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NEW —> Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol My latest with @AshleyRParker + @jdawsey1 , a behind-the-scenes account of the commander in chief abdicating his responsibilities
Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control — terrifying and essential reporting from @karoun @CarolLeonnig @pkcapitol + @byaaroncdavis
Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, tells @HallieJackson on @MSNBC that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in danger.
Exciting news on the home front —> the dazzling @AshleyRParker is WaPo’s new White House Bureau Chief and will lead our all-star team covering President Biden. I will become Senior Washington Correspondent. Thrilled about what’s to come. Read all about it:
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U.S. intelligence agencies warned Trump more than a dozen times in the President’s Daily Brief during January and February, the period during which Trump dismissed the danger, @gregpmiller & @nakashimae report
The National Park Service is diverting $2.5 million, which is collected by entrance fees to pay for improvements at parks nationwide, to fund Trump's July 4 spectacle -- to which his political donors get VIP tickets, via @eilperin @jdawsey1 & @DanLamothe
The Washington Post surveyed all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate. Only 25 would acknowledge that Joe Biden is president-elect.
Watching returns from Georgia, it’s hard not to think about the hundreds of election workers who again tonight are carefully doing democracy’s business under unprecedented scrutiny, amid a raging pandemic, and with a president relentlessly and baselessly calling them thieves.
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