As en was going to press, Joe Biden was due to be sworn in as President, with more trouble predicted on the streets. Gerald Bray, distinguished Professor of Historical Theology at Knox Theological Seminary, and Director of Research for the Latimer Trust at Oak Hill in London, reports exclusively for en from the United States.
When Donald Trump lost the election last November there was one thing that everybody agreed on – he would not go quietly.
In the long transition period between the vote and the inauguration of a new President, he has done everything to cause as much trouble as possible. He has persuaded millions of people that the election was stolen from him, and his more-determined supporters have acted on that belief by storming the Capitol in Washington. Quite what they were trying to achieve is unclear, but whatever it was, they have given a massive boost to their opponents.
Donald Trump – victim and martyr?
It is not every day that one gets to be an eye-witness of an assassination attempt, but that is what …