"At their best, the words of a president can inspire. “The words of a president matter, no matter how good or bad that president is," Biden said. In a national address, Biden rightly characterized the “God-awful display” at the Capitol as a “siege” by a “mob” stoked to violence by a president who has refused to accept the results of an election that has been certified by every state in the union and confirmed by dozens of state and federal courts. “You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.” Rudolph Guiliani, Trump’s personal lawyer and fellow conspiracy theorist, stoked the protesters’ rage even further, calling for “trial by combat” to keep Trump in office. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” the deranged incumbent told his acolytes. It was Trump who let loose the violent chaos on Capitol Hill, inciting his supporters at a morning rally on the Ellipse to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to disrupt a joint session of Congress. What was normal about the Commander-in-Chief’s brief videotaped response to the rioting in which a purportedly law-and-order president continued to air his baseless grievances, reinforced the fallacy that he had won the election and comforted the “special people” who were wreaking havoc on Capitol Hill? It was not insane that, even as Trump urged rioters to go home, he took that moment to tell them that he understands their pain and “loves” them? Where is the Cabinet, invoking the 25th amendment to remove this deluded narcissist from office for the unprecedented threat he poses to American democracy? Why was he allowed to spend most of Wednesday afternoon luxuriating in the Oval Office, watching televised images of the vandals he incited sack the Capitol, including a rioter with his feet propped on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, displaying a message scrawled on a manilla folder: “We will not back down.” Biden Jr.’s election as the 46th president of the United States. Senators and congressmen in gas masks barricaded in their offices on a day designated for them to fulfill their constitutional obligation to confirm President-elect Joseph R. An armed standoff between guards and anarchists at the entrance to the House chamber. Insurrectionists shattering windows and storming the U.S. This is what comes of humoring a lawless demagogue. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) This article is more than 2 years old. Capitol building during demonstrations in the nation's capital. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump.
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