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WASHINGTON — Huddled in acommand center on Wednesdayafternoon, Mayor Muriel Bowserof Washington and her aides saw aphotograph of blood stains on thetemporary grandstands at theCapitol, a makeshift structurebuilt for the inauguration of a newpresident in two weeks.
The enormity of the deadly fail-ure sank in.
Rioters had broken through thethin police line on the Capitolsteps and were descending onhundreds of lawmakers conduct-ing the ceremonial, quadrennialact of certifying the presidentialvote — and the mayor and heraides were not able to stop the at-tack.
Ms. Bowser and her police chiefcalled the Pentagon, asking for ad-ditional D.C. National Guardtroops to be mobilized to supportwhat officials were realizing wasinadequate protection at the Capi-tol. But they were told that the re-quest would first have to comefrom the Capitol Police.
In a call to Chief Steven Sund ofthe Capitol Police, they learnedthat his force was under siege,lawmakers were being rushed tosafety, and rioters were overrun-
ning anyone in authority. He keptrepeating the same phrase: “Thesituation is dire.”
Cutting through the cross talk,one person on the call posed ablunt question: “Chief Sund, areyou requesting National Guardtroops on the grounds of the Capi-tol?”
There was a pause.“Yes,” Chief Sund replied, “I
am.”Yet the Capitol Police and the
city’s Metropolitan Police had re-buffed offers days before for morehelp from the National Guard be-yond a relatively modest contin-gent to provide traffic control, sono additional troops had beenplaced on standby. It took hoursfor them to arrive.
It was just one failure in a dizzy-ing list that day — and during theweeks leading up to it — that re-sulted in the first occupation of theUnited States Capitol since Britishtroops set the building ablaze dur-ing the War of 1812. But the deathand destruction this time wascaused by Americans, rallying be-hind the inflammatory languageof an American president, who re-fused to accept the will of morethan 81 million other Americanswho had voted him out of office.
President Trump’s call at a rallythat day for the crowd to march on
FLOOD OF FAILURESLET MOB RAMPAGETHROUGH CAPITOL
Ignored Warnings, a Lack of Preparationand a Slow Response to Danger
This article is by Mark Mazzetti,Helene Cooper, Jennifer Stein-hauer, Zolan Kanno-Youngs andLuke Broadwater.
Members of the Army National Guard at the Capitol on Sunday, four days after the deadly rioting.ANNA MONEYMAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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WASHINGTON — The Housemoved on two fronts on Sunday totry to force President Trump fromoffice, escalating pressure on thevice president to strip him ofpower and committing to quicklybegin impeachment proceedingsagainst him for inciting a mob thatviolently attacked the seat ofAmerican government.
In a letter to colleagues,Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Califor-nia said the House would moveforward on Monday with a resolu-tion calling on Vice PresidentMike Pence and the cabinet to in-voke the 25th Amendment, andwrest the powers of the presiden-cy. She called on Mr. Pence to re-spond “within 24 hours” and indi-cated she expected a Tuesdayvote on the resolution.
Next, she said, the House wouldbring an impeachment case to thefloor. Though she did not specifyhow quickly it would move, lead-ing Democrats have suggestedthey could press forward on a re-markably quick timetable, charg-ing Mr. Trump by midweek with“high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“In protecting our Constitutionand our democracy, we will actwith urgency, because this presi-dent represents an imminentthreat to both,” she wrote. “As thedays go by, the horror of the ongo-ing assault on our democracy per-petrated by this president is inten-sified and so is the immediateneed for action.”
Ms. Pelosi’s actions effectivelygave Mr. Pence, who is said to beopposed to the idea, an ulti-matum: use his power under theConstitution to force Mr. Trumpout by declaring him unable to dis-charge his duties, or make him thefirst president in American his-tory to be impeached twice.
Far from capitulating, Mr.Trump made plans to proceed as ifthe last five earth-shattering dayshad simply not happened at all.But momentum in Washingtonwas shifting decisively againsthim.
More than 210 of the 222 Demo-crats in the House — nearly a ma-jority — had already signed on toan impeachment resolution by
RACE TO IMPEACHAS PELOSI URGES
CABINET TO ACT
ULTIMATUM OF 24 HOURS
Trump Remains Defiantas Momentum Shifts
Against Him
This article is by Nicholas Fandos,Peter Baker and Maggie Ha-berman.
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Federal and local authoritiesacross the country pressed theirhunt this weekend for the mem-bers of the angry mob thatstormed the Capitol building lastWednesday, as Washington’smayor issued an urgent appeal tostart preparing immediately formore potential violence before,during and after the inaugurationof President-elect Joseph R. BidenJr.
Following one of the most stun-ning security lapses in the city’shistory, Mayor Muriel E. Bowsersent a firmly worded letter on Sat-urday to the Department ofHomeland Security, asking offi-cials to move up to Monday theimplementation of heightened se-curity measures that are other-wise set to begin on Jan. 19, justone day before Mr. Biden’s swear-
ing-in.Ms. Bowser’s call to action,
which came as law enforcementofficers in several states made ar-rests related to the assault on theCapitol, was echoed Sunday bySenator Roy Blunt, the MissouriRepublican who is charged withoverseeing the planning of the in-augural celebration.
The Capitol complex, typically ahive of activity, remained cut offfrom its surroundings Sundaynight by troop deployments andan imposing scrim of seven-foot-tall, unscalable fencing. Still inshock from the worst breach of the
building in more than two cen-turies, lawmakers were expectedto turn their attention this week toa second slate of impeachmentcharges against President Trump,who has said little about the riotshe helped incite — in part becausesocial media companies, like Twit-ter and Facebook, have eitherbanned him or severely limitedhis use of their platforms.
Security experts warned thisweekend that some far-right ex-tremist groups have now startedto focus attention on InaugurationDay and are already discussing anassault similar to the one on theCapitol, which led to the sacking ofcongressional offices and thedeaths of at least five people, in-cluding a Capitol Police officer.
As of Sunday, nearly 400 peoplehad joined a private group onlinededicated to what is being billed
Threat of More Violence Weighs on InaugurationBy ALAN FEUER D.C. Mayor Demands
Faster PreparationsAfter Capitol Siege
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MIAMI — Linda KleindienstBruns registered for a coronavi-rus vaccine in late December, onthe first day the health depart-ment in Tallahassee, Fla., openedfor applications for people herage. Despite being 72, with her im-mune system suppressed by med-ication that keeps her breast can-cer in remission, she spent dayswaiting to hear back about an ap-pointment.
“It’s so disorganized,” she said.“I was hoping the system wouldbe set up so there would be somesort of logic to it.”
Phyllis Humphreys, 76, waitedwith her husband last week in aline of cars in Clermont, west ofOrlando, that spilled onto High-way 27. They had scrambled intotheir car and driven 22 miles afterreceiving an automated text mes-sage saying vaccine doses were
available. But by 9:43 a.m., thesite had reached capacity and theHumphreys went home with noshots.
“We’re talking about vaccina-tions,” said Ms. Humphreys, a re-tired critical care nurse. “We arenot talking about putting people inDesert Storm.”
Florida is in an alarming newupward spiral, with nearly 20,000cases of the virus reported on Fri-day and more than 15,000 on Sat-urday. But the state’s well-in-tended effort to throw open thedoors of the vaccine program toeveryone 65 and older has led tolong lines, confusion and disap-pointment.
States across the country, evenas they race to finish vaccinatinghealth care employees, nursinghome residents and emergencyworkers, are under pressure fromresidents to reach a broader sec-tion of the public. Florida, whichhas already prioritized a large
swath of its population to receivethe vaccine, illustrates the chal-lenges of expanding a vaccinationprogram being developed atrecord speed and with limited fed-eral assistance.
“How do you do something thishuge and roll it out?” said Dr.Leslie M. Beitsch, the chairman ofthe behavioral sciences and socialmedicine department at Florida
A Snaking Line to No Vaccine:Florida’s Big Rollout Sputters
This article is by Patricia Mazzei,Eric Adelson and Kate Kelly.
Preparing for a long wait for vaccines in Fort Myers, Fla., wheresome recently camped out overnight in hopes of getting a shot.
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Catch, Click, Post, ReleaseBaltimore, ousted by Tennessee in lastseason’s playoffs, beat the Titans, 20-13,in a wild-card game. PAGES D4-5
SPORTSMONDAY D1-6
Revenge of the RavensDespite the pandemic, busineses arestill investing in experiential art centerslike Es Devlin’s “Room 2022,” above,from a 2017 show in Miami. PAGE C1
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Betting on Immersive Culture
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Pandemic Aid? ‘It Was a Joke’Workers who have nothing to do withpatient care have been inoculated atleading research hospitals, contraryto state and federal guidelines. PAGE A4
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A Pass to Skip the Line
The loss of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 wasanother tragedy in a country where airdisasters are all too common. PAGE A8
Aviation Woes Dog IndonesiaJulian Assange’s supporters enlisted alobbyist with ties to the president andfiled a clemency petition. PAGE A16
Pardon for WikiLeaks Founder?The top team in college football plays fora title on Monday with a dazzling attack.It wasn’t always that way. PAGE D1
Alabama Rolls With Offense
Tim Berners-Lee created the WorldWide Web. Now he has founded a start-up with the goal of putting people, notcorporations, in control of their person-al data on the internet. PAGE B1
Reimagining Data Storage
Proponents of statehood for the Districtof Columbia saw more reason last weekto press their case. PAGE A10
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MOSCOW — In a cable toWashington in 1944, George F.Kennan, counselor at the UnitedStates Embassy in Stalin’s Mos-cow, warned of the occult power
held by lies, notingthat Soviet rule “hasproved somestrange and disturb-
ing things about human nature.”Foremost among these, he
wrote, is that in the case of manypeople, “it is possible to makethem feel and believe practicallyanything.” No matter how untruesomething might be, he wrote,“for the people who believe it, itbecomes true. It attains validityand all the powers of truth.”
Mr. Kennan’s insight, generat-ed by his experience of the Sovi-et Union, now has a hauntingresonance for America, wheretens of millions believe a “truth”invented by President Trump:that Joseph R. Biden Jr. lost theNovember election and becamepresident-elect only throughfraud.
Lying as a political tool ishardly new. Niccolo Machiavelli,writing in the 16th century, rec-ommended that a leader try to behonest but lie when telling thetruth “would place him at a dis-advantage.” People don’t likebeing lied to, Machiavelli ob-served, but “one who deceiveswill always find those who allowthemselves to be deceived.”
A readiness, even enthusiasm,to be deceived has in recentyears become a driving force inpolitics around the world, nota-bly in countries like Hungary,Poland, Turkey and the Phil-ippines, all governed by populistleaders adept at shaving thetruth or inventing it outright.
Janez Jansa, a right-wingpopulist who in 2018 becameprime minister of Slovenia — thehome country of Melania Trump— was quick to embrace Mr.
How LeadersBend RealityWith Big Lies
By ANDREW HIGGINS
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NEWSANALYSIS
From the start, John Matze hadpositioned Parler as a “freespeech” social network wherepeople could mostly say whateverthey wanted. It was a bet that hadrecently paid off big as millions ofPresident Trump’s supporters, fedup with what they deemed censor-ship on Facebook and Twitter,flocked to Parler instead.
On the app, discussions overpolitics had ramped up. But so hadconspiracy theories that falselysaid the election had been stolenfrom Mr. Trump, with users urg-ing aggressive demonstrationslast week when Congress met tocertify the election of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Those calls for violence sooncame back to haunt Mr. Matze, 27,a software engineer from Las Ve-gas and Parler’s chief executive.By Saturday night, Apple andGoogle had removed Parler fromtheir app stores and Amazon saidit would no longer host the site onits computing services, saying ithad not sufficiently policed poststhat incited violence and crime. Asa result, Parler was set to disap-pear from the web on Monday.
That set off a furious effort tokeep Parler online. Mr. Matze saidon Sunday that he was racing tosave the data of Parler’s roughly15 million users from Amazon’scomputers. He was also callingcompany after company to findone willing to support Parler withhundreds of computer servers.
“I believe Amazon, Google, Ap-ple worked together to try and en-sure they don’t have competition,”Mr. Matze said on Parler late Sat-urday. “They will NOT win! Weare the worlds last hope for freespeech and free information.” Hesaid the app would probably shutdown “for up to a week as we re-build from scratch.”
Parler’s plight immediatelydrew condemnation from those on
A Web Haven For Trump Fans
Faces the VoidBy JACK NICAS
and DAVEY ALBA
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