Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House chamber at the US Capitol. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP Credit...J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
Richard Bigo Barnett, 60, from Gravette, Ark.
Feet up in Speaker Pelosi's office
"I like a look of agony
Because I know it's true"
~Emily Dickinson
Republican Vermont Gov. Phil Scott called on President Donald Trump to "resign or be removed from office" for inciting Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol. In a statement released Wednesday evening, Scott accused the president of blatantly trying to spark an "insurrection."
Saying Donald Trump has "betrayed our national security" and will do so again, Rep. Adam Schiff used his closing arguments in the president's impeachment trial on Monday to urge the Senate to take a stand against "a man without character."
"We must say enough — enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again," Schiff, D-Calif., told the Senate. "He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less, and decency matters not at all."
February 3, 2020
Trump Is to Blame for Capitol Attack
The president incited his followers to violence. There must be consequences.
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The New York Times January 6, 2021
"The president needs to be held accountable — through impeachment proceedings or criminal prosecution — and the same goes for his supporters who carried out the violence. In time, there should be an investigation of the failure of the Capitol Police to prepare for an attack that was announced and planned in public."
