People began yelling: “Shots fired! Shots fired! Get down!” A member of Congress, his voice filled with fury, yelled at the mob, “Stop it! You sons of bitches, stop!” “They won’t listen,” someone told him in response. There was only one person they would have listened to—the man who provoked this attack; the man who mobilized the violent mob and sent them to the Capitol; the man who for months fed his supporters lies that the election had been stolen from him; the man who told them that they had to fight like hell to save their country. That man was sitting in his dining room at the White
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