“Sail on, sail on
O mighty ship of state!
To the shores of need
Past the reefs of greed
Through the squalls of hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on…”
—Leonard Cohen, “Democracy”
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Today:
* A Democratic president
* First Black VP
* First woman VP
* First South Asian VP
* First Jewish Senate majority leader
* First Latino senator from Calif.
* First Black senator from Georgia
* First Jewish senator from Georgia
* First woman chief of intelligence community
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“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.”
—FDR, first inaugural, 1933
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"Wilson botched the handling of a pandemic; LBJ and Nixon lied to the American public… Clinton and Andrew Johnson were impeached; many presidents were outright bigots and philanderers. But none before Trump was all of those things at once," writes .
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In Sept. 2020, Pew found that favorable views of the U.S. had plummeted among its friends, reaching just 26% in Germany, 31% in France, and 33% in Australia. pewresearch.org/global/2020/09
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“The world respects us again. Please. Don’t. Lose. That. Respect,” Trump says in his farewell video.
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Trump's former national security adviser writes that Trump delivered a very different message to Xi in person: "Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do." wsj.com/articles/john-
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New: The Trump State Department’s final act: Calling out China for genocide washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/ by me @PostOpinions
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APNEWSALERT: BALTIMORE (AP) — US death toll from the coronavirus tops 400,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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The first conspiracy charges related to the Capitol mob were filed against three rioters for acting in an "organized and practiced fashion" during the storming of the U.S. Capitol, a complaint shows
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MCCONNELL: "The mob was fed lies, they were provoked by the president and other powerful people...But we pressed on. We stood together and said an angry mob would not get veto power over the rule of law in our nation, not even for one night."
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I wrote a personal piece about what it was like to spend four years fact checking every word from Donald Trump:
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No idea if this betokens anything, but there is an absolutely massive hawk in Central Park this morning.
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From the Yale historian and author of the brilliant "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," which won the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer-winning "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom."
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I have read as much as I can stomach of the 1776 report. It is the product of allowing an array of viciously right wing, willfully ignorant people to have way too much power. Beliefs devoid of history. I feel so uncomfortable even bringing attention to this mess.
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Sixty years ago tonight, President Eisenhower warned us to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex….We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
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The Wall Street Journal reviewed thousands of social media posts from the Proud Boys, showing the group repeatedly invoking President Trump’s rhetoric in the weeks leading to the Jan. 6 protest.
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Records: Trump allies behind rally that ignited Capitol riot
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Biden Chief of staff Ron Klain says in published memo to incoming WH staff that Biden will reverse Trump's travel ban on inauguration day
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OK, who else noticed that every single headline on today's WaPo Saturday letters page is an Emily Dickinson quote? Nicely done, editors.
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Let's be clear: For the far-right groups that carried out Trump's insurrection, the siege of the Capitol was a huge success, a major propaganda coup. I talked to experts in right-wing extremism about what this event really meant to them. Alarming stuff:
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President Trump and his allies have for months made numerous false claims about election fraud. WSJ reporters tackle some of them. on.wsj.com/3qomzzc
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Members of a pro-Trump mob planned to capture and kill elected officials during a siege of the Capitol last week, including a self-described QAnon Shaman who left a menacing note for Vice President Mike Pence, federal prosecutors said
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“Asking where did Trumpism go wrong suggests that it wasn’t misguided from the beginning,” former top House Republican aide Douglas Heye tells .
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Trump, 2015: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."
Franklin Graham, 2021: "He has defended religious liberty like no president before him."
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"It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal." In a new Facebook post, Franklin Graham lambasts the 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment.
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Told not to use the toilets at Ivanka & Jared’s house, their Secret Service detail spent months searching for a toilet to use on the job, resorting to a porta-potty & toilets at Obama’s & Pence’s homes—until they started spending $3K/month on a studio apt.
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Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, tells on that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in danger.
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INBOX: Two off-duty Virginia cops charged for joining in the riots inside the US Capitol.
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Both strikingly small, given the offense, and historically large.
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Ten Republicans voted to impeach Trump. That's the most members of a president's party than have ever voted to impeach him.
Johnson: 0
Clinton: 5 for three articles, 1 for the fourth article
Trump (first time): 0, after Rep. Justin Amash left the GOP to become a Libertarian.
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This is a sight I’ll never forget.
When I was in college in 2000, the day after the election I went to Bill Quandt’s Middle East Politics class. He said the difference between us and some other countries is that there are no tanks in the streets today. 21 yrs later, here we are.
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The 10 House GOPers who voted for impeachment are
Cheney
Herrera Beutler
Katko
Kinzinger
Upton
Newhouse
Meijer
Gonzalez (Ohio)
Valadao
Rice
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NOW it's official, results read by Pelosi, who then gavels out.
Trump has been impeached a 2nd time: 232-197
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Breaking: House has now reached enough votes to impeach President Trump, making him the only US president to be impeached twice.
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Vote is still open, but 10 Republican House members have voted to impeach Trump today.
In 1998, 5 Democrats voted in favor of three of the four Clinton articles of impeachment, but only one voted for the abuse of power charge.
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"Has the president committed offenses, and planned, and directed, and acquiesced in a course of conduct which the Constitution will not tolerate?"
—Rep. Barbara Jordan, July 1974
The Capitol was stormed for the first time since 1814. And so far seven Republicans are willing to impeach Trump for it.
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On CNN, summarizes the GOP argument against impeachment as: “Don’t hurt these people’s feelings because they might do it again”
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“Thank you to the president for his efforts to defeat MS-13 in my district,” says Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represents the Hamptons.
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