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This was the kind of day when the Trump operation’s usual tricks—bluster, scapegoating, and procedural fog—looked especially threadbare. The riot had already happened, the impeachment had already passed the House, and the only thing left was the slow-motion political bill arriving in the mail. For Trump, January 24 was another reminder that consequences do not care how loudly you insist the fire was somebody else’s fault.
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With the House already having impeached Donald Trump on an article charging incitement of insurrection, the fight heading into late January centered less on the attack itself than on how — and whether — the Senate could try a former president.
By January 24, Trump’s post-presidency had barely started and already the January 6 attack was defining it. The House impeachment process and the broader Republican backlash showed that his attempt to escape accountability by running out the clock had failed to work politically, even if it might complicate the legal calendar.