Broken by his loss to 78-year-old President-elect Joe Biden, a defeated 74-year-old President Donald Trump found out the hard way what happens when you whip up unruly crowds, taking frustrations over the lost election on Capitol Hill. Speaking to angry supporters over losing the Nov. 3 election, Trump didn’t know he could push the unbalanced ones over the edge, descending on the Capitol with a vengeance, causing a big commotion Jan. 6 when Congress met in joint session to certify Biden’s Electoral College Victory. Today’s angry mob are not “Trump supporters” they’re Democrats and media calling for Trump’s head. Calling Trump “unhinged,” “unstable” and “a danger to U.S. democracy,” 77-year-old former Washington Post journalist-turned CNN pundit Carl Bernstein called for Trump’s immediate removal from office under the 25th Amendment, something utterly preposterous.
Trump never called for the ginned up crowd to invade the Capitol or commit any variety of crimes, he called on them to march to the Capital to continue their peaceful protests, not trespass, vandalize and engage in malicious mischief. Trump’s crowd descending on the Capitol was around 1,000 strong, only a small fraction of whom breached the Capitol, or, more accurately, were allowed to enter for some unknown reason by Capitol police. Capitol police were so ill-prepared without any crowd control plan they acquiesced to protesters entering the Capitol. Had they set a simple cordon with police tape, the whole mess could have been prevented. But unlike Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests over the summer, pro-Trump demonstrators refrained from looting, arson, anarchy and other kinds of mayhem. Yet the media calls for Trump’s head, a befitting end to his presidency.
Calling for Trump to be immediately removed from office are from the same people that persecuted him during four years in office with FBI investigations, surveillance and wiretapping. Once the joint session of Congress finished its work certifying the Electoral College vote for Biden, Trump threw in the towel today. He thinks he fought the good fight, taking all his legal options before finally surrendering. “Now Congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,” Trump said in a two-minute video.posted on Twitter. “My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power,” letting his enemies in Congress and the press know he’s done fighting. Whether Trump could prove fraud or not to any court, he though he was robbed of a second term, whether there was evidence or not. His fight to the end was largely symbolic.
Trump knew without admitting it since Biden won the Nov. 3 election that he’d be leaving the White House. He used the last two months for prodigious fund raising, hammering his donors for anything he could get, knowing he had a snowball’s chance in hell of reversing the election. Trump wanted to set the record straight for his enemies calling for his head 13 days before Biden’s inauguration. “Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders,” stating for the record that he never encouraged anyone to storm the Capitol or commit any crimes. Trump’s video hopes to quell the hue-and-cry to see him ousted before Biden’s inauguration. Regardless of what happened Jan. 6, no one has the stomach for more impeachment hearings.
When the dust settles and Democrats and media calm down, they need to take inventory, reporting to the world the U.S. was in the middle of a coup d’etat. Calling Trump’s unruly mob “insurgents,” “terrorists” and “revolutionaries,” showed the kind of mass hysteria that runs on the 24/7 babbling so-called news shows. Trump’s crowd was not an armed insurgency or revolution, it was an angry mob just like the ones endorsed by Democrats and the media for the long hot summer, rioting, looting, occupying and burning down American cities in response to a string of police shootings. If the media can’t report the news factually, the public is lost, knowing that the press can’t do its First Amendment job. There’s no Free Speech right to advance the agenda of political parties. Yesterday melee was not an insurgency, terrorism or attempted coup d’etat, only a runaway unruly mob.
Trump fought like a tiger to preserve his presidency but in the end had to give way to reality: He lost the election. “My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results,” Trump said. “My only goal was to insure the integrity of the vote. In so doing, I was fighting to defend American democracy,” condemning the mayhem that happened in the strongest possible way. Whether his angry words incited the crowd is anyone’s guess. When any adult U.S. citizen decides to break the law, it’s a personal decision, not something Trump encouraged anyone to do. “We have just been through a tense election and emotions are high, but now tempers must be cooled and calm restored,” Trump said, coming full circle into accepting his fate. “We must get on with the business of America,” letting the Democrat and media mob know that the fight is over.
