Well, here we are, in the last few hours of the Trump presidency. The country is in such turmoil that when Joe Biden takes the oath of office, and delivers his speech, there will be 25,000 National Guard troops - rather than cheering crowds - lining the mall. That’s more than the total number of troops deployed in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan combined. If Trump had accepted the results of a free and fair election, and facilitated a peaceful transition from one administration to the next, this show of strength would have been unnecessary.
Trump has broken with tradition by refusing to attend Biden’s inauguration (the last outgoing president to do likewise was Andrew Johnson, back in 1868). He gave one last scripted speech (ie not scripted by him), in which he listed all his many ‘accomplishments’ during four years in the White House… but not a word about organising an armed insurrection!
A frosty morning on Skipwith Common...
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