| Wurde auch schon so bestätigt - er wollte erst nicht |  |
Erst war er wohl während des Sturms gar nicht ansprechbar und hat nur widerwillig dieses erste "We love you, go home"-Video gedreht. Und selbst da hat er es ja nicht lassen können, zwischendurch in sein Wahlbetrugsgelaber zu verfallen. Das Statement vom Morgen danach, mit der geordneten Amtsübergabe (wenn man das jetzt noch so nennen kann, lol) klang wie von jemand anderem diktiert. Auch gegen dieses Video hat er sich gesträubt und erst auf Drängen seiner Untertanen verstanden, dass man ihm aus den Geschehnissen des Vortags einen Strick drehen könnte.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/trump-leave-office-resignation.html]
"While he did not give up his false claims of election fraud, he finally conceded defeat. “A new administration will be inaugurated on Jan. 20,” Mr. Trump acknowledged. “My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.”
Mr. Trump initially resisted taping the video, agreeing to do it only after aides pressed him and he appeared to suddenly realize he could face legal risk for prodding the mob, coming shortly after the chief federal prosecutor for Washington left open the possibility of investigating the president for illegally inciting the attack by telling supporters to march on the Capitol and show strength."
Zur Lage am Tag des Angriffs:
[https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mentally-unreachable-during-capitol-siege-aides-reports-2021-1]
"As supporters of President Donald Trump ransacked the Capitol building on Wednesday, the president was acting detached and ignoring aides' pleas, according to multiple reports.
One official told The Washington Post that Trump was "so driven by this notion that he's been treated unfairly" and that he struggled to understand events.
Axios and Politico reported that some of Trump's close friends and advisors were trying to avoid him and had given up trying to communicate.
Axios paraphrased sources as saying the president was "mentally unreachable."
The official told The Post that Trump was so incensed at Vice President Mike Pence, who presided over the congressional session to confirm Joe Biden as the president-elect, that "he couldn't see straight."
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-rage-riot/2021/01/07/26894c54-5108-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html]
"During the Capitol occupation, aides said, Trump resisted their entreaties to condemn the rioters and refused to be reasoned with.
“He kept saying: ‘The vast majority of them are peaceful. What about the riots this summer? What about the other side? No one cared when they were rioting. My people are peaceful. My people aren’t thugs,’ ” an administration official said. “He didn’t want to condemn his people.”
“He was a total monster today,” this official added."