We begin on Monday, January 4th, President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden travel down to Georgia ahead of Tuesday’s runoff to make a last ditch pitch for the two seats at stake for control of the Senate. Trump continued to boost his claims of election fraud, saying that there’s no way he lost Georgia.
Biden, on the other hand, went on the attack against Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, saying that they’re more loyal to Trump than to their constituents.
Meanwhile, it’s reported that President Trump will give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Republican Congressmen Devin Nunes. R-Calif., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Both have been key allies of the president’s in the Trump-Russia probe led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller as well as the House impeachment proceedings in the fall of 2019.
Tuesday, January 5th, as a U.S. District Judge rejects President Trump’s latest lawsuit to decertify Georgia’s presidential election results, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock defeat Perdue and Loeffler, respectively, in the Georgia runoff for the last two Senate seats that remained in question.
With the Senate now deadlocked at 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who, under the Constitution, represents the tie-breaking vote, will give Democrats a razor-thin majority.
Wednesday, January 6th, President Trump speaks at the “Save America” rally ahead of a joint session of Congress, which convenes to certify the Electoral College results of the presidential election. Shortly thereafter, Vice President Pence announces in a letter to Congress that he’s breaking with the president on rejecting the results of the Electoral College.
Following the rally, a mob of Trump supporters storm the Capitol building, forcing the Vice President and members of both the House and Senate into lockdown and shortly evacuation. One woman was shot and killed while trying to climb through a broken window of an indoor entryway. The National Guard is called in and a 6pm curfew is implemented in Washington.
In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot, President Trump posts several inflammatory tweets, leading to a temporary ban from Twitter and a warning that his account would be permanently suspended.
Thursday, January 7th, in the wee hours of the morning, Congress officially certifies the Electoral College results for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Following the chaos on Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos resign, citing the riot on Capitol Hill. A number of other White House officials resign as well.
Later that day, Trump comes back to Twitter and posts a video of a prerecorded address in which he condemns the Capitol Hill rioters.
In an effort to overturn the results of the presidential election, Trump ends up lighting the match to set off the powder keg, creating even more chaos than when he first entered office. Tensions have run so high that there’s already been serious consideration for impeachment or the 25th Amendment. Whatever the case may be, Trump’s legacy will be remembered by the events that took place on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021. And that’s hardly a way any president would want to be remembered.
