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"State of the Union" host Jake Tapper kicked off his show on Sunday by ripping into Donald Trump as a lover of the Capitol assault "terrorists," adding that Wednesday's violent attack on the halls of Congress will go down as a day of "infamy."

The CNN host got to it from the start.

"The state of our union is utterly devastated after one of the darkest days in our nation's history: a coup attempt, no longer bloodless, instigated by the president of the United States," he began. "The flags at the U.S. Capitol are at half staff this morning for the police officer, Brian Sicknick, who was murdered this week but they are not at half staff at the White House, perhaps because officer Sicknick was the enemy of the terrorist mob, and the mob loves Trump."

"The mob, by trying to intimidate, threaten, or even kill the vice president and members of Congress, who were counting the electoral votes -- that mob was, in turn, loved back by Trump," he continued. "According to [Nebraska Republican Senator] Ben Sasse, White House aides told him the president was quote 'delighted' watching the insurrection. In Trump's view, they were fighting for him. Trump put out a statement, 'we love you,' he said, after the attack, 'you are very special.'"

"It might be difficult to hear these words, it's difficult to say them because it's so ugly, but it's true," he continued. "The flag isn't down at the White House because the president is not mourning Sicknick. He hasn't personally decried the terrorists in any way because the president loves the terrorists and he reportedly has not even spoken to his own vice president, whose life was at risk since Wednesday. The images of this attack are so shocking that many of Trump's enablers are finally, with just a few days left in his presidency, beginning to get the goddamn point that his continuous lies and humoring of racists and winks and nods to violent extremists are dangerous."

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On Saturday, MarketWatch reported that after President Donald Trump leaves office on January 20, he could run into immediate problems if he needs to take out new loans for his business empire.

"Concerns about President Trump's ability to obtain debt on his bread-and-butter real-estate business follow a dramatic final two months of his presidency that reached a low point on Wednesday when hundreds of rioters, pushing past security barriers and security, breached the Capitol as lawmakers were going through the typically ceremonial procedure of confirming President-elect Joe Biden's win over Trump," reported Joy Wiltermuth. "The violent storming of the Capitol, which resulted in the death of four people and the ransacking of the seat of government, followed a rally where Trump urged his supporters to head to the Capitol and 'fight.'"

President historian Michael Beschloss on Saturday explained that the U.S. Constitution has a provision to prevent people like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) from serving in office.

"First of all, has this ever happened before in the United States?" MSNBC's Alex Witt asked. "Has a sitting president been delighted by scenes of chaos and carnage?"

The editorial board for the Houston Chronicle is now calling for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to resign from office after he led Republican efforts to invalidate the Electoral College certification.

The Chronicle, a stark critic of the Texas senator, published an editorial expressing concern about his role in the spread of misinformation about the presidential election which ultimately contributed to Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol.

Longtime Donald Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen predicted the possibility of a violent uprising at the U.S. Capitol over a year ago during testimony before Congress, but now fears there is nobody who can stop the president from inciting more violence.

Cohen was interviewed on Saturday by MSNBC's Alex Witt, who played a clip of his 2019 testimony before Congress.

On MSNBC Saturday, former Republican Congressional adviser Kurt Bardella demanded legal action against President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the election and incite insurrection — and suggested if Trump is held to account, he'll have a hard time finding a lawyer.

"Our justice system is on the line here," said Bardella. "If he is not held accountable for all of the crimes that he has committed over the last four years — heck, we just found out there was another phone call that he made in Georgia trying to undermine the election and commit sedition — if there is not consequences legally, our justice system doesn't mean anything."