Washington correspondent
The riot of January 6, 2021 would have meant the end of any other political career.
In the following weeks, even that of Donald Trump did not seem to have a great future.
When he left the White House on January 20, the day of Joe Biden's inauguration, only a handful of the faithful had gone to greet him on his takeoff to Florida.
The main Republican officials then did not have enough harsh words to condemn this president who had led them to defeat, losing the White House, the majority in the Senate and that in the House of Representatives, before causing a riot that s he was attacked by the symbol of American democracy.
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