Harris Leads A Smooth Jan. 6 As Trump Boasts Of 2021 Rally Crowd

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Four years after inciting a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol that injured 140 police officers and led to the deaths of five officers and four of his own supporters, President-elect Donald Trump on Monday neither thanked Vice President Kamala Harris for overseeing a smooth election certification ceremony nor apologized for his own coup attempt last time. Instead, he yet again boasted about how many of his followers responded to his call to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, with a photo of the crowd that day, and inexplicably accused President Joe Biden of making the transition between his presidency and Trump’s “difficult.” “Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes,” Trump wrote in a social media post three hours after posting a photo of thousands of the followers he had assembled on the National Mall, between the Ellipse and the Washington Monument, four years earlier. Also over the past several years, Trump has ― with no evidence ― accused Biden of coordinating the federal and state prosecutions against Trump for his various actions, from his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss to his retention of secret documents at his South Florida country club to his falsification of business records to hide a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. Harris, prior to taking the dais in the House chamber Monday to preside over the joint session formally certifying Trump’s election win, released a video explaining that she intended to “perform my constitutional duty as vice president of the United States to certify the results of the 2024 election.” She kept to a script for the proceedings, which were concluded in less than a half hour ― with no attacks on U.S. Capitol Police, no threats against members of Congress and no intrusions on the floor itself by enraged supporters.