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Trump supporters participate in a rally before the storming of the Capitol Building on Wednesday
US unions have condemned this week’s “coup attempt,” blaming President Donald Trump directly for creating chaos and trying to stop the ratification of Joe Biden’s election victory.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, representing 56 unions, described Wednesday’s storming of Capitol Hill in which four people died as “one of the greatest assaults on democracy since the US civil war.”
He said that the “coup” had been years in the making with Mr Trump spewing “venom, conspiracies, hate and lies to his supporters.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
