In his final days, Trump should turn the presidency over to Pence By Douglas MacKinnon

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In his final days, Trump should turn the presidency over to Pence
By Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor — 01/09/21 12:00 PM EST

What do we tell our children? How do we explain away the surreal images of the violent mob outside and inside of our nation’s Capitol Building?     

It’s a building that was untouched during World War I and World War II, and untouched by the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but now, shockingly run over and desecrated by a horde of criminals purporting to support President Trump.

Words matter. Tone matters. Actions matter.


“1776” has been part of the rallying cry of a number of Trump supporters promising to make a “last stand to save the Republic” from his election loss. That’s ridiculous. Those who stormed the Capitol — which belongs to all Americans — turned their movement into a putrid, toxic Dumpster fire.

The highest honor of my professional life was to work in the White House of President Reagan, a statesman who revered the Oval Office because he truly believed it is “the people’s office.”

Out of respect for that office and the history of those who came before him, Ronald Reagan never once took off his suit-coat in that office in the eight years that he occupied it. I thought about that remarkable and patriotic symbolism as Donald Trump was shaming himself and disrespecting the presidency by attacking and demeaning his own vice president for refusing to engage in gimmicks to overturn the Nov. 3 presidential election.

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NO.

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Out of respect for that office and the history of those who came before him, Ronald Reagan never once took off his suit-coat in that office in the eight years that he occupied it.

But Bill Clinton getting hummers there from an intern less than half his age is OK.