Shumer (the new Senate Majority Leader) begins by saying that we can add January 6 to this country’s list of days that will live in infamy.
[This stain on our country is] the final terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States — undoubtedly our worst.
(“Final” is far too optimistic. If Trump isn’t removed soon, worse is probably in store.)
Today’s events did not happen spontaneously. The president who promoted conspiracy theories that motivated these thugs… This president bears a great deal of the blame. This mob was in good part President Trump’s doing – incited by his words, his lies. This violence in good part was his responsibility and his everlasting shame… [This was a] final warning to our nation about a demagogic president… who attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.