Trump, at Putin’s Side, Questions U.S. Intelligence on 2016 Election

During a press conference with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, President Trump would not say whether he believed Russia meddled with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"HELSINKI, Finland — President Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday and publicly challenged the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election, wrapping up what he called a 'deeply productive' summit meeting with an extraordinary show of trust for a leader accused of attacking American democracy. 'They said they think it’s Russia; I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,' Mr. Trump said, only moments after the Russian president conceded that he had favored Mr. Trump in the election because of his promises of warmer relations with Moscow. 'I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be' Russia that was responsible for the election hacking, Mr. Trump added. 'I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.' The 45-minute news conference offered the remarkable spectacle of the American and Russian presidents both pushing back on the notion of Moscow’s election interference, with Mr. Putin demanding evidence of something he said had never been proved, and Mr. Trump appearing to agree."
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The Atlantic: Trump Sides With the Kremlin, Against the U.S. Government
NY Times: 12 Russians Charged: Major Highlights of the Indictment and Rod Rosenstein’s Statement (Video)

Protest Updates: Ahmaud Arbery Suspect Used Racist Slur After Shooting, Investigator Says

Demonstrators marched on Wednesday in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, among other cities, defying curfews but also avoiding confrontation with the police.
"... George Floyd’s family prepares for a memorial in Minneapolis, one of many planned in coming days. For nearly three months, Americans have avoided most collective outpourings of grief as fears of the coronavirus converted funerals of lost friends and family into painfully socially distanced affairs. That will not be the case on Thursday when large crowds are expected to gather for a memorial service for George Floyd, a man whose recent death in police custody has elicited such outrage across the country that it has pushed fears of a global pandemic into the background. ... Here’s what you need to know: A suspect in the Ahmaud Arbery case used a racist slur after the shooting, an investigator testified., ... Senate Democrats hold 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence., Three officers newly charged in the death of George Floyd have their first court appearance on Thursday., ... A student struck with a bean-bag round at a protest in Austin has brain damage, his brother says., ‘He tries to divide us,’ Jim Mattis says of President Trump. ..."
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James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
"James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens. ... In his j’accuse, Mattis excoriates the president for setting Americans against one another. ..."
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5 Takeaways From Bob Woodward’s Book on the Trump White House

"A new book by Bob Woodward, the longtime Washington Post reporter, portrays a White House with relentless infighting and a work culture so toxic and volatile that many of President Trump’s top advisers and cabinet members became accustomed to working around their boss, whom they described as unstable and uninformed. 'Fear: Trump in the White House,' which is set for a public release next Tuesday and already sits atop Amazon’s best-seller list, is one in a series of insider accounts published this year that have drawn the ire of the West Wing. 'Fire and Fury,' by the writer Michael Wolff, and 'Unhinged,' by the former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman, also reported the kind of hostility and interpersonal feuding that Mr. Woodward depicts. Mr. Trump reacted to both books with numerous tweets targeting the authors. On Tuesday, after copies of Mr. Woodward’s book leaked to reporters, Mr. Trump told The Daily Caller that parts of it may have been made up. ..."
NY Times: 5 Takeaways From Bob Woodward’s Book on the Trump White House
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Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

"President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found. Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help. But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day. Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings. ..."
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Rally in Brooklyn Park Condemns Swastikas and ‘Go Trump’ Graffiti

"On Friday, swastikas and the words 'Go Trump' were discovered in graffiti on a jungle gym in Brooklyn Heights. By Sunday, the scrawl had been erased and in its place was a pile of marigolds, chrysanthemums and tiny paper hearts as a rally echoed across the playground, condemning the failure of President-elect Donald J. Trump to address a rash of hate crimes linked to his name. ... At the rally on Sunday, his longtime bandmate Adam Horovitz, known as Ad-Rock, called on New Yorkers to reject the hateful messages of the defacement and many other episodes in New York in recent weeks against Muslims, blacks and other minority groups. ..."
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The ‘Alt-Right’ Is A Hate Movement, And It’s Scarier Than You Think
NY Times: Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’
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TRUMP ACCUSED OF LEADING PUSH TO OVERTURN GEORGIA VOTE

Opinion | The Editorial Board - What if, Knowing What They Know Now, Republicans Don’t Vote for Donald Trump? “After three other criminal indictments were filed against him, Donald Trump was accused on Monday of racketeering. In a new indictment, Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., charged him with leading what was effectively a criminal gang to overturn the 2020 presidential election in that state. The grand jury indictment says Mr. Trump and 18 others violated the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO law, established by the federal government and more than 30 states and used to crack down on Mafia protection rackets, biker gangs and insider trading schemes. The Georgia indictment alleges that Mr. Trump often behaved like a mob boss, pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to decertify the Georgia election and holding a White House meeting to discuss seizing voting equipment. ...”

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NY Times: Trump Indicted in Georgia - Ex-President Has 10 Days to Surrender for Arraignment (Video)

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Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud, Stripping Control of Key Properties

"A New York judge ruled on Tuesday that Donald J. Trump persistently committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets, and stripped the former president of control over some of his signature New York properties. The surprising decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron is a major victory for Attorney General Letitia James in her lawsuit against Mr. Trump, effectively deciding that no trial was needed to determine that he had fraudulently secured favorable terms on loans and insurance deals. Ms. James has argued that Mr. Trump inflated the value of his properties by as much as $2.2 billion and is seeking a penalty of about $250 million in a trial scheduled to begin as early as Monday. ..."

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***NY Times: Trump’s Lawyers Try to Grasp the Implications of Judge’s Fraud Ruling  

NY Times: Ruling Against Trump Cuts to the Heart of His Identity  

NY Times: Read the Judge’s Ruling in the Trump Fraud Case

​Trump’s Second-Term Goal: Shattering the Norms He Didn’t Already Break

"In little over an hour, Donald J. Trump suggested the United States should default on its debts for the first time in history, injected doubt over the country’s commitment to defending Ukraine from Russia’s invasion, dangled pardons for most of the Capitol rioters convicted of crimes, and refused to say he would abide by the results of the next presidential election. The second-term vision Mr. Trump sketched out at a CNN town-hall event on Wednesday would represent a sharp departure from core American values that have been at the bedrock of the nation for decades: its creditworthiness, its credibility with international allies and its adherence to the rule of law at home. Mr. Trump’s provocations were hardly shocking. ...”

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NY Times: E. Jean Carroll May Sue Trump a Third Time After ‘Vile’ Comments on CNN

NY Times: Opinion | Trump’s ‘Stupid,’ ‘Stupid’ Town Hall

NY Times: Trump Revives Election Lies and False Boasts in CNN Town Hall

77 days: Trump’s campaign to subvert the election

 

“By Thursday the 12th of November, President Donald J. Trump’s election lawyers were concluding that the reality he faced was the inverse of the narrative he was promoting in his comments and on Twitter. There was no substantial evidence of election fraud, and there were nowhere near enough ‘irregularities’ to reverse the outcome in the courts. Mr. Trump did not, could not, win the election, not by ‘a lot’ or even a little. His presidency would soon be over. Allegations of Democratic malfeasance had disintegrated in embarrassing fashion. A supposed suitcase of illegal ballots in Detroit proved to be a box of camera equipment. ‘Dead voters’ were turning up alive in television and newspaper interviews. The week was coming to a particularly demoralizing close: In Arizona, the Trump lawyers were preparing to withdraw their main lawsuit as the state tally showed Joseph R. Biden Jr. leading by more than 10,000 votes, against the 191 ballots they had identified for challenge. ...”

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NY Times: Key Takeaways From Trump’s Effort to Overturn the Election

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 The president’s supporters, emboldened by the lie of a stolen election, breached the halls of Congress to stop the certification of the vote.

NY Times: Tracking the Oath Keepers Who Attacked the Capitol

NY Times: Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny

NY Times: How Trump’s Focus on Antifa Distracted Attention From the Far-Right Threat

NY Times: Proud Boys Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Riot

NY Times: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Controversies Are Piling Up. Republicans Are Quiet.

YouTube: G O P  Quiet as Pressure Mounts to Address Lawmaker’s Conspiracy Claims

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NY Times: Opinion | If Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn’t Beyond the Pale, Who Is?

January 6 United States Capitol attack

"On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep Trump in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. The attack was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the election results from being certified. According to the House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a seven-part plan by Trump to overturn the election. Within 36 hours of the event, five people had died: one was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer. ... Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm. A gallows was erected west of the Capitol, and some rioters chanted 'Hang Mike Pence' after he rejected false claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results. ... On August 1, 2023, following a special counsel investigation, Trump was indicted on four charges. More than 1,200 persons have been charged with federal crimes arising from the attack. As of December 2023, 728 defendants had pleaded guilty, while another 166 defendants had been convicted at trial; a total of 745 defendants have been sentenced. ..."

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"Two years ago, on January 6, 2021, a crowd of thousands attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of the 2020 election results, spurred on by false claims the election had been “rigged” against Republican incumbent Donald Trump. More than 2,000 people entered the Capitol building, smashing windows, ransacking offices, defecating in public spaces and searching for members of Congress. The assault was ultimately unsuccessful but it has set off alarm bells about the stability of US democracy and the growing influence of anti-democratic elements within the Republican Party. ..."

Aljazeera: January 6 Capitol riot: Charges, convictions, trials two years on (Video) 

Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

***The Nation: The Insurrection Is Far From Over

 

NY Times - The Jan. 6 Capitol Attack: Inquiries and Fallout 

YouTube: Three years later: The Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot and its lasting impact on America's Democracy., Jan. 6 panel releases never-before-seen footage of Trump recording message to Capitol rioters

FBI poster seeking information on violence at the Capitol Building published January 6, 2021

TRUMP IMPEACHED AGAIN

 

“The House on Wednesday impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president’s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time. Reconvening under the threat of continued violence and the protection of thousands of National Guard troops, the House was determined to hold Mr. Trump to account just one week before he was to leave office. At issue was his role in encouraging a mob that attacked the Capitol one week ago while Congress met to affirm President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, forcing lawmakers to flee for their lives in a deadly rampage.The House adopted a single article of impeachment, voting 232 to 197 to charge Mr. Trump with ‘inciting violence against the government of the United States’ and requesting his immediate removal from office and disqualification from ever holding one again. ...”

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Michigan Supreme Court Decides Trump Can Stay on Ballot

"The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for Donald J. Trump to appear on the state’s primary ballot, a victory for the former president in a battleground state. The state’s top court upheld an appeals court decision that found that the former president could appear on the ballot despite questions about his eligibility to hold elected office because of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The Michigan decision followed a bombshell ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which on Dec. 19 determined in a 4-3 opinion that Mr. Trump should be removed from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. ..."

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NY Times: A Fake Trump Elector in Michigan Told Prosecutors of Regret, Anger

NY Times: Prosecutors Ask Judge to Keep Trump From Making ‘Baseless Political Claims’ in Trial

The Michigan Hall of Justice building in Lansing, where the state Supreme Court considered whether former President Donald J. Trump was eligible to appear on the primary ballot.

2021 storming of the United States Capitol

“On January 6, 2021, supporters of U.S. president Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol. The event disrupted a joint session of Congress during which the Electoral College vote was to be certified, affirming Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. The event followed numerous failed attempts by Trump and his supporters to overturn the election results. ... The demonstration culminated in a riot, in which the Capitol was stormed by Trump supporters. Congress was in session at the time, conducting the Electoral College vote count and debating the results of the vote. As the protesters arrived, Capitol security evacuated the Senate and House of Representatives chambers and locked down several other buildings on the Capitol campus. Protesters broke past security to enter the Capitol, occupying the evacuated Senate chamber while guards drew handguns to prevent entry to the evacuated House floor. Several buildings in the Capitol complex were evacuated, and all buildings in the complex were subsequently locked down. ... The crowd was dispersed out of the US Capitol later that evening. The process to certify Electoral College results resumed shortly after 8 p.m. and continued to its conclusion the following morning. The riots and storming of the Capitol were described as insurrection, sedition, and domestic terrorism. Some news outlets labeled the act as an attempted coup d'état by Trump. The incident was the first time the Capitol had been overrun since the 1814 burning of Washington by the British during the War of 1812. ...”

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Politico - ‘Is This Really Happening?’: The Siege of Congress, Seen From the Inside (Video)

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NY Times - Biden’s Win Is Confirmed, but Nation Is Shaken (Video)

Jacobin: Republican Elites Are Responsible for Today’s Storming of the Capitol

The Atlantic: The Sun Is Up. Impeach and Convict.

The Atlantic: What Trump and His Mob Taught the World About America

BIDEN BEATS TRUMP

"Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy and a spirit of national unity to confront raging health and economic crises, and making Donald J. Trump a one-term president after four years of tumult in the White House. Mr. Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration, and was delivered by an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old and young voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans. Mr. Trump is only the third elected president since World War II to lose re-election, and the first in more than a quarter-century. The result also provided a history-making moment for Mr. Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, who will become the first woman to serve as vice president. ..."

NY Times - Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump  

NY Times - Election Highlights: Biden Defeats Trump as Pennsylvania Puts Him Over the Top

NY Times - In Torrent of Falsehoods, Trump Claims Election Is Being Stolen

Trump’s Crazy and Confoundingly Successful Conspiracy Theory Image

“... He will not, because no such fraud exists, according to the diligent debunking of reporters, weary fact checkers, Democrats and a slowly increasing number of Republicans, too. ‘NO FRAUD,’ read the headline at the top of the front of Wednesday’s New York Times. On Thursday, in the Wall Street Journal, none other than GOP lion Karl Rove said there’s ‘no evidence’ of the level of malfeasance Trump is not only alleging but requires to reverse the results of the election. All of this is necessary, norm-adhering, invaluable pushback—and also misses perhaps the most crucial point. The shocking lack of specifics, which Trump’s critics mock as laughably unserious for something so consequential, is not a deficiency. It is the feature of his strategy. ...”

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CNN: Trump digs deeper into debunked conspiracy theories instead of embracing reality

Trump’s Long History With Conspiracy Theories

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Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Election

“President Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to ‘find’ him enough votes to overturn the presidential election and vaguely threatened him with ‘a criminal offense’ during an hourlong telephone call on Saturday, according to an audio recording of the conversation. Mr. Trump, who has spent almost nine weeks making false conspiracy claims about his loss to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., told Brad Raffensperger, the state’s top elections official, that he should recalculate the vote count so Mr. Trump, not Mr. Biden, would end up winning the state’s 16 electoral votes.’I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,’ Mr. Trump said during the conversation, according to a recording first obtained by The Washington Post, which published it online Sunday. The New York Times also acquired a recording of Mr. Trump’s call. ...”

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NY Times: An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office

NY Times: Republicans Begin New Congress Feuding Over Bid to Overturn Election

Washington Post: ‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor (Video)

POLITICO: 117th Congress kicks off with GOP civil war, calls for impeachment and plexiglass

Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing this month.
"President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting. 'I hope you can let this go,' the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo. The documentation of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia. Late Tuesday, Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, demanded that the F.B.I. turn over all 'memoranda, notes, summaries and recordings' of discussions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Comey. ..."
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NY Times: What Is Obstruction of Justice? An Often Murky Crime, Explained
NY Times: Five Contradictions in the White House’s Story About Comey’s Firing
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James Comey’s Conspicuous Independence

"On Tuesday, when Donald Trump abruptly dismissed the F.B.I. director, James Comey, his Administration insisted that he was merely following the recommendation of his Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, the two most senior officials in the Justice Department. ... In a three-page memorandum attached to Comey’s termination letter, the Deputy Attorney General, Rod J. Rosenstein, cited concern for the F.B.I.’s 'reputation and credibility.' He said that the director had defied Justice Department policies and traditions and overstepped his authority in the way he handled the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. ... In the aftermath of Comey’s firing, Democrats and some Republicans in Congress have proposed a far more credible explanation for Trump’s action, accusing the President of trying to halt the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian interference in the election and possible collusion with his campaign. Some of those legislators, as well as many critics in the press, have said that Trump has ignited a constitutional crisis, and they called for the appointment of an independent prosecutor to carry out the Russia investigation. ..."
New Yorker
New Yorker: Donald Trump’s Firing of James Comey Is an Attack on American Democracy
NY Times: Trump Warns Comey and Says He May Cancel Press Briefings (Video)
NY Times: The Events That Led Up to Comey’s Firing,
and How the White House’s Story Changed
NY Times: The Opinion Pages | The Trump-Russia Nexus
New Yorker: In Trump, Echoes of Nixon’s Constitutional Crisis

Richard Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre - By Jonathan Schell (November 12, 1973)
"Sixteen months ago, five men (in case anyone hasn’t heard) were caught in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee carrying wiretapping equipment. Whom could they have been working for? The country awaited evidence. In one man’s pocket were consecutively numbered hundred-dollar bills that were soon traced to the Committee to Re-elect the President. In another man’s pockets was a notebook that contained the entry 'W.House.' One of the men turned out to be the chief of security for the Committee. It became known that a Committee counsel had planned their action. Could it have been the Committee to Re-elect the President that the men were working for? The President said he thought not. The F.B.I. thought not. The Criminal Division of the Justice Department thought not. And the public thought not. Six months passed. The men were indicted and convicted. ..."
New Yorker

Awe and Shock - How the world reacted to the Trumpist mob that sacked the heart of American democracy.

“Around the world, the shock of Wednesday’s assault on Capitol Hill brought into sharp focus a question that has been smoldering for four years among America’s allies and adversaries. ‘And again the doubt,’ wrote Emma Riverola in El Periódico de Catalunya, a Barcelona, Spain, daily, in painfully graphic terms. ‘Is this just a final burst of pus? Or has the infection spread, now threatening to cause a sepsis of the entire system?’ Was Donald Trump an aberration or the ominous onset of decline in the world’s premier democracy? The question echoed in democracies beset in recent years by populist movements nurtured by the same blend of far-right nationalism and blue-collar grievances as President Trump’s following. ... From the other end of the geopolitical spectrum, entrenched authoritarian regimes exulted in the disarray in a superpower accustomed to hectoring and sanctioning them over their suppression of democratic and human rights. ...”

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BBC - Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' (Video)

YouTube: End times for President Trump, new dawn for Trump media? -  Al Jazeera

NY Times: The American Abyss

America Is Not Exceptional. Its History of Violence Cannot Be Denied.

Reuters: Factbox-World shocked by Trump supporters' attack on U.S. democracy

Open Culture - Mayhem Inside the Capitol: 40 Minutes of Footage (Video)

Rebecca Solnit: When the President of Mediocrity Incites an Insurrection

In These Times - Equating White Nationalists and "Left Radicals" Is What Got Us Here in the First Place

NY Times - America in 2021: Racial Progress in the South, a White Mob in the Capitol

How the Insurgent and MAGA Right are Being Welded Together on the Streets of Washington D.C.  - Robert Evans

Trump's Move On Keystone XL, Dakota Access Outrages Activists

"The Trump administration is pushing forward with plans for two major oil pipelines in the U.S., projects that sparked nationwide demonstrations and legal fights under President Barack Obama.
President Trump signed documents inviting the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline to resubmit a proposal for the project, which the Obama administration rejected in 2015, and instructing the Army to expedite the review and approval process for the section of the Dakota Access Pipeline that hasn't been built. ... Demonstrators, sometimes numbering in the thousands, set up several camps on occupied land near the proposed crossing site beginning last summer, in support of the Standing Rock Sioux. The tribe filed a lawsuit against the federal government to block the pipeline, which was retracted earlier this month. ..."
NPR: Trump's Move On Keystone XL, Dakota Access Outrages Activists
NY Times: **For Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Leader, Revival of Keystone XL Upsets a Balancing Act
NY Times: **Histories of Violence.
NY Times: The Conflicts Along 1,172 Miles of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Washington Post
The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move 
The Verge: Trump resurrects stalled Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines (Video)
ACLU: Stand With Standing Rock
The Never-Ending Indian Wars: Spotlight Returns to Standing Rock
Tsunami of Outrage, Vows of Resistance Follow Trump's Pipeline Order


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