Episode notes
Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 47th president of the USA on the 20th of January this year, on a freezing Washington DC day. The ceremony was held, because of that forbidding weather, in the Capitol Rotunda, where, on the 6 January, 2021, a riotous crowd of insurrectionists, induced by Trump, had stormed through that building, in a failed attempt to thwart the formal congressional process of certifying the outcome of the 2020 election, that saw Joe Biden become the 46th president.
The period since Trump’s second inauguration has been historically extraordinary. Many have described it as a “shock and awe blitzkrieg”.
He immediately issued a blizzard of executive orders and pardoned essentially all the January 6 insurrectionists. He appointed the billionaire, Elon Musk, to a shadowy of ...
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