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The former president faces the prospect of political irrelevance. But the lasting damage he has done is evident in the chaotic scenes in Congress
It all began when Trump announced a demonstration on 6 January 2021 to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. “Be there,” he bellowed in a tweet, “will be wild!” His supporters answered the call, avid for what used to be called a “wilding”, the kind of rampage that juvenile gangs go on. Trump sent his followers to “fight like hell” at the Capitol, where they smeared shit in the marble halls, set off smoke bombs, and stampeded through a mess of ransacked documents, broken glass and splintered wood.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...pitol-riot-the-toxic-legacy-of-trumps-big-lie
It all began when Trump announced a demonstration on 6 January 2021 to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. “Be there,” he bellowed in a tweet, “will be wild!” His supporters answered the call, avid for what used to be called a “wilding”, the kind of rampage that juvenile gangs go on. Trump sent his followers to “fight like hell” at the Capitol, where they smeared shit in the marble halls, set off smoke bombs, and stampeded through a mess of ransacked documents, broken glass and splintered wood.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...pitol-riot-the-toxic-legacy-of-trumps-big-lie