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Witness To The Jan. 6 Rampage: The War Within

By Jamie Stiehm

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“American carnage” was what Donald Trump envisioned in his first address as president in 2017. That was one promise he kept, after he bitterly lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump raged and waged war on the United States government by inciting deadly violence at the Capitol. Our temple of democracy came under siege, with Congress captive under the dome. And I was there. The date was carefully chosen – […]

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Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].

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