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'A horrible feeling': Trump supporters in grieving after they finally realize he's leaving
January 18, 2021
Now that President Donald Trump has exhausted all his options for overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election, the reality is setting in among many of his supporters that he will no longer be president after noon on Wednesday.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that Trump supporters in Florida are mourning the president's impending exit and are vowing not to watch President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
<p>“I feel like I'm not in my skin," Trump supporter Florine Goldfarb tells the paper. "It's a horrible feeling. I don't like what they did to the president."</p><p>"I feel sad for America," said Trump supporter Candace Rojas of Palm Beach.</p><p>Another Trump supporter said that she planned to be "wearing all black, shutting off my TV when I'm home from work, and lighting a St. Jude candle to pray for our country" during Biden's inauguration, which she described as an "injustice."</p><p>Scott Newmark, the president of Americans for Trump, tells the Sun Sentinel that many Florida Republicans are furious that the Republican Party did not do more to help the president stay in power, even though it would have required flagrantly breaking the law.</p><p>"Amongst Trump supporters there is tremendous anger at the establishment of the Republican Party," he said. "They feel betrayed, and many are leaving the party, and vowing not to support this party in the future."</p>
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'Protocols were not followed': Here's why Trump's DHS wasn't able to stop the Capitol riot
January 18, 2021
On Monday, NBC News released an analysis of the shortcomings of outgoing President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security that led to the failure to control the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
One of the biggest problems was that the agency had unseasoned staff who were more focused on immigration threats than anything to do with domestic terrorism.
<p>"They tend to be younger, with not as much experience," said former DHS deputy chief of staff Elizabeth Neumann. "They don't have the incidents under their belts to know the proper protocols. So many protocols were not followed."</p><p><span></span>"As armed rioters overtook police and moved into the Capitol, armed agents from DHS, an agency expressly designed to prevent another terrorist incident like the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, stood inside a nearby building waiting for a command to deploy that never came," reported Julia Ainsley. "There is also no indication that DHS shared any intelligence with its state and local partners or with U.S. Capitol Police before Jan. 6 that would have indicated that the protests could turn into a riot."</p><p>"DHS also failed to designate the day of President Donald Trump's rally in Washington as a National Special Security Event, as it has now done with the week leading up to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration Wednesday," said the report. "If it had done so, on Jan. 6 the Secret Service would have been able to coordinate with the National Guard and DHS' law enforcement agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But it was the four years of inadequately monitoring and communicating the rising threat of right-wing domestic extremists that ultimately led to DHS' failure to prevent the events at the Capitol, the former DHS officials said."</p><p>The Capitol assault included far-right extremists from around the country, including some who had <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rioters-2649961859/" target="_blank">embedded themselves into law enforcement</a>.</p><p>You can read more <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/capitol-riot-exposed-flaws-trump-s-dhs-focused-immigration-not-n1254464" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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President Donald Trump's failures are all rooted in the gossipy incompetence of everyone in his orbit, according to one of the reporters who gained insider access to his administration.
Elle published an oral history of covering his unlikely and unprecedented presidency by women reporters, and New York Magazine's Olivia Nuzzi revealed how Trump's love for drama made it nearly impossible for anything significant to be accomplished.
<p>"When you work on a palace intrigue story about the Trump White House, it activates nefarious actors and crazy people," Nuzzi said. "You might have six sources that 'independently' tell you something, but that doesn't mean anything because they're all actually insane and evil."</p><p>Nuzzi was unexpectedly invited to the Oval Office while chasing down rumors that then-chief of staff John Kelly would be fired, and ended up getting a <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/my-private-oval-office-press-conference-with-donald-trump.html" target="_blank">private press conference</a> with the president, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kelly that made her question her own sanity afterward.</p><p>"I regretted in some ways how I told that story," Nuzzi said. "It didn't do a great job of conveying how powerful people in the country spend their time, in the middle of crises, talking about and trying to prevent the spread of gossip about their workplace. It's been four years of psychotic drama, at the most personal, petty level you could imagine. That is the story of why Trump failed to do anything, for the most part, that he set out to do."<br/></p><p>She also gained remarkable access to Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who sent her late-night texts and <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/i-know-how-not-to-commit-crimes-rudy-giuliani-goes-off-the-rails-during-booze-fueled-interview/" target="_blank">got drunk on Bloody Marys</a> during a brunch interview.</p><p>"This has been an accessible group of people, not because they understand the value in being accessible or think they're doing the right thing, but in their incompetence, they accidentally do things that are in the public interest," Nuzzi said. "Even if they lie, they're still revealing interesting or important information with the way they lie and the way they communicate."<br/></p>
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