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    What Trump wrought

    Jan 08, 2021 6 minutes
    By Molly Ball
    PHOTOGRAPH BY VICTOR J. BLUE
    The Brief is reported by Madeleine Carlisle, Suyin Haynes, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache and Olivia B. Waxman

    "WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP, WE WILL NEVER CONCEDE!” President Donald Trump told the crowd of supporters he had summoned to Washington on Jan. 6. They heard him and obeyed. Within hours, a mob of self-styled revolutionaries waving Trump flags had stormed the Capitol. Scaling scaffolding and breaking windows, they filled the marble halls. Shots were fired inside the building as lawmakers and their staffs scrambled for cover and tear gas filled the Rotunda. For the first time since the Civil War, America would not have a peaceful transfer of power.

    Before the riot interrupted it, Trump’s last-ditch attempt to steal the presidential election that he unambiguously lost was not going well. Vice President Mike Pence announced he would fulfill his ceremonial role of counting the states’ electoral votes, rejecting Trump’s demand to

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