The telegraph
One of the saddest days in American history broke Trump – and deservedly so
January 6 was one of the saddest days in American history. An incumbent president urged a crowd of his supporters to attack the United States Capitol building, where the Senate and House of Representatives met at the joint session constitutionally required to count the votes of the Electoral College. Donald Trump’s clear intention in inciting this act of violence against the final conclusion act of the 2020 presidential election was to interrupt the counting procedure, thereby gaining more time to escape the inevitable result of the election. This is as shameful as it sounds, but it is still just one of a long series of shameful acts by Trump before, during and after the November election. He repeatedly lied about what happened in that election, convincing millions of decent and honest people that his opponents committed systematic fraud, in fact deceiving his own supporters. If there is evidence of this fraud, Trump has yet to present it to any judicial or administrative, federal or state court. In his view, the anti-Trump conspiracy is so vast and successful that it left no evidence. Either that, or his campaign had the worst team of lawyers in Anglo-American legal history. Trump’s farce promulgated the idea that Congress could overturn the duly certified results of the election of the main battlefield states, enough to change the majority of the Electoral College in his favor. And there was more: that somehow its vice president, Mike Pence, would ignore the clear words of the Constitution and impose his own result on the elections, when deciding which state certificates of results to count and which to ignore.