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January 14 was the day Trump’s defenders had to start explaining not just the riot, but the wreckage after it. The old trick of treating every disaster as performance art was no longer working; the damage was real, the blame was spreading, and the party was starting to look like it was improvising with a fire extinguisher full of confetti.
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The House impeached Donald Trump for a second time after the Capitol riot, with Democrats saying his months of election lies and Jan. 6 remarks helped trigger the assault. Some Republicans broke with him, but many still split between blame and resistance to impeachment.
In the immediate aftermath of impeachment, some Republicans moved from evasive language to explicit blame. Kevin McCarthy said on January 13 that Trump bore responsibility for the Capitol attack, while Lisa Murkowski and Tom Rice, in January 14 remarks and votes, treated the riot as a direct consequence of the former president’s conduct.
Trump issued a January 13 statement condemning violence after the House had already impeached him 232-197 that afternoon.