Leaders were shocked by the storming of the US Capitol yesterday. They were largely Trump’s supporters, inspired, excited and encouraged by the President himself.
Teo Chee Hean wrote this on FB: “I have been up, watching shocking scenes in the US Congress where protesters have entered the chambers, stopped proceedings and forced members to flee...We hope this ends peacefully. It is a sad day.”
Even Zuckerberg said he will extend the block placed on Trump’s FB and Instagram accounts, for fear that his mindless posts would incite further violence. To allow him to continue those services, Zuckerberg said, “are simply too great.”
In the meantime, leaders are calling for the strength of American democracy to prevail, and it did to some extent when Congress sealed Biden’s election win, with Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell rebuking “his colleagues as he explained why he would not vote in favour of the opposition.”
“If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.”
Even Vice President Mike Pence said this: “To those who wrecked havoc in our Capitol today: You did not win. Violence never wins.”
And McConnell added: “The United States Senate will not be intimidated. We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats.”
Alas, if there were any cause to charge/impeach the outgoing President for treason, high crimes, and/or misdemeanour, the evidence is in his recorded speech at a rally just before he told them to do their so-called patriotic duty to make their voice heard in Congress.
Even after all that, this is what the unhinged Trump has to say: -
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear it out, nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition on Jan 20. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term presidential history, it is only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”
No, the facts do not bear it out.
Trump lost. He lost by more than 7 million votes in November. He lost many times over when he had to spend millions of public funds mandating a recount and the results didn’t change. He lost when the governors of the different electoral states endorsed Biden’s win in mid-December.
He again lost with more than 60 lawsuits, a majority, if not all, dismissed. He lost in two suits at the highest court of the land, and it was dismissed in less than 40 minutes. And now, he has clearly lost when the Senate yesterday endorsed the electoral college vote counts declaring Biden the next President of the United States.
So, the facts in fact bear themselves out not in the way Trump meant it.
And whether there will be an orderly transition on Jan 20 or not, the decision has already been made over and over again, mainly just for his sake and to placate his insecurities, since November 2020.
As such, any voters’ fraud in fact turns out to be him and his gang creating a persistent fraud against the Constitution of America and Democracy. As McConnell puts it, “If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.”
And the storming of the Capitol yesterday was all the evidence one needs to confirm that Trump and his supporters have all the intention and plan to plunge the country down that death spiral for democracy and the American way of life.
Mind you, Trump did say this: “It is only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!” And if the fight had been legitimate, through proper channels, I say go for it. Yet, yesterday, the world witnessed the worst of what rallied-up Trump supporters were able to do, and it shocked us all.
I thus fear that, with Trump’s temperament and immaturity, the worse is yet to come. I also fear that Trump had unthinkingly threw a snowball down the democratic Alps that even he himself cannot stop the avalanche of outcome coming the Americans’ way.
And lastly, has Trump made America great again? For he did say, this represents the end of the greatest first term presidential history, right? I think the self-claimed “greatest president” title somehow contradicts with its length, one term?
Anyway, like Teo said, this is a sad day. I believe he meant a sad day for Americans, for their country and for democracy.
It is an established fact that a President is to serve the people’s interest and welfare in mind and at heart. He is the President for the People, of the People, and with the People.
But Trump has deeply divided America. He has led America for himself, with others willingly and blindly following him even when they knew with eyes open that they are taking the country and her constitution down.
Alas, we have in fact come to a point where we can only pray for America. Indeed, God help America, and God help us all.
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