote, “you need to stop publishing lies.”
The “lies,” according to the writer, involved the death toll from COVID-19 and, in her mind, this important distinction: When Trump left the White House on Jan. 20, the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic stood at nearly 400,000, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now that tragic number has surpassed 570,000.
Which means that 170,000 Americans have died of complications from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden was sworn in. Which, in the mind of this email writer, is an important point to be made.
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From 9/11 to 1/6. Welcome to America’s new national terrorism commission.
It’s hardly news that the nation wants to understand what took place nearly seven weeks ago when mobs of supporters of former President Donald Trump tore into the U.S. Capitol, trashing offices, killing one cop and beating up 140 others while also threatening staffers and elected officials and calling for the hanging of then-Vice President Mike Pence.
As with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the violence of Jan. 6 was a form of terrorism. But while the 9/11 bloodbath was brought on by Islamist operatives led by Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network, the attack on the Capitol was homegrown.
But what does that page actually look like?
Trying to make sense of this moment in history is almost as difficult as trying to unravel the multitude of conspiracy theories about the election itself.
Some corners of America seemed to collectively exhale as President Donald Trump – twice impeached, banned from Twitter and yet still refusing to even mention Biden’s name or concede defeat left Washington for some measure of exile in Florida. But from other corners of the nation, the pulsating and pressurized steam of grievance still hissed with anger and distrust.
“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal,” he said in his inaugural address from the same U.S. Capitol portico where a pro-Trump mob tried to stop his elevation to the presidency only two weeks earlier.
The House Democrats had little patience for the Run-Out-the-Clock Republicans on Wednesday as they rallied around their leader, President Donald J. Trump, before he earned his ignominious entry into history as the only president who was impeached twice.
To many Democrats, the evidence was clear and infuriating: Trump whipped up the mob to save his own political career and, in the process, damaged the sacred citadel of Democracy. No one is above the law, whether he has four years or four days, the normally low-key Rep. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, said with anger rising in his voice. Norcross was the lone New Jersey Democrat to speak Wednesday before the House vote.