CNN’s Jake Tapper reviews the violent events that have occurred throughout Trump’s presidency, saying Trump’s language and lies led to those attacks and culminated in the mob that stormed the US Capitol.
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Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and more Republicans are called out, in the wake of the Capitol insurrection by a pro-Trump mob, by Jonathan Capehart in his weekly analysis,
As Washington grapples with the fallout from the riot on Capitol Hill, the push to impeach the president for a second time is gaining ground. Democrats are expected to introduce impeachment resolutions on Jan. 11 backed by more than 190 co-sponsors.
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Dr. Lance Dodes joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Trump’s mental state as he’s banned from Twitter and why he will get worse once he leaves office and faces legal jeopardy: “The more desperate he becomes, the more delusional he is, the more he needs to prove to himself ultimately that he is still a god, so the less power he has, the more stress he’s under, the more dangerous he is.” Aired on 1/9/2021.
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‘No one can tell me that if it had been a group of BLM [protesters] yesterday, that they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true’ — Pres.-elect Joe Biden called out the ‘clear failure to carry out equal justice’ in the attack on the Capitol.
As rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s efforts to send in state police and the National Guard were blocked by the federal government for a full 90 minutes. Now, Hogan – a Republican – is calling for President Trump to resign or be removed from office. Joining these calls is the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump Republican group formed in 2019. Its co-founder Rick Wilson calls the violence “sedition and insurrection,” and speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what’s at stake. Originally aired on January 8, 2021.
Republicans who had echoed President Trump’s false election claims suddenly distanced themselves after a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.