The COVID Diaries – 257 6th January
Today the United States has seen the probably inevitable conclusion of Donald Trump’s desperate lies and refusal to accept that he lost the presidential election. His Vice-President, Mike Pence, has had to explain to him that his role in formally counting the electoral college votes is to record the will of the states, not bow to some brutal mob boss who thinks he can order the will of the people to be ignored.
Trump spoke to the mob, wound them up like clockwork and they stormed the Capitol so proceedings had to be halted. Scenes we never thought we would see in the US. It is ugly, horrible but the inevitable outcome of Trump’s presidency.
In contrast, President Biden made a statesmanlike speech – the speech the president should have made. On 20th January he becomes president and America can start to rebuild. It can’t come a day too soon.