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Donald Trump is about to get the Jan. 6 that he denied Joe Biden

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06.01.2025

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Donald Trump is about to get the Jan. 6 that he denied Joe Biden

Monday’s certification of Trump’s victory will be the antithesis of the carnage at the Capitol four years ago.

Donald Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Four years later, the certification of Trump's election is expected to be peaceful. | Julio Cortez/AP

By Kyle Cheney

01/05/2025 07:00 AM EST

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The transfer of power to Donald Trump is shaping up to be, well, peaceful.

No mobs are assembling to disrupt Congress’ Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes. No Democratic leaders are questioning the results of the election or concocting elaborate legal theories to thwart the outcome. The greatest risk of obstruction seems likely to come from a storm system threatening to dump a few inches of snow on the region overnight.

If all goes as expected, by late Monday afternoon, Trump’s victory will be certified in a ceremony overseen by his vanquished rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, who will preside over the proceedings in her capacity as the president of the Senate. Harris has been clear she will administer a straightforward transfer of power. In doing so, she’ll follow in the footsteps of all vice presidents before her — including Mike Pence, who resisted Trump’s pressure to refuse to count electors from states Trump lost in 2020.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries drew Republican applause when he acknowledged Trump’s win Friday during a speech on the House floor.

“It’s OK,” Jeffries said in a moment of gallows humor directed at his GOP colleagues. “There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle.”

It’s the utter antithesis of the carnage unleashed four years ago, under clear blue skies, by thousands of Trump supporters, goaded by lies about a stolen election. Hundreds of them bludgeoned police officers guarding the Capitol as the mob fought to stop Congress from counting the electoral votes that would make Joe Biden president.

The attack spawned the largest-ever federal criminal probe, led to a grave criminal case against Trump, spawned a failed legal effort to remove him from the ballot and defined the political climate of the last two election cycles. Democrats declared........

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