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Republicans join drive for impeachment

Sweeping PENCE BALKS AT
security plan 25TH AMENDMENT
launched for White House offers no
swearing-in defense ahead of vote

BY C AROL D . L EONNIG, M IKE D E B ONIS,

BY
K AROUN D EMIRJIAN, J OSH D AWSEY
J USTIN J OUVENAL AND S EUNG M IN K IM
AND N ICK M IROFF
The push for an unprecedent-
The Secret Service and federal ed second impeachment of Presi-
law enforcement agencies are dent Trump took a dramatic bi-
spending the final days of the partisan turn Tuesday, as several
Trump administration bracing senior House Republicans joined
for a possible violent assault the Democratic effort to remove
against the Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump for his role in inciting an
launching a security mobiliza- angry mob to storm the Capitol
tion that will be unlike any in last week and the White House
modern U.S. history. braced for more defections.
On Wednesday, the Secret Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the
Service will take command of third-ranking House Republi-
security preparations at the U.S. can, and Rep. John Katko (N.Y.),
Capitol and other federal build- the top Republican on the House
ings, backed by as many as Homeland Security Committee,
15,000 National Guard troops, both publicly held Trump respon-
thousands of police and tactical sible for last Wednesday’s vio-
officers, and layers of eight-foot lence. They were joined by Rep.
steel fencing. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an out-
The high-alert security pos- spoken critic of Trump’s efforts to
ture is starting six days earlier question the November election,
than planned to coordinate roles and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a
for the FBI, National Guard, U.S. respected veteran dealmaker.
Marshals Service and a host of “The president of the United
other federal agencies that will States summoned this mob, as-
fall under Secret Service com- sembled the mob, and lit the
mand. SETH WENIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS flame of this attack,” Cheney said
“Everyone can just rest as- Relatives and friends of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick watch as a flag is lowered in his honor Tuesday in South River, N.J., his in a statement, adding, “There
sured they are throwing the has never been a greater betrayal
hometown. Sicknick died Thursday after being injured in the assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob the previous day.
kitchen sink at this event,” said by a president of the United
one Secret Service official in- States of his office and his oath to
volved in protective planning the Constitution.”
who was not authorized to speak
to reporters. President disavows any FBI report contradicts o∞cial’s Said Katko, “To allow the presi-
dent of the United States to incite
The accelerated timetable has
also allowed authorities to forti- responsibility for siege of Capitol claim of no forewarning of riot this attack without consequences
is a direct threat to the future of
fy the city and deploy officers in our democracy.”
anticipation of potential vio- BY P HILIP R UCKER overturn the election results BY D EVLIN B ARRETT plans, including individuals shar- Kinzinger added, “If these ac-
lence on Sunday, when pro- AND J OSH D AWSEY were “totally appropriate.” AND M ATT Z APOTOSKY ing a map of the complex’s tun- tions . . . are not worthy of im-
Trump groups are calling for During a visit to a portion of nels, and possible rally points for peachment, then what is an im-
armed marches in Washington alamo, tex. — President newly constructed border wall A day before rioters stormed would-be conspirators to meet in peachable offense?”
and the 50 state capitals. Trump emerged Tuesday from here in the Rio Grande Valley, Congress, an FBI office in Vir- Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massa- A senior administration offi-
Veteran Secret Service and six days out of public view defi- Trump warned against the effort ginia issued an explicit warning chusetts and South Carolina and cial said the White House expects
Homeland Security officials who ant and unapologetic about his in Congress to hold him account- that extremists were preparing to head in groups to Washington. at least a dozen Republicans to
spoke on the condition of ano- incitement of last week’s mob able. travel to Washington to commit “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Nor- support impeachment in the like-
nymity to share their worries attack on the Capitol and warned “The impeachment hoax is a violence and “war,” according to folk received information indi- ly House vote Wednesday. The
described a level of concern un- that his impeachment could lead continuation of the greatest and an internal document reviewed cating calls for violence in re- White House is rudderless, un-
like anything in their careers. to more violence. most vicious witch hunt in the by The Washington Post that con- sponse to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to willing or unable to mount any
SEE INAUGURATION ON A6 The president denied any cul- history of our country and is tradicts a senior official’s declara- begin on 6 January 2021 in Wash- SEE IMPEACHMENT ON A5
pability in the violent riot that causing tremendous anger and tion the bureau had no intelli- ington, D.C.,” the document says.
killed a police officer and threat- division and pain, far greater gence indicating anyone at last “An online thread discussed spe-
Capitol Police face scrutiny ened the lives of Vice President than most people will ever un- week’s demonstrations in sup- cific calls for violence to include Task force is formed
Deadly pro-Trump riot renews Pence and members of Congress. derstand, which is very danger- port of President Trump planned stating ‘Be ready to fight. Con- Justice Dept. and FBI are pursuing
concerns about accountability. A7 He said his remarks encouraging ous for the U.S.A., especially at to do harm. gress needs to hear glass break- charges against Capitol rioters. B1
throngs of supporters last this very tender time,” Trump A situational information re- ing, doors being kicked in, and
A precarious position Wednesday to march to the Capi- said. port approved for release the day blood from their BLM and Pantifa Newcomers amid the chaos
Cheney’s likely vote highlights her tol in a show of force to pressure Trump for the first time ad- before the U.S. Capitol riot paint- slave soldiers being spilled. Get Disorientation for the freshman
situation in GOP leadership. A22 and intimidate lawmakers to SEE TRUMP ON A5 ed a dire portrait of dangerous SEE FBI ON A8 class of the new Congress. C1

Capitol riot: A last gasp, or U.S. alters vaccine protocols

start of a dark new chapter? in e≠ort to accelerate rollout
“I’m so mad, I see red about the places.
[expletive] steal,” said Lynn, 64, The steps, part of an effort to
Americans on both sides sitting in his Kansas farmhouse
Administration reverses accelerate a delayed and disjoint-
of the political spectrum over the weekend. “I believe with course, will not hold back ed rollout, depart from the ad-
all my heart that the Democratic ministration’s original strategy,
fear what attack portends Party stole the election, and I will
supplies for second shots and come just days after Presi-
never believe otherwise as long as dent-elect Joe Biden announced
I draw breath. Liberals, you’re plans to release nearly all the
BY A NNIE G OWEN, driving us to civil war.” vaccine supply. Biden is expected
J ENNA J OHNSON As authorities raise alarms BY L ENA H . S UN, to provide a detailed blueprint on
AND H OLLY B AILEY about the potential for more ex- L AURIE M C G INLEY, reinvigorating the rollout later
tremist violence in the wake of I SAAC S TANLEY- B ECKER this week, including likely calling
lawrence, kan. — Clinton the storming of the U.S. Capitol, AND A MY G OLDSTEIN for inoculations of everyone 65
Lynn, a retired fire captain, firmly Americans across the political and older and expanding the
believes the widespread con- spectrum are also bracing for The Trump administration an- number of venues where shots
spiracy theory that the election more and grappling with the real- nounced sweeping changes to its are administered, according to
was stolen from President Trump, ization that Jan. 20 — Joe Biden’s ANTHONY KWAN/BLOOMBERG NEWS vaccination rollout Tuesday, in- two people familiar with the
and he says that those who share Inauguration Day — may be not cluding making all of the corona- deliberations who spoke on the
his views are finding an ever-nar- the end of the Trump era but the Sheldon Adelson, 1933-2021 virus vaccine supply immediately condition of anonymity because
rowing path to express their out- beginning of a new dark chapter Mr. Adelson, shown in 2016, one of the world’s richest men, available, urging states to pro- they were not authorized to dis-
rage, losing at the ballot box, the in American history. vide shots to anyone 65 and older cuss them.
was sought after by Republican candidates seeking his
jury box and now the soapbox. If In a HuffPost poll Friday, about and warning states with lagging But it is not clear how, or even
you take away those things, he a third of Trump voters said they financial support, and he used his fortune to support inoculations that they could lose if, the outgoing administration’s
says, what is left? SEE MOOD ON A11 conservative causes. He died Jan. 11 at age 87. Obituary, A26 some of their shots to speedier SEE VACCINE ON A4

In the News student disappeared in

France. A14
THE REGION
Rep. Jamie Raskin Inside
had just buried his son
THE NATION poised to approve a THE ECONOMY when the Capitol came
Payroll taxes deferred FOOD
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reinstated requirements Army Gen. Lloyd J. Aus- last year are coming due Takoma Park, Md.,
We need soup
that women seeking tin III to serve as the now, meaning smaller Three recipes that will
Democrat is helping
medication abortions next secretary of de- paychecks for federal bring you comfort without
lead the impeachment
receive the drugs in per- fense. A10 workers and some in the weighing you down. E1
push. B1
son, setting aside a private sector. A17 The Montgomery ST YLE
judge’s ruling that it was THE WORLD President-elect Joe County school board in Off the beat
dangerous during the When Hong Kong po- Biden is finalizing his Maryland voted to keep A VOA reporter who tried
pandemic. A2 lice arrested more than coronavirus relief plan, students in all-virtual to question Mike Pompeo
Four ex-police officers 50 pro-democracy fig- which he aims to pass learning until at least has been reassigned. C1
charged in the death of ures last week, they also on bipartisan votes. A18 March 15. B1
George Floyd will be confiscated their cell- President Trump’s What you need to
phones in what appears post-election conduct is

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Trials separated for ex-o∞cers charged in Floyd’s death
organized and riddled with tech- Keith Ellison, whose office is
nical issues. prosecuting the case, had pushed
Citing pandemic, judge But during a hearing on the for a joint trial. In a statement
books Chauvin case for issue last week, Cahill seemed Tuesday, Ellison said he “respect-
disinclined to grant the request, fully disagreed” with the court’s
March, others for August citing an already packed court decision to try the former officers
calendar. In a hearing held over separately, suggesting multiple
Zoom, Cahill pressed prosecutors trials “may retraumatize eyewit-
BY H OLLY B AILEY on why the logistics of the Floyd nesses and family members” and
case were different from any oth- taint subsequent jury pools.
minneapolis — Derek Chauvin, er pending case before the court, “It is also clear that covid-19
the former Minneapolis police which has been conducting busi- will still be a serious threat to
officer filmed with his knee on ness virtually because of a coro- public health in eight weeks’
George Floyd’s neck and charged navirus shutdown. time,” Ellison said, adding that
with murder, will be tried sepa- Cahill’s decision reverses a No- prosecutors will still be prepared
rately from the other officers im- vember ruling in which he reject- to present their case.
plicated in the death as the court ed defense motions to try the Floyd died May 25 after being
seeks to lower the risk of corona- defendants separately. In court handcuffed and pinned facedown
virus spread at the courthouse. filings, the former officers have on a South Minneapolis street as
In a ruling Tuesday, Hennepin sought to cast blame on each police investigated a 911 call
County District Judge Peter A. other, and defense attorneys have about a counterfeit $20 bill that
Cahill, who is overseeing the argued that their antagonistic de- allegedly had been passed at a
criminal case into Floyd’s death, fenses put their right to a fair trial convenience store.
announced that Chauvin will at risk. Chauvin pressed his knee into
stand trial beginning March 8 at a But Cahill rejected that argu- Floyd’s neck for over nine min-
downtown Minneapolis court- ment, saying the defendants’ de- utes as the 46-year-old Black man
house. The other three former fenses “will substantially over- repeatedly said he couldn’t
officers charged in Floyd’s death lap” and that separate trials breathe and ultimately lost con-
— J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas K. would be complex and place an sciousness. Floyd was later pro-
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Lane and Tou Thao — will stand “undue burden” on state prosecu- nounced dead at a hospital.
trial Aug. 23. tors and the court system. The 3rd Precinct police station in Minneapolis, shown in August, was set ablaze by rioters in May after Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of
The ruling came after prosecu- In his scheduling order issued then-officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes. the Minneapolis force, was
tors and attorneys for Chauvin Tuesday, the judge cited an email charged with second-degree mur-
and Thao had asked the court to he had received from Hennepin dants stand trial.” der and manslaughter, while the
delay the trial until summer. County District Judge Toddrick In his ruling, Cahill said Chau- other officers at the scene —
Prosecutors expressed con- Barnette, who met with prosecu- vin would be tried first on the Kueng, Lane and Thao — were
cerns that the trial could become tors and defense attorneys in the original court date of March 8, charged with aiding and abetting
a coronavirus “superspreader case last week to discuss trial with roughly three weeks of jury murder. All four were fired by the
event,” citing the large number of logistics and security. According selection. Opening arguments, Minneapolis Police Department.
participants and expected pro- to an email attached to Cahill’s “I am not asking that you delay the trials. I’m only Cahill said, “will begin no earlier The court has already issued
tests outside the courthouse. ruling, Barnette, the chief judge than March 29.” His ruling specif- jury summonses in the case, amid
They had asked the judge to delay in Hennepin County, said he had asking that you consider having less than all four ically cited concerns over the concerns about whether the offi-
proceedings until June, when been unaware of how many attor- coronavirus, rejecting arguments cers can be tried fairly in Minne-
more of the population might neys and support staff would be defendants stand trial.” from Chauvin and Thao that apolis. The 16-page question-
have received the coronavirus involved in the trial and advised prosecutors had been slow to naire, disclosed in court records
Judge Toddrick Barnette, chief judge in Hennepin County, Minn., in an email
vaccine. that the designated courtroom turn over evidence. last month, asks respondents to
cited by the trial judge in ruling that three of the defendants will be tried in
Chauvin and Thao, through was “not an adequate venue when “The state has not acted in bad disclose their views on police
August, separately from former officer Derek Chauvin
their attorneys, also asked for the enforcing social distancing.” faith,” Cahill wrote, though he reform and Black Lives Matter
trial to be pushed back, complain- “I am not asking that you delay gave Chauvin’s attorney extra and asks how many times, if any,
ing that prosecutors had been the trials,” Barnette wrote. “I’m time to disclose planned witness- they viewed the viral video of
slow to turn over evidence and only asking that you consider es. Floyd’s arrest.
gave them material that was dis- having less than all four defen- Minnesota Attorney General [email protected]

U.S. will require a coronavirus test for all arriving international travelers
ant that surfaced there and is now place for those from Europe, the their flight and must provide pre-departure testing combined the globe.
circulating in the United States. United Kingdom and Brazil. written documentation of the re- with retesting three to five days In the United States, some
Previous order required “Testing does not eliminate all Nicholas E. Calio, A4A’s chief sults. Both PRC and antigen tests after arrival in addition to staying states, including Hawaii, Con-
only those coming in risk,” CDC Director Robert R. executive officer, wrote that a will be acceptable. home for seven days after travel- necticut and New York, are allow-
Redfield said in a statement. “But well-planned program could en- However, Cetron said the CDC ing will help slow the spread of ing visitors to reduce the amount
from U.K. to be tested when combined with a period of sure the safety of the traveling does not support using testing as the virus. of time they must quarantine or
staying at home and everyday public while also making room a substitute for quarantines, Many airports around the skip quarantines altogether if
precautions like wearing masks for “essential economic activities which some states and countries world offer on-site testing with they can provide proof of a nega-
BY L ORI A RATANI and social distancing, it can make on which our country relies.” have put into place to slow the results in as little as 30 minutes. tive coronavirus test.
travel safer, healthier and more “We believe a well-planned spread of the virus. The agency’s Airlines, too, have set up pro- In a call with reporters Tues-
Federal officials will require all responsible by reducing spread program focused on increasing updated guidance recommends a grams that allow customers to be day, Alexandre de Juniac, director
international travelers flying to on planes, in airports and at testing of travelers to the United layered approach that includes tested for the virus before they general of the International Air
the United States to show proof destinations.” States will further these objec- testing in combination with quar- board flights. Transport Association, expressed
they have tested negative for the More than 100 countries re- tives in a much more effective antining, frequent hand washing, In a statement, United Airlines frustration that nations have con-
coronavirus, Centers for Disease quire visitors to show proof of a way than the blanket travel re- mask-wearing and physical dis- said it was eager to work with tinued to implement quaran-
Control and Prevention officials negative coronavirus test. strictions currently in place,” tancing. officials to put such a program in tines.
announced Tuesday. Airlines long have pushed for a wrote Nicholas E. Calio, A4A’s It did not appear there were place. “A more balanced public policy
The order, set to go into effect testing requirement in hopes that chief executive officer. plans to drop travel restrictions The aviation industry has approach is needed — one that is
Jan. 26, would greatly expand a it could replace quarantine mea- Calio asked that airlines be the United States imposed in pushed for countries to embrace based on testing as a replacement
requirement put into place last sures that many nations have given 14 days to implement a March on many foreign nationals testing in place of quarantines for quarantines so that we can
month that mandated testing for used to stop the spread of the testing program. who had been in the United King- since surveys show travelers are begin addressing the severe side
American citizens and others fly- virus. The order mirrors one issued dom, several countries in Europe more reluctant to travel to desti- effects of covid-19 policies,” he
ing to the United States from the In a letter sent to the White Dec. 24 for travelers flying to the and Brazil in the previous 14 days. nations that require them to said. “Science tells us that travel-
United Kingdom. Officials say House last week, the trade group United States from the United Most travelers from those nations quarantine. Even so, countries ers will not be a significant factor
they hope expanding the manda- Airlines for America (A4A) en- Kingdom. Under those require- are not permitted to enter. have not rushed to do away with in community transmission if
tory testing could help thwart the dorsed testing for international ments, passengers are required to CDC officials continue to rec- quarantine requirements as new testing is used effectively.”
virus and a faster-spreading vari- travelers instead of restrictions in be tested within three days of ommend against travel but said waves of infections have swept [email protected]

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the coronavirus pandemic

U.S. changes vaccine plan to speed up lagging inoculations

VACCINE FROM A1 on the condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized
plan to change state allotments to discuss the specifics.
of vaccines will play out. Health Several state health officials
and Human Services Secretary and immunization managers
Alex Azar told reporters in a complained Tuesday that they
briefing that in two weeks, the got no advance notice of the
government would begin “redi- changes.
recting” shots to states based on “I don’t think making alloca-
the size of their 65-and-older tions more complicated and un-
population and the pace of their predictable does anything to im-
vaccinations. States doing a poor prove efficiency, or help states get
job of getting shots into arms vaccine to where it needs to go,”
could see their allotments shifted said Claire Hannan, executive
to those performing better, he director of the Association of
said, noting that about 10 states Immunization Managers, whose
might be affected. The current members direct immunization
allocation system is based on a programs throughout the coun-
state’s population. try.
Federal officials have com- Fraser, the head of the state
plained that the data on state health officials group, added,
immunization efforts is incom- “The root problem is a supply
plete and that states vary signifi- issue. When will we have 184 mil-
cantly in how many of the shots lion x 2 vaccines?”
given to people are reported But Azar blamed the slow roll-
within the required three days. out on states that have been
“This new system gives states a overly rigid in adhering to the
strong incentive to ensure that all priority list, attempting to inocu-
vaccinations are being promptly late everyone in one group before
reported, which they’re currently moving to the next. “There was
not,” Azar said. “And it gives never a reason that states needed
states a strong incentive to en- to complete vaccinating all
sure that doses are going to work health-care providers before
protecting people rather than opening vaccinations to older
sitting on shelves or in freezers.” Americans and other vulnerable
But Azar, a Trump Cabinet populations,” he said.
secretary, will be gone in a little He likened it to boarding an
over a week, and it is unclear airplane. “Imagine if you fined
PATRICK SEMANSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
whether the Biden camp endors- gate agents for boarding people
es the idea. The president-elect’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, at lectern, said the government soon would begin “redirecting” shots to states based on out of order — you’d be standing
advisers said they are awaiting the size of their 65-and-older population and the pace of their vaccinations. So far, fewer than 10 million doses have been administered. at the gate for hours.”
more details but would look un- Nearly 40 million doses are
favorably on a plan that “punish- who oversee vaccine distribu- New coronavirus cases and deaths ly get it” will cause rampant available to states now, Azar said.
300k
es states,” said two transition tion, said concerns about possi- in the U.S., by day frustration. The latest figures show that more
officials who spoke on the condi- ble hiccups in manufacturing As of 8 p.m. Tuesday 250k Others noted that the priority than 27 million doses of the two
tion of anonymity because they and distribution have been al- recommendations from a Cen- authorized vaccines have been
were not authorized to discuss layed by the steady ramp-up. CASES 200k ters for Disease Control and Pre- distributed, with more than
the plan. They also expressed Over the next two weeks, Azar Total 22,798,048 Yesterday 220,526 vention advisory committee were 9 million doses administered as
concern that the immediate wid- said, doses held in reserve will be 150k a compromise between the desire of 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to
ening of the vaccine pool could shipped out based on states’ or- to shield front-line essential the CDC.
7-day avg. 100k
overwhelm states and create un- ders. Beyond that, he said, the workers who are disproportion- Last week, Azar announced
realistic expectations for millions available doses will be released 50k ately people of color and most that the federal government was
of Americans waiting for shots. first to cover second doses and likely to catch and transmit the accelerating a plan to distribute
“We believe we have to be then to provide additional first 0k virus because they cannot work vaccines through retail pharma-
straight with people about where vaccinations. Feb. 29 April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.Jan. 12 from home, and to protect older cies, which will handle schedul-
we are,” said one of the two, a Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) DEATHS people who are most prone to ing appointments and reporting
senior transition adviser. “We called the move to release all Total 379,184 Yesterday 4,254 serious complications and death. vaccinations. He said officials are
want states to have the flexibility available doses a “welcome The change in the vaccination also planning to use federally
4k
to move forward, but unfortu- change.” “More details will be 7-day avg. plans was discussed with gover- qualified health centers that
nately this places an extreme coming,” he said at a briefing nors in a meeting Tuesday after- serve low-income and minority
2k
responsibility on states without Tuesday. “It is in fact very good noon chaired by Vice President populations.
necessarily giving them the sup- news.” Pence. Azar told the group the An expansion of vaccination
0k
port to execute.” Other supporters said that Feb. 29 April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.Jan. 12 United States was on track to hit venues is part of Biden’s plan as
State health officials, mean- while releasing more vaccine 1 million vaccinations a day with- well. The president-elect said last
while, denounced the plan to could mean some people might in seven to 10 days, according to a week that he wants to “establish
move vaccine from slower-acting face a small delay in getting a Washington state readout. thousands of federally run and
states as punitive. second shot, the risk of delayed days. vaccines for front-line essential The decisions to overhaul the federally supported community
“It is too early to begin to judge inoculations is much greater as The administration’s call to workers, from grocery store vaccine distribution program vaccination centers of various
how well states are administer- the pandemic claims thousands states to broaden access to those clerks to bus drivers, who had were made this weekend in two sizes across the country located
ing this, and a punitive approach of lives daily and as a new, more 65 and older and those under 64 been in the next group priori- meetings held by the leadership in high school gyms or NFL
isn’t going to help us reach our contagious variant of the virus with high-risk medical condi- tized for vaccination in many of Operation Warp Speed, as football stadiums.”
goal of vaccinating the entire first identified in Britain spreads tions sharply increases the po- state plans. Azar noted that some officials searched for ways to Biden said the effort will in-
population as safely and quickly through the United States. tential number of people seeking states, such as Florida and Texas, speed up a sluggish rollout, ac- clude mobile clinics in rural ar-
as possible,” said Michael Fraser, Critics, however, worry that an shots to about 184 million, inten- already are vaccinating those 65 cording to a senior administra- eas remote from pharmacies, as
who heads the Association of unforeseen and extended delay of sifying demand on already and older and called it a faster tion official. well as storefront vaccination
State and Territorial Health Offi- the booster shot could under- stressed sign-up systems. way to protect many of the most Some of the changes closely programs in pharmacies and oth-
cials. mine the efficacy of the vaccines. Under the original CDC rec- vulnerable. mirror options under consider- er commercial spaces. But he
Since the mass vaccination ef- Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and ommendations, about 74 million But Jason Schwartz, an assis- ation by Biden’s covid-19 re- cautioned “that will cost money,”
fort began last month, the Trump Moderna vaccines — the only two people are in the first priority tant professor of health policy at sponse team, which is preparing saying the Trump administration
administration has held back coronavirus vaccines that have groups for vaccination: health- the Yale School of Public Health, the president-elect to lay out his and Congress have not yet devot-
roughly half the vaccines to en- been cleared by the Food and care workers; staff and residents said on Twitter that the change own pandemic plan later this ed enough effort to the unprec-
sure sufficient supply for people Drug Administration — were of long-term-care facilities; could usher in “a free-for-all.” week. The Biden team was also edented mass-vacation cam-
to get a required second shot. shown in clinical trials this year front-line essential workers; and “This seems like chaos,” he looking at ways of broadening paign.
Under the new policy, the expec- to be highly effective when ad- adults 75 and older. added. “Effectively telling access for adults 65 and older, [email protected]
tation is that people will still get ministered in a two-shot regi- Neither Azar, nor other Warp 100 million+ people that they are and getting states a clearer fore- [email protected]
their second doses about a month men. The second Pfizer shot is Speed leaders, addressed how eligible for vaccines now, while cast of future vaccine supply, isaac.stanley-
later, as planned. Azar and other given after 21 days, and the expanding the priority age knowing that most will have to according to two people familiar [email protected]
Operation Warp Speed officials, second Moderna shot after 28 groups would affect access to wait for several months to actual- with the deliberations who spoke [email protected]

Some Republicans accused of turning lockdown into ‘superspreader event’

already burning fire of rage that Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt. wear masks. Pelosi took matters
has enveloped Capitol Hill since Speier, a survivor of gun vio- into her own hands: Anyone not
3 Democratic lawmakers last week’s violence, as Demo- lence, said she pressed her cheek wearing a mask on the House
have tested positive since crats already blaming many of against the cold marble floor and floor will be fined $500 for their
their GOP counterparts for incit- felt a sense of resignation that offense and $2,500 for their sec-
taking refuge during riot ing the mob that endangered this might be it. As they were ond.
their lives now are fingering them finally ushered to a secure loca- “This is not a political state-
for selfish behavior that has jeop- tion, Speier was shocked at how ment, this is about whether or not
BY C OLBY I TKOWITZ ardized their health. packed it was — “Like we were you’re going to use what could be
The outbreak — dubbed a “su- sardines,” she said in an inter- a deadly weapon, which is your
As the pro-Trump mob perspreader event on top of a view. saliva particles, to infect someone
stormed the Capitol last week, domestic terrorist attack” by She turned to Monahan and else who could become gravely
House members and some staff Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washing- said, “This looks like a super- ill,” Speier said in an interview.
sheltered in a cramped, window- ton, one of the Democratic law- spreader event to me.” She left the “It’s a reckless, selfish act.”
less room with no more than an makers who tested positive — led crowded space for a smaller ante- Inside the secure room, Rep.
arm’s length of distance between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- room, where for a time she sat Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.)
them. Calif.) to impose stiff fines on across from Schneider. stood with some Democratic
The group seemed safe from members who don’t wear masks. Schneider said he looked at the women who were anxious that
the violence raging nearby, but “The second I realized our ‘safe crush of people around him and Republican lawmakers weren’t
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inside they faced another threat. room’ from the violent white su- realized that escaping one threat wearing face coverings. Blunt
Several Republican members premacist mob included treason- A mask is seen on the floor of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Several meant exposing himself to an- Rochester borrowed a stack of
hunkered down, maskless, refus- ous, white supremacist, anti Republican lawmakers refused to wear masks in the lockdown. other. disposable masks and began ap-
ing to use the face coverings that masker Members of Congress Schneider had been so careful. proaching everyone, asking if
their Democratic colleagues and who incited the mob in the first Pelosi and the positive COVID time in that room,” Allen said. “I His wife has a health condition they would like a clean mask.
staffers were begging them to place, I exited,” Pressley tweeted members bringing COVID in the don’t really believe in coincidenc- that makes her high risk if she “I just felt like I can’t stand
wear as protection from the coro- on Tuesday. “Furious that more of Capitol! It’s absurd to say they es: All of a sudden you have three contracted the coronavirus. He here mad, I have to try and help,”
navirus that thrives in such low- my colleagues by the day are caught it during the safe room.” lawmakers,” who had been taking drives the nearly 12 hours from she said in an interview.
ventilation indoor environments. testing positive.” On Sunday, Brian Monahan, appropriate precautions, “thrust his home in eastern Illinois to When she approached the
One Democrat, Rep. Ayanna Several Republican lawmakers the attending physician to Con- into a situation with others who Washington rather than fly. group of maskless Republicans
Pressley (Mass.), grew so angry seen in a video refusing masks gress, told members that they were ignoring that advice” and On Tuesday, he announced he and offered them masks — the
that she left the secure room, from a Democratic congresswom- may have been exposed to some- have since tested positive for the had tested positive. moment that was captured on
concluding, according to an aide, an did not respond to requests for one with the virus while in “pro- virus. “I am now in strict isolation, video — their rebuffs didn’t affect
that “we’re not going to survive a comment, including Reps. Andy tective isolation.” The lockdown room was, at worried that I have risked my her.
terrorist attack to be exposed to a Biggs (Ariz.), Doug LaMalfa The committee room lock- first, a safe space — or so it wife’s health and angry at the “I just want to have impact. I
deadly virus.” (Calif.) and Scott Perry (Pa.). down had all the ingredients for a seemed. selfishness and arrogance of the don’t care if it looks pretty. My
But many stayed behind — and Freshman Marjorie Taylor superspreader event, said Har- Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) anti-maskers who put their own goal was not about shame, it was
some now think they were ex- Greene (R-Ga.), who was also in vard University environmental and Bradley Schneider (D-Ill.) contempt and disregard for de- about help,” she said. “And to the
posed. Nearly a week after the that group, called it “absurd” to health expert Joseph G. Allen. were among those in the gallery cency ahead of the health and extent that, mind you, we all have
riot, three Democratic lawmakers blame them and shifted it to Overcrowding, hours indoors, overlooking the House floor safety of their colleagues and our to take responsibly for ourselves
who had sheltered in that room, Pelosi. people without masks and low when Capitol Police screamed for staff,” he said in a statement. and each other, I just wanted to
including Rep. Bonnie Watson “It is absolutely ridiculous and ventilation. them to duck. In the hallway one On Tuesday, Speier wrote a act instead of be in my anger.”
Coleman (D-N.J.), a 75-year-old insane to blame those of us who “It’s highly likely — and I think floor below, a violent mob pound- letter signed by 66 of her col- [email protected]
cancer survivor, have tested posi- did not have COVID or symp- probable — that this is a super- ed on doors and shattered win- leagues imploring House Minori-
tive for the coronavirus. toms,” she said in an email. “The spreader event, and these law- dows. Then, they heard a single ty Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca- Ben Guarino and Alice Crites
The results added fuel to an blame lies squarely on Nancy makers caught it from spending gunshot, the one that killed pro- lif.) to require Republicans to contributed to this report.

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storming of the capitol

House Republicans start voicing support for impeachment

IMPEACHMENT FROM A1 as first reported by the New York day accusing Trump of trying to marched peacefully with a million
Times. McConnell, a close adviser “unlawfully overturn” the election people, joined Planned Parent-
defense other than saying that said, has not decided how he will — a measure that many GOP law- hood, worked with their churches
Trump will already be leaving next vote on impeachment and wants makers privately signaled they to try to reform America,” Raskin
week, two administration officials to hear the case first. would be willing to rally around. said. “Nobody was out there agi-
said, speaking on the condition of McConnell has not returned But the top leaders did not tating for a violent armed insur-
anonymity to disclose internal dy- Trump’s calls in weeks and re- openly endorse it, including Mc- rection against the government.”
namics. mains livid with him, and he will Carthy, who acknowledged Another Democrat, Rep. Ed
Trump, banned from Twitter, not pressure his colleagues to op- Trump’s culpability for the riot in Perlmutter (Colo.), pleaded with
for the first time lacks the ability pose or support convicting the a Monday evening conference call Jordan to acknowledge that the
to aim angry tweets at those who president. “He’s not going to whip Rep. John Rep. Liz Rep. Adam with his colleagues. They appear election was not stolen and that
oppose him, and White House of- the vote,” said the adviser, who Katko Cheney Kinzinger to have calculated that any break Biden had won.
ficials conceded that he has few spoke on the condition of ano- with Trump would further upend “Yes, he’s going to be president,”
ways to stem the tide. He has nymity to discuss private conver- their party. Jordan said, but added, “There are
asked Sen. Lindsey O. Graham sations. immediately to impeach the presi- prevent Biden’s victory from be- The rift is roiling the GOP lead- serious problems with this elec-
(S.C.) to urge fellow Republicans A McConnell spokesman de- dent. ing certified in Congress. “If you ership ranks barely two months tion that deserve an investiga-
to oppose impeachment, an offi- clined to comment. No House Republicans joined don’t fight like hell, you’re not after unexpected gains in the No- tion.”
cial said. Top House GOP leaders The White House Counsel’s Of- the Democrats in December 2019 going to have a country anymore,” vember elections had McCarthy The sparring came as Demo-
have announced their opposition fice has not drawn up a plan for when they impeached Trump for he said. predicting he would be claiming crats debated how to structure
to impeachment but have not giv- combating the impeachment ef- urging Ukraine to investigate Joe On Tuesday, Trump suggested the speaker’s gavel after the 2022 their next steps after impeach-
en their members an alternative fort, an administration official Biden and his son, but the Capitol that proceeding with impeach- midterms. ment passes the House. The Sen-
way to register disapproval of said, and its legislative affairs attack has shaken the Republican ment might spark additional vio- Now it’s unclear whether he can ate is not scheduled to return to
Trump or the assault. team is not contacting lawmakers. ranks. lence: “I think it’s causing tremen- keep his conference united, while regular business until Jan. 19, a
While emotions rose on the Multiple Democratic aides said The formal debate over sanc- dous danger to our country, and for Cheney, the fallout may be day before Biden’s inauguration,
House floor, tensions flared out- they expected the full House to tioning Trump began Tuesday it’s causing tremendous anger. I more immediate, since pro- meaning there would be virtually
side the chamber. Pelosi on Tues- vote on impeachment no later morning when the House Rules want no violence.” Trump lawmakers demanded her no chance of conducting a Senate
day imposed new public safety than Wednesday night — one Committee readied the 25th The sole impeachment article resignation as Republican confer- trial and ousting Trump from of-
measures on House members, in- week after the shocking Capitol Amendment resolution for the charges Trump with “incitement ence chair within hours after her fice prematurely.
cluding metal detectors outside invasion and one week before House floor. The mood of the de- of insurrection,” and several GOP announcement on impeachment. Senate Minority Leader
the chamber. Trump is set to leave office. bate went from somber to angry, lawmakers were openly mulling “She should not be serving this Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
That infuriated some Republi- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as lawmakers sparred about whether to support it. conference,” said Rep. Andy Biggs called on McConnell to join him in
cans. Several loudly protested to (D-Calif.) signaled confidence Trump’s culpability — and one Cheney has not explicitly re- (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Trump invoking a provision that allows
police officers, reporters and that the impeachment resolution another’s — for last Wednesday’s cruited other Republicans to join loyalist House Freedom Caucus. the Senate to convene early in
Democrats, and others were seen would pass by naming nine “man- events. her call for impeachment, but she House members debating Tues- cases of emergency, if both party
pushing past the metal detectors. agers” Tuesday night to act as “Rushing this resolution to the has signaled her disapproval of day’s resolution provided some- leaders call for it.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a prosecutors for the Senate trial, floor will do nothing to unify or Trump’s conduct and served as a thing of a preview of Wednesday’s Asked whether the House could
freshman gun rights activist, re- led by Rep. Jamie B. Raskin heal the country,” said Rep. Jim sounding board for other con- likely debate on impeachment. delay transmission of the im-
fused to allow Capitol police to (D-Md.). Jordan (R-Ohio). “These actions, cerned Republicans. On a Monday Jordan, who promulgated con- peachment resolution, allowing
inspect her bag. House members took a prelimi- again, will only continue to divide conference call, she told col- spiracy theories about election the Senate to confirm at least
The Republican statements nary step toward impeachment the nation.” leagues she considered impeach- fraud and attended a “Stop the some of Biden’s Cabinet nominees
supporting impeachment — Tuesday evening, approving a res- In response, Rules Committee ment a “vote of conscience.” Steal” rally after the election, ac- before plunging into an impeach-
which came after Trump deliv- olution urging Vice President Chairman Jim McGovern (D- She announced her intention to cused Democrats of a “double ment trial, Pelosi declined to com-
ered remarks earlier Tuesday ex- Pence and the Cabinet to use their Mass.) accused Jordan and others vote to impeach Trump a day in standard” since they had raised ment Tuesday.
pressing no regret for his actions powers under the 25th Amend- of having “given oxygen to the advance of the vote as an encour- objections to the electoral votes of Democrats have also discussed
— represented a watershed mo- ment to remove Trump immedi- president’s conspiracy theories” agement to wavering members, Republican presidents, including the potential for “bifurcating”
ment. They signaled high-level ately. In a letter to Pelosi late and said appeals to civility were multiple Republicans said. Trump and George W. Bush. Senate business so that the cham-
GOP concern about the roles of Tuesday, Pence wrote that such an coming too late. Meanwhile, Minority Leader Democrats noted that in those ber could, for example, approve
Trump and other party leaders in action would not be “in the best “We all want healing, but in Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and cases, the losing candidate had nominees in the morning and
spreading conspiracy theories interest of our Nation or consis- order to get to healing, we need Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the long since conceded and many hold a trial in the afternoon. But
about the election, and reflected tent with our Constitution.” truth and we need accountability,” two House members who outrank lawmakers who protested made there is no modern precedent for
how much the political landscape The resolution passed anyway, McGovern said. Cheney in the Republican hierar- clear that they accepted the elec- doing that, and it would require
has shifted since Trump was ac- 223 to 205, with Kinzinger the Trump on Tuesday denied re- chy, have opposed impeachment, tion results, while at no point cooperation from Republicans
quitted in his first impeachment only Republican supporting it. sponsibility for last week’s riot. putting them on the other side of encouraging violence. that they may be unlikely to grant.
trial last February. Katko was among those who opt- “Many people are saying what I the divide over Trump that is be- Raskin cited liberals’ reaction [email protected]
Meanwhile, Senate Majority ed not to support it in light of said was totally appropriate,” he ginning to cleave the GOP. to Trump’s election, including a [email protected]
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Pence’s letter, calling it “merely a said. Six moderate Republicans, led massive Women’s March on Wash- [email protected]
has been telling associates since symbolic gesture.” At a rally that day, Trump urged by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) ington.
the attack that Trump probably Pelosi had indicated that if his followers to head for the Capi- and Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), intro- “What did the Democrats do? Erica Werner contributed to this
committed impeachable offenses, Pence did not act, she would move tol and “fight much harder” to duced a censure resolution Tues- They put on pink winter hats, report.

Trump defiant, unapologetic over his role in inciting mob attack on Capitol
TRUMP FROM A1 ley said, referring to Trump’s
Florida resort home.
dressed the calls from Democrats But, Brinkley added, “anything
and even some Republicans for Trump does now, he is a greatly
Pence and the Cabinet to invoke diminished figure. He shrunk
the 25th Amendment of the Con- into Thumbelina size. He can act
stitution to remove him from big at the wall, but he’s really tiny
office before his term expires. because of the way he publicly
“The 25th Amendment is of responded to the siege at the
zero risk to me but will come back Capitol.”
to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden Sen. Lindsey O. Graham
administration,” Trump said. “As (R-S.C.), who traveled with the
the expression goes, ‘Be careful president Tuesday, spent four
what you wish for.’ ” hours with him Friday helping to
Washington is seeing a height- orchestrate the border wall trip
ened police and military presence and other events later this week.
in and around the city, and law The objective, Graham said, is to
enforcement authorities are brac- give Trump daily obligations in
ing for future violence in the his final full week as president
run-up to President-elect Joe and to “not look back on the past.”
Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. “We’ve laid out a plan for him,
Trump at first hesitated to tell every day to do something,”
his supporters to stand down Graham said.
when they stormed the Capitol. The Rio Grande Valley contin-
He was captivated by the specta- ues to be the busiest section of the
cle playing out on live television border for illegal crossings. Al-
and entranced by the notion that though U.S. Customs and Border
the rioters were fighting for him, Protection identified these sec-
people with knowledge of the tions as its top priority for border
events said. And when he issued a wall construction, the Trump ad-
video last Wednesday afternoon ministration ended up building
telling the rioters to “go home,” he relatively few miles of new barri-
also declared his support for ers there.
them by saying, “We love you.” A major impediment to con-
Trump changed his tune here struction efforts in the Rio
in Texas on Tuesday. Reading Grande Valley has been resis-
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
from a script, the president tance from local landowners.
seemed to instruct his supporters President Trump told reporters Tuesday that a second impeachment of him would be “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the Most of the land the government
not to rise up in violence. “Now is history of politics” and would cause “tremendous anger” — and possibly violence.  For related video, go to: wapo.st/Trump0113. needed to build new barriers is
the time for our nation to heal. privately owned. In addition,
And it’s time for peace and for various other places. That was a McConnell (R-Ky.) declined to his term has ended. Quinnipiac University found that some of the locations are on river
calm. Respect for law enforce- real problem, what they said,” comment, a person who has spo- Tim O’Brien, a Trump biogra- Trump’s overall approval dipped levees, which adds to the expense
ment is the foundation of the Trump said. “But they’ve ana- ken to him says he is open to pher, said that Trump’s first in- to 33 percent, tied for the lowest and difficulty of construction.
MAGA agenda,” he said, referring lyzed my speech and words and convicting Trump in an impeach- stinct always has been to lie and the pollster has recorded, with Instead, the administration
to his “Make America Great my final paragraph, my final sen- ment trial and thinks the presi- try to bulldoze his way through majorities holding him responsi- has built hundreds of miles of
Again” campaign slogan. tence, and everybody, to the T, dent is likely to have committed any sort of turmoil in his life — ble for the Capitol attack and barrier on public lands farther
Earlier Tuesday, Trump de- thought it was totally appropri- impeachable offenses but wants and that his response to the Capi- favoring his removal from office west, where the government al-
flected a reporter’s question ate.” to hear evidence. tol attack has been no different. or his resignation. ready controlled the land but
about his “personal responsibili- On Capitol Hill, however, some Republican National Commit- “His father trained him to see Trump sought to escape this where there are comparatively
ty” in the Capitol attack as he of Trump’s allies differed with tee Chairwoman Ronna McDan- the world only as winners and dark reality Tuesday by flying to fewer migrant crossings than in
boarded Air Force One at Joint that assessment as the drumbeat iel said in a statement, “We all losers, and he’s never going to the U.S.-Mexico border in a bid to the Rio Grande Valley.
Base Andrews for the flight to for impeachment grew. bear responsibility to reflect on acknowledge he’s a loser,” O’Brien burnish his presidential legacy as David Lapan, a former senior
Texas. The No. 3 Republican in the the rhetoric leading up to the said. “He has no remorse and no a crusader against illegal immi- official in Trump’s Department of
“People thought what I said House, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyo- abhorrent violence of last week, regret about any of it. It’s what gration. He toured a portion of Homeland Security, said the iro-
was totally appropriate,” Trump ming, announced late Tuesday including the president.” makes him such a damaged and the wall on the dusty banks of the ny of Trump’s border-wall visit
said, claiming that he had seen that she would vote to impeach Trump has resisted some en- damaging man. He doesn’t have Rio Grande, with soaring steel Tuesday was that the Capitol at-
this view reflected across the Trump, saying there has “never treaties to take responsibility for any of the minimal guilt or regret beams forming an imposing tack showed the more serious
media. In fact, he has been almost been a greater betrayal” by a U.S. the mob, claiming that he did not that a healthy, stable individual monument to his anti-immigrant danger to the country comes from
universally condemned for his president. know his supporters would liter- has.” agenda. Trump brandished a some of his own supporters, not
remarks, including by many of his “The president could have im- ally storm the Capitol and that he Last week’s events have quickly Sharpie and signed his autograph from foreign migrants.
Republican allies. mediately and forcefully inter- did not want them to do so. He made Trump a pariah. He is on a piece of the wall. “Rather than the threat being
Trump then drew a compari- vened to stop the violence,” has dismissed concerns from his poised to be impeached for the Trump’s hope is that history from Mexicans and Central
son to racial justice demonstra- Cheney said in a statement. “He lawyers and other aides that he second time — the first president remembers him not for encourag- Americans and people that cross
tions last summer and suggested did not.” might have legal liability for his in U.S. history to achieve that ing a coup against democracy, but the southwest border, we’ve seen
that other political leaders were A spokesman for House Minor- instigation, according to a senior distinction — when the Demo- for erecting a physical barrier to evidence that the threat comes
more culpable for violence relat- ity Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca- administration official, who, like cratic-led House brings an article keep foreigners out — an apostle from within,” Lapan said. “The
ed to those events than he was for lif.) said he disagreed with Trump some others, spoke on the condi- of impeachment for a vote on of law and order, as he sees only thing he’s done about that
what happened at the Capitol last that his comments were “totally tion of anonymity to share inter- Wednesday. Meanwhile, he has himself. threat is encourage it.”
week. appropriate.” The spokesman nal details. been silenced on social media “He’s going to do anything and [email protected]
“If you look at what other added that McCarthy told House Trump continues to say pri- because of messages from him everything to leave a stamp of [email protected]
people have said — politicians at members on Monday that the vately that he won the election, that instigated violence, and he is ‘Trump was here’ on the national
a high level — about the riots president bore blame. another senior administration of- being shunned by much of corpo- body politic before he heads per- Dawsey reported from Washington.
during the summer, the horrible And while a spokesman for ficial said, but is no longer talking rate America. manently to Mar-a-Lago,” presi- Nick Miroff in Washington
riots in Portland and Seattle, in Senate Majority Leader Mitch about trying to stay in office after A poll released Monday by dential historian Douglas Brink- contributed to this report.

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storming of the capitol

Critic of virus vaccine says she was among those inside

BY N EENA S ATIJA was incredibly peaceful.” two police officers stand behind drew its emergency use authoriza-
Gold confirmed that she went Gold, appearing to gesture at her tion for hydroxychloroquine and
A doctor and outspoken critic of inside the Capitol, saying she fol- and others in an attempt to get chloroquine, drugs that Trump
the coronavirus vaccine was lowed a crowd and assumed that it them to leave. had repeatedly promoted for
among those who entered the was legal to do so. She said she had In the echo of the Rotunda, treatment of covid-19. Federal
Capitol building last week during not been contacted by anyone in most of her words are inaudible in health officials, citing scientific
the siege that disrupted the certifi- law enforcement. the video, other than “I’m a mom” evidence, said that the drug is
cation of the 2020 presidential After Trump supporters gath- and “massive medical establish- “unlikely to be effective” for covid-
election. ered on the Capitol grounds, ten- ment.” 19 and that any potential benefits
Simone Gold gained national sions soon boiled over and an an- Gold said she gave the same are outweighed by safety risks,
attention in July when she and gry mob assaulted the building, speech she delivered the previous including heart problems.
other physicians appeared in front breaking through doors and win- day at a rally in the District’s Free- Gold’s letter led to her partici-
of the Supreme Court for a sparse- dows. Vice President Pence was dom Plaza, where Trump support- pation in the event in July, orga-
ly attended news conference to moved to a secure location in the ers were beginning to gather nized with the support of the Tea
decry pandemic lockdowns and complex. Police sought to evacu- ahead of the “Stop the Steal” Party Patriots group and featuring
criticize government efforts to ate lawmakers and their staffers, events. her group, America’s Frontline
stop the spread of the disease. but some locked down in rooms During that speech, she re- Doctors. The participants’ speech-
Video of the event, organized by behind makeshift barricades. ferred to the coronavirus vaccine es were live-streamed by the con-
conservative activists, was Gold said she traveled to Wash- as an “experimental, biological servative media outlet Breitbart
retweeted by the president and ington to speak at a “Rally for agent deceptively named a vac- and viewed online more than 14
viewed by millions before social Health Freedom” on the east side of cine.” million times — fueled by a tweet
media platforms took it down. the Capitol on Wednesday after- The coronavirus vaccines have by Donald Trump Jr. and multiple
Gold confirmed to The Wash- noon. been tested, and federal regula- retweets by the president, which
ington Post that she is the person She attended the rally along tors have authorized their use. have since been deleted. Face-
pictured carrying a bullhorn on with John Strand, the communi- They have been administered to book, Twitter and YouTube later
the Capitol grounds Wednesday in cations director for America’s nearly 9 million Americans, ac- removed the video.
FBI and D.C. police bulletins seek- Frontline Doctors, a group she JOHN STRAND cording to the Centers for Disease Gold told The Post she worked
ing more information about indi- founded last year to speak out Doctor Simone Gold reads a speech inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Control and Prevention. as an emergency room physician
viduals who were present. against the government’s efforts Gold has decried government efforts to stop the coronavirus. Gold first gained notoriety for for two hospitals at the time but
Although dozens of Capitol Po- to contain the coronavirus. Strand an open letter to the president in was “promptly fired” after the
lice officers were injured when is pictured next to her in the pho- gathered for a large rally near the minutes before police ushered ev- May in which she called shut- event and has not worked as a
they were overrun by pro-Trump tos circulated by the FBI and D.C. White House. But Gold said that as eryone out. She used some of that downs imposed to stop the spread doctor since.
protesters and one later died as a police. she was about to give her speech at time to give the speech she had of the coronavirus “a mass casu- Gold said she was worried that
result, Gold said she did not wit- Asked for comment, Strand 1 p.m., someone in the crowd told planned to make earlier. alty incident.” She claimed that as photos of her inside the Capitol
ness any violence. wrote in a statement to The Post her that all speeches were can- A 30-second video of a person a hospital physician she had seen would distract from her advocacy
“I can certainly speak to the that he was at the event to assist celed. who appeared to be Gold speaking hydroxychloroquine work as a work with America’s Frontline
place that I was, and it most em- Gold and “ensure her safety.” Gold said she followed the on the tiled Rotunda floor has treatment against the deadly vi- Doctors.
phatically was not a riot,” the Cali- Gold and about a dozen others crowd up the steps and into the been circulating on social media. rus. “I do regret being there,” Gold
fornia resident said in a phone were expected to speak after Presi- building. She estimated she was Gold confirmed to The Post that The following month, the Food said.
interview Monday. “Where I was, dent Trump addressed supporters inside the Capitol for about 20 the video depicts her. In the video, and Drug Administration with- [email protected]

Secret Service helms wide-ranging fortification of D.C. ahead of inauguration

INAUGURATION FROM A1 ver lining from the whole Capitol
insurrection: I still believe the
Threats they fear include a plot by White House is a softer target
armed groups to encircle the than others, but you better be-
White House or the U.S. Capitol lieve it’s going to get a really
and the inauguration event, as beefed-up security plan for the
well as the possibility that gun- next couple of weeks.”
men could stage coordinated at- Another worry is that pro-
tacks against less-fortified targets Trump groups seeking permits
in the city. for protests downtown include
House Democrats were briefed people who joined the riot on
by the new Capitol Police leader- Jan. 6 at the Capitol and conduct-
ship Monday night about threats ed some of their planning on
to the inauguration from groups encrypted apps.
supporting President Trump, and One pro-Trump group has ap-
the new security measures they plied to the National Park Service
are putting in place to avoid a for a permit to protest in front of
repeat of last Wednesday’s riot. the White House. The Park Serv-
According to members who ice, working with the Secret Serv-
were on the briefing call, the ice, will need to decide whether to
threats included promises to exe- reject those permit applications
cute members of Congress, with or determine a way for those
the most dangerous coming from protesters to be corralled and
a handful of extremist groups. blocked from threatening the
They are surfacing amid calls for Capitol or White House.
a million “MAGA” devotees to City officials in Washington
flood Washington. continued to erect an inaugura-
On Tuesday, police in the Chi- tion perimeter throughout down-
cago suburbs arrested 45-year- town on Tuesday, putting up bar-
old Louis Capriotti, charging him riers around the White House, the
with making threats to lawmak- Mall and the Capitol. People look-
ers last year in which authorities ing to travel inside the perimeter
say he promised to kill any Demo- will have to provide proof of es-
crat who attempted to enter the sential purpose to be within the
White House on Inauguration inaugural grounds.
Day. “This is similar to previous
If people “think that Joe Biden inaugurations — except the inau-
is going to put his hand on the guration perimeter will be estab-
Bible and walk into that . . . White lished and operational for several
ROBB HILL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
House on January 20th, they’re days,” Susana Castillo, a spokes-
sadly . . . mistaken,” he told one National Guard members monitor the Capitol on Wednesday. As many as 15,000 Guard troops may be present as the inauguration nears. person for Mayor Muriel E. Bow-
member of Congress in an ser’s office, said in a text message.
expletive-laden phone message, Service official who helped coor- charge of all major gatherings ning,” Whelan said in a state- with their certifications on using Anthony Guglielmi, a spokes-
according to a criminal com- dinate past inaugurations. “No- that might be a target for terror- ment. “As is always the case, secu- deadly and nonlethal force. man for the Fairfax County police,
plaint. “We will surround the . . . body has to send out an emergen- ists. These have included Super rity during a National Special He said he was unaware of any said the agency planned to deploy
White House and we will kill any cy call for the FBI SWAT team. Bowls, summits of world leaders, Security Event (NSSE) is a layered additional requirements being extra officers at Metro stations
. . . Democrat that steps on the . . . They’re all there, pre-positioned meetings of international organi- network of operations, seen and imposed this year. Some law en- that would be a primary conduit
lawn.” and ready.” zations, presidential conventions unseen, that run in tandem with forcement officers who partici- into the city, and was also beefing
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said “It’s no longer game planning,” and, of course, inaugurations. federal, state and local law en- pated in the rally that precipitat- up security at courthouses and
in an interview that the threats the former official added. “Radia- While the Department of forcement, military, and public ed last week’s riot at the U.S. the county government center
are real but will not stop the tion protection. Bomb detectors. Homeland Security, which in- safety entities.” Capitol have found themselves out of an abundance of caution.
transfer of power. Amtrak sweeps. All the security cludes the Secret Service, is lack- A law enforcement official under investigation by their own Guglielmi said that civil distur-
“We’re not talking about a 90- personnel — they’re all now in ing key leadership following the briefed on inauguration planning departments, and the FBI has bance units and helicopter and
person ISIS cell. . . . We’re talking place.” resignation of acting secretary said extensive fencing is being been investigating whether any boat teams would be on alert to
mainly about a bunch of yahoos The Secret Service will coordi- Chad Wolf on Monday, officials erected throughout D.C., includ- military or law enforcement provide support to police and the
who, yes, are very dangerous. Peo- nate all security decisions, includ- say they can rely on the experi- ing the area surrounding the members broke the law. National Guard in D.C., and that
ple could wind up dead,” Himes ing how to seal the Capitol, how to ence of some the major players White House. Those planning to Inside the Secret Service, sen- the department was reviewing
said. “But there’s no danger that control the flow of demonstra- involved in inauguration security attend the inauguration can also ior supervisors have long been how to quickly get into the city in
they’re going to overthrow the tions, which Metro stations are planning. They include Matt Mil- expect to barely be able to see the worried about the ability of an the event roads were blocked.
United States government.” shuttered and which roads are ler, the head of the Secret Service White House, as the perimeter armed or organized group to “You are going to see the entire
The sweep of the heightened blocked. But the Secret Service, a Washington field office, who is will be expanded farther out than pierce the White House fortress. Northern Virginia region [hav-
security was illustrated by the relatively tiny agency in the feder- widely admired by his subordi- during past inaugurations. An unwelcome reminder of ing] much more communication
decision of the House sergeant at al government, will rely heavily nates and was promoted in the Lamont J. Ruffin, the chief dep- that risk came on May 29. Protec- with D.C. police,” Guglielmi said.
arms to use metal detectors to on the muscle and expertise of its wake of the seamless security uty U.S. marshal for the District of tive detail agents rushed Trump Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan
screen everyone entering the partners. It will look to the FBI, planning he crafted for the Re- Columbia, said his office is plan- to the White House’s under- (R) said the District of Columbia
House chamber, including mem- for instance, for intelligence- publican National Convention in ning to deputize between 3,000 ground bunker that night, as could be subject to lockdowns
bers. gathering, and the National Tampa in 2012; and D.C. police and 4,000 local law enforcement crowds of demonstrators protest- and Metro shutdowns during the
The siege at the Capitol has put Guard, Park Police and D.C. po- Inspector Robert Glover, an inci- officers from across the country ing the killing of George Floyd days surrounding the presiden-
Secret Service planners and their lice, as well as many other local dent commander who rushed to who — at the request of the D.C. converged on the White House’s tial inauguration.
federal partners in feverish reas- police departments, to set up the rescue of Capitol Police on police department — will come north side and many pushed over The state, he said, will double
sessment mode to consider all the roadblocks, patrol security pe- Jan. 6 and commanded the joint into Washington to help with se- temporary barricades meant to the number of Maryland National
ways they can mitigate anything rimeters along the inauguration force to eject rioters from the curity. keep them farther away from the Guard members in D.C. from 500
like a repeat of Jan. 6 — or route and help shield the Capitol grounds. Ruffin said he has been asked fence. to 1,000. Greg Shipley, a spokes-
something worse. and White House. The Secret Service has sent out to prepare to also possibly depu- One male protester made it man for the Maryland State Po-
Starting Wednesday, the nerve Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), a call to all of its field offices tize members of the National over the heightened fence line lice, said the agency has a team of
center for coordinating inaugura- who participated in the security around the country to send Guard to give them law enforce- and into the complex near the specially trained troopers on
tion security and locking down briefing for lawmakers, said that agents to Washington for the ment authority, though those Treasury building, and others got standby.
the District will be the Secret if the extensive measures planned week. plans have not been finalized. into an enclosed Treasury court- “There are ongoing discus-
Service’s Washington field office. for the inauguration had been in “It’s really, truly all hands on Guard members in Washington yard nearby. That’s when the Se- sions about securing the nation’s
Known as the MACC, the Multi- place on Jan. 6, “a fly could not deck right now,” said one person will carry their firearms, two de- cret Service raised the threat level capital,” Hogan said Tuesday at a
Agency Command Center will have gotten into the Capitol.” familiar with the request. fense officials said, speaking on on the campus to “Condition Yel- news conference in Annapolis,
bring together representatives “Last week was a wake-up call,” Secret Service spokeswoman the condition of anonymity be- low” and spirited Trump, first “not just the immediate site
from 50 to 60 agencies or private Malinowski said in an interview, Justine Whelan said the service cause of the sensitivity of the lady Melania Trump and their son around the Capitol itself, but the
companies for the next eight days, adding that rioters are not going began preliminary planning for issue. Barron to the subterranean shel- entire city.”
everyone from heavyweight play- to be allowed to stage a repeat the inauguration a year ago, Ruffin said the officers coming ter. After that night, the Secret [email protected]
ers like the FBI and the Defense because police at the Capitol are working more intensely in recent into D.C. hail from all over the Service pushed out the perimeter [email protected]
Department to the gas company, “not just playing defense, we’re months. But several officials said country — “all 50 states” — and much farther and called in rein- [email protected]
rail company CSX and Amtrak. playing offense.” the Capitol siege has forced the will have to fill out a form attest- forcements from other federal [email protected]
Most personnel will work in 12- The Secret Service has over- agency to reexamine its previous ing that they meet certain re- law enforcement agencies to hold
hour shifts. seen all national security special work. quirements, including that they the line. Erin Cox, Matt Zapotosky, Dan Morse,
“Unlike Jan. 6, nobody has to events since President Bill Clin- “The events of Jan. 6 serve as a not are not under active internal “They know that that’s a huge Emily Davies, Rachel Weiner and
ask for the National Guard any- ton signed a presidential declara- stark reminder of the criticality of affairs investigation and that vulnerability,” said one Secret Ellen Nakashima contributed to this
more,” said one former Secret tion in 1998 putting the agency in comprehensive security plan- their departments are up to date Service official. “There’s one sil- report.

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storming of the capitol

Long-troubled Capitol Police face questions after siege

seems like it would be all hands
on deck when you get an email
Despite its ample budget, like this,” Nugent told Kim C.
the force is subject Dine, the Capitol Police chief at
the time.
to sparse accountability Lawmakers wanted to know
how the agency prepared for
attacks, how it filtered daily on-
BY B ETH R EINHARD, line threats and whether the
R OSALIND S . H ELDERMAN police board was getting in the
AND N EENA S ATIJA chief ’s way — questions gaining
new relevance in the wake of the
It was the spring of 2015 and Jan. 6 riot.
the U.S. Capitol Police had suf- “It was pretty disturbing to be
fered a string of embarrassing honest,” Nugent said this week.
incidents. He spent 38 years in law enforce-
Officers who protected Senate ment before his election to Con-
Majority Leader Mitch McCon- gress, including a decade as the
nell and then-House Speaker sheriff of Hernando County, Fla.
John A. Boehner had left their “It just seemed like they took
guns in bathrooms in the Capitol things for granted instead of
in January and March. Another saying, ‘What’s the worst thing
unattended gun was found by a that could happen?’ and prepar-
janitor cleaning police headquar- ing for it. Which is how you need
ters in April. That same month, a to look at things.”
Florida postal worker protesting Nugent drew a line between
the influence of money in politics the lack of preparedness for the
was able to land a small aircraft gyrocopter stunt and the under-
on the West Lawn in broad day- reaction to calls on social me-
light. dia to swarm Congress. In his six
By May, members of the House years in Congress, Nugent said,
Administration Committee were he does not remember ever see-
asking pointed questions. The ing an inspector general report or
police chief said he was address- an internal investigation of the
ing the problems. Capitol Police.
And then, Congress moved on. Dine defended his record in an
“What that hearing really interview this week and said
showed was the ineptness in the decisions about releasing infor-
organizational hierarchy, the in- mation to the public typically
AMANDA VOISARD FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
ability to get a handle on the were made by the Capitol Police
agency, their lack of transparency Capitol Police officers face rioters fighting to gain access to the building during the Jan. 6 congressional proceedings to certify the electoral Board.
and accountability to anybody,” college vote. For years, lawmakers have raised concerns about the force’s lack of transparency but done little to streamline oversight. The incidents with the mis-
said former congressman Rich- placed guns were “addressed in-
ard B. Nugent (R-Fla.), a retired that a state or city police agency ready should have provided a ers have struggled to balance back of the car. Her family has ternally and swiftly,” he said. The
county sheriff who served in have.” detailed accounting of its ac- security concerns with the desire said police did not have to resort gyrocopter pilot was arrested im-
Congress from 2011 to 2016. “If He added, “If we are not trans- tions. for an open door to the house of to violence, saying that Carey — mediately, he said, and no prop-
you let things like that go, there’s parent with the public for whom “The public has a right to U.S. democracy. who was unarmed and had no erty was damaged. And he noted
larger questions to be asked — we are responsible, then what we know,” said Ramsey, who also led Over the years, lawmakers criminal record — panicked a number of changes on his
what else are you sweeping under are doing is suspect.” the Philadelphia Police Depart- have asked Capitol Police to se- while driving on unfamiliar watch, such as putting the entire
the rug or not paying attention Capitol Police spokeswoman ment. “There are a lot of unan- cure the complex against all streets. agency through active-shooter
to?” Eva Malecki did not respond to swered questions. That is every- manner of threats, but they also The names of the officers who training and creating a board to
Lawmakers considered chang- detailed questions from The body’s Capitol. It belongs to all of feared making the building ap- fired at her car were never di- review investigations into em-
es five years ago and periodically Washington Post about whether us.” pear militarized or inaccessible vulged. An investigation into the ployee misconduct.
over the past 15 years. Yet they the department needed to be Now, the upheaval that the to the public. incident was not made public by “Stuff happens when you’re
left the Capitol Police largely more transparent or receive Black Lives Matter movement The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist the department. A two-page the chief, and leadership de-
impervious to public scrutiny, stricter oversight. has brought to law enforcement attacks led to sweeping security news release by the U.S. attor- pends on how you handle it,” he
despite its ample funding and its The department reports to a departments nationwide has ar- upgrades in government build- ney’s office in Washington an- said. “We were interested in try-
prominent presence at the seat of little-known board that dates to rived in the Capitol. ings. By 2005, however, members nounced “insufficient evidence” ing to raise the bar and hold
U.S. government. the 1800s. It has three voting Some law enforcement experts of the House grew concerned to charge the officers. people accountable as best we
The force of about 2,100 sworn members: the sergeants-at-arms say change at the Capitol Police about how the Capitol Police In an interview last week, Car- could.”
officers, which patrols a hallowed for the House and Senate, and the has been elusive and may contin- were managing a $19 million ey’s sister, Valarie Carey, said Congress’s inconsistent over-
but tiny area, boasts a $516 mil- Architect of the Capitol. The ue to be so because, unlike other contract to prevent vehicles from Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol sight of its own police force has
lion budget. That is more than archaic structure is established police departments, it doesn’t getting close to the complex. by a mostly White mob “resur- been a source of frustration to the
twice the spending on police in in federal law and means that the have customary constituents. Lawmakers successfully pushed rected” the anger she has felt union, which has clashed with
Atlanta, 11/2 times the spending in police chief has three unelected “They don’t have residents. to include language in a budget since the death of her sister, who the leadership over the years.
Detroit and approaches the bosses, none of whom answers They serve congressional mem- document indicating that they was Black. The department’s lack Konczos, the former union
$545 million budget for the Dis- directly to the public. bers,” said J. Thomas Manger, had “serious concerns over the of transparency made it difficult chief, who retired in 2016 after
trict of Columbia, budget docu- “You have a lot of bosses, and I former police chief in the neigh- lack of stewardship of the taxpay- to learn basic details about offi- 30 years as a Capitol Police offi-
ments show. Yet reports by the had to learn as chief how to deal boring counties of Fairfax, Va., er dollars and how this exempli- cers’ response to her sister, their cer, said the union repeatedly
force’s Office of Inspector Gener- with that,” said Gainer, the only and Montgomery, Md. “One of fies pervasive management is- training and any reforms, she told leadership that top manag-
al, tasked with rooting out waste person to serve as both police the things that encourages police sues and lack of asset account- said. ers were not qualified, that too
and fraud, are kept under wraps. chief and Senate sergeant-at- to evolve is community pressure, ability.” “They have not been brought much training was online and
The Capitol Police, like Congress, arms. “If you have a process that but a big part of what the Capitol to justice. They haven’t even had that the chief lacked power under
are not subject to the Freedom of doesn’t allow you to exercise your Police do is provide personal Past investigations, to answer for their actions,” she the police board.
Information Act. expertise, that’s a problem.” security for the members.” few public details said. “If the public, including “We would explain how dys-
Unlike other law enforcement Members of Congress are now Congress recently awarded an When the Capitol Police force families, aren’t given informa- functional the department was.
agencies, the police force releases calling for a full-scale investiga- additional $50 million to the has been embroiled in heated tion, who’s to say what exactly No one ever listened,” said Konc-
little public information, even tion into what went wrong on department for the 2021 fiscal controversies, the investigations happened?” zos, who served for a decade as
after calamitous incidents. Jan. 6, as a joint session met to year — extending a funding run that followed were released only Gainer, who was serving as the chairman of the labor commit-
Six days after a pro-Trump count electoral college votes that has seen the Capitol Police in part or not at all. Senate sergeant-of-arms in 2013, tee’s executive board.
mob overran the U.S. Capitol, the while an angry crowd incited by budget grow by more than After 12 people were killed in a said he now regrets that the The current union leader, Gus
department still had not held a President Trump descended on 50 percent in the past decade, 2013 mass shooting at the Wash- Capitol Police were not more Papathanasiou, echoed those
news conference to explain the the Capitol. budget documents show. Law- ington Navy Yard, the BBC re- responsive to the public after complaints and blamed police
enormous security breach or to The police chief and the House makers stopped short of requir- ported that an armed Capitol Carey’s death and the Navy Yard officials for poor planning for the
highlight the heroism of individ- and Senate sergeants-at-arms all ing greater transparency, only Police tactical team was nearby shooting. Jan. 6 session of Congress.
ual officers. And it had not re- have resigned. In an interview suggesting that the Capitol Police when initial reports came in “Those were the rules we had “I want to highlight that the
leased the name and employ- with The Post on Sunday, outgo- “explore the possibility” of releas- about an active shooter. The team grown up with, but there’s no lack of communication with the
ment records of the officer who ing Capitol Police Chief Steven ing more comprehensive arrest requested permission to enter reason to continue doing that,” officers on January 6th was not
fatally shot Trump supporter Sund blamed his bosses on the data and share information that the building where the violence he said. “Over the past few years, an anomaly,” he said. “It is part of
Ashli Babbitt. police board for not promptly “follows the spirit of the Freedom was underway but was denied police departments have been a pattern we have seen from the
On Monday, a member of Con- approving requests to put the of Information Act.” and directed to return to the expected to release videos and current USCP leadership.”
gress first disclosed that two D.C. National Guard on standby. The department also does not Capitol, according to the BBC. reports and had to adapt. We Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who
officers had been suspended and “The arrangement needs to be use body cameras, another tool A review by the Capitol Police should have had to explain why chairs the House committee that
others were being investigated changed,” Sund said. “I think increasingly used by police forces Board concluded the reporting we did or didn’t use deadly force, provides funding for the depart-
because of suspected involve- ultimately it would really be good to capture and share details of was unfair because the unit had just like the Capitol Police should ment, said at a news conference
ment with or inappropriate sup- if the chief could make certain police work with the public. been redeployed to address have to do for January 6th.” Monday that Congress needs to
port for the rioters. decisions; it would make the job Daniel Schuman, who tracks threats to the Capitol building. Capitol Police leadership faced step up oversight “1,000 percent.”
Congress could require the a little easier.” federal spending for Demand Only a two-page summary of the a rare grilling on Capitol Hill in He said he had urged the acting
Capitol Police to operate more Neither House Sergeant-at- Progress, one of the few advocacy report was released. 2015. During a House Adminis- police chief, Yogananda D. Pitt-
like a government agency and Arms Paul Irving nor Senate groups that acts as a watchdog on James Konczos, then the head tration Committee hearing, law- man, to engage with the media in
less like a private security detail. Sergeant-at-Arms Michael the Capitol Police, said the de- of the police union for the force, makers said they never would the future because “there’s been
But such demands for transpar- Stenger has commented. partment did not start disclosing rejected the findings at the time have found out about the guns an issue with the Capitol Police
ency might force awkward ques- Five deaths have been linked weekly arrest reports until 2018. and said last week that had the left unattended if it hadn’t been around transparency.”
tions about Congress’s own ex- to the riot, including that of It still doesn’t provide aggregated team stormed the building where leaked to the news media. About four hours later, Pitt-
emption from public records Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who information about its activities. the shooting was underway, “that In the same hearing, members man sent out a news release
laws. was injured in the confronta- “If we were grading them, I situation would have been neu- wondered how Capitol Police saying that several officers had
“There hasn’t been a willing- tions. Officer Howard Lieben- would give them an F-minus,” tralized a lot quicker.” could have been so unprepared been suspended and that “the
ness to open it up to scrutiny by good, who was also at the Capitol, Schuman said. “Why is so much Capitol Police faced tough that same year for a gyrocopter investigation of the January 6
an institution that is reticent to took his own life days later, a [money] going to the Capitol questions again in 2013 when landing on the West Lawn. The riot is continuing.”
do that,” said Terrance W. Gainer, spokesman for Liebengood’s Police, and what do they do with officers, along with members of postal worker piloting the small [email protected]
who served as chief of the Capitol family told The Post. it?” the U.S. Secret Service, fired into aircraft had live-streamed the [email protected]
Police from 2002 to 2006. “Con- Charles H. Ramsey, who Since 1998, when a mentally ill the car of a Connecticut woman flight, and a Florida newspaper [email protected]
gress hasn’t made the rules apply worked with the Capitol officers man entered a checkpoint re- driving erratically on Capitol reporter had emailed the police
to the department, so we didn’t as D.C. police chief from 1998 to served for members of Congress Hill. Miriam Carey, 34, was killed agency about it a half-hour be- Alice Crites and Carol D. Leonnig
have to meet the expectations 2007, said the federal force al- and killed two officers, lawmak- with her infant daughter in the fore the landing. “To me, it just contributed to this report.

Pompeo abruptly cancels final trip abroad amid tumultuous transition

BY J OHN H UDSON reer officials who will lead the committing “slander.” partnership between the United crafted statements, the top diplo-
department until a new Cabinet Pompeo, who often boasts of States and Belgium and the un- mat has avoided criticizing
Secretary of State Mike is confirmed. America’s status in the world wavering U.S. support for Trump’s actions and is instead
Pompeo canceled his final trip The abrupt cancellation — when traveling abroad, would be NATO.” Besides Stoltenberg, he focusing on how critics are char-
abroad as the nation’s top diplo- Pompeo phoned Stoltenberg arriving in Brussels amid tur- was also set to meet Belgium’s acterizing the events.
mat on Tuesday, citing the need about the decision around noon moil at home, including FBI deputy prime minister and for- “Many prominent people —
to ensure a “smooth and orderly Tuesday while some of his aides warnings of armed protests in all eign minister. including journalists and politi-
transition process” over the next were already on the ground in 50 states, thousands of National Pompeo reportedly planned to cians — have likened the United
eight days. Belgium — comes at a perilous Guard troops preparing to de- stop in Luxembourg on Thurs- States to a banana republic,”
Pompeo had planned to travel time in U.S. politics. ploy to the nation’s capital, a day, but the meeting fell through Pompeo tweeted a day after the
to Brussels for meetings with Some of the officials Pompeo fresh impeachment push against after the country’s foreign minis- assault on the Capitol. “The slan-
Belgian officials and NATO Sec- planned to meet with have is- the president by House Demo- ter called Trump a “political der reveals a faulty understand-
retary General Jens Stoltenberg, sued public statements of con- crats and record deaths and pyromaniac” and a “criminal” for ing of banana republics and of
but his spokeswoman, Morgan cern about the violence at the infections in the United States inciting the rioters at the Capitol. democracy in America.”
ANDREW HARNICK/POOL/REUTERS
Ortagus, said the department is Capitol incited by President related to the novel coronavirus. Unlike Vice President Pence, [email protected]
canceling “all planned travel this Trump as Pompeo has tried to The State Department said Pompeo has avoided the presi- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
week” as President-elect Joe castigate those impugning the Pompeo’s trip was designed “to dent’s ire in the aftermath of the Karen DeYoung contributed to this called it “slander” to question
Biden prepares to name the ca- health of America’s democracy as reaffirm the deep and enduring Capitol attack. In his carefully report. the health of U.S. democracy.

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storming of the capitol

Intelligence was shared with partner agencies, FBI says

FBI FROM A1

violent. Stop calling this a march,

or rally, or a protest. Go there
ready for war. We get our Presi-
dent or we die. NOTHING else will
achieve this goal.”
BLM is probably a reference to
the Black Lives Matter movement
for racial justice. Pantifa is a de-
rogatory term for antifa, a far-left
anti-fascist movement whose ad-
herents sometimes engage in vio-
lent clashes with right-wing ex-
tremists.
Yet even with that information
in hand, the report’s unidentified
author expressed concern that the
FBI might be encroaching on free-
speech rights.
The warning is the starkest evi-
dence yet of the sizable intelli-
gence failure that preceded the
mayhem, which claimed the lives
of five people, although one law
enforcement official, speaking on
the condition of anonymity to
avoid disciplinary action, said the
failure was not one of intelligence
but of acting on the intelligence.
At the FBI office in Norfolk, the
report was written within 45 min-
utes of receiving the information,
officials said, and shared with
counterparts in Washington.
The head of the FBI’s Washing-
ton Field Office, Steven D’An-
tuono, told reporters on Friday
that the agency did not have intel-
ligence suggesting the pro-Trump
rally would be anything more than
a lawful demonstration. During a
news conference Tuesday, held af-
ter The Post’s initial publication of
this report, he said the alarming
MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ/THE WASHINGTON POST
Jan. 5 intelligence document was
shared “with all our law enforce- Authorities are intent on finding and arresting the most violent participants in the mob, in part because there is talk of new potential clashes for Sunday and again on Jan. 20.
ment partners” through the joint
terrorism task force, which in- oath of office. lates federal law. tion with their local law enforce- spoke on the condition of anonym- gathered by the bureau and sev-
cludes the U.S. Capitol Police, the Michael R. Sherwin, the acting “However,” it continues, “based ment partners to assist in protect- ity to discuss the law enforcement eral other government agencies,
U.S. Park Police, D.C. police, and U.S. attorney for D.C., said there on known intelligence and/or spe- ing the communities they serve.” activity. It was not immediately the official familiar with the mat-
other federal and local agencies. would be a strike force of prosecu- cific historical observations, it is For weeks leading up to the clear who was visited or if the FBI ter said. Some of it is unverified,
He suggested there was not a tors looking to file charges of sedi- possible the protected activity event, FBI officials discounted any was specifically tracking anyone and the threat probably will differ
great deal for law enforcement to tious conspiracy where the evi- could invite a violent reaction to- suggestion that the activities of who would later be charged crimi- significantly from place to place,
do with the information because dence merited it. wards the subject individual or Trump supporters upset about the nally. These visits were first re- the official said.
the FBI at that time did not know The Jan. 5 FBI report notes that others in retaliation or with the scheduled certification of Biden’s ported Sunday by NBC News. But the information it high-
who made the comments. “That the information represents the goal of stopping the protected ac- election win could be a security In addition, in the days leading lights to law enforcement is none-
was a thread on a message board view of the FBI’s Norfolk office, is tivity from occurring in the first threat on a scale with the racial- up to the demonstrations, some theless troubling — including that
that was not attributable to an not to be shared outside law en- instance. In the event no violent justice demonstrations that fol- Capitol Hill staffers were told by there was data suggesting people
individual person,” D’Antuono forcement circles, that it is not reaction occurs, FBI policy and lowed the police killing of George supervisors to not come in to work might storm government offices
said Tuesday. “finally evaluated intelligence,” federal law dictates that no fur- Floyd in Minneapolis in May. that day, if possible, because it or stage an uprising were Trump
D’Antuono did not say what, if and that agencies receiving it “are ther record be made of the protect- While the nation’s capital is one seemed the danger level would be to be removed from office, the
anything, the FBI or other agen- requested not to take action based ed activity.” of the most heavily guarded cities higher than many previous pro- official said.
cies did differently as a result of on this raw reporting without pri- The document notes that one on the planet, local and federal law tests, according to a person famil- In a statement, the FBI declined
that information. Nor did he ex- or coordination with the FBI.” online comment advised, “if Anti- enforcement agencies sought to iar with the warning who spoke on to comment specifically on the
plain why he told reporters on Multiple law enforcement offi- fa or BLM get violent, leave them take a low-key approach to last the condition of anonymity to dis- memo about state capitols but
Friday that there had been no such cials have said privately in recent dead in the street,” while another week’s event, publicly and private- cuss the matter. Capitol Police did said: “Our efforts are focused on
intelligence. days that the level of violence ex- said they need “people on standby ly expressing concerns that they not take the kind of extra precau- identifying, investigating, and dis-
Steven Sund, who resigned as hibited at the Capitol has led to to provide supplies, including wa- did not want to repeat last year’s tions, such as frozen zones and rupting individuals that are incit-
Capitol Police chief, said in an difficult discussions within the ter and medical, to the front lines. ugly clashes between protesters hardened barriers, typically used ing violence and engaging in crim-
interview Tuesday that he never FBI and other agencies about race, The individual also discussed the and police. for major events near the Capitol. inal activity. As we do in the nor-
received nor was made aware of terrorism and whether investiga- need to evacuate noncombatants Some law enforcement officials Federal agents are on high alert mal course of business, we are
the FBI’s field bulletin, insisting tors failed to register the degree of and wounded to medical care.” took the view that protesters who as the inauguration nears, with gathering information to identify
he and others would have taken danger because the overwhelming On Jan. 6, a large, angry crowd support Trump are generally authorities bracing for possible any potential threats and are shar-
the warning seriously had it been majority of the participants at the of people who had attended a rally known for over-the-top rhetoric violence not just in Washington ing that information with our
shared. rally were White conservatives nearby marched to the Capitol, but not much violence, and there- but also nationwide, officials said. partners.
“I did not have that informa- fiercely loyal to Trump. smashing windows and breaking fore the event did not pose a par- The FBI recently issued a differ- “The FBI respects the rights of
tion, nor was that information tak- “Individuals/Organizations doors to get inside. One woman in ticularly serious risk, according to ent memo saying that “armed pro- individuals to peacefully exercise
en into consideration in our secu- named in this [situational infor- the mob was shot and killed by people familiar with the security tests” were being planned “at all their First Amendment rights,” it
rity planning,” Sund said. mation report] have been identi- Capitol Police; officials said three discussions leading up to Jan. 6. 50 state capitols” and in D.C. in the said. “Our focus is not on peaceful
Since the riot, agents and pros- fied as participating in activities others in the crowd had medical Even so, there were warning run-up to the inauguration, ac- protesters, but on those threaten-
ecutors have been intent on track- that are protected by the First emergencies and died. A Capitol signs, though none as stark as the cording to an official familiar with ing their safety and the safety of
ing down and arresting the most Amendment to the U.S. Constitu- Police officer died after suffering one from the FBI’s Norfolk office. the matter, speaking on the condi- other citizens with violence and
violent participants in the mob, in tion,” the document says. “Their injuries. FBI agents had in the weeks tion of anonymity to discuss a destruction of property.”
part because there is already sig- inclusion here is not intended to The FBI said in a statement that before the Trump rally visited sus- sensitive law enforcement matter. [email protected]
nificant online discussion of new associate the protected activity its “standard practice is to not pected far-right extremists, hop- The memo — first reported by [email protected]
potential clashes for Sunday and with criminality or a threat to comment on specific intelligence ing to glean whether they had ABC News and later confirmed by
again on Jan. 20, when President- national security, or to infer that products,” but added that FBI field violent intentions, said a person The Post — is a raw intelligence Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate
elect Joe Biden is set to take the such protected activity itself vio- offices “routinely share informa- familiar with the matter who product, compiling information contributed to this report.

Protest threats in multiple cities pose challenge for Guard support in D.C.
BY M ISSY R YAN, Capitol Police pleaded for help on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol additional D.C. Guard members, his supporters attempt to keep federal law enforcement.
D AN L AMOTHE on Jan. 6 as pro-Trump rioters building and our Constitutional McCarthy now will have the abili- him in office. Pushing back at assertions from
AND P AUL S ONNE smashed their way into the Capi- process.” ty to employ Guard personnel and Already, city authorities in officials including Bowser and
tol building, while Pentagon offi- “We support and defend the equipment as he sees fit, without Michigan have asked Gov. Gretch- Steven Sund, who stepped down
Pentagon leaders must balance cials said inadequate planning Constitution,” the Joint Chiefs, higher-level sign-off. en Whitmer (D) to activate that after the riot from his post as chief
an array of threats on state capi- meant they were unable to im- composed of the military’s high- Because D.C. is not a state, the state’s National Guard ahead of of the Capitol Police, McCarthy
tols nationwide against the poten- mediately respond. As part of est-ranking officers from each president functions as the D.C. planned protests at the Capitol. denied the Pentagon had held
tial for renewed extremist vio- their attempt to ensure a more service, said in a statement. “Any Guard’s commander in chief, as Conservative protests have rocked back because of loyalty to Trump.
lence in Washington, D.C., as they robust military response, officials act to disrupt the constitutional governors do elsewhere. Under a Michigan for months, culminat- He said the Pentagon was re-
consider security plans ahead of plan to station up to 15,000 Guard process is not only against our 1969 executive order, the presi- ing in a foiled far-right plot to sponding in keeping with requests
President-elect Joe Biden’s inau- members — or potentially more — traditions, values, and oath; it is dent delegates that authority to kidnap Whitmer. from the city and Capitol Police,
guration, senior officials said in and around the nation’s capital. against the law.” the defense secretary, who then “Michigan had the dress re- which explicitly asked for a limit-
Tuesday. McCarthy was to meet with sen- Unlike in the summer, when the may delegate it further. In recent hearsal already,” Lansing City ed, unarmed National Guard role.
Intelligence suggesting the po- ior officials from the FBI, the Se- Pentagon was faulted for taking history, the Army secretary has Council President Peter Spadafore That changed suddenly when
tential for armed riots or attacks cret Service and other agencies to part in an overly aggressive re- acted as the Guard’s commander. said. “When folks tell you ahead of rioters converged on the Capitol.
on state governments across the finalize plans Tuesday afternoon. sponse to protests over racial dis- That was the case in June, when time they will be violent, we When the alarming picture be-
country came into focus as the Starting Wednesday, Guard mem- crimination and police violence, D.C. Guard members were on should take them at their word.” gan to emerge, “we ran down the
Defense Department scrambled bers will be taking part in security the Pentagon last week was ac- hand as uniformed federal per- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) hallway at the Pentagon. We were
to ensure an adequate plan for rehearsals, signifying the height- cused of failing to come to the aid sonnel forcibly cleared crowds of has authorized 750 Guard mem- trying to get a handle on this,”
providing National Guard aid for ened stakes surrounding an inau- of overwhelmed local officials demonstrators and a D.C. Guard bers to support law enforcement McCarthy said. “And when we got
the Jan. 20 inauguration and guration already marked by con- when chaos engulfed Capitol Hill. helicopter flew dangerously low operations to defend the Capitol. moving, we moved as fast as we
avoid a repeat of last week’s at- cerns about the coronavirus pan- Officials from the Capitol Police over protesters. Pentagon officials suggested could from a cold start, not config-
tempted insurrection at the U.S. demic and threats of violence by and D.C. government have said the After the June events, “we had that additional Guard activations ured to take a reaction.”
Capitol. supporters of President Trump. Pentagon responded slowly to ur- to put much tighter left and right could follow in coming days. Al- A second defense official em-
Neighboring states may need to The Pentagon’s attempt to reca- gent requests for military assis- limits for these types of activities ready, as D.C.’s relatively small phasized that federal law enforce-
reserve National Guard members librate its posture ahead of more tance and initially denied help be- the next time around,” McCarthy Guard seeks to prepare for more ment was better placed to clear the
to protect their own facilities and planned protests underscores the yond a small force of Guard mem- said, referring to limits that Con- violence, it is being joined by coun- Capitol building itself than mem-
personnel, possibly limiting the balancing act it has attempted — bers overseeing traffic stops. Pen- gress put on the use of military terparts from states including bers of the D.C. Guard.
ability of the Defense Department, sometimes unsuccessfully — in re- tagon officials, meanwhile, have forces beginning this month. New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia Officials acknowledged a trou-
which oversees the D.C. National cent months. Defense officials blamed the Capitol Police and D.C. The Defense Department is and Minnesota. They will prob- bling current of right-wing ideol-
Guard, to call on them for addi- have sought to steer clear of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) for leaning forward to provide every- ably stay in hotels in Washington ogy in the military. The second
tional help. charged election politics and man- not requesting adequate assis- thing it can, McCarthy said. and on military installations. defense official said the military is
“We’re not going to pull too age the uncomfortable reality that tance ahead of time and then ex- “The key for us is, if a request is Pentagon officials have said trying to address the issue ahead
much out of their states and put their commander in chief has em- pecting part-time soldiers to im- made for a certain capability, and that before the Jan. 6 protest, of the inauguration preparations.
them at risk, so a very delicate risk ployed increasingly aggressive mediately appear. we can legally provide it,” McCar- which began with a rally at which But officials have also said they
management process is under- tactics to subvert the 2020 elec- Even as recriminations contin- thy said. “We will do whatever we Trump spoke near the White will not be able to screen all Na-
way,” Army Secretary Ryan Mc- tion. ue, Pentagon officials have for the have to do to support this inaugu- House and culminated in the Cap- tional Guard members involved
Carthy said in an interview. In an unusual public message second time in a year adjusted ration.” itol breach, they received no intel- for extremist affiliations, as some
In response to the threat, Guard Tuesday, Gen. Mark A. Milley, decision-making for the D.C. Na- As Trump, now stripped of his ligence indicating a major or vio- lawmakers have requested.
members in Washington will carry chairman of the Joint Chiefs of tional Guard in the hopes of ensur- platform on Twitter, makes only lent protest would occur. [email protected]
their firearms, said two defense Staff, and other top military lead- ing a nimble response. Unlike on indirect reference to his electoral The Pentagon doesn’t carry out [email protected]
officials, who spoke on the condi- ers acknowledged Biden’s immi- Jan. 6, when acting defense secre- loss, the FBI is warning of intelli- domestic surveillance or threat- [email protected]
tion of anonymity due to the sensi- nent ascension to the presidency tary Christopher C. Miller was re- gence suggesting “armed pro- tracking operations not involving
tivity of the issue. and called the riot “a direct assault quired to sign off on activating tests” may occur in all 50 states as the military, meaning it relies on Alex Horton contributed to this report.

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Biden sends message by People with

MoveOn place
signage

ignoring Trump’s bluster spelling out

“Impeach and
Remove” next
to the Capitol
wilmington, It was perhaps fitting that Reflecting
White del. — President- Trump’s first foray outside the Pool on
House elect Joe Biden White House since the mob Tuesday.
Debrief made himself attack would be a visit to the
scarce on purpose multibillion-dollar border wall
ANN GEARAN
Tuesday, while project wrought by the “Build
President Trump that wall” chants he rode to office
denied responsibility for the in 2016.
deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol The wall will now probably
carried out in his name and set never be finished. Biden has
off for a kind of anti-immigration vowed not to build another foot
victory romp along the Texas of it, and he is under pressure to
border. formally kill off the project with
In a bitterly divided nation an executive order on his first
groping toward Biden’s day in office.
presidency eight days away, each It was also fitting that in some
man was speaking a language his of his first in-person public
supporters understand. remarks since he launched
Biden’s team announced at violent supporters toward the
9:03 a.m. that he would make no Capitol with the false assertion
appearances for the day. That that the election had been stolen,
was about an hour before Trump Trump tried to deflect blame for
launched what might be his last the result.
trip as president with a blast of “People thought that what I
puffery and prevarication. said was totally appropriate,”
“We’re going to the southern Trump said as he was about to
border. As you know, we’ve board Air Force One. He then
MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
completed the wall,” Trump said pivoted to social justice protests
falsely on the White House lawn, last summer and some of
his helicopter whirring behind vandalism and violence that took
him. “They may want to expand place then.
it. We have the expansion “And if you look at what other
underway. It’s been
tremendously successful, far
people have said, politicians at a
high level, about the riots during Balance. Harmony. Beauty.
beyond what anyone thought.” the summer, the horrible riots in
Biden had answered a few Portland and Seattle, in various Are our ultimate pursuits.
questions from reporters other places,” Trump said. “That
Monday, after he got his second was a real problem.” Whether you’re considering an
dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Besides his assertion about the addition, kitchen, or master bath.
He reiterated his hands-off wall’s completion, Trump also
stance to the Democratic-led falsely claimed there is a “surge” Because during these times,
efforts to force Trump from office of illegal immigration, including
in the wake of the mob attack last caravans bent on breaching the home is more important than ever.
Wednesday, and he said he is border, a claim he also made in
confident he can safely take the 2018. About 450 miles of barrier
oath of office outdoors on Jan. 20. have been built or rebuilt across a
The handover of power will take 2,000-mile expanse, the vast
place at the Capitol, site of the majority being a reinforced
attempted armed insurrection version of fencing that existed
against his election victory. before Trump took office.
He is not scheduled to appear Part of the job of president is
in public again until Thursday performative, something Trump
and Friday, with events focused always understood on a gut level
on his twin plans for the even when he performed badly.
economic and public health He played the same part Tuesday
responses to the coronavirus that he often played as president
pandemic. — part emcee, part folk hero, part
The incoming president owes victim.
his victory in large part to a Visiting a section of flag-
pledge to return the country to draped wall near Alamo, Tex.,
predictable norms and to apply Trump signed his name on a
science and effort to the fight the plaque and posed for pictures
coronavirus, now raging at a with Border Patrol agents. Songs
record pace even as Americans from the Trump campaign-rally
begin to get lifesaving vaccines. playlist played as he celebrated,
“My number-one priority is including “YMCA” by the Village
getting vaccines in people’s arms People, often the closing number
as rapidly as we can,” Biden said at Trump’s signature political
Monday, adding that the current events.
death rate, averaging more than “We worked long and hard to
3,000 Americans per day, is get this done,” Trump said of the
“beyond the pale.” wall. “They said it couldn’t be
“It’s just wrong, and we can do done, and we got it done.”
a lot to change it,” Biden said, His speech veered between
focusing on a subject Trump has “Make America Great Again”
all but ignored since Election greatest hits and attempts to
Day. address the Capitol assault and
Biden seems determined to be the possibility that he may be
the not-Trump, even at the risk of punished for it in Congress, with
being a bystander to the waning asides on the pandemic and the
days of the Trump Show. It was actions taken by major
the same practice he followed technology companies such as
during the campaign, to evident Twitter to mute him.
success. “Now is the time for our nation
By remaining silent Tuesday, to heal, and it’s time for peace
Biden was staying on message, and for calm,” Trump said.
said Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a “Respect for law enforcement
political science professor at the and the great people within law
University of Texas at Austin. enforcement — so many are here
“He ran on being the adult,” — is the foundation of the MAGA
she said. “And what do adults do? agenda,” he said. “We’re a nation
They roll up their sleeves and get of law, and we’re a nation of
it done.” order.”
Some Democrats might prefer Biden aides said Trump’s
to see Biden battling Trump claims Tuesday are not going
point by point, but Biden is unanswered. Vice President-elect
hewing to his instinct that more Kamala D. Harris said during a
people want to move on, Univision interview Tuesday
DeFrancesco Soto said. evening that immigration will be
“If I were Biden, I would save “our first order of business.”
my energy” for legislation on Asked about Trump’s
immigration and other issues he assertions that his words before
has pledged to address in the first the Capitol attack were “totally
100 days of his term, “as opposed appropriate,” Harris scoffed.
to retorting whatever Trump is “That’s just not true,” Harris
saying,” she said. said. “It’s simply not true.”
“That’s a death spiral,” she Biden kept mum.
said. “If you have to respond to [email protected]
every false claim Trump says, you
would use up every minute of the Chelsea Janes in Washington
day.” contributed to this report.

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Insurrection adds to full plate of calamities facing Biden

the White House complex or con-
tinuing to do their jobs from
Aides say Capitol attack home.
has not shifted focus They also largely attribute the
storming of the Capitol to the lack
from pandemic, economy of preparedness by the Capitol
Police and point to the enhanced
security that Biden and Harris will
BY M ATT V ISER enjoy, as well as the significant
AND A NNIE L INSKEY preparations that have gone into
planning the inauguration.
The terrifying attack on the The inauguration is deemed a
Capitol has done little to upend National Special Security Event,
the preparations President-elect which brings in a wide range of
Joe Biden is making for the begin- federal agencies and law enforce-
ning of his administration in eight ment officials to create a broad
days, for the worst of reasons: It is security perimeter, with road clo-
only one of several calamities that sures and barriers around the
will confront the new president Capitol. Most of the traditional
and his administration. activities surrounding the swear-
His advisers have recommitted ing-in, such as celebratory balls
to holding his swearing-in and and the inaugural parade, had al-
inaugural speech on the steps of ready been canceled or rendered
the Capitol, in the same place virtual because of the coronavirus.
where a Trump-propelled mob Biden and inauguration plan-
pressed through a line of Capitol ners would not discuss security
Police officers to storm the build- matters publicly but have repeat-
ing. Biden said Monday that he edly said they were comfortable
was “not afraid” of taking the oath moving forward with the event
outside. and still view it as important that
The administration-to-be’s pri- it be public. In statements put out
orities as they prepare to confront by the Presidential Inaugural
twin coronavirus and economic Committee, they have noted the
dilemmas as well as the nation’s need to honor “long-standing in-
obvious political divisions also augural traditions” by providing
have not changed, advisers say. “the American people with the
This week, he will more fully un- iconic images of a new president.”
veil a pandemic relief package in “I am not concerned — about
the trillions of dollars aimed at my safety, security or the inaugu-
speeding vaccinations, helping ration,” Biden said shortly after
DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST
the unemployed and reopening the Capitol attack. “I am not con-
schools. President-elect Joe Biden recently has deferred to Congress on questions regarding a possible second impeachment of President Trump. cerned. The American people are
He has shrugged off questions “My priority, first and foremost, is to get the stimulus bill passed and, secondly, begin to rebuild the economy,” he said Monday. going to stand up and stand up
about whether President Trump now. Enough is enough is
should be impeached, deferring to team, confirmed anew the cam- times are and what the task ahead Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and brought into the national dis- enough.”
members of Congress but saying paign’s portrayal of Biden as a of us is.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc- course. Staff members are more con-
they and he need to hit the ground no-drama grown-up who would, “This campaign has really run Connell (R-Ky.). “We need an op- “They take the Biden commit- cerned about the logistics of safely
running when he is sworn in with his administration’s raft of its own playbook and in terms of position that is principled and ment of healing much more seri- relocating to Washington during a
Jan. 20. On Monday, entertaining experienced hands, gain ground ignoring the noise,” the aide not- strong.” ously,” said Hilary Rosen, the vice pandemic, concerns over con-
the subject more seriously than he on the coronavirus pandemic, the ed, “and just doing what they want Biden has suggested he doesn’t chair of SKDK, a Democratic con- tracting the coronavirus during a
had before, he raised the prospect economic collapse and the explo- to do, and they’ve been pretty see the practical need to introduce sulting firm with close ties to possible commute to work and
of a bifurcated system in which sions of social discontent that successful at that.” articles of impeachment so close Biden’s orbit. “So many of them determining child care, which has
Congress would take up impeach- Trump’s chaotic, undisciplined In smaller, more personal ways, to Trump’s departure, although he are former Hill staffers and feel constricted during the epidemic.
ment and other pressing matters team only fumbled. Those matters the last week has been jarring. has discussed overall strategy kinship with the staffs and mem- Three dozen incoming officials
on parallel tracks. remain the focus for the early days One longtime Biden aide, while with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bers up there.” are scheduled to get their first
When it comes to the most visi- of the administration. walking the aisles at a grocery (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority While she noted that Wednes- dose of the vaccine this week, and
ble symbol of the change in ad- “My priority, first and foremost, store in a D.C. neighborhood, Leader Charles E. Schumer day’s events were “very scary,” she Biden received his second dose
ministrations, Biden’s team and is to get the stimulus bill passed came upon a half-dozen Trump (D-N.Y.). also said she believes the murder- Monday.
other observers have argued that and, secondly, begin to rebuild the supporters clad in MAGA attire Biden and his advisers have ous riot has accelerated the proc- Historians are forced to reach
the image of him taking the oath economy,” Biden said Monday picking out ready-made meals held firm to his belief that the ess of loosening Trump’s grip on deep into the country’s past to find
of office in a traditional setting, when asked about impeachment. just before a citywide curfew took country’s partisan nerves will the Republican Party’s elite. any close parallels to the challeng-
with Vice President Pence in at- He added, however, that it was effect Wednesday. There was no eventually calm. Those around “I think they also see an oppor- es that Biden now faces.
tendance, carries even more sig- “critically important that there be confrontation but, from the Biden him say he remains unconcerned tunity, particularly in the Senate, “We’re a traumatized America,”
nificance because of the insurrec- a real serious focus on holding aide’s view, a feeling of coming that a majority of House Republi- that the majority of the GOP are Brinkley said. “It’s like Harry Tru-
tion. those folks who engaged in sedi- face-to-face with the very forces cans tried to overturn the election very ready to turn the page past man coming in after FDR died or
“His inaugural will be impor- tion . . . that they be held account- that he worked to defeat. results last week even after the Trump,” Rosen said. Gerald Ford after Nixon in Water-
tant for U.S. history, in the reaffir- able.” “This,” the aide thought, “is why attack on the Capitol, which sug- Jason Furman, who chaired the gate. People are desperate to heal
mation of our democratic rituals,” Incoming staffers said the cha- we won.” gested a persistent partisan battle White House’s Council of Eco- the partisan divide. But I keep
said Douglas Brinkley, an author, os at the Capitol justified the rea- As the attack at the Capitol ahead. nomic Advisers during the Obama thinking about the saying, ‘The
historian and professor at Rice sons they chose to work for Biden unfolded, Black aides to Biden at “We’re not naive, and neither is administration and knows many only way out is through.’ ”
University. “The whole world is in the first place and why they all levels sent texts and emails he, about the fact that bipartisan- in Biden’s senior team, said the Franklin Roosevelt had to pull
looking at the Congress being ran- repeated his lines about fighting lamenting the clear difference be- ship and working together to get incoming administration has the country out of the Great De-
sacked. But if we can pull out a for the soul of America, even when tween the light response to a the business done for the Ameri- been preparing for decades. pression and fight off the rise of
peaceful inaugural and Mike their millennial friends rolled crowd of mostly White rioters ver- can people will not be done over- “The transition has been pre- fascism. Richard Nixon faced de-
Pence is onstage, it will send a their eyes. sus the militarized response to night,” incoming White House paring for covid and the economy cisions about Vietnam, and Ger-
message to the world that we have Yet even as they are preparing racial-justice protesters over the press secretary Jen Psaki said. incredibly extensively in the run- ald Ford had to attempt to restore
not been derailed.” to take on their new jobs, some summer, according to a Biden But, she added, he wasn’t dwell- up to the election, frankly much public faith in government after
In a dozen interviews, aides and staffers have come face-to-face aide. ing on appealing to those who more than we did for the Obama Nixon’s resignation.
allies described a Biden team that with a Washington whose milieu “The discussions and messages have sown false doubt over the campaign in 2008,” he said. But few incoming presidents
is redoubling efforts to prepare for has been dramatically altered by noted that if we had been doing election results. “There’s a real expanded sense have been as undercut by their
what they already expected would the events of last week. the same, we would likely be “I wouldn’t say he’s given it of possibility,” he said, pointing to predecessor as Biden has been by
be a mammoth multi-front chal- During a staffwide call with the dead,” said the aide, who spoke on another thought,” Psaki said. the surprise Democratic victories Trump. In a final slap, Trump has
lenge. But they see it less as taking Biden transition team Friday, in- the condition of anonymity be- “We’re looking ahead to Inaugura- in two Senate runoffs in Georgia, refused to attend Biden’s inaugu-
over at democracy’s darkest mo- coming White House chief of staff cause they were not authorized to tion Day.” which will give the party the nar- ration.
ment than crafting a brighter Ron Klain acknowledged that discuss internal conversations. Biden has repeatedly tapped rowest-possible majority in the “Even Herbert Hoover hated
dawn. many have deep ties to Capitol Biden later made the same com- longtime government officials to chamber. “Two weeks ago, there Franklin Roosevelt and yet rode
To them, last week’s events crys- Hill and, in some cases, are work- parison publicly. fill jobs in his administration on was a fear that a lot of the agenda with him to the inauguration and
tallized all the warnings Biden ing for members of Congress. Still, Biden’s approach has been the belief that they know the intri- couldn’t get done. Now, there’s a accepted the fact that there would
had made throughout the cam- He, along with Yohannes Abra- disconnected from the angry cate details of how the vast federal sort of excitement, but nervous- be a peaceful transition,” said Rob-
paign about the dangers of Trump. ham, the transition’s executive di- mood among congressional Dem- bureaucracy works. Almost every- ness of the responsibility, that a lot ert Dallek, a presidential historian
It illustrated in starker ways than rector, conveyed that “we all feel ocrats, who favor the impeach- one he has appointed has served more of the agenda can get done.” who has written several books on
he ever could have the need to incredibly close to the events of ment of Trump and the resigna- in government before, in the Several incoming White House Roosevelt.
unify the country, even if the at- this week,” according to a Biden tions of some of their Trump-sup- Obama administration or earlier. officials said they did not fear for “This does put the country on
tack on the Capitol simultaneous- aide on the call who spoke on the porting colleagues. Biden has de- Those officials have experience their own safety in the aftermath new ground,” he said. “We’ve nev-
ly made that task all the more condition of anonymity to discuss clined to join either effort. with political opposition but not of the deadly attack on the Capitol. er seen anything like this before.”
difficult. the private conversation. “But it’s “We need a Republican Party,” the kinds of violent outbursts and Many of them at this point don’t [email protected]
It also, in the view of Biden’s just a reminder of how serious the he said Friday, lavishing praise on physical threats Trump has even know if they’ll be working at [email protected]

Senate panel appears likely to approve waiver for defense secretary nominee
secretary nominee in four years, el’s chairman. Sen. James M. In-
and only the third in modern hofe (R-Okla.), “to ask whether
Austin’s confirmation history, to require a waiver to the the appointment of two generals
still probably won’t be in law requiring the Pentagon chief to political positions in four years
to have been out of uniform for at will increase politicization of the
time for Biden’s first day least seven years. Four years ago senior military officer corps.”
when Trump nominated retired The Senate panel has yet to
Gen. Jim Mattis, Reed was one of vote on Austin’s waiver, which
BY K AROUN D EMIRJIAN several lawmakers who begrudg- needs the approval of the full
ingly supported the waiver while Senate and the full House before
The Senate Armed Services vowing never to back another Austin can be confirmed. And
Committee appears poised to ap- one. while the panel will meet again
prove a waiver allowing retired Austin’s confirmation would Tuesday to hear from Austin di-
Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III to serve as make him the nation’s first Black rectly at his confirmation hear-
the next defense secretary, de- defense secretary, a historic ing, it is unlikely the matter will
spite serious concerns on both achievement with special signifi- be resolved before then.
sides of the aisle that lawmakers cance for both the military and Austin is due before the House
risk dismantling the tradition of the country, at a time when both Armed Services Committee on
civilian leadership of the Penta- are experiencing a reckoning Jan. 21 to seek support there for
gon in the process. over systemic racism. Yet his re- his waiver. Such an audience is
“We now have a clearly quali- cent military career has caused rare. The panel’s top Democrat,
fied candidate and a declaration several Democrats who applaud Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), asked
by the president-elect that he the diversity he would bring to for Mattis to appear for a similar
needs General Austin for the the Cabinet to oppose voting for hearing four years ago, but his
safety and security of the nation,” the waiver, arguing that preserv- request was denied. All but three
said Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ing civilian leadership of the Pen- dozen House Democrats voted
committee’s top Democrat, who tagon is a more pressing and against his waiver.
will soon take over as its chair- paramount matter. House leaders expect at least
man. “Civilian control of the military some of the Democrats who voted
But after four years in which isn’t just about who leads the against Mattis’s waiver to back
DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST
civil-military relations “eroded Department of Defense. It’s about one for Austin. But the hearing
significantly under President how decisions throughout the Retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III speaks Dec. 9 in Wilmington, Del. Austin is seeking a waiver to the schedule makes it unlikely that
Trump,” approving another waiv- department get made,” Sen. Eliza- law that requires the secretary of defense to have been out of uniform for at least seven years. Austin can be confirmed as de-
er raises the specter that “future beth Warren (Mass.), a member of fense secretary before the end of
presidents will default to nomi- the panel who has announced she uniform while serving as secre- has threatened to turn the mili- approving Austin’s waiver would next week, making it all but
nating retired general officers to would vote against the waiver. tary. They argued that after an tary against civilian protesters, encourage military officials to certain that Joe Biden will be the
the position of secretary of de- Warren and other Democrats administration in which those civil-military relations are at a potentially compromise their of- first president in decades not to
fense, in lieu of qualified civil- pointed to Mattis, who was ac- voices were prioritized over the nadir. ficial responsibilities to audition have his defense secretary con-
ians,” Reed added. cused of favoring the contacts he Pentagon’s civilian personnel, Both Democrats and Republi- for political appointments. firmed on the first day of his term.
Austin is the second defense carried over from his days in and after a year in which Trump cans also expressed concerns that It is “reasonable,” said the pan- [email protected]

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Capitol riot undermines hopes for year of healing in 2021

MOOD FROM A1 ful. She and companions went out
to lunch afterward and were
sympathized with the Capitol shocked by the subsequent re-
mob, and a majority of respon- ports of violence.
dents said they did not believe “I never, never, never — I am
last week’s riot was an isolated emphasizing never — felt or
incident. Lynn, for example, said heard anything that the president
he was seeing calls for violent was instigating violence or en-
retribution continue to spread on couraging people to go into the
conservative websites such as Capitol, to go inside and break the
Newsmax and on social media law,” she said. “I don’t know who
apps such as Gab and Parler. The did it. I don’t think it was Trump
latter was suspended by Ama- supporters, to be honest with you.
zon’s Web-hosting service over When there’s a group where ev-
the weekend after its users glori- erybody’s mad and everybody’s in
fied the Capitol riot that resulted a rage and they want to burn
in five deaths, including one po- everything, you can see it, you can
lice officer, and left the country’s sense it. But this was so peaceful.
cathedral of democracy in tatters. So peaceful.”
“I don’t know how this will Although many of those arrest-
manifest itself in our country, ed have long documented his-
because they are pushing us to tories of publicly supporting
the edge,” Lynn said. “. . . I’m not Trump, she points to shreds of
advocating we pick up arms — information gathered online that
right now.” she says indicate they are actually
In the Philadelphia suburbs, liberals posing as Trump support-
Nora Schreiber McDonough, who ers.
is in her 60s, was so upset after Kissane doesn’t think there’s
watching the violence at the Capi- anything left for anyone to do to
tol that she took Thursday off stop the inauguration of Biden on
from her job as an administrative Jan. 20, and she worries that
assistant at a Catholic church. upholding the election results has
The second day was just as only further deteriorated the
emotionally distressing as the trust many conservatives have in
first, as more footage emerged their government — perhaps in a
and she began to hear the stories way that’s impossible to repair.
of lawmakers who feared for their She’s angry that lawmakers don’t
lives and the details of the secu- want to dwell on the election
rity breakdowns. The mob process and that Twitter perma-
showed her that an alarming nently suspended Trump.
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number of people have been radi- “The biggest problem that we
calized, a phenomenon that she Nora Schreiber McDonough at her home outside Philadelphia. “It blows my mind that this great country could have reached this point have right now is that everybody
has watched play out in her Face- because of one man’s idolatry, ideology, sense of self,” the longtime Republican said of President Trump after seeing the riot at the Capitol. is being silenced,” she said. “The
book feed over the past four years. president of the United States — I
“This is a history that I never than mine, but I’m very worried don’t care what they say — should
wanted to live through,” she said. for the inauguration.” never, say never, be silenced. Nev-
“This is a history that blows my Minneapolis resident Molly er.”
mind. It blows my mind that this Gray, 24, and her boyfriend, Pat- Twitter cited concerns about
great country could have reached rick Bowden, 25, had seized on potential violence at the Capitol
this point because of one man’s 2021 as a way to escape the horror and other government buildings
idolatry, ideology, sense of self.” show that was 2020. After a year Jan. 17 to justify banning Trump
McDonough was long a Repub- marked by a global pandemic, from the platform Friday. Author-
lican but couldn’t bring herself to racial turmoil, fiery protests and ities remain concerned about the
vote for Donald Trump in 2016. a contentious presidential elec- potential for violence during the
She wrote in the name of then- tion, the new year was supposed nationwide march on state capi-
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and to be at least a little better. tals planned for Sunday, and dur-
soon regretted not voting for But the attempted insurrection ing a “Million Militia March”
Democrat Hillary Clinton. In at the Capitol changed that, ush- planned in Washington on
2020, she campaigned for Biden ering in fresh uncertainty about Jan. 20 for Biden’s inauguration.
and voted for him. how the nation moves beyond Edward Muldrow, chairman of
Over the past four years, she Trump. They now wonder wheth- the Gwinnett County GOP in the
has made it her mission to flood er 2021 will be as bad as or even Atlanta suburbs, asked why the
her Facebook feed with reputable, worse than 2020. Black Lives Matter protests dur-
accurate information and con- “It’s just like, oh God, here we ing the summer didn’t spark the
front those she knows who post go again,” Gray said. “It just feels same outrage and condemnation
inaccurate information. She tries never-ending.” as the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
to be kind, usually starting by Over the past eight months, the “You had Republican leader-
asking them to share their source couple have marched across the ship running to trip over them-
for the information, and looks for Twin Cities, joining hundreds of selves, to run to the microphone
opportunities to have conversa- others in what have been near- to condemn everything that was
tions with people about why they weekly demonstrations for racial happening. And I get it, right. I
believe these things. But since the justice and police reform in the understand it,” said Muldrow, an
Capitol riots, she said, “it’s been aftermath of George Floyd’s Air Force veteran who is Black.
OLIVER CONTRERAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
kind of hard to not go on the death. “But where was that same con-
attack,” because some of the On Saturday, they were back Windows left damaged on doors near the Rotunda on the east side of the Capitol last week. In a demnation when here in Atlanta,
claims are so outlandish and the out again, marching across down- HuffPost poll Friday, about a third of Trump voters said they sympathized with the Capitol mob. just down the street from the
violence in Washington was so town Minneapolis on a frigid Capitol, they had their autono-
disgusting. 18-degree day — the anger and government institutions and and the widening violence in the the evidence. It doesn’t make mous zone set up over there and
McDonough worries that the frustration they had felt in recent their ability to fix the complex United States reminds her of her sense that most states have shut no one said anything. They
coming days will bring more vio- days compelling the couple to problems of a polarized nation. home country of Venezuela. down businesses, discouraged burned out people’s businesses,
lence, especially on Jan. 17 and 20. bundle up and go back into the The scene in Washington could “I am not surprised,” said political gatherings and imple- and no one said anything.”
She worries that someone will try streets. They and about a hun- have easily played out in Minne- Kissane, who moved to the Unit- mented other restrictions out of Muldrow said he doesn’t agree
to assassinate Biden or Vice Presi- dred other protesters carried sota, the couple said, as Trump ed States for college and later fear of a virus that has a high with the taking of life or the
dent-elect Kamala D. Harris. She signs demanding justice for Jacob supporters and other groups such became a citizen, “but I’m sur- recovery rate. extreme violence seen in Wash-
doesn’t understand why some Re- Blake, the Black man who was as the Proud Boys have become an prised to see it happening here in In reality, the United States is ington on Wednesday, but he said
publican lawmakers continue to shot and paralyzed by a police increasingly visible presence a way that is so, so Latin America- in the midst of an explosion of the pro-Trump mob was judged
repeat baseless claims that the officer in Kenosha, Wis., and for across the Twin Cities in recent style. . . . I never expected this new coronavirus cases and a by a different standard.
election was fraudulent, further Dolal Idd, a Somali man who was months. The group, often armed country to go through this. It is spike in deaths. More than “I just don’t get the hypocrisy. I
angering the masses. fatally shot by Minneapolis police with guns and other weapons very troublesome.” 375,000 people in the United just don’t,” he said. “There was
Biden and Harris were already Dec. 30 during a weapons sting. such as hammers and baseball Kissane, who runs the Ven- States have been killed by the violence all over the country [this
inheriting a mess from Trump, “Justice doesn’t slow down in bats, regularly rallies on the ezuelan American Republican Al- virus, and health experts fear the summer] — and silence, virtual
she said, but their challenge is the winter, and it shouldn’t, even grounds of the Minnesota Capi- liance, has been a Trump support- Capitol riots could spark out- silence. . . . The cause was just
even greater as they take com- in freezing Minnesota,” Bowden tol. For several months, they have er since 2015. Four years after his breaks around the country. then. The cause was just during
mand of a country that is so said. The storming of the U.S. shown up every Saturday outside election, she has little remaining “I’ve been to many rallies. I’ve the Civil War. The cause was just
divided, one in which perhaps Capitol “was kind of a spark in the governor’s mansion, where faith in the federal government, never been sick,” Kissane said. during the civil rights movement.
millions do not believe Biden was these cold months to rejuvenate they have often clashed with the media or most politicians — “I’ve never heard of anybody be- Why can’t this cause be just as
legitimately elected. this movement and keep it going.” Black Lives Matter demonstra- other than Trump. ing sick [after attending a rally]. well when people feel like their
“They’re stepping into this hor- But Gray and Bowden had no tors and, more recently, police — She said it doesn’t make sense And we were close to each other, election has been stolen from
net’s nest, and now it’s a hornet’s answers for the more difficult who have added more officers to to her that Biden could never and we were not wearing masks.” them and no one cares?”
nest on fire,” she said. “If he had questions, such as how to fix a guard the governor’s residence attract large crowds to his rallies All of this further deepened her [email protected]
10 plates spinning on sticks be- deeply divided country or what against the hostile crowd. yet overwhelmingly won the elec- support for the president and [email protected]
fore, now he’s got 20. That poor they think comes next. Biden has Florida Republican Andreina tion. It doesn’t make sense to her pushed her to travel to Washing- [email protected]
guy hasn’t even begun yet. . . . I’m spoken of trying to heal the na- Kissane, a 45-year-old gallerist that courts are throwing out law- ton last week to rally with him.
sure they’re in a panic. Or maybe tion, but there are signs on both from Miami, has a deepening suits challenging the election, She said that the rally — includ- Bailey reported from Minneapolis.
not. Maybe his faith is stronger sides of deepening distrust in distrust of public institutions, without, she says, fully reviewing ing Trump’s speech — was peace- Johnson reported from Washington.

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keep fighting
new policies
BY J OANNA S LATER

For more than 40 days, tens of

thousands of farmers have blocked
highways leading into India’s capital
to protest sweeping agricultural pol-
icy changes that they fear will endan-
ger their livelihoods.
On the northern edge of Delhi, the
protest is a city within a city: an
encampment composed of parked
tractors and trailers stretching sev-
eral miles along what used to be a busy
national highway. It has outdoor
kitchens, laundries, pharmacies, pub-
lic toilets and a street sweeper.
At night, there is biting cold. Morn-
ing brings fog. The roads have turned
to churning mud after unusually
heavy winter rains. Mosquitoes are a
menace.
But many protesters refuse to com-
plain. “Mauj!” responded Mahinder
Kaur, a 66-year-old farmer, when
asked about daily challenges. In north
India, it’s a word that conveys delight.
The protesters say their demands
are simple: The Modi government
must withdraw three laws passed in
September that deregulate the buying
and selling of agricultural goods. De-
spite numerous rounds of talks be-
tween the government and farmer
unions, however, both sides remain
entrenched.
On Tuesday, India’s Supreme Court
suspended implementation of the
three laws until further notice, but
farmer leaders gave no sign that they
would call off the protest.
The farmers are readying for a long
haul. Last week, they organized a mo-
bile rally where hundreds of tractors
rolled along highways near Delhi.
Farmer organizations are planning a
larger demonstration for India’s
Republic Day on Jan. 26, a national
holiday commemorating the birth of
the country’s constitution.
Despite the optimism on display,
the conditions are difficult. Several
dozen farmers have died of heart at-
tacks and illness as the protest
stretches into a second month, farmer
unions say. Four farmers have report-
edly died by suicide.
For the past month, Mehr Singh, 62,
has slept in the back of a trailer with
about a dozen men from his village
150 miles away. Early each day, he
bathes at a temple that opened its
premises to protesters. He eats at the
community kitchens at the protest
site — one of which has a machine
capable of making 1,500 chapatis an
hour.
In three months, the wheat crop
Singh planted will be ready to harvest.
PHOTOS BY ALTAF QADRI/ASSOCIATED PRESS But he doesn’t think he will be there to
oversee it. “My family told me to re-
CENTER: Farmers block a major highway to protest new laws at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in India late last month. TOP: Family members prepare
turn after we achieve our demands,”
food for the farmers on Monday, while some of the farmers smoke and socialize during the demonstration. ABOVE: A police officer rests in one of the tents he said. “Even if it takes a year.”
pitched for farmers on Dec. 25. Again in late December, farmers chat in a shelter during the protest activity, which has persisted for more than a month. [email protected]

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INDONESIA More than 3,600 rescue CANADA reelection in 2019 but does not “red notices” were for the owner country’s patronage system,
personnel, 13 helicopters, 54 large have a majority of seats in and captain of the Rhosus, the grilled the prime minister to
Data recorder from ships and 20 small boats are Key posts shuffled in Parliament and must rely on at ship that carried the 2,750 tons of protest his new cabinet
jet crash is recovered searching the area just north of cabinet restructuring least one opposition party to ammonium nitrate to Lebanon in appointments.
Jakarta where Flight 182 crashed, remain in power, so it needs to 2013, as well as a Portuguese
Indonesian navy divers and they have found parts of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin remain positioned for a potential nitrate trader who in 2014 visited Russia’s prison service seeks to
searching the ocean floor on plane and human remains in the Trudeau shuffled his cabinet on quick election. Trudeau said he the port’s warehouse, where the jail Navalny: Russia’s prison
Tuesday recovered the flight data water at a depth of 75 feet. Tuesday and made the first would prefer not to have an material was stored. The notice is service has asked a Moscow court
recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet So far, the searchers have sent Canadian to soar into space his election until after most a nonbinding request to law to put top Kremlin critic Alexei
that crashed into the Java Sea 74 body bags containing human foreign minister. Canadians are vaccinated amid enforcement agencies worldwide Navalny behind bars for allegedly
with 62 people on board. remains to police identification Former astronaut Marc the coronavirus pandemic, to locate and provisionally arrest a breaching the terms of his
The device is expected to help experts. Garneau moves from the role as making a spring election unlikely. fugitive, not an arrest warrant. suspended sentence and
investigators determine what The chairman of Indonesia’s transport minister, while Trudeau, meanwhile, probation. Navalny, who is
caused the Boeing 737-500 to National Transportation Safety François-Philippe Champagne, announced that nonessential Kuwait’s government quits, convalescing in Germany after an
nosedive into the ocean in heavy Committee, Soerjanto Tjahjono, who became foreign minister in travel across the U.S.-Canada land deepening political deadlock: August poisoning with a nerve
rain shortly after taking off from ruled out a possible midair November 2019, becomes minister border will remain banned until at Kuwait’s cabinet has submitted agent that he has blamed on the
Jakarta on Saturday. breakup after seeing the of innovation, science and least Feb. 21. its resignation, the latest Kremlin, alleged that Russian
The 26-year-old jet had been condition of the wreckage found industry. Omar Alghabra becomes — Associated Press development in a cycle of clashes President Vladimir Putin was
out of service for almost nine by searchers. transport minister. between the government and behind the new legal motion. In
months because of flight cutbacks He said the jet was intact until Navdeep Bains, who was Interpol issues notices over lawmakers that has long December, the prison service
caused by the coronavirus it struck the water, concentrating minister of innovation, science Beirut port blast: Interpol has convulsed the sheikhdom with demanded that Navalny report to
pandemic, officials said. It the debris field, rather than and industry, has decided not to issued a wanted notice for two the strongest parliament in the its office in line with the terms of
resumed commercial flights last spreading it out over a large area run in the next election. Trudeau Russians and a Portuguese man Persian Gulf region. The move a suspended sentence he received
month. as would be the case with a midair has said that key cabinet positions over explosive material that had comes after about 30 lawmakers for a 2014 conviction on charges
Air Chief Marshal Hadi event. should be held by ministers who been shipped to Beirut and stored backed a no-confidence motion of embezzlement and money-
Tjahjanto said the plane’s other Tjahjono said the plane intend to be around for the long at the city’s port for six years until against the government this laundering that he rejected as
“black box,” the cockpit voice continued to send altitude data haul and can sell the government’s it exploded in August, the state- month. The ministers quit after politically motivated. The service
recorder, was likely to be found until it descended to 250 feet agenda during the next election run National News Agency said. newly elected members of warned that he faced prison time
soon because its beacon was above the water’s surface. campaign. The blast killed 200 people and parliament, many of them if he failed to appear.
being emitted in the same area. — Associated Press Trudeau’s Liberal Party won injured thousands. NNA said the skeptical of corruption and the — From news services

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O∞cials take aim at one of Hong Kong’s last spaces for dissent: the Internet
BY S HIBANI M AHTANI regime, a website can be blocked Access restricted
without any reason under the After the arrests, Hong Kong
hong kong — The police offi- national security law, which is a users reported trouble accessing
cers who came to take away clear blow to the freedom of the HKChronicles, a website founded
Owen Chow on national security Internet, freedom of information during the 2019 anti-government
grounds last week left little to and freedom of speech.” movement. The website is known
chance. In emailed comments to The for publishing personal details of
Determined to find his phones, Washington Post, a Hong Kong Hong Kong police officers and
they had prepared a list of cell- police spokesman said the force pro-Beijing figures; it also identi-
phone numbers registered to his would not comment on specific fies businesses in Hong Kong that
name, even one he used exclu- cases but pointed out that the support the Chinese government,
sively for banking, the 23-year- national security law allows po- allowing protesters to boycott
old Hong Kong activist said. Offi- lice to unilaterally disable access them.
cers called each number in suc- to online content. Police would In a post on the HKChronicles
cession, the vibrations revealing not disclose details of investiga- Telegram channel last week,
the locations of three iPhones tions, he added. Naomi Chan, the website’s owner
around his apartment. and chief editor, said she noticed
By the end of their raids, police Data sweep that site visitors had “decreased
had amassed more than 200 de- The dozens arrested last drastically.” Users trying to reach
vices from Chow and 52 others Wednesday spanned the pro- the site from different Internet
held that day for alleged political democracy spectrum, from civil service providers based in Hong
crimes, according to those arrest- society activists — labor union- Kong received error messages.
ed, as well as laptops from spous- ists and promoters of rights for HKChronicles has since
es who are not politically active minorities and the disabled — to changed IP addresses, Chan said
and were not detained. former lawmakers. Two already on the Telegram channel. The site
The digital sweep showed how in custody, former student pro- continues to be inaccessible local-
Hong Kong authorities are wield- test leader Joshua Wong and ly except via a virtual private
ing their new powers under the radio presenter Tam Tak-chi, network.
VINCENT YU/ASSOCIATED PRESS
national security law — intro- were rearrested. Four of the major Internet
duced last summer — far more Their alleged crime was partic- Pro-democracy protesters hold up their cellphones in Hong Kong in December 2019. Actions taken service providers in Hong Kong
widely than the city’s leader ipating in a primary vote to recently under the new national security law have many fearing a broader crackdown on the Internet. did not respond to requests for
promised. Since the Jan. 6 raids, choose candidates who would comment or declined to com-
authorities have blocked at least later run in legislative elections it. The administrator of his Face- details, said the force’s Cyberse- ment. Chan, an 18-year-old high
one website, according to the that the pro-democracy camp book page said Tam had not curity and Technology Bureau is school student, did not respond
site’s owner and local media re- stood a strong chance of winning. reactivated his Telegram account, “It is a redo of the Great unable to crack newer Apple to messages sent via Telegram.
ports, raising concerns that Hong (Only half of Hong Kong’s legisla- and urged people to ignore the iPhone models locally but has Businesses and technology
Kong is headed for broader digi- ture is directly elected, a feature messages. Firewall. They are found ways to compromise An- companies have been bracing for
tal surveillance and censorship designed to maintain the pro- Ray Chan, a former pro- droid systems and information fallout from the national security
akin to that in mainland China. Beijing establishment’s hold on democracy lawmaker arrested at testing the waters for on Google Drive once police have law and are sensitive to any
“It is a redo of the Great power.) The city’s government his home, said he kept receiving seized a person’s devices. moves that undermine the unre-
Firewall,” said Lokman Tsui, an subsequently postponed the elec- confirmation codes sent by Tele- now, so the results are A Google spokeswoman said stricted nature of the Internet in
assistant professor at the Chinese tions, citing the coronavirus pan- gram to a replacement phone she could not comment on specif- Hong Kong — something that has
University of Hong Kong who demic. after police confiscated his devic- uneven — but it is a ic incidents. Notifications of a distinguished the city from the
specializes in privacy and online All but the two already in es. The codes are used to verify government-backed hacking at- Chinese mainland. Google, Face-
communications. “They are test- detention and the former Demo- the authenticity of a user trying question of when and tempt are sent even when Google book and other U.S. social media
ing the waters for now, so the cratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai to log into an account. may have already successfully companies are blocked in China,
results are uneven — but it is a were released on bail, and none Separately, Lam Cheuk-ting how, not if.” blocked the attempt. but operate freely in Hong Kong.
question of when and how, not if.” have been charged under the and Helena Wong, two former One of the people familiar with Experts say that technical at-
Lokman Tsui, an assistant professor
Hong Kong police have begun security law. If charged and con- Democratic Party lawmakers, police practices who spoke to The tempts to block online content, so
at the Chinese University of Hong
sending devices seized from ar- victed under that measure, they said their staffs received notifica- Post said that the force remains far, are clumsy and less sophisti-
Kong who specializes in privacy and
rested people to mainland China, could face life in prison. tions from Google that state- convinced that pro-democracy cated than methods used in
online communications
where authorities with sophisti- Police have been seizing devic- sponsored hackers were trying to protests that gripped Hong Kong mainland China. They predict a
cated data-extraction technology es from protesters arrested at breach their work accounts, in 2019 were highly planned and lighter touch than China’s Great
are using the information from anti-government rallies since late which are hosted on a Gmail coordinated, though they were Firewall so as not to drive away
those devices to assist in investi- 2019, but the targeted roundup server. The Google alerts arrived largely leaderless. Police believe businesses in the financial center.
gations, according to two people under the national security law just after their arrests, once their they need to fully map out pro- But none doubt that this is the
familiar with the arrangement ensnared almost every promi- devices were in the hands of democracy and civil society links beginning of unprecedented re-
who spoke on the condition of nent opposition figure. police. in the city to have a clearer strictions on the Internet in Hong
anonymity to protect their safety. Shortly after the arrests and “They are spreading the net picture, this person said. Kong. “The Internet is really the
Glacier Kwong, founder of Key- device seizures, colleagues and and are using all means to collect Activists fear the same. only place that we can breathe a
board Frontline, which tracks associates of those detained start- information,” Lam said in an “The government would like to little, so it is not surprising to me
digital rights in Hong Kong, said ed noticing strange activity on interview. “If there is any infor- map the network of the opposi- that they are trying to colonize
the government clearly intends to their social media and email ac- mation they find that they can tion with the devices they confis- that space now and invade it, too,”
crack down on one of the last free counts. Tam, already in jail, ap- use to charge us, they will contin- cated, like who is in contact with said Tsui, the CUHK professor.
spaces for dissent. peared to join the encrypted mes- ue to dig.” who, to completely crack down [email protected]
“The government has actually saging app Telegram, popular A Hong Kong police officer, on us,” said Kwong, the digital
set a precedent,” Kwong said. “As with Hong Kong protesters, and speaking on the condition of rights activist, who lives in exile Theodora Yu contributed to this
long as it is not to the liking of the to be contacting people through anonymity to discuss sensitive in Germany. report.

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Ugandan opposition faces repression ahead of election

the second of three times he was hasn’t peacefully transferred
arrested ahead of the election. power since independence from
Longtime president’s Wine’s prominence has likely pro- Britain in 1962.
intimidation tactics dash tected his life, analysts said. An- Museveni has had the constitu-
other opposition candidate, Pat- tion changed twice to legally re-
hopes of a fair vote rick Oboi Amuriat, was arrested main in power — once to remove
on Monday for the ninth time term limits on presidents, the oth-
since declaring his candidacy — er to remove age limits. His next
BY M AX B EARAK this time over a traffic law barring term would be his sixth.
people from sticking their heads While allegations of unfair tac-
kampala, uganda — When Sha- out of sunroofs. tics are already mounting, this
ron Kemigisha and her husband Wine has said all 23 members election still feels different, oppo-
joined a political movement of his campaign team had been sition supporters said.
growing out of this city’s sprawl- arrested, and the majority were “You would have to be naive to
ing ghettos, they knew it might still in jail. think this is a fair election. But
cost them their lives. Fred Enanga, a police spokes- what’s different is the surge of
The National Unity Party, led man, declined to comment on the support Bobi has from young peo-
by the reggae singer and lawmak- arrests of opposition figures, in- ple who’ve had a rough life — the
er Robert Kyagulanyi — better cluding Kemigisha’s husband, but people who make up the poverty
known by his stage name Bobi referred to a previous statement and unemployment figures that
Wine — was quickly evolving into in which he justified the arrests as we hear about our country,” said
the most popular challenger that part of enforcement of social dis- Patience Akumu, a human rights
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Mu- tancing protocols and blamed the lawyer. “Bobi found deliverance
seveni, had faced in 35 years in deaths of protesters on Wine and in this life, rising to where he is. In
power. “others who seek to incite.” him, they see the possibility of
Thursday’s elections will bring Taking to Twitter before the their own.”
them head to head, but the gov- government ordered all social Kemigisha sees herself in Bobi
ernment has unleashed a wave of media to be blocked on Tuesday, Wine. Like him, she grew up in a
intimidation and repression Wine called the tactics “the kicks slum and has spent her life scrap-
against the opposition party and of a dying horse.” ping by. She migrated to Oman for
BAZ RATNER/REUTERS
its supporters, extinguishing any The shutdown of social media two years where she worked as a
hope many had in a fair vote. came in apparent retaliation for Campaign signs fill a street in Kampala, Uganda, on Tuesday, including for opposition leader Robert maid for poor pay, and when she
Kemigisha’s husband, a close Facebook’s culling of around 100 Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, and President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power for years. came back, she was crushed that
aide of Wine’s, has spent the past profiles on Monday it said were what little money she saved
two weeks locked up in a military fake accounts spreading pro-gov- puppet leadership on Uganda by dispersed. elections, at a news conference. wasn’t enough to change her sta-
barracks on what she says are ernment misinformation ahead disabling online accounts of NRM The prospect of further vio- “This election has witnessed un- tion in life.
preposterous charges of illegal of the election. supporters,” he said on Twitter. lence looms over Thursday’s vote, told violence. It gets worse and “There is a chain of problems in
possession of ammunition. Kemi- “This month, we removed a Ugandan authorities say that and the military was already out worse by the day.” that ghetto that girls face: under-
gisha, 28, is weeks from giving network of accounts and pages in public order and preventing the in a show of might on Tuesday Last week, Wine filed a com- age marriage, domestic abuse and
birth to their second child. Uganda that engaged in CIB (Co- spread of the coronavirus are evening. plaint with the International loss of self-esteem. You are con-
“I just thank God he is alive,” ordinated Inauthentic Behavior) their utmost priorities, and they Wine and other leading opposi- Criminal Court against Museveni stantly told that you are nothing.
she said in an interview from the to target public debate ahead of have imposed restrictions on tion candidates urged their sup- and nine security officials, accus- That is what our presidential can-
back seat of a car, where she felt the election,” Facebook’s head of campaigning in Kampala and al- porters to stay within 100 meters ing them of incitement to murder didate wants to change, and that
safe talking to a journalist — an- communication for sub-Saharan most all other Ugandan cities. of polling stations rather than unarmed protesters and authoriz- is what I want to change,” she said.
other group that Uganda’s mili- Africa, Kezia Anim-Addo, said in Breaches of social distancing return home as the electoral com- ing the arrests and beatings of “We respect the democratic
tary has cracked down on. She an email. guidelines had previously been mission has advised. If the past political figures and human rights process, but I don’t expect my vote
sleeps at different friends’ houses Museveni’s spokesman, Don cited in Wine and Amuriat’s ar- weeks have been any indication, lawyers. Wine also alleged that to be respected. If it is not, then we
most nights, fearing her own ar- Wanyama, whose Facebook and rests. Museveni has continued to the military would likely meet the Ugandan government has re- will wait for our candidate to give
rest. “We’ve lost friends, col- Instagram accounts were shut campaign in ways that less obvi- such action with violent dispersal. peatedly tried to kill him since us a Plan B.”
leagues. We’ve buried them.” down, alleged a foreign plot to ously flout those rules, such as “The terror, frankly, is unprec- 2018. [email protected]
At least 54 protesters were influence the election. visiting the sites of development edented,” said Kizza Besigye, a Past Ugandan polls have been
killed in November after Wine “Shame on the foreign forces projects. His presence still at- veteran opposition leader who discredited by widespread allega- Halima Athumani contributed to this
was arrested at a campaign rally, that think they can aid and plant a tracts large crowds that are not took on Museveni in four previous tions of rigging. The country report.

Major search underway after Senegal’s star student vanishes in France

Paris police have shared no myself to the world.” “Just pure determination,”
leads as they scour the city. The Abdoulaye Diallo, the director Sagna said. “When I called for
Diary Sow went prosecutor’s office called the dis- of Harmattan Senegal, a publish- recess, the other students would
missing last week from appearance “worrying.” ing house in Dakar, teared up as go outside and play, but Diary
“This has devastated every- he recalled the day Sow’s uncle would just get something to eat —
her Paris prep school one,” said a former teacher, Mame urged him to read her manu- some pasta or rice — and sit
Coumba Diouf Sagna, who proof- script. inside with a book.”
read early drafts of Sow’s book. “It took us a year to publish it — By age 13, the star pupil was
BY D ANIELLE P AQUETTE “She has so many dreams to with two blind proof-readings,” always scribbling in a notebook.
realize. She has so much hope to he said. “With the quality of the At 15, she began to write the story
dakar, senegal — Before she give.” text, one couldn’t imagine that that would turn into her first
vanished in France eight days Senegalese President Macky the author was a woman of her novel. Sagna corrected grammar
ago, the young woman had be- Sall sent investigators to help, age. It must be recognized that and smoothed some phrasing,
come an academic legend in Sen- while Sow’s classmates embarked this is a higher mind.” she said, but the raw talent was
egal. on their own search. By Tuesday, a Sow wanted to explore people’s obvious.
Her name — Diary Sow — is team of eight had called 12 hospi- inner worlds, she said in an Au- Together, they polished hun-
practically synonymous with tals each. gust television appearance. The dreds of pages over four years.
achievement in this West African “We’re doing everything we expectations and pressures — “She became like my daughter,”
nation, which crunches grades can,” said Moussa Gueye, a 21- “the secret emotions,” she said. Sagna said.
every year and names a top stu- year-old engineering student Though her novel was popular They last talked in August, a
dent. Sow won that honor in 2018 from a suburb of Dakar, the Sene- in Senegal, she wants to pursue few months after Sow’s father
and 2019. galese capital. “We’re out here an engineering career. had died. The teacher had expect-
SENEGALESE PRESIDENCY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
She landed a spot at a presti- printing and distributing fliers.” “I am a scientist,” she said, “but ed grief.
gious preparatory school in Paris Sow is reserved yet kind, he Diary Sow, seen in August. She was named Senegal’s top student that doesn’t mean I should be “She was just so positive,”
and, her peers say, continued to said — not boastful, though she two years in a row and last year published a novel at 19 years old. limited to science.” Sagna said. “She rarely com-
ace classes. She published a novel has the right to be. Her fervor for learning was plains. No one had any idea of
last year at the age of 19. “She gets the best grades in vice president of the Federation anyone.” clear early on. what was to come.”
“To Diary,” the Senegalese pres- everything,” he said. of Senegalese Students and Train- In September, the month she “She is in front of books all the Now Sagna weeps and prays
ident wrote to her in an August Hundreds of Senegalese expa- ees of France. “She stands out. turned 20, Sow visited Dakar to time,” her mother told news for the young woman’s return.
note, “a rising star who is the triates in Paris and other French Those academic awards usually promote her novel, “Under the crews after Sow won her first big “She is the inspiration of so
pride of the people.” cities took to the streets this go to boys.” Face of an Angel.” scholastic prize. “She doesn’t many,” she said. “She’s the exam-
Then her school, the Lycée week, passing out pamphlets fea- In Senegal, speculation blazes It’s about a complicated girl, want to waste a second of her ple. I don’t want my students to
Louis-le-Grand, alerted the Sene- turing Sow’s face and a number to across social media: Was she tak- she told a bookstore audience. life.” think, is it worth striving so hard
galese Embassy on Jan. 4 that call. Video shows them chanting, en? Did she run away? The character is guarded and Sow grew up in the fishing city if something like this can hap-
Sow had stopped showing up. “Ensemble allons chercher Diary “What if Diary Sow doesn’t keeps to herself. Her love interest of Mbour, about 60 coastal miles pen?”
Nobody has heard from the Sow.” Together let’s find Diary want to be found?” someone sees only “roses,” she said — not south from the hustle of Dakar. [email protected]
student who was known to never Sow. tweeted. “I’ve been thinking the thorns. She came from humble means,
miss a lecture — neither friends “She is famous for being bril- about it all night, the pressure of “The names are fictitious,” she said Sagna, her former teacher. Borso Tall in Dakar and Rick Noack in
nor family. liant,” said Souleymane Gueye, being a good student is hard for said, “but I use words to express There were no fancy tutors. Paris contributed to this report.

E.U. digital enforcer questions why Big Tech waited to act against Trump
Washington since the storming of been crossed.” “The spread of lies, and the man Monday that decisions tions giant Huawei as the world
the Capitol has helped crystallize Buffeted by the Trump presi- difficulties in discussing whether about the freedom of opinion builds next-generation 5G data
Bloc’s leaders have some of the competing forces that dency and by their own domestic things are true or not, becomes should be made by laws, “not networks. President-elect Joe
cautioned against relying Vestager has long tried to address challenges with extremism, Ve- increasingly difficult if our reality according to a decision by the Biden is expected to continue
to curtail the power of big tech stager and other top E.U. officials becomes privatized because pub- management of social media that effort, which has yielded
on industry to self-police companies. E.U. leaders say the last month proposed rules that lic space is empty, and we are platforms.” mixed results in Europe even
decisions about how to address would give governments more each in our own feed,” Vestager “From this angle, the chancel- though policymakers increasing-
those challenges should rest in power to fight disinformation said. lor considers it problematic that ly consider the Chinese compo-
BY M ICHAEL B IRNBAUM the hands of societies, not unac- and to force big tech companies And though she said that the the accounts of the U.S. president nents a security threat. Two
countable corporate leaders at to police content that violates European Union was wary of have now been permanently weeks ago, the European Union
Europe’s top digital enforcer said Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. European laws. Companies regulating content, she expressed blocked,” said Steffen Seibert, the struck a trade deal with China
Tuesday that she didn’t under- “It seems after all these years of would also need to make more puzzlement about cultural differ- spokesman. despite U.S. reservations, adding
stand why Twitter, Facebook and Trumpism and all the fact- public the algorithms that make ences between the United States French Finance Minister Bru- to the transatlantic divisions.
other social media networks had checking of his statements, then decisions about what content to and Europe over what was per- no Le Maire echoed that concern, After Biden’s election victory
waited so long to bar President five minutes to 12, or one minute highlight. missible online. telling France Inter radio Monday in November, the European Com-
Trump from their platforms — to 12, or 30 seconds to 12, to ban The proposals — a pair of bills “I'm from Denmark, and we that “what shocks me is that it mission proposed creating an
but she also said that a broad him, that seems a little bit, ‘Why named the Digital Services Act have a quite liberal view when it was Twitter that shut it down. E.U.-U.S. council to discuss digital
proposal in Europe to rein in haven’t you done more before?’ ” and the Digital Markets Act — comes, for instance, to nudity,” The regulation of digital giants issues, in the hope of sparking a
digital giants would give banned said Vestager, arguably the represent the most ambitious ef- she said. “It’s just thought-pro- can’t and shouldn’t be done by more collaborative approach
users the opportunity to appeal world’s most powerful enforcer of fort to regain regulatory control voking that you can blatantly lie the digital oligarchy itself.” than in the contentious years
such decisions. life in the digital world. “If you of the digital world since it be- about essentials in your democra- In the interview with The Post, under Trump.
In an interview with The Wash- have a situation where someone came an essential part of modern cy, but you cannot show a nipple.” Vestager said that she hoped that “We see a lot of similarities in
ington Post, European Commis- is doing something that they life. Vestager’s views appeared to the start of the Biden administra- our approach when it comes to
sion Vice President Margrethe shouldn’t do, you may take down Because European societies be more nuanced than some of tion would be an opportunity to technology, when it comes to
Vestager expressed alarm about their post, but you have to engage are generally more accepting her fellow European leaders, who have a transatlantic discussion security, when it comes to open
the attack last week on the U.S. with them.” than the United States of govern- have questioned Twitter’s move about the relationship between democracy,” Vestager said. “For
Capitol by a mob of Trump sup- Nonetheless, Vestager ac- mental regulation, the European against Trump. Many Europeans democratic societies and digital us, the important thing is that we
porters and said of the planned knowledged, Trump’s incitement Union has in recent years policed have spent Trump’s term as- giants. share some of the same aims, and
transition of power on Inaugura- was extraordinary, and the situa- the actions of tech giants far more tounded by his tweets, but some Europe and the United States then we can find ways of dealing
tion Day: “I really, really hope tion may have called for extraor- aggressively than U.S. regulators. policymakers are also cautious are also due for a discussion with it, because the U.S. and the
that it will go well.” dinary responses, as well. And because the bloc’s 450 mil- about the implications of the about relations with China and European Union are some of the
For years, Trump’s Twitter ac- “This is, of course, the most lion people constitute a vast and leaders of private corporations the role of Chinese companies in world’s biggest democracies.”
count had gone unchecked as he extreme of extreme situations, rich market, its decisions often making unilateral decisions developing the digital world of She added: “That ought to be
broadcast a torrent of falsehoods that the president of the United reverberate far beyond European about what is acceptable speech the future. the starting point for something
that culminated in an attempt by States is inciting people to go borders. from presidents and prime minis- The Trump administration has also geopolitically good.”
his backers to use violence to toward Congress,” she said. “So I The new proposals, which are ters. led an aggressive campaign [email protected]
overturn the results of a demo- completely accept that this is an subject to discussion, could be- German Chancellor Angela against the use of technology
cratic election. The drama in extreme situation, and lines have come law within about two years. Merkel said through a spokes- made by Chinese telecommunica- Birnbaum reported from Riga, Latvia.

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Millions of Palestinians are being ignored in Israel’s vaccination success story

territories, where the health
Today’s WorldView infrastructure is weak and it is
ISHAAN THAROOR difficult to maintain basic social
distancing or hygiene
requirements, should be
Israel is the site of what seems prioritized in vaccination
to be a remarkable vaccination efforts,” wrote Yara Hawari, a
success story. It leads the world fellow at Al-Shabaka, the
in per capita coronavirus Palestinian Policy Network. “And
vaccinations, with more than yet, because of prevailing
1.5 million Israelis already having structures of oppression, they
received the shot. Authorities won’t be.”
estimate officials can administer “There’s a basic moral
the vaccine to some 2 million obligation,” Hagai El-Ad,
Israelis before the end of the executive director of B’Tselem, an
month and hope to have the bulk Israeli human rights group, told
of the population vaccinated by Today’s WorldView. “There’s one
the end of March, if not earlier. government, one regime, that
Even as infection rates spike basically controls everything
again, the country’s small size from the river to the sea. We
and the efficiency of its public decide what comes in and out,
health system have made it an who comes in and out.” He added
ideal place to carry out a that there should be no legal or
program of mass inoculation. administrative argument for
Prime Minister Benjamin Israelis “to hide behind not
Netanyahu, dogged by addressing something as basic as
corruption charges and facing a the health of the people under
fourth election since 2019, has your control.”
yoked his political fortunes to the The depth of that control has
vaccination drive. only grown more glaring in
“I have my complaints about recent years. Under Netanyahu’s
Israel and the government,” Rina rule, demolitions of Palestinian
Abadi, a Tel Aviv-based tech homes and expansion of Israeli
worker, told my colleagues settlements continue apace. With
recently after receiving the the blessing of the Trump
vaccine. “But I’ve never had a administration, Israel’s right-
complaint about the health-care wing government has also
system.” seemingly foreclosed the
Still, about a third of the possibility of a fully sovereign
ODED BALILTY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
14 million people living Palestinian state and is still
between the Jordan River and Israelis wait to get the coronavirus vaccine at a center set up on a basketball court in Hod Hasharon, near Tel Aviv, on Jan. 6. Israel has mulling annexation of parts of
the Mediterranean Sea are not vaccinated more than 1.5 million of its citizens, the world’s highest rate per capita. The vaccination drive does not cover Palestinians. the West Bank.
included in this vaccination On Tuesday, B’Tselem
campaign. Israel has distributed are valued above Palestinian cold storage facilities needed to sources doesn’t exempt Israel withhold vaccines from published a new position paper
vaccines to Jewish settlers in the ones,” Saleh Higazi, deputy house Pfizer’s vaccine, which has from its responsibilities towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli making the case that the
West Bank, but not to regional director for the Middle been the most widely distributed the Palestinian people in detention, even though prevailing status quo ought to be
Palestinians there or in the East and North Africa at one in Israel. providing the vaccines.” It conditions in these facilities seen as that of an “apartheid”
cramped, impoverished Gaza Amnesty International, said in a Israel’s critics argue that the accused Israel of “ignoring its make inmates particularly regime.
Strip. Israeli officials contend statement. disparity in vaccine distribution duties as an occupation power” vulnerable to contracting the “A regime that uses laws,
that these Palestinians don’t fall On Monday, Palestinian underscores a starker reality. and “committing racial virus. practices and organized violence
under their jurisdiction under officials announced plans to Whatever the political discrimination against the Israeli security concerns to cement the supremacy of one
the terms of the Oslo accords and obtain and administer Britain’s arrangement between the Israeli Palestinian people.” shape every dimension of group over another is an
that it is the job of the Palestinian AstraZeneca vaccine, as well as government and the Palestinian “Where budgetary shortages Palestinian life. Israeli control is apartheid regime,” read the
Authority to procure and Russia’s Sputnik V shot. They Authority — an institution resulting from the long-term also likely to influence the ability report. “Israeli apartheid, which
distribute vaccines in the also expect to receive assistance intended only to be a transitional restrictions imposed by the to effectively distribute vaccines promotes the supremacy of Jews
occupied territories. from the World Health entity for a future Palestinian occupation and blockade limit to Palestinians, especially in over Palestinians, was not born
“I don’t think that there’s Organization’s Covax initiative, state that’s now impossible to the ability of the Palestinian Gaza, which is under blockade in one day or of a single speech. It
anyone in this country, whatever which seeks to distribute imagine — they contend that, Authority to purchase and and run by the Islamist political is a process that has gradually
his or her views might be, that vaccines to some of the world’s under the terms of Geneva distribute vaccines, Israel must movement Hamas. grown more institutionalized
can imagine that I would be more disadvantaged countries. Conventions, Israel as an provide the necessary funds, as “We are in Gaza, sure it will and explicit, with mechanisms
taking a vaccine from the Israeli Those could be administered as occupying power has a part of its legal obligations,” read take a year, not a month,” Lina introduced over time in law and
citizen, and, with all the goodwill, early as next month. responsibility for those living a statement by a coalition of Mohammad Abu Daff, a 44-year- practice to promote Jewish
give it to our neighbors,” Israeli That the Palestinians may not under its occupation. Israeli and Palestinian health old Gaza City resident who works supremacy.”
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein have formally requested In a statement over the and human rights organizations at the local health ministry, told It concluded: “As painful as it
told Britain’s Sky News over the assistance from Israel is not weekend, the Palestinian Foreign last month. the Wall Street Journal, may be to look reality in the eye,
weekend. surprising, given how low an ebb Ministry said that “the search by Human rights groups are also conveying her cynicism over it is more painful to live under a
“There could hardly be a better ties are at between the two the Palestinian leadership to petitioning the Israeli High Court current plans. boot.”
illustration of how Israeli lives parties. They also lack the super- secure the vaccines from various over the government’s decision to “Places like the occupied [email protected]

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Trump attacks social media firms over being banned

Trump sooner, well before his
Calls speech to crowd attacks on the 2020 election
that ransacked Congress threatened to incite real-world
violence. Some Democrats in re-
‘totally appropriate’ cent days have revived their
campaign to rethink Section 230,
a decades-old law that spares a
BY T ONY R OMM wide array of online sites and
services — including newspapers
President Trump lashed out at and technology giants — from
Silicon Valley on Tuesday in his being held liable for the content
first public comments since Twit- their users post.
ter banned him from its site, The new congressional scruti-
asserting that the industry had ny comes as Facebook, Twitter
done a “horrible thing for our and their tech peers continue to
country and to our country.” face blowback for their sudden
The president told reporters decisions to take aim at Trump
that the social media sites had and some of his most controver-
made a “catastrophic mistake” sial allies ahead of the inaugura-
and acted in a politically “divi- tion of President-elect Joe Biden.
sive” manner after they punished Trump’s aides say they expect
him for comments the compa- him to call out Silicon Valley over
nies said threatened to incite claims of censorship of conserva-
violence. tives in the final days of his term.
And Trump defended his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
speech in front of a crowd last appeared to liken the decisions
week that later stormed the U.S. to ban Trump to authoritarian-
Capitol in a violent but failed ism during a speech late Monday.
insurrection that drove lawmak- In addition to the bans, Face-
ers into lockdown. He insisted book on Monday announced a
that even the controversial el- heightened crackdown on elec-
ements of his rally speech had tion disinformation ahead of
been “totally appropriate.” Biden’s inauguration. Twitter
Trump’s renewed attacks come late Monday said it purged ap-
as House Democrats plan to proximately 70,000 accounts as-
ramp up their scrutiny of Face- sociated with the conspiracy the-
book, Twitter and other social ory QAnon.
media sites. Democratic lawmak- Companies including Ama-
ers in recent days have faulted zon, Apple and Google have set
tech giants as acting too slowly to their sights on Parler, an alterna-
prevent Trump’s incendiary on- tive social network on which
line rhetoric from precipitating pro-Trump supporters appeared
real-world chaos. JOSH EDELSON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES to glorify last week’s attempted
“There’s no question that our Barricades and police are deployed for an expected conservative protest outside the headquarters of Twitter in San Francisco on Monday insurrection.
committee is going to investigate over the company’s banning of President Trump from its site, which had been the president’s preferred tool for reaching his supporters. The site remains dark online
and have hearings on the whole and unavailable on two popular
issue that we’ve been dealing taken action now,” Pallone added online, including election-year for many policymakers in Wash- smartphone app stores as a re-
with, in terms of what they can in an interview. “But this opens disinformation and hate speech. ington, who repeatedly have Democratic lawmakers sult of the tech industry’s con-
do on their platforms,” said Rep. up a whole issue of how are they All three tech giants in response threatened to impose stiff regu- cerns about its lack of robust
Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), the top policing the Internet to prevent have invested heavily in hiring lation. have criticized tech content moderation.
Democrat on the House Energy false information and incite- thousands of workers and devel- The assault on the Capitol last Parler denies the allegations
and Commerce Committee. ments of violence.” oping fresh artificial-intelligence Wednesday that forced lawmak- companies as slow to and has sued Amazon to force its
Twitter and Facebook “were Democratic lawmakers for tools to spot and remove more ers into lockdown and left five cloud computing unit to resume
letting the president say things years have called on Facebook, problematic posts, photos and people dead has injected new act against incitement hosting the site. (Amazon found-
that ultimately resulted in incite- Google and Twitter to take a videos before they can circulate energy into calls for reform. er and chief executive Jeff Bezos
ment of this mob that attacked more aggressive approach to a widely. But the tech industry’s Democrats say Facebook and by the president. owns The Washington Post.)
the Capitol, and I’m glad they’ve wide array of harmful content efforts have not been fast enough Twitter should have banned [email protected]

Many federal workers, others see paychecks shrink as tax bill comes due
of a worker’s paycheck to fund less than $104,000 a year did not this would be a good idea.” Tony Reardon, president of the provide relief to Americans, and
Deferrals in late 2020 Social Security. have a choice. They received Originally, the deferred taxes National Treasury Employees called on Congress to address the
Trump characterized the move extra money in late 2020 and were supposed to be repaid from Union, adding: “The communi- issue. Congress made their deci-
were Trump’s idea — as a tax cut and promised that it now they have to repay the loan, January through April, but the cation about this entire tax defer- sion,” said Edie Heipel, deputy
and required for some would not have to be repaid if he even as many continue to strug- funding bills that Congress ral from the very outset has been press secretary for the White
won reelection. In reality, gle during the coronavirus pan- passed at the end of 2020 al- severely lacking.” House Office of Management and
Trump’s executive action in Au- demic. lowed the repayments to be American Federation of Gov- Budget.
gust was a tax loan that workers Timothy James is among the spread over 12 months in an ernment Employees President Trump had championed a pay-
BY H EATHER L ONG would have to repay. Only Con- frustrated federal workers trying effort to ease the burden. The Everett Kelley called the tax roll tax cut for all American
gress can approve tax cuts. to adjust to a thinner paycheck. legislation also included a 1 per- scheme “one more example of the workers over the summer as a
More than a million employ- “This was a payroll tax loan as He gets paid biweekly and said cent raise for federal workers way President Trump, his admin- way to get more money into
ees of the federal government opposed to a payroll tax cut,” said his first paycheck in January was and a $600 stimulus payment for istration and his allies have bent people’s pockets during the pan-
and some private-sector workers Janet Holtzblatt, a senior fellow $300 less. James is a data analyst Americans making less than policy and the truth to his per- demic. But Democrats and even
are seeing smaller paychecks in at the Urban-Brookings Tax Pol- and father of two. He lost his $75,000 a year. sonal political benefit, leaving some Republicans panned the
January as they must now repay icy Center. “Now people are get- second job during the pandemic. Federal employee unions ap- everyday working Americans to idea, saying it helps only those
the Social Security taxes that ting hit with a lower paycheck in He and his wife just had a plauded the 12-month repay- deal with the consequences and currently on the job. The United
President Trump delayed collec- January. We knew the money difficult discussion about what ment period, but they blamed the pick up the pieces — whether it’s States has nearly 20 million peo-
tion of from September through would start coming due the same cuts they can make in their Trump administration for poorly an unexpected tax bill just after ple receiving unemployment aid.
December. time the Christmas bills came budget. They have asked for a communicating the situation to the holidays or the broken glass For James, the federal worker,
Trump forced most federal due.” temporary break on their car workers and forcing federal em- on the floor of the Capitol.” the biggest frustration is that his
workers who fall under the exec- Most businesses, along with payments but aren’t sure wheth- ployees to participate in the first The Trump administration wife’s firm gave workers a choice
utive branch, including the mili- the U.S. Postal Service, Congress er they will be approved. place. blamed Congress for not making on the tax break. She declined.
tary, to take the tax deferment. and the Supreme Court, declined “I feel like I got a pay cut even “Hopefully we’ll never have the payroll tax break permanent. But James was never given a
About 1.3 million federal employ- to participate because they saw though I just had a star review another president of the United “Any hardship you write about choice.
ees saw fatter paychecks for sev- the move as confusing and po- from my manager. I feel like I’m States who’s intent on singling is attributable only to Congress. “If I had been given a choice, I
eral months as the government tentially harmful to workers and being punished. It’s horrible,” out his own workforce for a bad The president, as he did through- would have said: ‘Heck no. I don’t
stopped collecting the 6.2 per- employers. But federal workers James said. “Nobody in their policy that was clearly intended out the pandemic, took decisive want this,’ ” James said.
cent tax that normally comes out in the executive branch making right mind should have thought to be an election-year ploy,” said action under his authorities to [email protected]

DI GEST

ECONOMY year, economists forecast, as the EV600 — a play on the quantum computers, while Ford
vaccines are more widely vehicle’s 600 cubic feet of cargo is the most active in areas of
Layoffs rise in Nov., distributed and recent space. vehicle navigation and control
job openings down government stimulus provides — Bloomberg News systems, according to the
more money for Americans to analysis by Fairview Research’s
Layoffs spiked in November spend. The faster growth should ALSO IN BUSINESS IFI Claims Patent Services. The
compared with the previous boost hiring, but most Boeing got a bump in orders U.S. Patent and Trademark
month, and the number of job employers for now appear to be and deliveries of new planes in Office issued 352,013 patents last
openings slipped, signaling that in wait-and-see mode. December, but it wasn’t enough year. IBM topped the list of
the job market has stalled as the Tuesday’s report, known as to salvage a poor year for the big patent recipients for the
coronavirus has brought about the Job Openings and Labor aircraft maker. Boeing still 28th year with 9,130 patents,
another wave of shutdowns of Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, reported more cancellations while Samsung was second with
restaurants and bars and provides insights into whether than new orders for its 737 Max 6,415.
hobbled consumer spending. companies expect business to jet, which was grounded for 21 Enbridge said Tuesday that it
While the layoffs were improve enough in coming months after crashes in would defy Michigan’s demand
concentrated among months to justify additional Indonesia and Ethiopia killed to shut down an oil pipeline that
restaurants, bars and hotels, the hiring. 346 people. The aircraft runs through a channel linking
slowdown in job postings was — Associated Press manufacturer finished 2020 two of the Great Lakes,
widespread across most with 157 deliveries, including contending that Gov. Gretchen
MANAN VATSYAYANA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
industries, showing a reluctance AUTO INDUSTRY planes handed over to cargo Whitmer’s decision was based on
by businesses to hire more A woman selling artificial flowers rides along the Long Bien bridge airlines and military customers. bad information and political
people amid a pandemic-fueled GM to sell electric in Hanoi. Vietnam this week moved to cut down the number of flights That was down from 380 posturing. Whitmer (D) in
recession. vans to FedEx fleet into the country ahead of the Lunar New Year, amid coronavirus deliveries in 2019. European November moved to revoke a
The number of open jobs at concerns. The restrictions will be in place until mid-February. rival Airbus finished the year 1953 state easement that allowed
the end of November slipped General Motors is making a with 566 deliveries. part of the Canadian company’s
1.6 percent to 6.5 million, the push into electric commercial movers this year and an electric of carrying 200 pounds of goods Artificial intelligence, Line 5 to be placed along the
Labor Department said Tuesday, delivery vehicles starting this cargo van next year, GM said in a will begin this quarter. GM said quantum computers and bottom of the Straits of
its first drop since August. year with a new wholly owned statement Tuesday. the vehicle can be used to move autonomous vehicles are among Mackinac, saying Enbridge had
Layoffs, however, soared company called BrightDrop, BrightDrop will offer software items around a warehouse or the fastest-growing areas of repeatedly violated the terms
17.6 percent to 1.9 million, driven which supplies battery-powered and services to enable fleet from a truck to the front door of technology, with U.S. companies and put the lakes at risk. She
mostly by job cuts in the services vans and offers fleet- customers to track goods and a package recipient. often in the lead, according to a gave the company 180 days to
industry, which more than management services. vehicles and also plan shipping Early next year the automaker new study of American patents turn off the flow. Enbridge filed
doubled. BrightDrop — whose routes. plans to launch the electric van, issued over the past five years. a federal suit challenging the
The economy is likely to grow customers will include FedEx — Sales of an enclosed cargo which can travel up to 250 miles IBM received the most patents order.
at a healthier pace later this plans to sell electric pallet pallet known as EP1 and capable on a charge and will be dubbed in machine learning and — From news reports

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the coronavirus. purchase with FSA or HSA funds provide guidance that would
I have masks in to protect against the allow people to use the funds in
Michelle my purse and in coronavirus, which in one day their FSA or HSA to purchase
Singletary the pockets of my killed 4,000 people last week. masks and other personal
THE COLOR coats — just in Hand sanitizer and surface protective equipment, or
OF MONEY case I forget to cleaners used to prevent the Congress could enact legislation.
replace the spread of the virus are also Last year, a bill before
disposable ones in ineligible. Congress would have allowed
my handbag. I have some in my With an FSA and HSA, you can people to use their HSAs or FSAs
car. (I keep extras for my set aside money, pretax, to pay to purchase face masks, hand
husband, who sometimes absent- for certain qualified health sanitizer and disinfectant
mindedly leaves home without a expenses, including medical products to protect themselves
mask when we make runs to the products such as a thermometer against the coronavirus. But the
grocery store.) for yourself or dependents. bill did not pass.
Masks are the barrier that can The contribution limit for an Health-E Commerce has
help us from contracting a virus employee who chooses to created the Tax-Free Better
that has so far killed 379,000 participate in an FSA is $2,750 campaign (taxfreebetter.com/
people in the United States. for 2021. Contributions are not take-action) to advocate for
The Centers for Disease subject to federal income tax, further expansion of expenses
Control and Prevention Social Security tax or Medicare covered under FSAs and HSAs,
recommends the use of masks — tax. People decide how much including masks and PPE. People
non-valved multi-layer cloth they want to contribute. can sign a petition or contact
masks in particular — to limit the Health savings accounts are their congressional
spread of the coronavirus, which linked to high-deductible health representative.
is says is “transmitted plans (HDHP), and like FSAs, “We think that masks should
predominantly by respiratory they can also be used for various qualify as certainly prevention
droplets generated when people out-of-pocket expenses. The right now,” Rouleau said. “The
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cough, sneeze, sing, talk or maximum amount you’re CDC is obviously recommending
breathe.” allowed to contribute to an HSA The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the use of masks during the pandemic, them, people are expected to
In 38 states, plus the District for 2021 is $3,600 as an but paper and cloth masks are not broadly accepted as eligible for two key tax-advantaged programs. wear them, and it seems like it
of Columbia and Puerto Rico, you individual or $7,200 as a family. should really be a qualified
need a mask to enter any store or People 55 or older can contribute accounts. “The IRS gives the which would support maybe a masks. medical expense. But without
business. Clearly, then, masks are an extra $1,000 annually to an guidance based on the law. And potential medical condition that “The CDC is telling me I need IRS guidance, we can’t sell them
a vital product during this HSA. the IRS has not come out and you have now, which would to wear a mask to protect my on our website and we can’t tell
historic global pandemic. Masks “We think masks should be given any guidance on masks to require that you have the mask,” health, but the IRS is saying I people that they’re broadly
save lives. eligible,” said Rachel Rouleau, date.” Rouleau said. can’t use my HSA funds, even eligible.”
Yet the rules for two key tax- vice president of compliance for Rouleau said it’s possible some However, even with such a though the masks are for medical If there was ever a time to
advantaged programs to help Health-E Commerce, the parent benefits administrators may letter, the benefits administrator purposes,” Brooks said. “It’s expand the rules, it should be
people pay for health and brand of FSAstore.com and approve the reimbursements for may deny your claim. ridiculous.” now, to help people cover the
medical expenses haven’t caught HSAstore.com, online masks. Stephen Brooks from “Keep in mind that, even if it is costs of mask or cleaning
up with these dreadful times. marketplaces where people can “You could probably go to your Rockville, Md., said he was permissible, a given FSA and supplies that we know can limit
You can use funds in your purchase eligible products from doctor and get something called denied reimbursement from his HSA is not duty-bound to cover the spread of the coronavirus.
health savings account (HSA) or their health-care spending a letter of medical necessity, HSA to cover what he spent on every allowable expense,” said [email protected]

Biden team briefs Congress on stimulus plan, aiming for bipartisan deal
That’s led to speculation that But even as Biden makes plans
the price tag of the package could to advance his agenda, the House
Proposal, to be unveiled be below $2 trillion — although is preparing to impeach Presi-
Thursday, is expected to Biden said last week that it could dent Trump a second time over
cost in the multiple trillions of his incitement of last week’s
include $2,000 payments dollars. Republicans are likely to deadly invasion of the Capitol. It
balk at spending too much more is unclear when an impeachment
after Congress has already devot- trial would take place in the
BY E RICA W ERNER ed around $4 trillion to fighting Senate, and how that will impact
AND J EFF S TEIN the ravaging coronavirus pan- Biden’s goal of quickly enacting
demic and economic fallout. bipartisan legislation.
President-elect Joe Biden is Biden has said repeatedly that A spokesperson from Biden’s
finalizing his coronavirus relief passing a coronavirus relief and transition team declined to offer
plan, with aides briefing congres- economic stimulus package will details of the proposed stimulus
sional staffers Tuesday and indi- be his No. 1 priority upon taking plan.
cating the measure will be tai- office Jan. 20. Incoming Senate Biden said this week that he
lored to get bipartisan support. majority leader Charles E. Schu- hoped the issues could be “bifur-
The proposal, which Biden in- mer (D-N.Y.) made the same cated” so that the Senate could
tends to unveil on Thursday, is point in a letter to colleagues on simultaneously approve his Cabi-
expected to include $2,000 stim- Tuesday, describing a relief bill as net nominees and work on coro-
ulus payments, an extension of “our first order of legislative busi- navirus economic relief legisla-
enhanced unemployment insur- ness” once the new Senate is tion while also moving forward
ance, money for vaccine distribu- organized and Kamala D. Harris with impeachment. It is uncer-
tion and delivery, funding for is sworn in as vice president, tain how well that would work in
cities, states, schools, child care giving Democrats control of the practice, if that is the path the
and more. chamber. Senate takes.
Transition officials indicated “The job of covid emergency Outside interest groups are
in meetings with Democratic relief is far from complete. Demo- cautioning that impeachment
staffers that Biden will try to get crats wanted to do much more in should not be allowed to draw
bipartisan support for the meas- the last bill and promised to do focus from the work of passing a
ure, instead of using a special more, if given the opportunity, to new economic relief bill.
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budgetary tool that could allow increase direct payments to a “The trial cannot be allowed to
him to push legislation through total of $2,000 — we will get that distract from or delay the critical Incoming Senate majority leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), center, is seen in New York on Tuesday.
Congress with only Democratic done,” Schumer wrote. “We will work of providing economic re- In a letter to colleagues, Schumer described a virus relief bill as “our first order of legislative business.”
votes, according to several people also further support vaccine dis- lief and economic opportunity
with knowledge of the discus- tribution efforts and help Ameri- for the American working peo- net, and we have to get economic mate it is unclear how much fully to get GOP support for the
sions who spoke on the condition can families, small businesses, ple,” AFL-CIO President Richard relief to them very, very quickly. bipartisanship there will be in a Affordable Care Act, before ulti-
of anonymity because the delib- schools and state and local gov- Trumka said on a press call Tues- And I think the Senate and the Senate divided 50-50 between mately passing it with only Dem-
erations were private. ernments.” day. “We have to confirm a Cabi- House are both capable of doing Democrats and Republicans. ocratic votes in the Senate.
those things simultaneously.” Some Democrats believe the “It would be good to have
Biden’s coronavirus relief plan events of last week at the Capitol Republicans on board, but we
would build on a $900 billion bill may cause some Republicans to should spend not an inordinate
Congress negotiated and Trump want to take a more bipartisan amount of time testing Republi-
signed in December. Democrats approach, in an effort to create can willingness to come on

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have repeatedly said that legisla- more unity. board,” said Sen. Brian Schatz
tion left unfinished business as At the same time, some Demo- (D-Hawaii). “It would be excel-
the virus continues its deadly crats are warning against spend- lent if we can get a big bipartisan
march through the nation, vacci- ing too much time trying to get a vote, but if that’s Plan A we’re
nations lag and the economy bipartisan outcome. President going to have to move to Plan B
sheds jobs. Barack Obama took office with pretty quickly if we can’t get the
Biden ran on his prowess as a both chambers of Congress con- votes.”
bipartisan dealmaker, but given trolled by Democrats, and he [email protected]
the highly polarized political cli- spent months trying unsuccess- [email protected]

Gig workers suing in California’s

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As Parler disappeared from the Web, hackers worked to save its posts
make them available to others events. But the site largely
online. That scraping, as it’s seemed to focus on sharing news
Messages from the known, wouldn’t have been so from conservative publications
conservative social media easy for a bigger site with more and discussing the state of poli-
security precautions in place, se- tics, particularly after Trump’s
site will be archived curity experts said. election loss.
One of Parler’s selling points, In the days before the attack
extolled publicly by executives, last week, Parler users with red
BY R ACHEL L ERMAN was privacy — compared with the badges — indicating that the com-
AND N ITASHA T IKU reams of data Twitter and Face- pany had verified they were real
book collect on users. people — advocated for a violent
Rioters who stormed the Capi- “It’s one thing to have the uprising against law enforce-
tol last week posted some of their intention of privacy, and it’s an- ment, supporters of the Black
plans on Parler, a social media other to be able to deliver it in a Lives Matter movement and anti-
network that prides itself on free meaningful way,” security re- fascists, according to screenshots
speech. searcher Troy Hunt said Monday. posted on Twitter.
“Better advice . . . go armed and Hunt, who is not involved in the “Time to burn down dc police
ready to shoot,” one user posted data leak, pointed out that al- precinct. [Expletive] those trea-
on the site on Jan. 6, according to though the data may have been sonous pig bastards,” one user
screenshots shared on Twitter. legally obtained, Facebook and wrote under the handle Juarez-
Over the weekend, Parler was Twitter have controls in place to TX, in response to the arrest of a
removed from the Apple and prevent such scraping. member of the Proud Boys.
Google app stores. On Monday, Parler did not respond to a “And you choose to beat antifa
Parler disappeared from the In- request for comment. and blms asses; remove their hel-
ternet entirely as Amazon’s cloud Before it went dark, chief exec- mets and kick in their teeth,”
provider dropped it. All the tech utive John Matze posted on the wrote user Harleyquinn.
giants cited the site’s incitements site that “violence and coordinat- Twitter user @donk_enby said
to violence and lack of content ing riots, coordinating rebellions she started making a record of
moderation. and coordinating insurrections every public Parler post made
Parler immediately objected to has no place on social media.” during the Capitol riot to pre-
this characterization — and filed Matze posted that “the media serve them. When it seemed that
a lawsuit against Amazon on tried to claim that ‘The Insurrec- Amazon would pull its hosting
Monday. tion’ was organized on Parler.” He support, she said she and others
Parler’s fall was faster than its added that Parler has no way to started archiving as many public
rise. The site, founded in 2018, organize anything and that “bad posts as they could.
built a reputation as a conserva- actors” turned the Capitol protest “I’d describe the current Parler
tive competitor to Twitter and into a riot. archival situation as ‘a bunch of
Facebook. It was much smaller In its lawsuit against Amazon, people running into a burning
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than the giants but growing Parler said Amazon Web Services, building trying to grab as many
steadily, and pitched itself as a the cloud computing service, al- The social network Parler, which attracted conservatives with its promises of free expression, was things as we can,’ ” @donk_enby
sophisticated, privacy-focused leged that it had informed Parler forced offline this week after tech companies cited its users’ role in the assault on the Capitol. tweeted Sunday.
site that put a premium on the of 98 posts that violated policies, She also said she made a record
right to free expression. For and later in the suit Parler said it flag violative posts, and it noted Internet sleuths have said they’ve and Cambridge Analytica. of all videos uploaded to Parler
months it attracted big names had “removed everything AWS several months ago that it had started using the information. A Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) tweeted and cautioned that they could
and gained millions of users, had brought to its attention and only about 200 volunteer jury Twitter user who posts under the in June that he was joining Parler, include deleted posts. In the end,
many of whom were fed up with more.” members. handle @donk_enby, who has calling it “a platform [that] gets she told Gizmodo, she estimates
traditional social media plat- Parler pointed out in its suit “If somebody does something posted that she’s working on the what free speech is all about.” In that 99 percent of Parler posts
forms. that violent hashtags and posts illegal, we’re relying on the re- archive and whom The Post just one week, the site gained were saved and will eventually be
But Parler also quickly became also surface on Twitter and said porting system,” Chief Operating hasn’t been able to identify, didn’t 1 million users, bringing it to hosted by the Internet Archive.
a breeding ground for conspiracy that Amazon breached its con- Officer Jeffrey Wernick told The respond to a request for com- nearly 3 million users by early Internet sleuths have said
theories about the election and tract with the company by not Post in December. ment. The Archive Team, which is July. they’ve already used information
calls for violence in D.C. And one giving it 30 days’ notice. But in the days leading up to documenting the effort, and the After the election, Parler saw from the archived data, including
by one, technical services in the (Amazon chief executive Jeff and following the Jan. 6 attack on Internet Archive, which is sup- an even bigger bump. Many voic- GPS coordinates of videos, to cre-
days following the Capitol riot Bezos owns The Washington the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, posed to host the scraped data, es, including Fox News personal- ate interactive maps and identify
dropped their support, culminat- Post.) Parler was filled with posts sup- did not respond to requests for ity Sean Hannity, encouraged a counties and other locations
ing with Amazon’s decision. As It wasn’t just the big players — porting the rioters and calling for comment. jump to the site. In its lawsuit where videos were allegedly up-
Parler’s fate became clear, a group customer service company Zen- future attacks. Parler surged in popularity filed Monday, it said more than loaded.
of hackers worked to archive the desk and security firm Okta also “Sleep well tonight patriots. . . . over the past eight months, riding 12 million people used the site. “All the data would be fair
site so that no posts — potentially dropped Parler as a customer, You are going to love how this the backlash against big tech Parler reached the top spot for game for law enforcement,” said
incriminating or not — would be furthering its tumble off the Web. movie ends,” wrote StormIs- companies pushed by President U.S. downloads in the Apple App Kiel Brennan-Marquez, a profes-
lost. Parler has long prided itself on UponUs, a QAnon-espousing ac- Trump and conservative politi- Store on Jan. 9, the day after sor at the University of Connecti-
Users, who flocked to the site relaxed moderation policies that count with more than 450,000 cians and pundits. Twitter banned Trump. It was cut School of Law who specializes
on the promise of free speech and rely on a group of volunteer jurors followers on Parler. “ ‘Nothing The company was launched downloaded 296,000 times in the in surveillance and data collec-
expression without censorship, to vote on potentially illegal posts can stop what’s coming’ wasn’t with an investment from billion- United States that day, according tion.
were dealt a parting blow from a and decide if they should be re- just a catch-phrase.” aire Republican megadonor Re- to data from Sensor Tower. [email protected]
researcher who said she is in the moved or left up. Parler has said it The Post has not been able to bekah Mercer, who with her fa- Some posts on Parler echoed [email protected]
process of archiving nearly all doesn’t depend on artificial-intel- independently verify the archive ther has helped bankroll Trump, common social media themes —
public posts on Parler and will ligence technology to find and of scraped Parler posts, although the far-right site Breitbart News cooking tips or updates on life Tonya Riley contributed to this report.

A Conversation with
James B. Comey
Former FBI Director & Author of
“Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust”

Moderated by The Post’s Carol Leonnig

on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 2:30 p.m. ET

Former FBI Director James B. Comey returns to Washington Post Live to

discuss his latest book, “Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust.”
From the FBI to his work as an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy
attorney general, Comey will also give us his perspective on the siege at
the U.S. Capitol, and the political, legal, and security ramifications of a
post-Trump Washington.

Watch Live: wapo.st/comey

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Banks, partners flee Trump brand in backlash to attack

BY J OSH D AWSEY, suffered severely from pandemic-
D AVID A . F AHRENTHOLD related business closures. The
AND J ONATHAN O ’ C ONNELL New York Times reported that
Deutsche Bank had determined it
In November — as President would not do business with
Trump began his effort to over- Trump in the future. A Deutsche
turn the election he had lost — his Bank spokesman declined to com-
longtime friend Tom Barrack ment to The Post.
called him with advice: Stop, for Also, at one of Trump’s most
the sake of your business. troubled and debt-saddled prop-
The Trump Organization was erties, he will soon have a new
already struggling, hurt by politi- landlord: the Biden administra-
cal backlash and coronavirus-re- tion.
lated closures, facing huge unpaid Trump’s D.C. hotel operates in
loans. Barrack told Trump that he the federally owned Old Post Of-
could help that business — as well fice building under a contract
as his aides, and the country itself with the federal government. For
— by ensuring a peaceful transi- several years, therefore, Trump
tion, according to a person famil- has effectively been his own land-
iar with the conversation. lord — and a fairly understanding
An “elegant” exit, Barrack said, one.
could preclude what could be a Since Trump was elected, the
painful future: millions of dollars General Services Administration,
in legal costs, rampant investiga- which oversees the lease, has ap-
tions and more boycotts of his proved his ownership — despite a
businesses. clause saying the lease could not
Trump did not follow Barrack’s benefit an elected official — and
advice. blocked House Democrats’ inqui-
Now, the Trump Organization ries into the hotel. The GSA has
is facing the consequences: In the said Trump is in compliance be-
past week, it has lost a bank, an cause he wasn’t an elected official
e-commerce platform and the when he signed the lease.
privilege of hosting a world-fa- One of those Democrats, House
mous golf tournament, and its Transportation and Infrastruc-
hopes of hosting another have ture Committee Chairman Peter
been dashed. In the future, the A. DeFazio (Ore.) said Tuesday
Trump Organization also could that he hoped Biden’s team would
lose its D.C. hotel and even its release documents to show
children’s carousel in Central whether Trump derived improper
Park, if government landlords in benefits from the contract while
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Washington and New York reeval- president.
uate their contracts with Trump. Police keep watch as a small group protests near Trump Tower in Chicago on Thursday, the day after last week’s deadly mob attack on the “My Committee’s investigation
By refusing to acknowledge U.S. Capitol in Washington. The president’s private business, which was struggling before the siege, faces becoming a pariah. has not ended — it was stone-
that he would be returning to walled. I expect our records re-
private life, Trump appears to ment Tuesday. The White House race to Biden without drama, he That was bad. But as of Election golf course. quests to be honored by the Biden
have sabotaged what could have declined to comment. would have returned to a compa- Day, Trump still had partners who Also Tuesday, Professional administration,” DeFazio said in a
been his best chance at success in One senior administration offi- ny that had been diminished — could help him recover. Bank — a Florida entity that lent statement to The Post.
that realm — a rebound of the cial said Trump was particularly literally and metaphorically — Then came the attack on the Trump’s company $11.2 million in Still, Trump’s D.C. hotel strug-
battered Trump brand. infuriated about the PGA of Amer- since he took office in January Capitol. 2018 to buy the president’s sister’s gled: Company documents ob-
Now, through his encourage- ica’s decision to move the 2022 2017. The first backlash fell upon, of home near Mar-a-Lago — said it tained by The Post said the hotel
ment of rioters who ransacked the PGA Championship away from Four Trump-branded hotels all things, the Trump website that would no longer do business with had been running nearly half-
U.S. Capitol, Trump has made his Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., golf had closed. The company’s plans sells candles and T-shirts. Trump. empty, even before the pandemic,
company a pariah and driven course. Trump wanted to know for new hotel chains had fizzled. TrumpStore.com had been “Professional Bank has decided The Post has reported. The com-
away allies who could have what legal rights his company had The remaining hotels had been hit hosted by the e-commerce website not to engage in any further busi- pany sought to sell the operation,
brought it revenue and post-poli- to stop the organization from by political backlash, and then by Shopify — until last week. ness with the Trump Organization then pulled it off the market after
tics credibility. moving it. the pandemic, which has devas- “Shopify does not tolerate ac- and its affiliates, and will be wind- the novel coronavirus hit. Trump
“Most financial institutions The official, speaking like some tated the hospitality industry: At tions that incite violence,” the ing down the relationship effec- borrowed about $170 million from
and investors avoided doing busi- others on the condition of ano- Trump’s Chicago hotel in the fall, company said. As of Tuesday eve- tive immediately,” the bank said in Deutsche Bank to renovate the
ness with him before he ran for nymity to comment candidly, said the managing director told inves- ning, the site was still down. a statement. Trump also has a building.
president, and the situation now Trump had been a bit tors, “It’s going to be very, very Then Trump lost the real estate money market account at the Now some experts think the
has only gotten worse,” said Kath- “shellshocked” at the corporate tough to keep the boat afloat.” broker working to sell his D.C. bank worth at least $5 million, Biden administration may have
ryn Wylde, the leader of the Part- backlash to his comments preced- The D.C. hotel’s BLT Prime res- hotel. He lost the PGA Champion- according to his most recent fi- grounds simply to revoke the
nership for New York City, an in- ing the attack on the Capitol. taurant had quietly lost its deco- ship, one of golf’s four majors, nancial disclosure. The bank’s de- lease, particularly if Trump runs
fluential group that includes the A former senior administration rated chef, David Burke, who told which was scheduled to be played cision was first reported by the into further legal trouble. One
leaders of banks and Fortune 500 official said that Trump has long The Washington Post on Tuesday at his Bedminster, N.J., club in Wall Street Journal. clause in the contract says Trump
companies. wanted regular updates on how that he left in the fall after ES- 2022. The event would have given That may not be the extent of would be in violation if he is “un-
Wylde was able to secure sup- his businesses are performing — quared Hospitality, the New York- him a massive spotlight in a sport Trump’s troubles. der investigation by any govern-
port for an open letter against particularly his Mar-a-Lago Club based company that operates the he loves. He still owes that $400 million, ment authority for alleged crimi-
Trump’s efforts to overturn the and the Bedminster golf club. upscale steakhouse, ended his In Britain, Trump’s hopes of much of it to Deutsche Bank. Un- nal activity” — meaning federal or
election from almost 200 major “The happiest I saw the president contract. Burke said it was prob- landing another major golf tour- der normal circumstances, a bor- D.C. agencies.
companies — including most of was when all the biggest people in ably because of the economics of nament — the British Open — rower might seek to refinance or A Biden transition spokesman
the major banks and real estate business were around him and the pandemic. were dashed, as the organizers extend those loans, perhaps by declined to comment.
firms in New York — within 36 kissing his ring,” the former offi- Trump has at times railed about said they would not use Trump’s getting a loan from a different As of Tuesday night, Eric Trump
hours, a sign of how angry many cial said, citing one particular business losses resulting from his Turnberry club in Scotland for bank. But experts say the former had not tweeted at all since the
are with his actions. That was event in Florida where real estate being president, a senior adminis- “the foreseeable future.” president is likely to have extreme day of the Capitol attack. The
before Jan. 6. honchos and others each paid tration official said, complaining This week, Trump lost his ac- difficulty finding a Wall Street Trump Organization’s official
“If he remains a visible player, $580,000 to Trump’s campaign. in the Oval Office that the scrutiny counts at New York’s Signature bank willing to refinance proper- Twitter account has been silent
no one will want to be associated Trump still owns his organiza- and bad publicity were costing Bank, which gave back the money ties that he controls. since Jan. 1, when it wished the
with him in any kind of public way, tion but has given day-to-day lead- him “billions.” and put out a statement telling At Deutsche Bank, which had world a happy new year.
because he is going to symbolize ership to his sons Donald Jr. and Trump also is facing state-level him to resign. New York City said bailed Trump out of financial [email protected]
the destabilization of the Ameri- Eric. The company has not said investigations into his financial it was “reviewing whether legal hardships before, his personal [email protected]
can political system,” Wylde said. what Trump’s role there will be practices in New York, and more grounds exist” to terminate banker resigned recently. And his [email protected]
The Trump Organization did after he leaves office Jan. 20. than $400 million in loans will Trump’s contracts for ice rinks, existing loans with Deutsche
not respond to requests for com- Even if Trump had conceded his come due in the next few years. the carousel and the city-owned Bank are on properties that have Tim Carman contributed to this report.

Tech giants responded to events but may be hesitant to act again quickly
closed two Trump-associated ternet law, to hold the companies by current events and media sion for them,” she said. by kids, Apple allowed the apps
stores. Zendesk and Okta, which more responsible for their mod- coverage. Horrific events lead to Google’s decision to suspend to remain on the store because
With moves against provide popular back-end busi- eration decisions. more media scrutiny of online Parler was made under an they use some content modera-
Trump and Parler, firms ness services, both said they had Google-owned YouTube said it platforms, which then react to existing policy that requires tion and other safeguards.
stopped working with Parler. would ban accounts that pushed public pressure with stricter en- apps that host user-generated When Apple removed Parler
wade into speech debate Reddit banned a major group on election misinformation, but forcement of their guidelines. content to moderate that con- from its app store over the week-
its site for Trump supporters. only after three strikes. Trump’s The pattern has played out tent, which it alleged Parler end, it cited the same reason
TikTok, the Chinese-owned so- account remains available. with companies slowly shifting failed to do. Google also stopped Google did — Parler’s content
BY G ERRIT D E V YNCK, cial media app Trump has railed Facebook CEO Mark Zucker- their policies over the past sev- allowing right-wing website moderation was not effective
R EED A LBERGOTTI against, banned some videos of berg has long maintained that he eral years, often after consistent MyMilitia.com to use its services enough. “The processes Parler
AND J AY G REENE him speaking. is uncomfortable with the role of pressure from inside their own to run advertisements, citing an has put in place to moderate or
Taken together, the “coherence deciding what kind of speech is workforces. In 2017, Internet existing policy against supplying prevent the spread of dangerous
When major tech companies of the tech response” to the riots allowed on his platform and companies cut off services for sites that threaten violence. and illegal content have proved
cut President Trump from their was “unprecedented,” said Han- what is not, and he has suggested neo-Nazi website the Daily insufficient. Specifically, we have
services and effectively shuttered nah Bloch-Wehba, an associate it is the government’s role to set Stormer after a counterprotester continued to find direct threats
a right-wing social network over professor at the Texas A&M those rules. was killed by a white suprema- of violence and calls to incite
the past week, it sent shock School of Law who has studied “If you want to be effective, cist during a march in Char- “Up until now, they’ve lawless action,” Apple told Parler
waves through the country and content moderation. you absolutely need to go fur- lottesville. A year later, YouTube, before removing the app, accord-
abroad as a stark reminder of The situation highlights the ther,” said Bloch-Wehba. That Facebook and other tech plat- come up with excuse ing to a statement provided by
their power. power that antitrust regulators could mean involving more com- forms banned conspiracy theo- Apple.
But the tech companies might around the world are scrutiniz- panies like Amazon Web Services rist Alex Jones’s Infowars. after excuse” for Parler has been operating
be hesitant to act again quickly. ing — the ability of a handful of or Cloudflare, which can render In October, Facebook banned without censure from the app
Banning Trump from Twitter tech giants to decide what can websites and online applications thousands of groups that sup- allowing conspiracy stores for months, and got a
and Facebook and removing Par- exist online. In Europe, the useless by depriving them of the ported the pro-Trump QAnon boost in popularity around the
ler from the Apple and Google moves have already prompted necessary infrastructure to oper- conspiracy theory, strengthening theories and hate November election.
app stores count among the big- concerns. A spokesman for Ger- ate. But that approach has come a previous policy that had Even if tech companies do not
gest actions tech companies have man Chancellor Angela Merkel with big risks. “The closer you get blocked QAnon groups that speech. go any further, the actions of the
taken to wade into the debate said that Merkel saw Trump’s ban to infrastructure, the more dan- pushed for violence. In Decem- Madihha Ahussain, special counsel past week amount to a real
around free speech and political as “problematic” and that gov- gerous those decisions are. Be- ber, YouTube said it would begin for the nonprofit Muslim Advocates change, said Nandini Jammi, a
violence in America. For the most ernment should be behind such cause if they’re wrong, the costs blocking videos that made false marketing industry advocate and
part, the tech companies applied decisions, not private companies. are significantly higher,” she said. claims about the 2020 general co-founder of Check My Ads, a
existing policies against inciting In the United States, conserva- Apple declined to comment. election, a policy change that Apple’s App Store rules say it consulting firm that helps adver-
violence to ban Trump and Parl- tives used the bans as more Google pointed to its existing resulted in some videos from will remove apps for content or tisers avoid sites with hate
er, moves that critics said were fodder for their claims that tech policies against inciting violence. Trump’s account being taken behavior “that we believe is over speech and disinformation.
overdue. Trump had used Twitter companies are biased against Facebook Chief Operating Offi- down. On Monday, Twitter said it the line.” But the guidelines offer “We reached a turning point
and Facebook to encourage riot- them, which the companies deny. cer Sheryl Sandberg said in an doubled down against QAnon few specifics, quoting instead since last week because the pub-
ers, and members of the far right Democrats, who will soon con- interview with Reuters on Mon- supporters, banning 70,000 ac- from a famous Supreme Court lic started to understand this
had communicated on Parler be- trol Congress as well as the day that the company had no counts associated with the con- justice’s definition of pornogra- very direct relationship between
fore the attack. presidency, want to enact new plans to end the ban on Trump. spiracy theory. phy: “ ‘I’ll know it when I see it.’ bad things happening around
Amazon kicked Parler off its laws to curb tech’s power. Parler CEO John Matze said in Madihha Ahussain, special And we think that you will also them and the services and the
cloud computing service, effec- Tech companies have general- a statement that the company counsel for Muslim Advocates, a know it when you cross it.” companies that enabled it,”
tively forcing it to shut down ly been reluctant to ban popular forbids incitement to violence nonprofit devoted to stopping In the past, Apple has hesitat- Jammi said. “Now that that rela-
completely on Monday while it politicians or social movements, and had worked to meet Apple bigotry online, tied the tech ed to hold developers responsible tionship is clear, it’s going to be a
worked to find a different provid- even when presented with exam- and Google’s requirements for giants’ efforts to the shifting when apps like Parler allow users lot harder for companies to play
er. Parler responded by suing ples of behavior that break their content moderation. political winds in Washington. to produce content of their own. this game of neutrality and claim
Amazon, alleging that it broke its rules against harassment and In lieu of new legislation that “Up until now, they’ve come up Instead, Apple will reach out to that they are simply a public
contract by not giving the social violence. Twitter started adding would limit harmful content on- with excuse after excuse” for developers and work with them utility.”
network enough notice. (Amazon labels to some of the president’s line — an effort that would likely allowing conspiracy theories and on improving their content mod- [email protected]
chief executive Jeff Bezos owns tweets that broke its rules last butt up against First Amendment hate speech, she said. Ahussain eration capabilities. When The [email protected]
The Washington Post.) May after grappling with the protections — the role of technol- said the companies fear regula- Washington Post found reports [email protected]
Smaller companies also joined decision for two years. Both po- ogy firms in the battle against tion from a Democratic- of unwanted sexual content, rac-
in taking action. Shopify, which litical parties want to amend misinformation and hate speech controlled Congress and White ism and bullying on “random  More at washingtonpost.com/
provides online store software, Section 230, a foundational In- follows a repetitive cycle driven House. “This is a business deci- chat apps,” which are often used technology

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Trump appointee says riot led by ‘a few violent people’

BY Y EGANEH T ORBATI call. “I saw a few violent people 60 people have been arrested in ment his own professional pros- for Democracy, Human Rights, Endowment for International
and I’m not, I would never en- connection to the storming of the pects after serving in the Trump and Governance, according to Peace, a Washington think tank.
An outgoing Trump adminis- dorse violence. But what I saw was capitol. Five people died, and administration. Before joining USAID’s website. The website also One official on the call pushed
tration political appointee at the a lot of people who were commit- 56 D.C. police officers were in- USAID, he worked at the Asia reports he began his career in back on Meisburger’s comments,
nation’s leading foreign aid agen- ted to reform. And they were jured. Foundation for more than two international development as a noting that her husband was at
cy told staff on Tuesday that the committed to electoral reform.” Republicans and Democrats decades, most recently as director Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho the Capitol during the riots. “It
deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol was A USAID spokeswoman de- have denounced the violence. for elections and political process- in 1988 and has worked as a was a lot of people, it was enough
the work of “a few violent people” clined to comment. The Post ob- Lawmakers in both parties have es, according to his LinkedIn pro- specialist in elections and democ- people to actually break into the
and added that “several million” tained two different recordings of called for Trump’s removal, be- file. ratization since 1992. Capitol,” said the woman, accord-
others there were protesting the same meeting, where Meis- cause of his role in inciting the “I know that I’ve been blacklist- Several current and former ing to an audio recording of the
peacefully for electoral reform, burger made the comments. mob. ed now by the Lincoln Project and USAID officials pointed out what video chat.
according to audio recordings of a When The Post reached Meis- Meisburger also suggested that canceled by antifa, so I may not be they saw as the hypocrisy of Meis- She also pushed back on the
staff meeting obtained by The burger by phone for comment, the fact that some people believe working in this particular sector burger’s comments, given his role idea that “perception” of a sup-
Washington Post. Meisburger declined to comment the presidential election was in the future,” he said. as a democracy specialist. posedly fraudulent election was
Tim Meisburger is a Trump and then hung up, and did not fraudulent was enough to call the It is unclear what Meisburger Steven Feldstein, a former enough to call the results into
appointee and an outgoing depu- respond to subsequent text mes- overall results into question. was referring to. The Lincoln Proj- USAID and State Department of- question, referring to efforts be-
ty assistant administrator at the sages. There has been no evidence of ect did not immediately return a ficial who served during the Bush fore the election to sow doubt in
U.S. Agency for International De- There were not several million widespread fraud, with multiple request for comment. For weeks, and Obama administrations, said the results due to the greater use
velopment’s bureau for develop- people protesting at the Capitol courts across the country dismiss- Meisburger’s private Twitter ac- Meisburger’s comments were of mail-in ballots.
ment, democracy and innovation. last Wednesday, nor at an earlier ing cases that alleged fraud in the count has included retweets of shocking for their “tone deaf- Meisburger replied that he was
Meisburger made the comments rally at the Ellipse, near the White November election. election fraud allegations. On ness." “not going to get into a debate
on a video call with approximately House. Organizers had expected “Whether you believe the elec- Nov. 7, Meisburger tweeted that “How can U.S. government de- with anyone today.”
70 to 80 USAID workers, accord- up to 30,000 people to attend the tions were free or fair or not, all of the “media perpetrated hoax after mocracy assistance officials con- Another employee then asked
ing to one USAID official who rally. you know that in the election hoax designed to influence the tinue to promote peaceful, legiti- Meisburger if he himself was at
spoke on the condition of ano- Also, multiple videos of the game, perception is reality, and if election in 2018 and 2020, and mate and fair elections around the Capitol with the rioters but
nymity to describe internal com- incident contradict the descrip- people don’t have confidence in actively censored my political the world, while at the same time was told that Meisburger was no
munications at the agency. tion that Meisburger gave of the their institutions then it doesn’t party, and we are supposed to offering suggestions that the U.S. longer on the call. Meisburger
“What I saw was several million riots, showing that scores of peo- matter whether what occurred in accept in when THEY call the elections themselves and the vio- later rejoined and said his connec-
people demonstrating in the Capi- ple pushed their way into the the election machine was perfect- election? Never!!!” lent aftermath are an acceptable tion had dropped, but he did not
tol, peaceful protesters in the Cap- Capitol, attacking several police ly correct or whether it was com- Meisburger works within the conclusion to our electoral proc- answer whether he had been at
itol,” said Meisburger, according officers, including one who was pletely false,” he said. Bureau for Development, Democ- ess?” asked Feldstein, who is now the rally.
to an audio recording of the video beaten with a flagpole. More than Meisburger also seemed to la- racy and Innovation at the Center a senior fellow at the Carnegie [email protected]

Walmart halts donations to lawmakers who voted against Biden’s victory

BY A ARON G REGG cal donations from their PACs. tween 2014 and 2020 Republicans
Walmart’s PAC last year donat- received more from the company.
Walmart, the country’s largest ed $1.2 million, split evenly be- Northrop Grumman’s PAC has
retailer, is halting donations from tween Democrats and Republi- previously contributed to several
its political action committee to cans, though its contributions in of the lawmakers who led the
the campaigns of congressional previous election cycles have typi- effort or voted to overturn the
Republicans who opposed certi- cally skewed Republican. The election results. From 2015 to
fying President-elect Joseph Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer 2020 the PAC gave $5,000 to the
Biden’s election, joining defense said in a statement that it assesses campaign of Sen. Josh Hawley
giant Northrop Grumman and and adjusts its political giving (R-Mo.), according to the Center
other major corporations taking a strategy at the end of each elec- for Responsive Politics. In the
stand against violent riots many tion cycle and will continue its most recent election cycle, it gave
believe were sparked by President review in coming months. $15,000 to the campaign of Rep.
Trump in an effort to overturn the Last year, Northrop Grum- Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and
November election. man’s PAC also contributed $10,000 to Rep. Mo Brooks (R-
“In light of last week’s attack on roughly equally to Democrats and Ala.), among others who voted to
the U.S. Capitol, Walmart’s politi- Republicans. overturn the election.
cal action committee is indefi- “We are pausing political ac- The defense industry has in
nitely suspending contributions tion committee giving and evalu- many ways walked in lockstep
to those members of Congress ating the way forward,” said with Trump since he took office.
who voted against the lawful cer- Northrop Grumman Vice Presi- The industry has benefited signif-
tification of state electoral college dent of Communications Tim icantly from increased military
votes,” the company said in a Paynter. Northrop Grumman did spending under Trump, as well as
statement Tuesday. not release a statement explain- the president’s support for inter-
On Monday evening Northrop ing its decision. national arms sales. Lockheed
Grumman became the first de- Northrop Grumman’s move to Martin became a centerpiece of a
fense manufacturer to halt all halt donations is significant in an White House-sponsored advertis-
donations from its political action industry generally reluctant to ing campaign highlighting the
committee, joining a growing cor- criticize the commander in chief. administration’s job creation cre-
porate backlash against the Capi- Trade associations represent- JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST dentials.
tol violence Wednesday. Several ing the defense industry issued President Trump talks in 2018 with Kathy J. Warden, president and chief operating officer of Northrop When Trump blamed “both
other large government contrac- statements publicly condemning Grumman. On Monday, it became the first defense manufacturer to halt donations from its PAC. sides” for violence at a Charlottes-
tors, including Raytheon Tech- the violence but did not directly ville white supremacist rally in
nologies and BAE Systems, later criticize Trump or single out con- Tuesday that they would halt do- day. ing those of the 147 Republicans 2017, defense firms were among
followed suit. gressional Republicans. Aero- nations. And BAE Systems Inc., the U.S. who voted to overturn the No- the few companies that support-
In the days since Trump sup- space Industry Association Presi- Raytheon Technologies, a mas- subsidiary of a British defense vember election. ed the president’s business coun-
porters temporarily halted the dent Eric Fanning condemned sive Massachusetts-based de- manufacturer, reacted to what An analysis by the nonprofit cils. Other corporations left the
certification of Biden’s election the riots along with “those who fense-tech company that formed spokeswoman Tammy Thorp re- Center for Responsive Politics councils in protest, leading to
win in attacks that left a police incite such violence" without through a merger of Raytheon ferred to as “disturbing” events at found four defense firms among their dissolution.
officer and four others dead, naming Trump directly. National and United Technologies, halted the capitol. the top 20 contributors to the Northrop Grumman was not a
many well-known brands have Defense Industrial Association all contributions to “reflect on the “In response to the deeply dis- campaigns of Republicans who part of the president’s business
rebuked the president and mem- President Hawk Carlisle called current environment and deter- turbing violence at the U.S. Capi- objected to Biden’s win. Northrop councils even before the Char-
bers of Congress seen as enabling the riot “despicable” for causing a mine appropriate next steps,” said tol on January 6th, our U.S. politi- Grumman was 10th among them lottesville rallies. But the compa-
him. “breakdown of the rule of law” Raytheon spokesman Chris John- cal action committee has sus- with $687,500 donated to law- ny suffered its own fallout from
AT&T, Marriott, the Blue Cross and “the desecration of the Capi- son. pended all donations while we makers who objected to the elec- the rally when ProPublica and the
Blue Shield Association and tol building.” Leidos, a Reston-based compa- assess the path forward,” Thorp tion. television program “Frontline”
American Express were among Some of Northrop’s peers at the ny that specializes in government said. Political giving from Northrop identified one of its systems engi-
many that said they would with- top of the U.S. defense industry, IT and other technology services, The defense industry, through Grumman’s employee-funded neers as a member of a white
hold donations from their politi- Lockheed Martin and Boeing paused all political donations be- sophisticated lobbying opera- PAC reached $4.8 million last year supremacist organization.
cal action committees to lawmak- General Dynamics, had not halt- cause “democracy thrives on pas- tions and a manufacturing supply according to the nonprofit — its Northrop Grumman fired the en-
ers who voted against certifying ed donations or issued state- sionate debate and different opin- chain spanning all 50 states, has highest point in at least 30 years. gineer after a video surfaced
Biden’s win. Others — including ments as of Tuesday afternoon. ions but dies in anarchy and vio- long held significant sway in Con- Contributions from the PAC in showing him punching a Black
Google, Microsoft and BlackRock But three other large govern- lence,” as Chief Executive Roger gress. It is also a prolific contribu- 2020 were roughly evenly split, man at the Charlottesville riot.
— said they were halting all politi- ment contractors later confirmed Krone put it in a statement Tues- tor to political campaigns, includ- slightly favoring Democrats. Be- [email protected]

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Praised then panned by Trump, Liz Cheney will vote for his impeachment
BY M ICHAEL K RANISH

Rep. Liz Cheney’s historic deci-

sion Tuesday to vote to impeach
President Trump had its roots in a
dramatic phone call from her fa-
ther, former vice president Rich-
ard B. Cheney, who was watching
events unfold on television last
week and warned that she was
being verbally attacked by the
president.
Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third-
ranking member of the House
Republican leadership, became
the most prominent congres-
sional Republican to call for
Trump’s impeachment. “There
has never been a greater betrayal
by a President of the United States
of his office and his oath to the
Constitution,” Cheney said in a
statement. “I will vote to impeach
the president.”
Six days earlier, Cheney was in
the House chamber, urging that
Republicans reject efforts pushed
by Trump and many others in her
party to challenge the electoral
college results that determined
Trump had lost his reelection bid.
She did not know she was being
attacked by Trump, who was de-
livering the speech that would
incite a mob to storm the Capitol,
until her father reached her by
phone in the House cloakroom.
“We got to get rid of the weak
congresspeople, the ones that
aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys
of the world,” Trump said in the
speech, singling her out as he
urged the mob to march to the
Capitol.
After being informed of the
president’s tirade by her father, MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST

Cheney walked out on the House Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking member of the House GOP leadership, said Tuesday she will vote to impeach President Trump, the most prominent Republican to do so.
floor, still hoping to stop the effort
backed by Trump to overturn the who disagree with her decision to Democrats. But the advice was can Conference Committee. tion of justice. Trump said Liz saying “we got to get rid” of
electoral college votes. Then she consider “whether there should not heeded by the vast majority of She won the post by arguing Cheney had pushed for the par- Cheney, he said, “You know, she
heard a mob banging on the be political consequences for her those in Cheney’s caucus, as 139 that Republicans needed to don. never wants a soldier brought
chamber’s doors and a shot fired, internally.” out of 211 House Republicans vot- change their messaging and be Speaking at the White House in home. I brought a lot of soldiers
and realized that an attempted Tuesday night, Rep. Matt ed to challenge electoral college more aggressive. Soon she was July 2019, Trump said, “Scooter home.”
insurrection was underway. She Rosendale (R-Mont.) called for votes from Arizona, Pennsylvania launching all-out assaults, saying Libby is a man that got treated Cheney, who was unanimously
hustled to a secure location and Cheney to step down as the chair or both. in March 2019 on NBC’s “Meet the very unfairly and Liz was right in reelected to her leadership posi-
later called Fox News. of the House Republican Confer- Among those supporting the Press” that Democrats were “the the forefront of that one and I tion in November, has a voting
“There is no question that the ence. “She is weakening our con- effort to challenge the results was party of anti-Semitism, the party said, ‘What do you think, Liz,’ and record that underscores her con-
president formed the mob, the ference at a key moment for per- Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of infanticide, the party of social- you said, ‘Absolutely, he deserves servatism. She has high ratings
president incited the mob, the sonal political gain and is unfit to (Calif.), a potential rival to Cheney ism.” it,’ and it’s been a very popular from right-leaning organizations
president addressed the mob,” lead,” he said in a statement. for the speakership if Republicans Moderator Chuck Todd re- pardon.” At another event, Trump and 0 percent ratings from groups
Cheney told the network where Liz Cheney, 54, has been a regain the House in two years. sponded by asking Cheney, “Do said that “Liz Cheney was so dedi- such as the Human Rights Cam-
she once worked and whose pun- member of the House of Repre- McCarthy spokesman Matt you feel comfortable that Presi- cated — and the loyalty. That was paign, which advocates for gay
dits had long supported Trump. sentatives for only four years, co- Sparks said Republicans welcome dent Trump has done enough to just an honor for me to do it.” He rights; the League of Conserva-
“He lit the flame.” inciding with Trump’s presidency. differing views and said the “lead- tamp down this right-wing fringe called Cheney “a wonderful per- tion Voters; and Planned Parent-
The dramatic moments, re- But she rose in meteoric fashion ership team is united.” anti-Semitism that has been ris- son, and somebody that has, I hood Action fund, according to
counted by a source familiar with to the top ranks of GOP leadership On Monday night, in a confer- ing up?” don’t know, a pretty unlimited GovTrack.
them, led her to back impeach- after just one term representing ence call with Republicans, Mc- Cheney did not directly answer future.” Stuart Stevens, a political con-
ment. Wyoming, leaving admirers and Carthy said he opposed impeach- the question, which foreshad- Soon, however, Cheney and sultant who worked with Liz
“The president could have im- enemies in her wake. ment, while Cheney declined to owed elements of the attack on Trump were at political war. Cheney during both Bush-Cheney
mediately and forcefully inter- Liz Cheney declined to com- reveal her view, other than to say, the Capitol. “Look, I don’t believe campaigns and recently wrote a
vened to stop the violence,” ment. Richard Cheney did not “This is going to be a vote of this is right or left,” she said. “I A fight with Trump book in which he predicted she
Cheney said in the statement. “He respond to a request for comment. conscience.” think this is an issue on which all Cheney criticized Trump’s han- would run for president, said she
did not.” She and her father have had an of us should come together.” dling of the coronavirus, seeming has become the “de facto leader of
The decision marked an ex- up-and-down relationship with Attacking Democrats Trump had feuded with to scorn the president’s resistance the Republican Party,” which he
traordinary denouement for Trump that turned toxic. As she Cheney served as deputy assis- Cheney’s father, saying in 2011 to wearing a mask by tweeting a said should be distinguished from
Cheney and her potentially pre- heard Trump and many of her tant secretary of state for Near that “I didn’t like Cheney when he picture of her father wearing a what he called the pro-Trump “au-
carious perch in the party’s lead- colleagues declare several weeks Eastern affairs during the admin- was a vice president. Here’s a guy face covering with the hashtag thoritarian party.”
ership. She had feuded for months ago that Congress should seek to istration of her father’s first term that did a rotten job as vice presi- #realmenwearmasks. After Cheney’s recent actions helped
with Trump and lately had been at challenge the electoral college re- as vice president. She then played dent. Nobody liked him.” Trump said “I appreciate” support mend a family rift. She was once
odds with the majority of her sults, she sat down to write a a crucial role in the 2004 Bush- Richard Cheney, meanwhile, from QAnon, the conspiracy theo- criticized by her sister, Mary, who
caucus, even as speculation 21-page memo warning Republi- Cheney reelection campaign, af- said in February 2016 that Trump ry group, Cheney called it a “dan- is openly gay and married, for
mounts about whether she might cans against the effort. ter which she returned to her post sounded like a “liberal Democrat” gerous lunacy.” opposing same-sex marriage.
one day seek the speakership. The “By objecting to electoral at the State Department and later and that he would not endorse Cheney blasted Trump’s pro- “As many people know, Liz and
move was applauded by those in slates, members are unavoidably served a stint as a Fox News pun- him. But two months later, CNN posal to withdraw U.S. troops I have definitely had our differ-
the party who have urged a clean asserting that Congress has the dit. reported that Cheney was break- from Germany as “dangerously ences, but I am incredibly proud
break with Trump. authority to overturn elections In 2016, Cheney sought Wyo- ing with the two former Bush misguided,” prompting a rebuke of how she handled herself during
“It is a remarkable statement and overrule state and federal ming’s lone U.S. House seat, which presidents, who did not support from Trump, who tweeted that the fight over the Electoral Col-
that sets a new bar for leadership courts,” she wrote in the memo, her father had once held. After Trump, and endorsed him at a “Liz Cheney is only upset because lege,” Mary Cheney wrote on her
in the House,” said Brendan Buck, which she released last week. winning the seat, Cheney’s ambi- time when the candidate had all I have been actively getting our Facebook page last week. “She
a former aide to House Speaker “Such objections set an exception- tion was to become one of the but wrapped up the nomination. great and beautiful Country out of stood up to President Trump. . . .
John A. Boehner. “She is turning ally dangerous precedent, threat- most powerful women on Capitol After the election, with Liz the ridiculous and costly Endless He even denounced her by name
the page on Donald Trump. I ening to steal states’ explicit con- Hill. Cheney winning a House seat at Wars.” The dispute prompted from the stage at yesterday’s rally
think she is doing the right thing stitutional responsibility for After winning reelection in the same time Trump captured some House Republicans to — something that should definite-
in her mind, and when you do the choosing the President and be- 2018, a year in which Republicans the presidency, Trump baldly launch a failed effort to oust her ly be considered a badge of honor.
right thing for the right reasons stowing it instead on Congress. lost control of the House, enabling tried to win the Cheney family’s from her leadership post. Good job Big Sister.”
you have to hope the politics work This is directly at odds with the Nancy Pelosi to become speaker, goodwill. He pardoned the elder In his speech inciting the mob [email protected]
out for you.” Constitution’s clear text and our Cheney ran for a post traditionally Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. to storm the Capitol, Trump
At the same time, he said, the core beliefs as Republicans.” sought by longtime members: Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was sounded obsessed with Cheney’s Alice Crites and Mike DeBonis
decision will prompt Republicans Cheney’s memo was hailed by leadership of the House Republi- convicted of perjury and obstruc- criticism of him on the issue. After contributed to this report.

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WEDNESDAY Opinion
DANA MILBANK WASHINGTON SKETCH

Five pesky little words

keep stumping Jim Jordan
s lawmakers took up a resolu- sign. If Vice President Pence had integri-

A tion Tuesday to urge President

Trump’s removal under the 25th
Amendment to the Constitu-
tion, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a cap-
tain of the Republican attempt to over-
ty, he would invoke the 25th Amend-
ment. If Republican congressional
leaders had integrity, they would see to
Trump’s removal before he can do more
harm. On Tuesday, an unrepentant
turn the election, defended the months- Trump said his riot-inciting speech was
long effort, which culminated in last “totally appropriate" — as if any more
week’s deadly riot at the Capitol. grounds were needed to justify his
House Rules Committee Chairman ouster.
Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) pleaded with Even if Trump were removed in his fi-
his colleague to cut it out. “There are nal week, though, the punishment
still serious concerns about another at- would be inadequate, because it lets his
tack here in Washington, D.C., and in ev- co-conspirators off the hook. The attack
ery corner of this country because of the on the Capitol was not a protest but a
lies that the election was stolen,” crime. The many people complicit in en-
McGovern cautioned, noting FBI warn- couraging, planning, financing or con-
ings about armed protests planned for doning it need to be held to account:
Sunday at all 50 state capitols. Members of Congress, state legislators
“For the sake of the country, it would and attorneys general, and the Internet
be helpful if you would simply state for platforms, businesses, advertisers and
the record that this election was not sto- political action committees that aid
len,” he urged Jordan. “Those five words, them must be prosecuted, hit with civil
I think, will go a long way to dissuading litigation or defunded.
some of these people.” Trump may preemptively pardon
Those five words were too much for himself in the coming days, but he won’t
Jordan. “Now you have to say exactly be beyond civil and financial punish-
what the left wants,” he complained. As ments. Let’s hope his enablers will be
AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
for the election, Jordan added, “I never likewise held accountable for convinc-
once said it was stolen.” ing millions that the election was stolen, Pro-Trump protesters clash with police outside the Capitol on Jan. 6
No? Right after the election, Jordan and moving some to violence.
stood on the steps of the state Capitol in Jordan told the rules panel that the KATE WOODSOME
Harrisburg, Pa., at a “Stop the Steal” ral- Jan. 6 violence was “as wrong as wrong
ly, surrounded by “Stop the Steal” signs can be” — and then likened the MAGA
and greeted by chants of “Stop the
Steal.” He shouted into a bullhorn that
“our elections should have integrity.”
Later, he alleged, “President Trump
mob’s attack on the Capitol to violence
associated with racial-justice protests.
He also claimed Republicans’ seditious
behavior last week, in which 147 of them
This is what it looks like
got 11 million more votes than he did in
2016 . . . but somehow the guy who nev-
er left his house wins the election?” He
added that “60 million Americans think
voted to overturn the election, was the
same as symbolic objections in 2017
from Democrats, McGovern among
them, in which neither debate nor votes
when the mob turns on you
it was stolen.” (nor insurrection) occurred. hat does a mob look like? In man with the nuclear codes, normal- tol, and one woman had been fatally
Two days before the riot, he was on
Newsmax complaining about “the
fraud” and “the unconstitutional fash-
ion in which these elections were held.”
Jordan said, “It’s time for us to fight.”
Even now, after the sacking of the
Capitol, and with militants planning
more violence because of lies about a
stolen election, Jordan can’t bring him-
self to say Joe Biden legitimately won.
W today’s America, at least, it
looks like the people in
your neighborhood. The
mom and dad who bring the kids to
soccer on Saturdays; the cousin who
ized by Republican leaders and rein-
forced by armed groups aching for a
revolution, it’s not just democracy
that’s in danger. We all are. These mobs
will turn on anyone who doesn’t sup-
shot by police. They were looking for
someone to blame. The president has
said for years that we are the enemy, so
the Capitol rioters believed they were
patriots and we were traitors. One man
On the day of the insurrection, he “Will you admit that Joe Biden won tinkers with his car on Sunday after- port their version of reality. They said he had grown up in East Germany
claimed Democrats “did an end-run fair and square?” the chairman asked. noons. It also looks like the kidnappers erected a gallows, beat at least one and compared us to the Communist
around the Constitution.” Jordan responded by saying states and terrorists you see in movies: police officer to death and screamed at secret police.
In Trump’s infamous speech last acted in “unconstitutional ways.” knives on their belts; a crazed look in EMTs giving CPR to a protester, saying, We were not physically harmed at
week, the president thanked Jordan by “I’m asking you to make a statement their eyes. “You look like traitors with those the time, but in the days after, my
name for “fighting the House.” On Mon- that the election was not stolen,” The mob looks like America. Be- masks on.” muscles spasmed, my stomach tight-
day, he repaid Jordan by giving him the McGovern repeated. cause it is America. As the joint session of Congress ened and I looked over my shoulder for
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the na- Jordan allowed that “Joe Biden is That’s what I saw on Jan. 6, when began to certify state election results threats. We were lucky there were only
tion’s highest civilian honor. going to be sworn in as president” while fellow Americans smashed the win- inside the Capitol, 8,000 individuals 20 or so people nearby when half of
Yet now, after a MAGA mob sacked repeating his “unconstitutional” dows of the Capitol, chanting, “Hang became a crowd with no personal them started laying into us. And while
the Capitol, leaving five dead, Jordan allegations. Mike Pence!” and writing, “Murder the responsibility. Rage and excitement some called us “vermin” and “rodents,”
claims he said nothing about the elec- McGovern again asked Jordan to de- media” on a door. passed from one person to the other others said they didn’t want to hurt
tion being stolen? bunk the “lie out there that Joe Biden What does it feel like when a mob until they were all feeding off an anybody — they just wanted us to
People like Jordan are why the effort did not win the election fair and confronts you? exhilarated fury. understand their cause.
to impeach Trump, which the House square.” For five minutes at the bottom of the Not everyone wanted the violence. I How do you relate when you don’t
takes up Wednesday, is both imperative Replied Jordan, “Are you saying there Capitol southeast steps, my colleague overheard a young man say, “This isn’t share an objective reality? Fact-
and insufficient. was no problems, no concerns with the Joy Sharon Yi and I were surrounded the way. It makes us look bad.” But in a checking delusion is not effective
Certainly, Trump deserves to be im- election?” by a raging group of men and some group that big, there’s no stopping the when the president is promoting con-
peached for inciting an insurrection; If political violence reignites over the women who blamed us for the death of most extreme. spiracy theories. After I had been
lawmakers, direct targets of the attack, next week, blame Trump — but also Jor- a rioter and suggested we should be We can’t hide that we’re press. Joy screamed at for five minutes, some-
have ample justification for doing so. If dan and his ilk. purged. I look calm in the video Joy carries a video camera. So we, and all thing strange happened. A young man
Trump had any integrity, he would re- Twitter: @Milbank filmed of the barrage, but I wasn’t. I the other reporters covering the un- tried to appeal to me by reminding me
just kept thinking, “Don’t provoke rest, became targets. An Associated who I was — “younger to middle-aged
them. Don’t look weak. Don’t give Press photographer was dragged down White woman.” And in that moment, I
them a reason to hurt me or Joy.” the Capitol steps and thrown over a snapped out of the trance and recon-

We cannot afford another day Joy and I are heckled at every Trump
event we cover. We’re no longer
thrown by people screaming “fake
wall. A pen of television reporters was
overrun by a mob that slammed and
kicked their cameras on the ground,
nected with myself and my sense of
humor. I jokingly responded to him
with mock offense, which in turn

without a confirmed DHS leader news” in our faces. What frightened

me at the Capitol was the delusion of
those I interviewed. They truly be-
using the media’s tripods to smash
them apart. Joy ran forward to film,
but I pulled her back, fearing her
seemed to break his own trance.
This man, who told me I’m lucky he’s
not antifa or else he’d beat me, got
lieved the lie — apparently shared by camera would make her prey. We hid nervous that he’d offended me with a
BY M ICHAEL C HERTOFF, millions — that the media conspired our press badges and stood on the reference to my age. He really was the
J EH J OHNSON, J ANET N APOLITANO with Big Tech, judges, state officials, outside of the pen as a rioter told us, guy next door. But while we share a
AND T OM R IDGE Democrats and now, apparently, the “We wouldn’t do this if they were country, we do not share a reality.
vice president to change the election honest people.”
e urge the Senate to promptly results. When the rioters challenged us,

W
The writer is senior video producer for Post
consider and confirm Ale- When a delusion is promoted by the dozens had already breached the Capi- Opinions.
jandro Mayorkas, President-
elect Joe Biden’s nominee for
homeland security secretary. In the wake
of last week’s domestic terrorist attack on
the Capitol — the symbol of our nation’s KATHLEEN PARKER
democracy — it is more urgent than ever

Trump won’t be silenced for long

DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST
to have in place an experienced, capable
and Senate-confirmed leader. That per- Alejandro Mayorkas
son is Mayorkas.
Over the past four years, the Depart- character, integrity, experience and com-
ment of Homeland Security has seen no passion. For three years, he served the e’ve come a long way from him may not have directly caused the disarm anyone. During the 1960s civil-
fewer than six people — two Senate-
confirmed, four acting — at the helm of
the 240,000-person agency charged with
protecting the American people and
their homeland. This has amounted to,
department as its Senate-confirmed dep-
uty secretary. Before that, he led one of
DHS’s largest agencies, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, where he
helped create and administer the De-
W the days when social media
was largely viewed as a posi-
tive development that boost-
ed access and participation in the realm
of mass communications. Anyone and
riots that resulted in five people’s
deaths, but they can’t be considered
unrelated, either.
We know enough about Trump to
know that he needs the spotlight, no
rights and antiwar movements, millions
of people converged in cities across the
country without the aid of cellphones
and laptops. Does anyone really think
that the people behind last week’s jack-
on average, a new secretary every ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals pro- everyone could have a voice and access matter the context. A riot may be a bad ass rodeo can’t pull it off again without
9½ months to manage the turbulent gram. Earlier in his career, he served as to an audience. thing for the country, but it feels like a Twitter or Facebook?
challenges of large-scale cyberattacks, U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. This means President Trump recognized the value good thing if you’re a sore loser with an In times of uncivil discourse, it may
border security, violent white national- he has already been confirmed by the of being able to reach his base without insatiable appetite for attention and an make us feel virtuous to separate our-
ism, wildfires in the West, staff shake-ups Senate three times. The president-elect the filter of the mainstream media — attraction to chaos. Trump’s encourage- selves from society’s coarser elements. It
and firings, the gross politicization of the could not have found a more qualified that is, without fact-checkers, follow-up ment of the protesters, and a false may seem entirely fair to uninvite peo-
agency’s mission, and rulings from the person to be the next homeland security questions or editorial comments. Until promise to march down Pennsylvania ple who abuse basic rules of decorum or
Government Accountability Office and at secretary. Mayorkas needs no on-the-job recently, when Twitter began qualifying Avenue with them, weren’t exactly have no devotion to objective truth.
least one court that the most recent training and will be prepared to lead his tweets with explanatory notes, the throwing sand on a fire. One could even argue that Twitter and
former acting secretary was serving DHS on Day 1. various platforms served him well. Call me crazy, but isn’t it better to Facebook are providing a valuable pub-
illegally. Each of us has, over the past four years, So much for all that. In the wake of know what Trump is thinking — and lic service by blocking objectionable,
Further, last week’s events have laid watched with dismay and alarm as the last week’s breach of the U.S. Capitol, what his minions are plotting — than to seditionist speech — an act of responsi-
bare our nation’s obvious yet unad- outgoing president abused and misused these social media titans have shut force them into hiding? Blocking their ble citizenship that isn’t the same as
dressed vulnerabilities. Indeed, the lead- the Cabinet department we once led. down the president of the United States. conversation from the public square is when government imposes limitations
ership vacuum and turmoil at DHS may DHS should not be beholden to a presi- Both Twitter and Facebook have about as effective as plugging your ears to suppress individual liberty.
have contributed to the failure to antici- dent’s political agenda; it exists for the blocked Trump indefinitely. Amazon, and singing tra-la-la-la-la-la-la. I’ve al- Admittedly, giant social media com-
pate and adequately prepare for the protection of the American people on which owns the gaming streaming site ways viewed social media like the insect panies can often seem like quasi-govern-
attack on the Capitol. The American land, at sea, in the air and in cyberspace. Twitch, disabled Trump’s channel indefi- world: Just because you can’t see or hear mental entities by virtue of their power
people deserve far better. It is time for a The safety and security of our nation is nitely. Meanwhile, Apple and Amazon them doesn’t mean they’re not busy. to decide which speech is acceptable —
proven leader to right the ship. dependent upon a fully functioning gov- have dropped Parler, a platform similar Thus, when we force the insurgency or that serves their own political purpos-
Each of us knows the importance of a ernment that puts the American people to Twitter but without the moderating underground, we don’t eliminate it. We es. This, too, is troubling.
seamless transition and prompt handoff first. Now, more than ever, it is impera- interference of third-party moderators merely condemn its members to the But more troubling is this likely truth:
of DHS from one Senate-confirmed sec- tive to move quickly. We urge the Senate and editorial boards. (Amazon chief shadows where resentment festers and Trump will leave the White House on
retary to another. On Inauguration Day to act swiftly to put Mayorkas in place. executive Jeff Bezos owns The Post.) morphs into even darker shades of anger Jan. 20. But having raised more than
in both 2009 and 2017, for example, the It has been almost two years since DHS In some respects — and surely to and hatred. I’d rather endure annoying $200 million since the election, he won’t
defense and homeland security secretar- had a Senate-confirmed leader. We can- millions of people fed up with Trump — tweets and hostile insults than not know be silenced for long. Nor is his base
ies were the first nominees the Senate not afford to wait one more day. these censorial actions come as a relief. who my enemies are or what they’re going away. Not all of them were part of
acted on in standing up a new adminis- Not only were some of his postings planning next. Effectively, we eliminate the fracas, we should remind ourselves.
tration — within hours of the new presi- The writers are all former homeland security intentionally misleading, but many some of our best intelligence about Thus, the better part of prudence, it
dent taking the oath. In short, the Senate secretaries: Michael Chertoff from 2005 to were potentially dangerous. Some groups’ plans to arm themselves and seems, would be to invite everyone out
has done this before, and must do so 2009; Jeh Johnson from 2013 to 2017; Janet would say demonstrably so. His repeat- descend on every state capitol on into the open and let them talk. It can’t
again. Napolitano from 2009 to 2013; and Tom ed claims to have won the 2020 election Inauguration Day. hurt to listen — and I hate surprises.
We each know Mayorkas as a man of Ridge from 2003 to 2005. and that the election was “stolen” from Nor does the absence of social media [email protected]

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EDITORIALS

Say these words out loud

If the GOP wants reconciliation, it must admit that Mr. Biden won, fair and square.
WEEK after the shocking Jan. 6 tempting to make the 2020 election a from impeachment. This is unhinged.

A invasion of the Capitol by an

angry mob, Republicans are sud-
denly calling for unity. “We must
work together to lower the temperature
and unite the country,” said House Mi-
21st-century Lost Cause, entrenching the
myth that malicious forces subverted
American democracy to install Mr. Biden
against the will of the voters. It is this lie
that Mr. Trump fed his supporters before
Democrats immediately acknowledged
Mr. Trump’s win. There was a broad
factual basis for the Russia investigation
that followed. Democrats did not paint
American democracy as so hopelessly
nority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.). telling them to march to the Capitol and corrupted as to convince a massive chunk
“We must come together and put this show “strength” — and that he continued of the country that the 2016 election was
anger and division behind us,” said to feed them in tweets even during the stolen and inspire a violent attack on the
Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.). It is time to “take the raid. It is the same lie that Mr. McCarthy, Capitol. Only Republicans are guilty of
crazy rhetoric down on both sides,” said Mr. Cruz and a startling number of escalating the nation’s partisan warfare
BY MATT DAVIES FOR NEWSDAY
Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.). What all of these Republicans fueled as they twisted what to such a sad place. Now that the conse-
GOP leaders — and many more calling should have been a rubber-stamp elec- quences of their dishonest campaign are
for reconciliation — have in common is toral vote counting process into a forum becoming clear, it is on them to begin the
that they voted against counting for overturning a clean election and a reconciliation process — by telling the
President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral locus for the mob’s anger. truth. LETTERS TO THE ED ITOR
votes, even after a mob stormed the Some other Republicans and right- Mr. Biden spent much of his presiden-
nation’s seat of government on President wing commentators have argued that tial campaign reaching out to Republi- [email protected]
Trump’s behalf. there is little difference between what cans, taking considerable flak from his
If Republicans want to talk about Republicans have done since last Novem- left for it. Republicans responded by
reconciliation, there is a minimum price
of entry: a straightforward, unequivocal
ber and what Democrats did following
Mr. Trump’s 2016 victory. It would follow,
trying to discredit an election he won,
with tragic consequences. Healing be-
After the insurrection While it is unlikely to prove any more
successful than the prior attempt, in light
acknowledgment that the election was they suggest, that Mr. Biden and the gins by recognizing the facts and saying Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the assault on the Capitol by a frenzied
not rigged and that Mr. Biden won the Democrats should make the first moves these words: Mr. Biden won, fair and was one of the nicest members of the mob, I fully support the efforts of House
vote fair and square. Mr. Trump is at- toward reconciliation by standing down square. force. I first noticed him because he was Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other
so darned handsome, but he was also Democrats to again impeach the presi-
fully engaged, friendly and upbeat. There dent. Republicans call it vindictive but
was a sweetness and intelligence to him. offer no alternate way to hold President
One day, I was coming through the X-ray Trump to account. I call it justice.

Safeguard the inauguration lanes and a tourist with one of those

collapsible batons in her purse was
stopped. The police were taking it away
If nothing else, it will compel Republi-
can legislators to go on the record. Do
they stand with the people of the United
from her, because they are illegal in D.C. States, or do they stand with Mr. Trump?
Law enforcement failed on Jan. 6. It had better get ready for Jan. 20. She was furious, especially when she The judgment of history on those law-
realized they weren’t giving it back to her. makers who continue to support the pres-
HERE WERE plenty of warn- Sicknick took her out of the security lane ident will be as harsh as it will be curt:

T ings about the potential for

violence before last week’s mur-
derous assault on the U.S. Capi-
tol by supporters of President Trump
seeking to disrupt congressional certifi-
and spent a few minutes with her ex-
plaining their obligation to confiscate it. I
won’t say she was happy, but she was
calmed.
Capitol Hill is a small town. If you have
They loved power more than they loved
their country.
Thomas J. McIntyre, Arlington

About the baton vs. flagpole combat

cation of Joe Biden’s election. Right- your eyes open, you see the same people near the Capitol on the Jan. 6: Why did
wing forums were filled with talk about every day, and you become attached to the demonstrators have flagpoles at all?
storming the building, handcuffing law- them. Yes, the interactions are brief, but I went to the March for Science in
makers with zip ties, smuggling in we share a workplace and commitment 2017. We were told that we could have
weapons. Big protest, Mr. Trump had to our work, and years go by like that. I signs but nothing rigid to hold them up
tweeted: “Be there, will be wild.” The feel terrible for him, his parents, his with. Does the government allow rigid
warnings — including a report from the family, his girlfriend and all the other supports for some speech but not others
FBI about a “possible war” at the police on Capitol Hill. That footage leaves in public demonstrations on the Mall?
Capitol — disastrously went unheeded. me bitter. I can only hope that the people Zachary Levine, Rockville
Now, the question is whether law who killed him are haunted by regret for
enforcement officials who failed so every minute of the rest of their sorry I am an independent who was
miserably on Jan. 6 are finally taking lives. shocked, dismayed and angered by the
seriously the threat posed by these Janet Kinzer, Silver Spring attack on our Capitol incited by the presi-
extremists and putting in place dent. If the Republicans do not finally
appropriate safeguards for the Jan. 20 In his Jan. 10 Sunday Opinion essay, stand up in opposition, I think it’s safe to
inauguration. “This GOP needs to go the way of the say they will never win another national
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) Whigs,” Dana Milbank wrote: “The GOP election. Reasonable people will forever
outlined her concerns about security in was born, from the ashes of the Whigs, remember their role and complicity in this
Washington on Jan. 20 and the days under similar circumstances. The Whigs attack on democracy. I’m sorry for those in
leading up to it in a letter calling on in 1848 jettisoned their core principle — the Republican Party who have ideals and
federal agencies to drastically ramp up limited presidential power — in favor of principles that I respect — Sen. Mitt Rom-
security. Addressing acting homeland political expediency.” Well, the Republi- ney (Utah), Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan,
security secretary Chad Wolf — who on can Party beginning with Richard Nix- Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) — but I will never
Monday announced his resignation — on’s “Southern strategy” began its long cast another vote for a Republican for the
Ms. Bowser pointed out the obvious, road of jettisoning fidelity to the princi- rest of my life. Take action and stop
which sadly may need highlighting: ROBB HILL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST ples of Lincoln (who despised the Know pandering to the misguided and the mis-
that this year’s inauguration “will re- Members of the New York National Guard outside the Capitol on Tuesday. Nothings of his day and the enslavers) in informed. They will not help you win
quire a very different approach than favor of political expediency. After Re- elections; people in the middle will.
previous inaugurations, given the cha- fortify the city before the weekend — state unequivocally that there is no publican insurgents waved the Confeder- Colleen Kolb-Cimerman,
os, injury and death experienced at the seem prudent because, judging by on- question who was rightfully elected the ate flag in the Rotunda, it is clear that the Silver Spring
United States Capitol during the insur- line chatter and fliers, some Trump country’s 46th president. Party of Lincoln has completed its trans-
rection.” She asked for an extension of supporters seem intent on making sure Just as it was important for Congress formation into the Party of Jefferson What happened to “I disagree with
the National Special Security Event the assault on the Capitol was not a to return to the Capitol on Wednesday Davis. what you say but will defend to the death
period overseen by the Secret Service — one-off. Capitol Police have briefed night to continue its work certifying the Michael Miller, Lorton your right to say it”? It is truly disturbing
which manages inaugural security — Democratic lawmakers about three po- November election, so is it important to witness media companies having such
from three days to 14 days, daily tentially dangerous demonstrations that nothing be allowed to impede President Trump deserves to be im- a low opinion of the American people’s
intelligence briefings from the FBI and, slated for the coming days. Mr. Biden from taking the oath of office peached and convicted. Even some of his judgment that they feel the necessity to
most controversial, that the Interior There are also plans for widespread at noon on Jan. 20 on the steps of the former supporters and enablers under- manage the information the public re-
Department cancel all public gathering protests throughout the country, target- Capitol. Pandemic restrictions have al- stand this. Unfortunately, there is simply ceives. The elimination of the platforms
permits that have been submitted for ing state capitols, on Jan. 17, the Sunday ready curtailed public events, and we not enough time to do so. And in any the social media executives find objec-
federal property between Jan. 11 and before the inauguration, culminating in hope Washington-area residents heed event, the expiration of Mr. Trump’s term tionable will only infuriate President
Jan. 24. Within a day of her voicing her a “Million Militia March” on Jan. 20 the advice to stay home and enjoy the is about to achieve the same outcome. Trump’s supporters further and will pro-
worries, announcement was made that when Mr. Biden and Vice President- inauguration virtually. We also hope — We would all be better served if Con- vide them with an additional argument
the 6,000 National Guardsmen already elect Kamala D. Harris take the oath of no, we urge — that this country’s gress used this moment of common pur- that there was a systematic, unfair and
in the nation’s capital would be aug- office. This would be a good time for leadership recognize the very real pose to prevent him from ever holding possibly illegal effort to undermine
mented by this weekend with an addi- Republicans who allowed baseless threat that is posed by white domestic any office in the future by censuring him Mr. Trump’s chances of getting reelected.
tional 10,000 troops. questions about election fraud to fester terrorism and marshal the resolve and under the 14th Amendment, Section 3. Frank Silnicky, Bethesda
That — along with other efforts to to make clear they were wrong and to resources to control and eliminate it. An effort by Democrats to impeach will
drive the parties apart rather than unite a Shame on Hugh Hewitt for his
large majority to act to remove Trump’s Jan. 10 Sunday Opinion essay, “A fast-
toxic influence from our politics. tracked impeachment isn’t justice. It’s
Richard Moss, Bethesda pointless revenge.” Mr. Hewitt com-

Mr. Pompeo’s booby traps House Minority Leader Kevin Mc-

Carthy (R-Calif.) said impeaching Presi-
plained that “we have not had a rushed
impeachment in all our history.” Better he
should have acknowledged that never
dent Trump would further divide the have we had a president who spent two
The secretary of state unveils unseemly measures on Taiwan, Cuba and Houthi rebels. country. Given the fact that he was okay months trying to overturn an election
with dividing the country by joining the and who incited an insurrection against
ECRETARY OF State Mike fifths are dependent on humanitarian measure will take effect on Jan. 19, the baseless lawsuit before the Supreme the Capitol. It’s not the supporters of

S Pompeo has been engaged in an

unseemly campaign of grand-
standing on his way out of office,
littering his official Twitter account with
political slogans and boasts of his accom-
aid. Pockets of famine already exist in the
countryside.
The U.S. designation of the Houthis
could greatly complicate the delivery of
aid, by threatening with sanctions or-
day before he and the Trump administra-
tion leave office. Mr. Pompeo will not
have to deal with its effects: He is
explicitly leaving a land mine for the
Biden administration, which does not
Court to overturn the Biden election and
by challenging the electoral college count
on Jan. 6, he is clearly showing his stripes
as a hypocrite.
Here is how Mr. McCarthy can help
impeachment who are “anti-American,”
Mr. Hewitt; it’s the president who has no
understanding of our Constitution and
the rule of law.
Lawrence Bruser, Chevy Chase
plishments. Now, his self-serving theat- ganizations that do business with the share his zeal to indulge the Saudis. unite the country: pull together his
rics are threatening to turn lethal. Over group. Mr. Pompeo said waivers and Mr. Pompeo’s other measures have a Republican enablers and get them to Some of those who attempted to
the weekend, Mr. Pompeo unveiled a licenses would be granted to those in- similar booby-trap quality. One would censure Mr. Trump for his obvious in- overthrow our dutifully elected govern-
flurry of 11th-hour measures eliminating volved in aid delivery. But as The Post’s oblige the incoming administration to citement to riot. I think Mr. Trump ment will be arrested and face jus-
decades-old restrictions on diplomatic John Hudson and Missy Ryan reported, infuriate Beijing — and possibly trigger a deserves impeachment, but a strong tice. Those who conspired to do so from
contacts with Taiwan and slapping ter- those exemptions have yet to be final- crisis — by eliminating controls on bipartisan censure would be in our na- the floors of the Senate and the House
rorism designations on Cuba and Yem- ized. And they may not be enough for contacts between U.S. and Taiwanese tional interest. likely will not.
en’s Houthi rebels. banks or other private companies that officials that have been in place for Ed Klein, Columbia Rick Brummer, Baltimore
All three actions will create messes for finance or supply the operations. 40 years. Another would restore a desig-
the incoming Biden administration to Mr. Pompeo justified the Houthi desig- nation of Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism
clean up — but none more so than the nation by citing missile attacks on Saudi that was lifted by the Obama administra-
Yemen measure, which international aid
officials say could tip the war-torn coun-
civilian targets, such as airports and oil
facilities. But the Saudis prompted those
tion — even though the regime of Raúl
Castro, while unyielding in its domestic
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DAVID VON DREHLE DAVID IGNATIUS

Impeaching What we
again would can tell from
be folly Biden’s picks
emocrats face a critical deci- resident Trump is still hogging

D sion over the coming week: Are

they ready to live without Don-
ald Trump?
The soon-to-be-former president’s
disgraceful behavior on Jan. 6 complet-
P the stage in his final days, with
his seditious lies and rants,
but it’s time to turn our atten-
tion to the new administration that
will take power in just a week. What
ed the worst two months of White kind of team has President-elect Joe
House leadership since James Bu- Biden assembled, and how does he
chanan coddled secessionists in 1861. As plan to address the severe crises
the covid-19 pandemic became an infer- facing America?
no and vaccine delivery cried out for Biden is a reassuringly straightfor-
coordination, Trump spent the time ward man, but his mandate is compli-
conspiring to overturn the election and cated. His presidency will be about
inciting his followers against the consti- restoring order and normalcy after the
tutional order. manic binge of the Trump years,
He has finished himself off. The capped by an open insurrection. But
mammoth has caught his foot in the tar, Biden’s task will also be driving change
and soon nothing will be left but the on huge issues — restoring health and
archaeology. Trump’s presidency is over. economic growth after a devastating
His so-called movement is in tatters. His pandemic, delivering real action on
devoted spaniel Sen. Lindsey O. Graham racial and economic justice, and arrest-
(R-S.C.) was hounded through an air- ing climate change.
MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ/THE WASHINGTON POST
port by duped Trumpists screaming I’ve talked in recent days with many
“traitor!” Vice President Pence, Trump’s Trump supporters storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. of Biden’s top aides as they prepare for
panting poodle, hunkered behind body- power. The Biden advisers think they
guards at the Capitol as a mob bayed for
his blood. That’s what service to Trump
gets you. Only a fool would mistake his
anchor chain for a kite string now.
I got covid-19 because can make a fast start, with more offi-
cials nominated on Day 1 than Barack
Obama had on Day 100. But when the
FBI is circulating warnings of armed
Ruin awaits him. The king of social
media has been de-platformed, and the
once-gilded Trump brand stands for
shattered glass, battered police officers
my GOP colleagues dismiss facts protests throughout the United States,
Inauguration Day may feel more like
the D-Day landing than the usual walk
down Pennsylvania Avenue.
— one fatally — and human feces After Biden takes office, he will
tracked across marble floors. The confront a paradox: The new president
Trump flag flies over phalanxes in body BY B ONNIE W ATSON C OLEMAN the afternoon. What matters are facts, both about and his inner circle are most experi-
armor, spouting nonsense and threats, The next best option would have been the covid-19 pandemic and the conduct enced in foreign policy, but the urgent
while brandishing rifles, handguns, ver the past day, a lot of people my office in the Cannon House Office of the 2020 election: problems facing the country now are
stun guns and bear-repellent spray in
gatherings across the country.
Banks have closed their windows to
him, as massive debts loom near. A
grand jury in New York has begun
O have asked me how I feel. They
are usually referring to my
covid-19 diagnosis and my
symptoms. I feel like I have a mild cold.
But even more than that, I am angry.
Building, where just three of my staffers
worked at their desks to ensure safe
distancing. Before I arrived, security
evacuated that building as well, forcing
us to linger in the hallways and cafeteria
You can, in fact, breathe through a
mask. Doctors have been doing it for
decades. It is occasionally annoying —
my glasses tend to fog, and when I wear
makeup and a mask, I end up with
domestic. The agenda for 2021 is obvi-
ous — stemming the spread of covid-
19, rebuilding the economy and dis-
mantling the domestic terrorist insur-
gency. But Biden and his team must
gathering evidence for a potential felo- I am angry that after I spent months spaces of the House complex. As I’m sure smudged lipstick. That is a small price to quickly implement their rescue pol-
ny prosecution. And his dearest post- carefully isolating myself, a single chaot- you can imagine, pushing the occupants pay for the safety of those around me. icies using the rickety machinery of a
presidential ambition — to have the ic day likely got me sick. I am angry that of an entire building into a few public You can, in fact, count on a mask to divided, semi-dysfunctional federal
major championships of golf played on several of our nation’s leaders were spaces doesn’t make for great social reduce the chances of spreading the government.
courses bearing his name — is dead. The unwilling to deal with the small annoy- distancing. Twice, I admonished groups virus. Studies of how many droplets The centrality of domestic policy is
Professional Golfers’ Association has ance of a mask for a few hours. I am of congressional staff to put on their escape into the air and the rates of illustrated by the fact that Jake Sulli-
scrapped plans to play the 2022 PGA angry that the attack on the Capitol and masks. Some of these staffers gave me infection following the implementation van, the incoming president’s national
Championship at the Trump course in my subsequent illness have the same looks of derision, but slowly complied. of mask mandates both prove effective- security adviser, had been hoping until
Bedminster, N.J. The Royal & Ancient cause: my Republican colleagues’ inabil- My staff and I then decided that the ness. mid-November to head the National
Golf Club in Scotland has shot down the ity to accept facts. Capitol building would likely be the Refusing to wear a mask is not, in fact, Economic Council. He helped write
idea that its venerable Open Champion- When I left for Washington last week, safest place to go, since it would be the an act of self-expression. It’s an act of Biden’s domestic recovery plan, “Build
ship will be played at Turnberry as long it was my first trip there in several most secure and least likely to be crowd- public endangerment. The chaos you Back Better,” and wanted to carry it
as Trump owns it. months. I had a list of things to accom- ed. I’ve spent a lot of time since in utter create in exercising your so-called free- out. But when Biden tapped former
No doubt, Trump thinks this is just plish, including getting my picture tak- disbelief at how wrong those assump- dom can cause permanent, deadly dam- investment banker and Obama adviser
another twist in the self-orchestrated en for the card I use when voting on the tions turned out to be. age. I only hope that won’t be the case for Brian Deese to head the NEC, Sullivan
melodrama of his life, and a particular House floor. For the past two years, I Everyone knows what happened me and my colleagues, Reps. Pramila opted for the more familiar terrain of
twist at that. This is not a man who appeared on that card completely bald next: A mob broke through windows Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Brad Schneider foreign policy.
understands the power of personal re- as a result of the chemotherapy I under- and doors and beat a U.S. Capitol Police (D-Ill.), who have also tested positive for For the first year, at least, Sullivan
demption through atonement or apolo- went to eliminate the cancer in my right officer, then went on a rampage. Mem- the coronavirus. and his colleagues plan to treat foreign
gy. The only path back that his imagina- lung. It was because of that preexisting bers and staff took cover wherever we When I say that many Republicans and domestic policy as interchange-
tion can perceive is through conflict: condition that I relied so heavily on the could, ducking into offices throughout are responsible for what happened to able. Biden’s slogan, “Foreign Policy for
Trump the victim, Trump against his proxy voting the House agreed to last the building, then were told to move to a me, to others and to the country last the Middle Class,” may sound like
enemies, Trump triumphant. Imagine year, when we first began to understand safer holding location. week, I mean their essential failure to empty rhetoric, but Biden plans to push
that Trump is a plummeting elevator the danger of covid-19. I use “safer” because, while we might accept facts led us here. Much like they his own version of “America First” by
car. Only friction can arrest his plunge. I was nervous about spending a week have been protected from the insurrec- should be able to accept the results of an assessing trade, tax and currency issues
Given the spectacle of his self- among so many people who regularly tionists, we were not safe from the election, elected leaders should be able through the lens of whether they’ll
immolation, no ordinary foil will do. flout social distancing and mask guide- callousness of members of Congress to accept facts like the efficacy of masks. create domestic jobs and prosperity.
Trump needs his co-stars from past epic lines, but I could not have imagined the who, having encouraged the sentiments It’s clearly time for a congressional cam- The transcendent issue on Day 1 is
battles — the same Democrats he fought horror of what happened on Jan. 6. that inspired the riot, now ignored re- puswide mask requirement, enforced by containing the domestic insurgency
through an election, an impeachment To isolate as much as possible, I quests to wear masks. the House and Senate sergeants at arms. that exploded with such unexpected
and another election, the one he planned to spend much of my day in my I’ve been asked if I will share the Facts really do matter. I hope to get fury last Wednesday. Biden starts with
couldn’t bear to end. To borrow a apartment, shuttling to the House floor names of those members. You’ve prob- back to work soon to make sure we some experienced hands: He plans to
phrase, Democrats should stand back to vote. But the building shares an alley ably seen video of some of them laugh- respect them. keep Christopher A. Wray as FBI direc-
and stand by; but alas, the idea of a with the Republican National Commit- ing at my colleague and friend Rep. Lisa tor. His attorney general, Merrick Gar-
sequel is making the rounds in Wash- tee, where, we’d later learn, law en- Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) as she tries to Bonnie Watson Coleman, a Democrat, land, ran the Justice Department inves-
ington. In their righteous and proper forcement found a pipe bomb. I was distribute masks. But it’s not their represents New Jersey’s 12th Congressional tigation into the 1995 bombing of the
anger over the Trump Riot and all that evacuated from that location early in names that matter. District in the U.S. House of Representatives. federal center in Oklahoma City that
led up to it, many Democrats are talking killed 168 people.
themselves into one more go-round. Biden and his aides must wonder, as
An impeachment vote in the House they watch images of the unruly mob at
appears inevitable. But allowing a sec- the Capitol: Which faces are the future
ond impeachment process to spill past
Inauguration Day, though it might
please the gods of justice, among mor-
Once Trump leaves office, incarnations of Timothy McVeigh, the
Oklahoma City bomber? Who are the
leaders of the assault on the United
tals would serve only Trump. The only
thing he has left to lose is relevance. He
feeds on controversy. Attention is his
the Senate can’t hold an impeachment trial States, and who are merely bystanders
and wannabes?
Every administration begins with
oxygen. Democrats can turn off the life imbalances and potential points of
support. Let his future bankruptcies BY J . M ICHAEL L UTTIG Constitution itself. Trump would no lon- future. This is incorrect because it is a friction, and that’s true for this White
play out in the business pages. Let his ger be incumbent in the Office of the constitutional impeachment of a presi- House. Biden will have an experienced
conspiracy theories molder on grocery- t appears that even if the House of President at the time of the delayed Senate dent that authorizes his constitutional chief of staff in Ronald A. Klain, who
store racks. Let his plea bargains be
reported in the second or third segment
of the evening news. Until one fine day
when we ask each other, What ever
happened to Donald J. Trump?
I Representatives impeaches President
Trump this week, the Senate trial on
that impeachment will not begin until
after Trump has left office and President-
elect Biden has become president on Jan.
proceeding and would no longer be sub-
ject to “impeachment conviction” by the
Senate, under the Constitution’s Impeach-
ment Clauses. Which is to say that the
Senate’s only power under the Constitu-
disqualification. If a president has not
been constitutionally impeached, then the
Senate is without the constitutional pow-
er to disqualify him from future office.
Some constitutional scholars take sup-
has been a close adviser for more than
30 years. And he’ll have an unusually
strong foreign policy team under Sulli-
van, including Asia czar Kurt Campbell
and Mideast director Brett McGurk.
Democrats alone — no one else — can 20. That Senate trial would be unconstitu- tion is to convict — or not — an incumbent port for their view that the Congress can A strong White House means policy
keep Trump front and center past Jan. tional. president. impeach a former president from two coordination and strategic direction
20. On Sunday, House Majority Whip The purpose, text and structure of the instances in which early Congresses im- from the center — and potential frus-
Those who are programming Im- James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) said that, while Constitution’s Impeachment Clauses con- peached “civil officials” after they had tration at the Cabinet agencies charged
peachment II assert that another oper- House Democrats would take up articles firm this intuitive and common-sense resigned their public offices — the im- with implementing policy. Antony
atic clash is necessary to ensure that of impeachment this week against Presi- understanding. peachments of Sen. William Blount in Blinken, Biden’s choice for secretary of
Trump won’t return in 2024. But there’s dent Trump, the House might delay send- The very concept of constitutional im- 1797 and the impeachment of Secretary of state and perhaps his closest aide,
a better way to achieve the same pur- ing to the Senate any articles passed by the peachment presupposes the impeach- War William Belknap in 1876. won’t have trouble getting the boss’s
pose. Americans voted in record num- House until after President-elect Biden’s ment, conviction and removal of a presi- These congressional impeachment cas- attention. But life won’t be easy for
bers for something other than Trump, first 100 days in office. Biden proposed an dent who is, at the time of his impeach- es provide some backing for the argument assistant secretaries of state.
and since the election his approval rat- alternative, under which the new Senate ment, an incumbent in the office from that Congress can conclude that it has the Then there’s the problem of Biden’s
ing has dropped further, into the low would immediately begin working on his which he is removed. Indeed, that was the power under the Constitution to impeach relationship with a fragmented Demo-
30s. He’s down so far he can’t even give legislative agenda and confirming his purpose of the impeachment power, to a former president. And Congress’s under- cratic Party. His Cabinet will include
away a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Cabinet appointments in the mornings remove from office a president or other standing of its constitutional powers some nominees who campaigned
The public voted for an end to the and conduct the impeachment trial in the “civil official” before he could further would be a weighty consideration in the against him. But his inner circle —
Trump Show. Give them what they afternoon. harm the nation from the office he then ultimate determination whether the Con- Klain, Sullivan, Blinken and domestic
want. The sequencing of the House impeach- occupies. gress does possess such authority. When policy chief Susan E. Rice — see the
So much hinges on ending the pan- ment proceedings before Trump’s depar- The plain text of the Constitution’s and if the former president goes to court world in the same centrist terms Biden
demic: the economy, public health, edu- ture from office and the inauguration of several Impeachment Clauses confirms to challenge his impeachment trial as does. That’s as it should be: The party
cation, the pursuit of happiness. Ramp- the new president, followed by a Senate this understanding of this limit on Con- unconstitutional, Congress is sure to had a chance to nominate a progres-
ing up vaccinations and restoring pub- impeachment trial, perhaps months later, gress’s impeachment power. For example, make its argument based on these con- sive, but it didn’t. It chose a centrist,
lic health is no mere hip-pocket job, raises the question of whether a former Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution gressional precedents, as well as others, a and Biden should govern like one even
something to run with one hand while president can be impeached after he reads, “The President, Vice President and case that would almost certainly make its if that produces occasional howls from
the other hand fights old battles. Given leaves office. all civil officers of the United States, shall way to the Supreme Court. the left.
the thin-as-gossamer margins of control The Constitution itself answers this be removed from Office on Impeachment In the end, though, only the Supreme The spotlight will settle Jan. 20 on
in the House and Senate, Democrats question clearly: No, he cannot be. Once for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or Court can answer the question of whether Biden himself. He will succeed a reck-
must prioritize. The future or the past? Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, Congress other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” In Congress can impeach a president who less president whose final weeks
Beating covid-19, or beating the same loses its constitutional authority to con- the same constitutional vein, Article I, has left office prior to its attempted amounted to an attack on the republic.
old drum? tinue impeachment proceedings against Section 3 provides in relevant part: “Judg- impeachment of him. It is highly unlikely It will help that Biden is a sane,
An addendum: In the heat of the him — even if the House has already ment in Cases of Impeachment shall not the Supreme Court would yield to Con- charitable, genial man, with none of the
Capitol riot, I wrote that it was wrong to approved articles of impeachment. extend further than to removal from gress’s view that it has the power to bully in him. But that won’t be enough.
ask whether police were prepared. I was Therefore, if the House of Representa- Office, and disqualification to hold and impeach a president who is no longer in Putting this dazed country back to-
heartsick at the idea that the Capitol tives were to impeach the president before enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit office when the Constitution itself is so gether will require true greatness in
should need to be fortified against a he leaves office, the Senate could not under the United States.” clear that it does not. leadership. The likable Biden may pos-
reckless president. But the way I put it thereafter convict the former president It has been suggested that the Senate sess that quality, and showed flashes of
was a mistake. Questions are appropri- and disqualify him under the Constitution could proceed to try the former president The writer served as a judge on the U.S. Court it during the crisis last week. But his
ate. With luck, lessons can be learned. from future public office. and convict him in an effort to disqualify of Appeals for the 4th Circuit from 1991 to test is just beginning.
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SHELDON G. ADELSON, 1933-2021

Casino magnate swayed policy from D.C. to Jerusalem

BY D ONALD F RAZIER

Sheldon G. Adelson, a billion-

aire casino tycoon and free-
spending political donor who
helped bankroll conservative
candidates in the United States
and Israel, and who pushed the
governments of both countries to
reject the establishment of a Pal-
estinian state alongside Israel,
died Jan. 11 in Malibu, Calif. He
was 87.
The cause was complications
related to treatment for non-
Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according
to a company statement.
Mr. Adelson (pronounced
ADD-ul-son), who fought his way
up from an arduous childhood in
Boston, was a vivid and polariz-
ing character, a serial entrepre-
neur who transformed gambling
in Las Vegas and Macao and
brought the same bare-knuckled
approach to the exercise of politi-
cal influence.
One of the world’s richest self-
made men, he amassed an esti-
mated fortune at one point this
decade valued at $40 billion —
Forbes now lists it at $35 billion
— and used much of it to advance
conservative causes and leaders,
including a $25 million donation
to help elect Donald Trump as
president in 2016. He also played
a sizable role in underwriting
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s return to power in
2009.
In Jerusalem and Washington,
Mr. Adelson brandished his mon-
ey and influence to advance his
favorite cause: a strong Israel that
precludes a Palestinian state. He
also started and bought newspa- KIN CHEUNG/ASSOCIATED PRESS

pers in Nevada and Israel that Sheldon Adelson, shown left with his wife, Miriam, opened the
promoted his views. Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, above, in 2007. His first Asian
Little known outside the busi- casino opened in 2004. Mr. Adelson entered the casino business in
ness world for much of his life, 1988, when he purchased the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Mr. Adelson vaulted to the fore-
front of national politics in 2012,
when he and his wife buoyed the As he neared 70, in the early Israel Hayom, which is owned
faltering presidential campaign 2000s, Mr. Adelson made the through an Adelson relative, has
of former House speaker Newt most audacious move of his ca- been a consistent backer of Ne-
Gingrich (R-Ga.) with tens of reer — entering the casino mar- tanyahu’s Likud coalition, an ad-
millions of dollars in donations to ket of Macao. The former Portu- vocate of active Israeli settlement
a political action committee. guese colony and seaport had of the West Bank, and a foe of any
Gingrich began calling Pales- become a special district of China Palestinian state.
tinians an “invented” people and a few years earlier. Reporters and editors for the
playing up support for Israel’s When he arrived in Macao, Mr. Las Vegas Review-Journal
West Bank settlements as a cor- Adelson later said in court testi- learned after the fact that Mr.
nerstone of U.S. foreign policy. mony, it was “a seedy backwater Adelson had purchased their
Gingrich’s bid collapsed, but Mr. of a gambling den” that was newspaper in late 2015 for
Adelson’s jaw-dropping financial “prostitution-infested, crime-in- $140 million, a price publishing
support showed that he was will- fested . . . everything wrong that consultants said was significantly
ing to invest heavily in politicians would never happen in a state higher than market value. The
who shared his beliefs. He and his like Nevada, ever.” deal was arranged by Mr. Adel-
wife, Miriam, ended up giving an Mr. Adelson outmaneuvered son’s son-in-law through a hold-
estimated $93 million in the 2012 several competitors to win one of ing company. Dissenting editors
election cycle to an alphabet soup two coveted slots for new casinos. were soon gone, and the new
of conservative PACs backing Re- Mr. Adelson’s first Asian casino, team began to vet all stories
publican office-seekers — not in- Sands Macao, opened in 2004. alluding to Mr. Adelson and his
cluding contributions to groups The same year, his company, Las many legal disputes.
that were not required to disclose Vegas Sands, went public, making Over the years, Mr. Adelson
their donors. EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS Mr. Adelson a billionaire several had brought defamation suits
times over. against reporters. He drove at
The Adelson primary tionship with Israel. His father was a Jewish Lithua- opened in 1990. By the time he opened the least one — John L. Smith, a
As Barack Obama’s two-term In May 2018, Mr. Adelson and nian immigrant who worked as a Changes in the computer busi- extravagant, $2.4 billion Vene- prominent Review-Journal col-
presidency was ending, Mr. Adel- his wife had prime seats at the cabdriver. His British-born moth- ness diminished the role of Com- tian Macao in 2007, Macao had umnist — into bankruptcy, al-
son doubled down on the GOP’s formal dedication of the new er ran a knitting business from dex, which Mr. Adelson sold for surpassed Las Vegas as the though the lawsuit, over errors in
struggles to nominate a winning embassy in Jerusalem. Less than the tenement where he grew up $800 million in 1995 to Japanese world’s largest gambling market. a book by Smith, was eventually
candidate in 2016. Dangling up to 50 miles away, conflict was erupt- with three siblings. mogul Masayoshi Son. A few Mr. Adelson then expanded to dropped.
$30 million as bait, he conducted ing on the Gaza border, where At 12, Mr. Adelson often re- years after the sale, Mr. Adelson’s Singapore, opening the $5.5 bil- Despite his financial and polit-
what journalists called “the Adel- dozens of Palestinian protesters called, he began selling newspa- two sons from his first marriage lion Marina Bay Sands in 2010. ical muscle, Mr. Adelson never
son primary,” in which aspiring were killed by Israeli soldiers. pers, but he disliked sharing prof- sued him, alleging that he had But the casino business suf- abandoned the persona of the
presidential nominees traveled to His Las Vegas newspaper, the its. So instead, he went into the understated the value of Comdex fered during the global financial scrappy underdog. He was also an
his Venetian hotel and casino in Review-Journal, ran a front-page business of leasing “newspaper to cheat them. Mr. Adelson pre- crisis, and Mr. Adelson became aggressive micromanager, ac-
Las Vegas to solicit his money and editorial, written by Miriam Adel- corners” with the help of an uncle vailed in 2001, but the lawsuit embroiled in legal difficulties, cording to a New Yorker article
his blessing. son, with a headline proclaiming, who lent him the money to get exposed the drug addiction that including allegations that under- that recounted how he once be-
He interrogated many of the 17 “A great day for Israel — and for started. “My uncle said, ‘If I give in 2005 claimed the life of his world figures were welcome and came impatient with a typist who
GOP aspirants in 2016 on their America.” you the $200, you have to show eldest son, Mitchell. frequent guests at his Asian prop- had made a couple of errors in a
support for Israel. The process Mr. Adelson was also outspo- up every Tuesday with a $15 His first marriage, to the for- erties. letter. “Adelson sat down and
helped end the candidacy of early ken about his objections to payment plus interest,’ ” Mr. mer Sandra Shapiro, ended in According to reports in the showed her how it was done — at
front-runner Jeb Bush, the for- Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Adelson told the Los Angeles divorce. In 1991, he married Miri- Wall Street Journal, Mr. Adelson’s ninety words a minute.”
mer Florida governor, and elevat- Iran — a potent regional adver- Times. “I said, ‘Wait, I gotta pay am Ochshorn, an Israeli-born in- company was involved in ques- He took unabashed pride in his
ed Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) to sary of Israel’s — and the multina- this back?’ He taught me about ternist and medical researcher tionable financial arrangements success, introducing himself as
national prominence. Ultimately, tional nuclear deal that resulted loans and about interest.” who specialized in drug addiction in Asia. Those arrangements “the richest Jew in the world,”
Mr. Adelson endorsed New York from that effort in 2015. In a 2013 After four years in the newspa- treatment. In addition to his wife, were said to have included and he cultivated the image of a
businessman Trump before the speech at Yeshiva University in per business, he said, he bor- survivors include two children $50 million in payments to a mercurial patron of people and
GOP convention. According to New York, Mr. Adelson suggested rowed thousands of dollars from from his first marriage, Gary Chinese businessman who causes.
Open Secrets, a nonprofit website that U.S. negotiators should use his uncle to buy a company that Adelson and Shelley Adelson; helped ease the way for the Ma- An incident in 2007 exempli-
that tracks campaign contribu- the threat of a nuclear attack on operated Boston-area candy- and two sons from his second cao casinos. fied Mr. Adelson’s style as a power
tions, he and Miriam, his second Iran to bring Tehran to the table. vending machines, some of which marriage, Adam Adelson and Ma- The U.S. government charged broker. For years a generous do-
wife, gave $83 million to Republi- “If you really want peace,” he he placed in all-night gas stations tan Adelson; two stepchildren, Las Vegas Sands with violating nor to the American Israel Public
cans in the 2016 election cycle. said, “it’s very simple to send a catering to cabdrivers like his Yasmin Lukatz and Sivan Du- the Foreign Corrupt Practices Affairs Committee, he kicked in
Early in the campaign, Trump message to your opposition.” father. mont; and 11 grandchildren. Act, and in 2016 and 2017, the $10 million extra for AIPAC’s
had called himself “sort of a In May 2018, Trump withdrew He attended City College of company paid more than $15 mil- posh new H Street NW headquar-
neutral guy” on the Israeli-Pales- from the nuclear deal, which the New York but dropped out to Into the casino business lion in civil and criminal penal- ters in Washington. But before
tinian conflict, but Mr. Adelson’s president called a “giant fiction.” train as a court reporter. After In 1988, Mr. Adelson and his ties. the building opened its doors, he
views were soon reflected in the Mr. Adelson also gave gener- Army service, he entered into a partners bought the aging Sands Mr. Adelson and his family took umbrage at AIPAC’s support
candidate’s platform. As the year ously to political causes unrelat- variety of short-lived endeavors. Hotel and Casino, which had invested $1 billion to keep Las for increased financial aid to
wore on, Mr. Adelson earmarked ed to Israel — to campaigns He sold toiletry travel kits to attained a louche appeal in the Vegas Sands afloat in the after- Palestinians, whose “only pur-
$25 million for a Trump PAC and, against marijuana legalization, hotels. He marketed a compound 1960s as the Las Vegas hangout of math of the Great Recession, and pose is to destroy Israel.” He
after the election, he made a for instance, and to the fight to de-ice car windows. He worked Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack. In No- the company went on to report a immediately pulled back his
record-breaking $5 million dona- against Internet wagering and as a court reporter, a mortgage vember 1996, the Sands was de- healthy recovery, thanks in large money, according to New York
tion to Trump’s inaugural com- online poker, which many in his banker and a tour operator. He molished to make room for a part to its casinos in Macao. magazine.
mittee. industry viewed as an effort to invested in real estate. He faced Venice-themed hotel and casino He also was a generous donor
In office, Trump renounced safeguard his bricks-and-mortar dozens of lawsuits from debt to compete with Steve Wynn’s Managing the image and active member of the Repub-
more than five decades of U.S. casino empire in the guise of collectors. He made and lost a Mirage, Treasure Island and Mr. Adelson’s image has been lican Jewish Coalition, a pro-Isra-
foreign policy that called for a moral indignation. The gambling fortune twice. (then under construction) Bella- burnished by many significant el group with access to leading
two-state solution to the Israeli- industry’s main lobbying group In 1979, Mr. Adelson and part- gio. philanthropic contributions. He members of the GOP.
Palestinian conflict. He formally also expressed surprise and dis- ners, taking note of the burgeon- When it opened in 1999, the gave more than $65 million to Mr. Adelson had suffered since
recognized Jerusalem — a city may at his position. ing personal-computer business, Venetian featured high-end res- Israeli universities and think 2001 from a peripheral neuropa-
that Palestinians, as well as Is- “This is not a money issue with launched the Computer Dealers taurants and shops, an indoor tanks, $25 million to the Yad thy, which made it difficult to
raelis, claim as their own — as the me,” Mr. Adelson told Politico in Exposition, or Comdex, in Las piazza bathed with faux Adriatic Vashem Holocaust memorial and walk, and he would appear in
capital of Israel. He also moved 2014. “This is a moral issue. . . . Vegas. The trade conference grew light, a reproduction of the bell hundreds of millions to educa- court riding a motorized scooter.
the U.S. Embassy there from Tel When I started to imagine what quickly and, after it was opened tower in St. Mark’s Square and an tional and cultural exchange pro- Despite declining health, Mr.
Aviv, undermining the American would happen with legalized In- to the general public, drew hun- indoor waterway with singing grams. Adelson maintained active con-
role as an ostensibly neutral arbi- ternet gaming, it scared the heck dreds of thousands of visitors to gondoliers. He also used his money to trol of his business and political
ter in a region brimming with out of me . . . because of what it’s see the latest innovations in per- “No, it’s not like Venice,” Mr. launch or buy media outlets that interests until the end. As his
religious tension and violence. going to do to our society. Can you sonal computers. Travel, hotel Adelson told New York magazine. served as a megaphone for his fortunes waxed and waned, al-
Mr. Adelson, a driving force in know your customer? No! Can rooms, catalogues, display space “It’s better than Venice!” political causes and a means of though his preferred candidates
the effort to relocate the embassy, you prevent money laundering? on the show floor — all of it Michael Green, a historian at countering criticism of his busi- sometimes lost elections, he
pledged millions of dollars to the No! Can you prevent underage profited Mr. Adelson. the University of Nevada at Las ness practices. seemed unruffled.
State Department to help pay for children?” The Interface Group, the com- Vegas, said Mr. Adelson “brought To combat liberal influence in “Everything is cyclical,” he told
a new building. Although the pany set up to manage Comdex, an audacious vision of everything Israel, especially support for a the publication Casino Journal in
legality of fulfilling that offer was The boy entrepreneur was soon running a full calendar a resort could do to make money two-state solution to the Israeli- 2014. “It’s like gambling. Some-
dubious, it brought into sharper Sheldon Gary Adelson was of such events, many of them at besides gambling. Before long, Palestinian conflict, he started a times you’re up, sometimes you’re
focus his role as a key player in born in Boston’s Dorchester the Sands Expo and Convention they were copying it all over the newspaper in 2007 that blankets down.”
the Trump administration’s rela- neighborhood on Aug. 4, 1933. Center, which Mr. Adelson world.” the nation with free copies. The [email protected]

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Montgomery County delays school reopenings until March 15 Virus

BY D ONNA S T. G EORGE

Students in Montgomery Coun-

ty will not return to in-person
Parents remain split
as school board stresses
The decision means that most
of Montgomery’s more than
161,000 students will have been
away from the once-familiar set-
“I know this is difficult for
some, and for others they’re re-
lieved,” said Jack R. Smith, super-
intendent of the suburban Mary-
Many have argued that school
officials have dragged their feet in
getting students back on campus.
They point to the experiences of
variant
classes until March 15 at the earli-
est, under a new schedule that
marks another delay in classroom-
based instruction amid the surg-
key health thresholds ting of their classrooms and
schools for a full calendar year.
It also means Montgomery
County students will begin the
land school system. “I understand
those emotions. . . . We think this
makes the most sense at this
point.”
private schools, child-care cen-
ters, equity hubs and public school
systems that have gotten at least
some students inside classrooms.
detected
ing pandemic.
The school board approved the
change Tuesday in a 7-to-1 vote,
with officials in the state’s largest
benchmarks remain key. They
also said state or federal guidance
about schools could shift as coro-
navirus vaccines are more widely
second semester of an unprec-
edented school year in the same
place they started the first semes-
ter — at home, on laptop comput-
Parents in Montgomery have
been increasingly vocal about re-
opening schools as instruction has
remained all-virtual month after
Other parents and teachers
have pointed to the worsening
pandemic. Health and safety must
be the top priority, they assert.
in Md.
school system warning that health distributed. ers. month. SEE SCHOOLS ON B5

LAB FOUND SAMPLE

IN ANNE ARUNDEL
D.C. residents frustrated
with lack of vaccine slots

BY E RIN C OX,
J ULIE Z AUZMER,
L OLA F ADULU
AND J ENNA P ORTNOY

D.C. residents expressed frus-

tration with a lack of coronavirus
vaccination appointments avail-
able on the second day of expand-
ed eligibility Tuesday as a highly
contagious variant of the virus
made its first confirmed appear-
ance in the Washington region.
The United Kingdom variant of
the virus was detected in Mary-
land, infecting a couple from
Anne Arundel County, Gov. Larry
Hogan (R) said.
One of the spouses recently
traveled to multiple continents,
he said, and both are quarantin-
ing with their two children, who
have not tested positive. Contact
tracing of the couple’s interac-
tions is underway.
The mutated variant spreads
more rapidly, but there is no evi-
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New cases in region

Through 5 p.m. Tuesday, 7,656 new
coronavirus cases were reported in
the District, Maryland and Virginia,
bringing the total number of cases
to 752,721.
D.C. MD. VA.
+430 +2,665 +4,561
32,423 312,351 407,947
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Coronavirus-related deaths
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday:

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+4
825
MD.*
+66
6,367
VA.
+84
5,477
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He returned home sometime after 4 a.m. on bed before 8 a.m. He would spend the week
Thursday, after Congress finished certifying drafting an article of impeachment against
the election results in the shadow of a mob
invasion, and tried to get some rest.
“I haven’t been sleeping a lot since we’ve
A day after he buried his son,
Rep. Jamie Raskin — and other members
President Trump, as well as a resolution asking
Vice President Pence to set in motion steps
outlined under the 25th Amendment to inca-
Warnings
been without Tommy,” Rep. Jamie Raskin
(D-Md.) acknowledged.
It had been a week since his 25-year-old son,
of his family — found themselves under
siege at the Capitol. Now he’s helping
pacitate the president, a resolution the House
was considering Tuesday night.
His source of strength, he said in an inter-
of violence,
Thomas Bloom Raskin, died by suicide, less
than two days since they buried him, and just
over 12 hours since Raskin took cover with his
lead the push to hold Trump accountable. view Monday, is his son.
“I felt him in my heart and in my chest,”
Raskin said. “All the way through the counting
too easily
daughter and son-in-law at the U.S. Capitol as
Trump supporters ransacked the building and
attacked police.
BY M EAGAN F LYNN
AND E RIN C OX
of the electoral college votes and through the
nightmare of the armed attack on the Capitol.”
House Democrats say dramatic action is
dismissed
But Raskin still had work to do. necessary to sideline Trump in the final days of
The constitutional law professor was out of SEE RASKIN ON B2 Adjacent to the
U.S. Capitol is a
Senate office
Thomas Bloom Raskin with his parents, Sarah Bloom Raskin and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), in May as a group of Maryland residents calling building named
themselves the “Pandemic Comforters” serenade them in the front yard of their Takoma Park home. Tommy Raskin died by suicide on Dec. 31. in honor of Sen.
Richard B. Russell
Courtland Jr. of Georgia.
Milloy Russell served in
the Senate from
1933 to 1971 and led his White
Southern segregationist
colleagues in a devilish, decades-

Region battens down Task force pursues charges in riot long opposition to civil rights
legislation.
During one of his early

amid threats of violence BY S PENCER S . H SU,

K EITH L . A LEXANDER
reelection campaigns, he
declared:
“As one who was born and
AND S HAYNA J ACOBS reared in the atmosphere of the
J ULIE Z AUZMER,
BY stopping some Metro service and Old South, with six generations
M ARISSA J . L ANG, denying permits for demonstra- The Justice Department and of my forebears now resting
E RIN C OX, tions, fearing another wave of vio- FBI have created a sedition and beneath Southern soil, I am
G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER lence like the one that rocked the conspiracy task force to pursue willing to go as far and make as
AND J USTIN J OUVENAL U.S. Capitol last week. charges against participants in great a sacrifice to preserve and
Already, D.C. officials said local the storming of the U.S. Capitol ensure white supremacy in the
Fences were going up across and federal law enforcement were and are investigating any links to social, economic and political
downtown Washington, and Na- establishing a perimeter around domestic or foreign instigators, life of our state as any man who
tional Guard troops took up posts the White House, the Capitol and officials said Tuesday. lives within her borders.”
on street corners Tuesday, part of a part of downtown Washington The investigation, one of the Fast forward to last week,
sweeping lockdown aimed at that allows them to conduct secu- largest ever undertaken by the when a largely White mob
heading off any unrest during a rity screenings on anyone enter- department, includes counterter- stormed the Capitol, hellbent on
weekend of right-wing protests ing the area over the next week. rorism and counterintelligence forcing legislators to nullify the
and the presidential inauguration The moves come as new threats of facets and has led to charges votes of a lot of Black people.
that follows. violence circulate on social media against more than 70 people and Weren’t they also showing a
U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Officials said the massive secu- and on Internet forums. identified 170 suspects to date, willingness “to go as far and
rity cordon could grow even larger Those measures will be bol- acting U.S. attorney Michael R. A search is conducted of a truck the government says is connected make as great a sacrifice” for the
in the District in coming days as stered by up to 15,000 National Sherwin of D.C. said. Those arrest to Lonnie L. Coffman, 70, who was charged with 16 counts of D.C. same cause as Russell?
they consider shuttering hotels, SEE SECURITY ON B5 SEE ARRESTS ON B2 firearms violations and one federal firearms count. SEE MILLOY ON B3

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A grieving Raskin at forefront of effort to impeach Trump

RASKIN FROM B1 of strangers to honor his legacy
with acts of kindness of their own.
attempts to undermine the results On Jan. 5, they laid Tommy to
of the election and his incitement rest, in a small, private ceremony
of those who breached the Capi- because of the pandemic.
tol. And then came Wednesday,
Raskin has played this role be- when Republicans in Congress
fore, though not at a time of such would heed Trump’s calls to chal-
personal loss and national trau- lenge — without evidence — the
ma. Last year, as a member of the victory of President-elect Joe
House Judiciary and Rules com- Biden.
mittees, he was among the Demo- Raskin’s daughter Tabitha
crats to present hours of testimo- asked him to stay home from work
ny making the case for impeach- that day. But Raskin told her that
ment. as a lead floor manager, tapped by
He has spent four years push- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
ing Congress to sharpen unused Calif.), he couldn’t do that.
tools contained within the 25th “I said, ‘Why don’t you just
Amendment — namely the ability come with me?’ ” he recounted.
for lawmakers to appoint an inde- She agreed, hoping to see her fa-
pendent body to debate the fitness ther in action. Raskin’s son-in-law
of a president — in the event it Hank Kronick, who is married to
would become pertinent during his other daughter, Hannah,
Trump’s presidency. It was the joined them.
first bill he ever filed. As Raskin took the lectern to
Now, with his family grieving speak against Republican objec-
and the nation’s democratic insti- tions to the electoral college votes,
tutions under siege, he has been he thanked his colleagues for their
tapped as one of the House im- support. The chamber gave him a
peachment managers. Lawmak- prolonged ovation.
ers voted 223 to 205 Tuesday night Less than an hour later, the
in favor of his 25th Amendment mob breached the building.
resolution, which asked Pence In the tumult, Raskin and his
and Cabinet members “to declare family got separated: Raskin and
what is obvious to a horrified Na- other lawmakers, donning gas
tion: That the President is unable masks, were whisked away to an
to successfully discharge the du- undisclosed location; his daugh-
ties and powers of his office.” ter and son-in-law, who were seat-
SARAH SILBIGER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Pence announced in a letter to ed elsewhere, ended up in Hoyer’s
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- ABOVE: House Speaker Nancy office adjacent to the House floor
Calif.) earlier Tuesday that he Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jamie with Raskin’s chief of staff.
would not invoke the 25th Raskin (D-Md.) hold a news “They were locked inside and
Amendment, so the resolutions is conference in October barricaded the door,” Raskin said,
essentially moot. introducing legislation that “and Tabitha and Hank were hid-
But Raskin will continue to would create a commission to ing under the desk as this mob
play a lead role in the impeach- help decide 25th Amendment pounded on the doors.”
ment proceedings, which will questions related to a They were reunited an hour
turn on a legal principle that president’s fitness for office. later in a committee room, where
Raskin said he discussed not long they stayed for hours, Raskin said,
ago with Tommy. The young man LEFT: Raskin’s wife, Sarah and where he hugged Tabitha
had followed both his parents to Bloom Raskin, holding their tight and told her he was sorry,
Harvard Law School and was in son, Tommy, in an undated feeling responsible, horrified by
the middle of his second year. photograph. what they, and everyone, had wit-
In his First Amendment class, nessed.
the younger Raskin was studying “We cannot let this go,” he said
the “incitement to imminent law- sive, thing about it is he’s not of the need to hold Trump ac-
less action,” which Raskin de- arrogant. He’s not full of himself.” countable.
scribed as “the line where speech Off the floor, Raskin’s wide- In the days that followed, as
ends and conduct begins.” Tommy ranging interests earned him Raskin joined Reps. Ted Lieu (D-
had asked him, Raskin recalled: friends and connections of all po- Calif.) and David N. Cicilline
Would a government official be litical stripes, including a running (D-R.I.) in drafting the article of
held to a higher standard than a chess duel with one of the cham- impeachment and prepared to
private citizen? ber’s most conservative members, make his case against the presi-
“That ironically is going to be now-Senate Minority Leader Bry- dent on the House floor, he
the critical issue for us talking an Simonaire (R-Anne Arundel). thought of his son again and
about Donald Trump,” he said. “He’s very affable,” Simonaire again.
“Some people are saying, ‘Well, said. “But he’d kill you in a debate.” If he were here, the law student
Donald Trump was just exercising So when, on New Year’s Eve, and moral-philosophy devotee
FAMILY PHOTO
his free speech.’ As president of Raskin’s office revealed that his would have thought the violence
the United States, he cannot be son, Tommy, had died, lawmakers at the Capitol was “the absolute
encouraging, counseling and in- liberal Takoma Park, joined the across the political landscape worst form of crime against de-
citing mobs that go and attack the Maryland Senate in 2007, estab- flooded the Raskin family with mocracy,” Raskin said.
Capitol of the United States.” lishing himself as an intellectual support, which Raskin said was “It really is Tommy Raskin,” he
In his four years in Congress, “I felt him in my heart and in my chest. All the powerhouse with a dizzying array heartening. added, “and his love and his val-
Raskin has been a prized asset for of interests, a master of the witty He and his wife, Sarah Bloom ues and his passion, that have
Democrats because of what way through the counting of the electoral quip, and a favorite of the civil Raskin, a senior Treasury Depart- kept me going.”
House Majority Leader Steny H. rights and environmental groups ment official under President Ba- [email protected]
Hoyer (D-Md.) called his “unpar- college votes and through the nightmare he championed unequivocally. rack Obama, published a searing [email protected]
alleled knowledge of our Consti- “He has an extremely gifted tribute to their son a few days later
tution.” That legal prowess, cou- of the armed attack on the Capitol.” mind, intellectually,” said Mary- that revealed his struggle with If you or someone you know needs
pled with an activist’s spirit, has land Attorney General Brian E. depression. The tribute included help, call the National Suicide
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), speaking about his son, Tommy
bolstered his reputation since he Frosh (D), who served in the Sen- Tommy’s final wishes: “Please Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.
entered Maryland politics rough- ate with Raskin. “He can be elo- look after each other, the animals, You can also reach a crisis counselor
ly 15 years ago. quent on almost any subject. And and the global poor for me”— a by texting 741741 to the Crisis Text
Raskin, who lives in famously the most endearing, or impres- plea that has since led hundreds Line.

U.S. prosecutor predicts hundreds of arrests in Capitol riot

ARRESTS FROM B1 automatic weapons have been re- tails and five loaded weapons to seeking to detain Coffman show he ters on Capitol Hill and its Demo- municating with co-conspirators.
covered, he said. the U.S. Capitol. allegedly possessed handwritten cratic counterpart minutes before The New York Times reported
The Jan. 6 storming of the Capi- In an indictment dated Monday, notes, including one quoting the assault on the Capitol began. that Mostofsky’s father is Kings
figures are expected to increase tol by supporters of President Lonnie L. Coffman, 70, who was Abraham Lincoln who once wrote Coffman was not charged in re- County Supreme Court Judge Sh-
into the hundreds, if not “expo- Trump disrupted the electoral vote previously charged with two in opposition to slavery, “We The lation to those possible devices. lomo Mostofsky.
nentially.” count of President-elect Joe Biden counts in a U.S. Capitol Police com- People Are The Rightful Masters On Tuesday, the FBI reiterated it Aaron Mostofsky told the New
But Sherwin and Steven D’An- and led to the deaths of five people plaint, was charged with 16 counts Of Both The Congress And The is offering a $50,000 reward for York Post in a video inside the
tuono, head of the FBI’s Washing- — including a rioter who was fatal- of D.C. firearms violations and one Courts, Not To Overthrow The information regarding the pipe Capitol last week: “We were cheat-
ton Field Office, said any impres- ly shot and a police officer who federal firearms count. He also Constitution But To Overthrow bombs, which Sherwin said were ed. I don’t think 75 million people
sion that prosecutors have mostly died after suffering injuries at the possessed a crossbow, several ma- The Men Who Pervert The Consti- “real devices,” with igniters and voted for Trump — I think it was
charged misdemeanor Capitol scene. chetes, a stun gun and smoke de- tution.” timers. close to 85 million. I think certain
trespassing and D.C. curfew of- Federal law makes conspiring vices, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the notes “We don’t know obviously ex- states that have been red for a long
fenses is misleading. They said the to overthrow or oppose by force Coffman allegedly formulated “raise alarm in the context of the actly why they did not go off,” time turned blue and were stolen,
cases are only the beginning and the authority of the U.S govern- the incendiary devices to be partic- Jan. 6 rioting and criminal in- Sherwin said, or whether there like New York.”
that U.S. authorities are investigat- ment punishable by up to 20 years ularly lethal, prosecutors asserted, fringement on our nation’s demo- were “a diversionary type of a tac- An FBI affidavit said Mostofsky
ing everything including the plun- in prison. Such seditious conspira- and “appears to have been moti- cratic process.” They showed oth- tic used by some of these rioters.” also appeared to post on social
dering of congressional offices and cy includes using violence to pre- vated to conduct violence against ers that contained purported con- Other charges made public media a self-taken video labeled,
digital devices, assaults on law en- vent, hinder or the delay the execu- our elected representatives.” tact information for “Conservative Tuesday included ones against “DC bound stopthesteal,” and ex-
forcement officers, and theft of tion of its laws. U.S. authorities Coffman is accused of carrying Talk Show Host Mark Levin,” Aaron Mostofsky, 34, the son of a changed messages and photo-
national security and defense in- have prosecuted such cases 11 Mason jars with gasoline and “Shaun [sic] Hannity,” and “Sena- Brooklyn judge who was photo- graphs on Instagram describing
formation, in addition to felony against Puerto Rican nationalists, melted Styrofoam — which an FBI tor Ted Cruz.” graphed inside the Capitol wear- his presence in the Capitol.
murder and excessive use of force. white supremacists and Muslim affidavit said could produce a “na- Coffman did not enter a plea, ing what appear to be several fur “If we find each other look for a
“The gamut of cases is mind- extremists who plotted a 1993 at- palm-like” explosion of sticky, and was ordered held without pelts, a U.S. Capitol Police bullet- guy looking like a caveman,”
blowing,” Sherwin said. tack on the World Trade Center in flammable liquid. The affidavit bond by a U.S. magistrate. Defense proof vest and a riot shield. Mostofsky wrote a friend, the affi-
Citing video footage and wit- New York City. also said he had a rifle, shotgun, lawyer Tony Miles argued Coffman Mostofsky made an initial ap- davit said, adding later, probably
ness accounts that have not been A new grand jury was empan- two 9mm pistols, a .22-caliber pis- has no criminal record, is retired pearance in New York City on four referring to the election, “Even a
made public, Sherwin added: eled Friday and met Monday to tol, five types of ammunition and a after a history of work, has family charges, including entering re- caveman knows it was stolen.”
“People are going to be shocked hear new Capitol breach cases. large-capacity magazine, all load- ties in Alabama and 10 years’ serv- stricted grounds, violent or disor- The FBI added that after the
with egregious activity in the Capi- Prosecutors also condemned vio- ed and unregistered and unli- ice in the U.S. Army. derly conduct at the Capitol, and election, Mostofsky posted on
tol. No resources of the FBI or the lence against the news media, say- censed in the capital. Coffman had Prosecutors previously said theft of government property ex- Facebook: “Since the republicans
U.S. attorney’s office will be un- ing they would investigate and an apparent license to carry a pis- Coffman was investigated because ceeding $1,000, a felony that car- lost the house I have the following
tapped to determine if there was hold accountable those who as- tol in Alabama, prosecutors said. he was the registered owner of a ries a statutory maximum penalty questions 1 when and where are
command and control, how it op- sault, threaten or damage the However, they asserted in court red GMC pickup truck with Ala- of 10 years in prison. Mostofsky we protesting/rioting . . . ”
erated and how it executed these property of journalists. filings that the stockpile of weap- bama plates parked near the Capi- was ordered released on a [email protected]
activities.” Hours before officials spoke, the ons suggests “an intent [by Coff- tol. Officers allegedly found the $100,000 bail bond Tuesday after- [email protected]
Capitol and D.C. police were in first public federal indictment in man] to provide them to others, as molotov cocktail devices while in- noon by U.S. Magistrate Sanket [email protected]
openhanded combat with rioters, the Capitol breach was filed no one person could reasonably vestigating reports of suspected Bulsara in Brooklyn. He was given
tear gas was used against police, against an Alabama man who al- use so many at once.” pipe bombs near the Republican strict orders to remain in New Jennifer Jenkins contributed to this
and destructive devices and semi- legedly brought 11 molotov cock- Exhibits filed by prosecutors National Committee headquar- York City and refrain from com- report.

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L O C AL D IGE ST
The original supermodel went from sculptor’s clay to director’s film
MARYLAND Audrey Munson French. She was the model for the earning $500 that she secretly
became famous large gilded figure atop New uses to publish Darcy’s poems.
Teen is found fatally for standing still, York’s Municipal Building. She is Darcy is incensed when he
shot in Pr. George’s but she became the centerpiece of the Maine discovers Purity posed nude in
infamous because Monument in Central Park. front of another man, but when
A teenager was found fatally of a moving Three-quarters of the statues at he learns she did it for him, he
shot Monday, Prince George’s John picture. the 1915 world’s fair in San begs forgiveness. Not the most
County police said in a news Kelly’s Munson started Francisco were based on Munson, feminist message, but it was 1916.
release. Washington out as an artists’ so many that she was dubbed “the “Purity” was thought to be lost.
At 8 a.m., officers were called model. For a while Exposition Girl.” But in 1993, a copy was found in
to the 3400 block of 55th Avenue in the early 20th In his 2016 book about France. It is not available online,
in unincorporated Hyattsville for century, she was the artists’ Munson, “The Curse of Beauty,” though a few museums now have
a report of an “unresponsive model: the preferred choice for author James Bone writes: copies. Bone was able to see it at
male.” They found Carlos Garcia American artists and sculptors. “Audrey posed for photographers, the British Museum. The 90-
Morales, 19, of Riverdale outside Because of her ubiquity — 40 illustrators, painters, sculptors, minute film was, he said, a
an apartment building with statues and paintings are based and one tapestry weaver, revelation.
gunshot wounds. He was on her at the Metropolitan generating hundreds of works — “It’s much more sophisticated
pronounced dead, police said. Museum of Art alone, she claimed illustrations for books and than I imagined early silent films
Detectives are investigating — Munson has been called magazines, stained-glass would be,” Bone told me.
the shooting, police said. America’s first supermodel. windows, oil paintings, and We tend to think of silent films
— Katie Mettler “Many think that posing is bronze and marble sculptures.” as short, jittery slapstick, but
simply taking a certain Munson took her work many were quite elaborate.
prescribed position and holding it seriously. She did not wear a “Purity” was shot in the
Airliner searched after for a stated length of time, and corset, which she believed ruined countryside around Santa Barbara,
‘suspicious message’ that outside the physical strain it women’s bodies. She was careful Calif. It featured a cast of 200,
is easy,” Munson once said. “Try it with her diet. She did not stay out many of them dancers who cavort
An airliner was evacuated and see.” late. And she did not date artists. in a dell. Some frames were hand-
upon arrival at Baltimore- Just as she did as an artists’ Munson may have been tinted red for dramatic effect.
Washington International model, Munson appeared naked commodified, but she tried to “The second thing was how
Marshall Airport on Monday in 1916 in a film called “Purity.” As retain some agency over her risque it was,” Bone said. “Audrey
night after the crew learned of a I detailed in two previous career. She joined the Art Munson spends a lot of time on
written threat, Southwest columns, the film was written by Workers’ Club for Women, a screen in a gauzy costume with
Airlines said. a Washington author named group formed to protect models her breasts popping out, which is
No credible threat to Clifford Howard. When “Purity” such as herself, and tried to clearly a large part of the movie.”
Flight 2104 existed, an airport was booked to play at D.C.’s mentor newcomers. It was this aspect that got
spokesman said after the plane Strand Theater in October of In 1915, Munson was the star of “Purity” banned in Washington in
was checked out. 1916, it was banned. a Broadway production called 1916. In other cities, edits were
The precautions were Munson was born in 1891 in “The Fashion Show,” a plotless made before it could be shown.
prompted by a “suspicious Rochester, N.Y., and raised by a production featuring models Munson was unapologetic
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
message” discovered aboard the single mother. In her teens, wearing the latest clothing styles, about her career, writing, “That
flight from Phoenix, BWI Munson performed as a dancer in interspersed with music. Model Audrey Munson, who starred in the 1916 movie “Purity,” which is the immodesty of other
spokesman Jonathan Dean said. provincial vaudeville houses. By One week into the show, a man poses here with Buzzer the cat in a 1915 photo by Arnold Genthe. women has been my virtue — my
After landing, the plane was 1909, she was on Broadway in a Munson described as “prominent willingness that the world should
moved to a remote area, the show called “Girlies,” one of 60 in the theatrical world” entered Albee. “The Fashion Show” the story of a sculptor who, while gaze upon my figure unadorned.”
airline said. Authorities promptly young women in the chorus line. her dressing room, grabbed her in closed a week later. wandering through the woods It was not Munson’s body that
boarded the aircraft and “None of them twenty,” promised a bear hug and kissed her on the Munson first appeared on film one day, accidentally happens let her down, though, it was her
transferred the 95 passengers and a newspaper ad. “None of them shoulder. in 1915’s “Inspiration.” No copies upon a young girl bathing in a mind.
six crew members to the terminal married.” Munson protested and ordered exist, though it’s known that she crystal pool.” Up next: The fall of Audrey
by bus. A photographer named Felix him out. Before leaving, the man played an artists’ model and The girl is Munson, playing the Munson.
Details about the message Benedict Herzog seems to be the hissed, “You will have cause to appeared naked in it — a first role of Purity Worth. Purity’s [email protected]
could not be learned first artist to have asked Munson remember this!” time for a mainstream film, writer boyfriend, Thomas Darcy, Twitter: @johnkelly
immediately. to pose. Soon after that, she was Bone, Munson’s biographer, apparently. had been unable to find a
— Martin Weil posing for such Beaux-Arts suggests this was the show’s Her next film was “Purity.” As it publisher for his poems. Purity  For previous columns, visit
and Ian Duncan masters as Daniel Chester producer, Edward Franklin was described in 1916: “It depicts poses naked for the sculptor, washingtonpost.com/john-kelly.

Pr. George’s officer

suspended for photo COURTLAND MILLOY

A Prince George’s County

police officer was suspended
Tuesday after the department
It’s time to listen to those sounding the alarm about racism
said it learned of a photo in which
the man flashed his gun and MILLOY FROM B1 And she asked a good But some people, including resistance to school “You see this table and chair?”
badge while wearing a campaign question about the attack: some of the nation’s top elected desegregation, wanted to keep Biden recalled Stennis saying,
T-shirt supporting President A white marble statue of “What does it say about us that officials, felt that danger Black people at the back of the according to the Free Press.
Trump — a violation of the Russell stands in the rotunda of so many were complicit, while firsthand last week as a mob of bus and out of White restaurants “This table was the flagship of
department’s social media policy. the building that bears his those who sounded the alarm mostly White men stormed the and hotels. the Confederacy from 1954 to
The officer was not named in a name, a glowing tribute to the were dismissed as hysterical?” Capitol, assaulting police, In fighting passage of the Civil 1968. Senator (Richard B.)
department news release lawmaker who used a pen and I’d be more precise: What does it breaking glass and wreaking Rights Act of 1964, Russell told Russell had (representatives
announcing the suspension, and rhetoric to suppress the Black say about White people that so havoc. And tens of thousands the Senate, “We will resist to the from) the Confederate states sit
the agency did not include the vote and wreak economic many were complicit in ignoring watched it unfold live on TV. bitter end any measure or any here every Tuesday to plan the
image in question. But a copy of violence on Black people. The warnings about Trump and his Next week, up to 15,000 movement which would have a demise of the Civil Rights
the photo obtained by The mob that breached the Capitol pandering to white nationalists? National Guardsmen could be tendency to bring about social Movement.”
Washington Post shows a man failed to continue his legacy, and Why were the Black people who stationed in Washington, equality and intermingling and “Then he looked at me,” Biden
sitting in a vehicle with his gun now its members are being sounded the alarm dismissed as forming a protective ring around amalgamation of the races in continued, “and I got chills
and police badge tucked into his tracked down, arrested and hysterical? President-elect Joe Biden. our [Southern] states.” when he said: ‘It’s time this table
waistband. He is lifting a gray charged by some of the people Because that’s the loop we’re Having selected a Black woman Biden was particularly close goes from the possession of a
long-sleeve shirt to reveal a navy they allege to be fighting to stuck in. In too many instances as his vice president and to the notorious Sen. John man against civil rights to a man
“Make America Great Again” protect. when Black people express nominated the most diverse Stennis of Mississippi, who for civil rights.’ ”
T-shirt. Beneath the president’s The arrests allow America to concern about the racism Cabinet in the nation’s history, signed the Southern Manifesto, Biden will take office two
signature campaign slogan is an condemn the rioters as simple- boiling among White people Biden faces an elevated threat. which called for massive weeks after the assault on the
“I Voted” sticker. minded bigots or crazed who believe they’ve been left He also delivered a strong resistance to the Supreme Court Capitol and the people inside.
The department did not conspiracy theorists while doing behind — their disbelief, for rebuke of President Trump and ruling to desegregate schools. He has spent a lot of time
specify how it learned of the little about the people who instance, that income disparity his racist dog whistles that In an interview with the talking about bringing the
photo but said it was posted to emboldened them. or racially targeted school incited that Lost Cause riot at Jackson Free Press in 2019, nation together. But maybe it’s
social media. A second social In an op-ed for The suspensions exist — the the Capitol. Biden told a story that seemed to time to do as Stennis said, and
media post “causing more Washington Post on Monday, response is deflection or But I’ve also heard Biden portend either imaginably bold take the table away from those
concern” was discovered, the former Democratic presidential disagreement. express admiration for some of moves to foster Black trying to divide and tear the
department said, although nominee Hillary Clinton wrote Clinton explained some of the the 1960s Southern progression — or a colossal country apart. Maybe it’s time to
officials did not specify what the that “it is not enough to dismissiveness, writing that “it’s segregationists who were still in retreat. listen to those who’ve been
post entailed. Interim chief scrutinize — and prosecute — hard to comprehend the danger the Senate when he was elected Biden recalled a conversation sounding the alarm.
Hector Velez suspended the the domestic terrorists who of what seem like ridiculous in 1972. that took place as Stennis was [email protected]
officer’s police powers. attacked our Capitol. We all need conspiracy theories until you Those Dixiecrats opposed retiring, the Free Press said. At
— Katie Mettler to do some soul-searching of our experienced that danger anti-lynching laws, favored poll that meeting, Stennis put his  To read previous columns, go to
own.” firsthand.” taxes, orchestrated massive hand on a table. washingtonpost.com/milloy.

L O TTE R IE S
RETROPOLIS
Results from Jan. 12

DISTRICT
Day/DC-3: 6-9-0
Historians note alternative to impeachment, 25th Amendment
DC-4: 0-9-9-3
DC-5: 5-4-5-8-5 BY M ICHAEL S . R OSENWALD or as an executive or judicial offi- deadly attack on the Capitol. ly aimed at Confederates following not now time that the disabilities
Night/DC-3 (Mon.): 6-7-0 cer of any State, to support the “In protecting our Constitution the Civil War, seeking to bar them imposed by the fourteenth
DC-3 (Tue.): 2-0-2 As a pro-Trump mob stormed Constitution of the United States, and our Democracy,” Pelosi wrote from holding public office during amendment should be removed.”
DC-4 (Mon.): 4-1-1-3 the Capitol last week, Eric Foner, shall have engaged in insurrection in a letter to colleagues that in- Reconstruction. Congress passed the Amnesty
DC-4 (Tue.): 7-5-8-7 one of the nation’s premier Civil or rebellion against the same, or voked the 14th Amendment, “we “The language in Section 3 ap- Act of 1872, which removed a pro-
DC-5 (Mon.): 2-3-2-6-4 War historians, watched in horror. given aid or comfort to the en- will act with urgency, because this plies to anybody who has made an hibition against holding office by
DC-5 (Tue.): 0-0-8-5-8 “I was watching just like anyone emies thereof.” President represents an imminent oath to the Constitution and then all but the most senior Confeder-
else, with my mouth hanging “Nobody really had heard about threat to both.” violates that oath,” Foner said. “It’s ate leaders. In 1898, wider amnes-
MARYLAND open,” he said in an interview. this except people like me who Ending Trump’s presidency un- pretty simple.” ty was granted as a “gesture of
Day/Pick 3: 1-0-1 But his mind quickly shifted to study this era,” said Foner, a Co- der the 14th Amendment is prob- But the politics around it were national unity” during the Span-
Pick 4: 4-6-0-6 history, specifically the little- lumbia University professor and ably impossible, scholars say, be- not, according to Magliocca, who ish-American War, Magliocca
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Pick 4 (Tue.): 5-0-0-4 The 14th Amendment, ratified other historians emailing me say- Trump or other politicians who “one of the vestigial parts of the ert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis,
Multi-Match (Mon.): 2-5-17-24-27-31 in 1868, is most famously known ing, ‘Wouldn’t Section 3 apply here supported the attempted insur- Constitution.” president of the Confederacy.)
Match 5 (Mon.): 1-4-20-26-33 *14 for providing citizenship and if Trump is guilty?’ ” rection from holding office again. Southerners deeply opposed Magliocca said the amnesty was
Match 5 (Tue.): 5-8-22-30-35 *18 equal protection under the law to Over the weekend, interest grew If Trump is impeached by the the provision, arguing it would aimed only at Confederates, not
5 Card Cash: 5D-QD-8C-4C-10S anyone born or naturalized in the in Section 3 beyond the historical House, two-thirds of the Senate harm any effort to unite the coun- anyone else in the future who
United States, including formerly realm, with at least one congress- would have to vote to convict him try. Though it was ultimately might violate the provision.
VIRGINIA enslaved and free Black people. woman broaching the strategy to in a trial that would be held after passed, Section 3 was sparsely ap- “Those waivers don’t mean that
Day/Pick-3: 3-7-1 But as calls emerged almost im- bar Trump from holding federal he leaves office. Using Section 3 of plied and, as Magliocca put it, it can’t be applied today,” Maglioc-
Pick-4: 7-1-9-9 mediately for President Trump’s office. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the 14th Amendment wouldn’t re- “quickly neutered” by Congress ca said.
Night/Pick-3 (Mon.): 8-0-6 ouster and ban from office via the (D-Calif.) warned Monday that the quire a supermajority, historians just four years later. Section 3 has been invoked since
Pick-3 (Tue.): 4-7-4 25th Amendment or impeach- House will move forward with im- noted, and wouldn’t complicate In 1872, Magliocca wrote, Presi- the Confederate issue was settled,
Pick-4 (Mon.): 2-5-3-9 ment — neither course is expedi- peaching Trump for a second time the start of Joe Biden’s presidency. dent Ulysses S. Grant and Con- but just once. In 1919, Congress
Pick-4 (Tue.): 9-1-6-0 tious or easily accomplished — if Vice President Pence does not Gerard N. Magliocca, an Indi- gress “concluded that Section barred Victor L. Berger, a socialist
Cash-5 (Mon.): 5-10-26-33-34 Foner began pondering a different seek to remove him under the 25th ana University law school profes- Three was not helping Recon- from Wisconsin, from occupying a
Cash-5 (Tue.): 1-2-18-26-40 remedy provided by Section 3 of Amendment by Wednesday. The sor who has studied Section 3, said struction and could be making House seat following his opposi-
the amendment, which says: House could impeach Trump on a a majority vote in Congress would matters worse by giving White tion to the United States entering
MULTI-STATE GAMES “No person shall be a Senator or charge of “incitement of insurrec- express lawmakers’ opinion that Southerners an excuse to aid the World War I.
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Megaplier: 2x ident, or hold any office, civil or day. declaration. With a presidential election Magliocca aren’t sure. But they sus-
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‡Lucky Ball ¶Cash Ball previously taken an oath, as a Congress who supported the base- The history of Section 3, though elapsed since the last hostile gun “I thought of it as soon as people
member of Congress, or as an offi- less allegations that the election little known, is a remarkable one. was fired between the armies then started to use the word ‘insurrec-
For late drawings and other results, check cer of the United States, or as a was stolen from Trump and the Though it doesn’t mention them by arrayed against each other, it may tion,’ ” Magliocca said.
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Md. detects U.K. variant; D.C. vaccine rollout seen as slow

REGION FROM B1 Bread for the City, a nonprofit groups that may be plotting vio-
on Seventh and P Streets NW that lence before or on Inauguration
dence it carries a greater risk of serves low-income residents, has Day.
disease or death. Hogan said Rob- been offering the vaccine to The greater Washington region
ert Redfield, director of the Cen- health-care workers and now to reported a record seven-day aver-
ters for Disease Control and Pre- seniors. Most have signed up for age Tuesday of 8,698 new corona-
vention, warned him Monday that the organization’s 50 slots per day virus infections. The region added
the variant is widespread across through the city’s portal. 7,656 new daily cases, with 4,561 in
the country but often is not detect- But those who contact the agen- Virginia, 2,665 in Maryland and
ed. cy generally don’t have a history 430 in the District.
“He said, ‘You can assume — with the organization, said medi- Yet the coronavirus vaccine
we’re sure — that the U.K. variant cal director Randi Abramson. rollout has been slow throughout
is in every state. It just hasn’t been “It’s mostly a White crowd from the nation and the Washington
detected yet in every state,’ ” Ho- Northwest,” she said. “That’s region, with officials saying they
gan said Tuesday during a news who’s using the Internet, and it’s hope opening slots to priority
conference. either them or their children, and groups more quickly will speed up
A private lab flagged the cou- it’s their children who are bring- vaccinations.
ple’s sample, and the Maryland ing them in. They are the ones who “We really need to ramp things
public health lab and the CDC are acutely aware of how it works up. We need to get more shots into
confirmed the variant, Hogan and how to sign up.” people’s arms, so we’re really
said. More than 60 cases of the The group has set aside about stressing flexibility,” Virginia Gov.
strain have been identified in at 10 slots each day for its regular 450 Ralph Northam (D) said Tuesday.
least 10 states since it was detect- clients. Virginia has administered
ed two weeks ago in Colorado. East of the Anacostia River, ad- 200,402 doses, according to the
Hogan’s announcement came vocates say, seniors seeking the state’s most recent data. The state
as D.C. recorded 430 new cases, vaccine have encountered mixed has fully vaccinated 19,086 peo-
the highest single-day total in the results. ple. Maryland has administered
city. Ambrose Lane Jr., chairman of 152,129 first doses of the coronavi-
As seniors clamor for vaccines, the Health Alliance Network, said rus vaccine, according to the
a notice on D.C.’s vaccination web- six seniors he knows in Wards 7 state’s most recent data.
site Tuesday said, “All 6,700 of the and 8 secured appointments by Danielle Thorne, a high school
available vaccination appoint- phone early Monday, but those geometry teacher in Alexandria,
RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST
ments for the week of 1/11/21 were who called in the afternoon faced was one of the first teachers in the
filled,” stoking concern that the Nurse Deborah Henley fills a syringe with the Moderna coronavirus vaccine as first responders were a waiting list. They took it in city to get vaccinated Tuesday as
first-come, first-serve system fa- being vaccinated in Sterling on Dec. 28. Virginia has administered 200,402 vaccine doses so far. stride, he said. Northern Virginia moved into its
vored the digitally savvy over “I’ve gotten, for the most part, next phase of distribution.
those who might not have com- more vaccine,” he said. “There is have been promised to CVS and positive feedback,” he said. “If it’s “I feel a lot more comfortable
puter access but are in need of demand for vaccines.” Walgreens to vaccinate residents any one thing that I hope they pay with the idea of coming back to
protection against the virus. The District has administered and staff in nursing homes and attention to, it would be the sen- school,” Thorne said afterward.
Ken Mead, 70, of Chevy Chase more than 26,000 of the 45,425 other long-term care facilities. iors that are not mobile.” “Doesn’t mean everyone will still
was aghast to find no vaccine ap- doses of the vaccine it has received Some are going to health-care pro- Stuart Anderson, director of choose to do that, I’m sure, but it
pointments available. as of Monday. Officials noted that “He said, ‘You can viders, including Kaiser Perma- community engagement for the definitely makes you feel a lot
“After all this angst about devel- the number might be higher be- nente and George Washington Anacostia Coordinating Council, more comfortable.”
oping a vaccine, now we have one cause some pharmacies are using assume — we’re sure University, which also will use the said he spoke with two seniors in The next round includes not
and we can’t seem to distribute it the city’s reporting system incor- doses to vaccinate patients 65 and Southeast Washington whose ef- only essential workers, such as
in an efficient way,” said Mead, a rectly. — that the U.K. older. forts to schedule appointments by K-12 teachers and staff members,
former inspector general of the D.C. Health Director LaQuan- Falcicchio said the Health De- phone Monday evening were sty- but also people living in group
U.S. Transportation Department. dra Nesbitt said Monday that the variant is in every partment will consider ways to mied. settings such as homeless shel-
At the current pace, he said, the city would only open 4,000 ap- make the process more accessible In the meantime, the District is ters, and those 75 and older.
District has little hope of vaccinat- pointments for seniors and state. It just hasn’t for low-income seniors but didn’t taking steps to discourage visitors Alexandria Health Director
ing even half of its population of health-care workers to receive offer specifics. from flooding the capital for the Stephen Haering said demand for
more than 700,000 people in a vaccinations this week. Seniors been detected yet in “With each action we take, presidential inauguration, a qua- the vaccine from older adults has
year’s time, calling the situation quickly snapped up the slots, leav- we’re looking at how to make sure drennial event that D.C. busi- been high. The city has roughly
“bleak.” ing some frustrated they hadn’t every state.’ ” it is equitable,” he said. “We’ll con- nesses and cultural attractions 8,200 people over the age of 75,
“That’s what set me off really,” been able to register through the tinue to look through and make usually embrace as a chance to Haering said, and more than 1,300
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan,
he said. “Someone needs to do the telephone or online systems. sure there are vaccines available shine. of them have been registered.
quoting CDC Director Robert
math here.” Despite the complaints from to people in all eight wards.” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser “The uptake has been 85 to 95
Redfield on the more highly
John Falcicchio, deputy mayor seniors, Nesbitt expressed confi- A D.C. Health spokeswoman (D) ordered indoor restaurants percent,” he said.
contagious coronavirus variant
for planning and economic devel- dence in the system. said appointment sign-ups both and museums to remain closed [email protected]
opment, said D.C. officials are of- “We can handle the call volume. online and by phone are intended until two days after President- [email protected]
fering the maximum number of The website can handle the ap- to prevent giving an advantage to elect Joe Biden is sworn in. The [email protected]
slots possible with the doses avail- pointment scheduling,” she said. wealthier residents with reliable aim is to head off a spike in infec- [email protected]
able. The city expects to receive an addi- Internet access or enough time to tions by yanking back the wel-
“The biggest anecdote we have, tional 8,300 doses this week. make repeated attempts to book come mat amid the pandemic and Tara Bahrampour contributed to this
coming out of this, is that we need Nesbitt said 5,000 more doses appointments. the risk posed by right-wing report.

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What to know about the vaccine rollout in D.C., Md., Va.

BY J ULIE Z AUZMER Q: Who can get a vaccine right register for an appointment at a 292,000 doses and is scheduled include diabetes, asthma, cancer administered at hospitals to the
now in the Washington region? pharmacy or health center to get to receive more than 120,000 and other conditions. employees there, and at nursing
More than 1 out of every 100 A: The first people to get shots in vaccinated there. additional doses by Saturday. So In the District, Nesbitt said she homes to both workers and
Americans have now been D.C., Maryland and Virginia, like far, the state has vaccinated more will make the list based on which residents. Most are being
vaccinated against the novel most of the country, are those Q: How many doses have been than 87,000 people. diseases make a person most distributed to pharmacies —
coronavirus, the virus that has who work in health-care jobs that given out so far? The District has received more likely to suffer severe effects from including major chains Giant and
overturned life as we know it for directly expose them to A: As of early this week, Virginia than 35,000 doses and is the virus, but also based on how Safeway — and to nonprofit
nearly a year. In the Washington contagions. Workers eligible for has received just under 482,000 scheduled to receive an many health-care workers and health centers including Mary’s
region, more than 200,000 the vaccine right now include doses of vaccine and is scheduled additional 17,000 by Saturday. elderly residents choose to get Center, Unity Health Care and
people have gotten shots. With many who work in hospitals and to receive more than 100,000 The city has administered more vaccinated this month, which others.
millions more to go, here are urgent-care facilities, ambulance more by Saturday. So far, the state than 17,000 shots, but the true will give the health department a In Montgomery County,
answers to some questions you workers and home health aides. reported vaccinating more than count is unknown because more better sense of how many people leaders have discussed hosting
might have about how the All three jurisdictions have 126,000 people, although officials than 40 percent of the it can offer vaccines in February. mass vaccination clinics, where
District, Maryland and Virginia started administering vaccines to say the actual number is higher pharmacies administering shots people would line up at a public
are administering vaccines — people living in long-term care because a new online data system have not yet started correctly Q: If I work in one state but live facility for shots. Elsewhere in
and when and how you can get facilities such as nursing homes. has made it difficult for providers using the city’s vaccine- in another, where should I get the region, the plan is for
your shot. Some workers get the vaccine to log their performance. information reporting system, vaccinated? coronavirus vaccines to be
at their workplace. Others can Maryland has received according to D.C. Health Director A: Across the region, health-care administered to the public much
LaQuandra Nesbitt. workers can get vaccinated in the like annual flu shots, mostly at
state in which they work. pharmacies.
Q: Which groups will get Because the District has a large
vaccinated next? number of health-care workers Q: Are pharmacies giving
A: All three jurisdictions next who reside in Maryland and vaccines to anyone if they have
A SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE will offer vaccines to the elderly,
people with certain medical
Virginia, both states gave
thousands of doses allotted to
extra doses left at the end of the
day?

GUARANTEED conditions and essential workers.

In the District, health officials
made vaccines available to all
them by the federal government
to the District to help vaccinate
workers at D.C. hospitals.
A: Law student David
MacMillan’s now-viral TikTok
video seems to be the source of
residents 65 and older beginning This policy should apply to this rumor. MacMillan and a
Monday; to grocery store other essential workers going friend got lucky: They were
workers, child-care workers, forward. The District has shopping at a Giant grocery store
elementary through high school clarified, for example, that in Northeast Washington when a
teachers and other front-line teachers who work in D.C. but pharmacist offered to vaccinate
workers beginning Jan. 25; and live elsewhere will be able to get them because she had an open
people with certain chronic shots in the District. vial of the vaccine that would
medical conditions and otherwise be discarded and the
remaining high-priority workers Q: Can I make an appointment or store was closing soon.
such as essential government register now to get a vaccine? Could the same thing happen
employees beginning Feb. 1. A: Unless you’re a health-care to you? It’s extremely unlikely.
Maryland next will offer worker, no. You may have seen a The D.C. health department
vaccines to people 75 and older, website or a bar code to sign up does urge pharmacists to use
to residents and staff of “special for a vaccine appointment, but doses on any available person
needs group homes,” and to local health departments in D.C., rather than let them expire.
teachers beginning about Feb. 1. Maryland and Virginia have However, hospitals and health
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D.C. prepares for However, the governor said police

are not aware of a credible, specif-
ic threat against the Annapolis
complex.

possible violence “A lot of this is real, and a lot of it

is fake,” Hogan said regarding In-
ternet chatter of protests. “We
don’t have a specific threat that we
zeroed in on, not nearly the kind of
SECURITY FROM B1 Bowser, who has urged all threats that they were kind of ig-
Americans to stay away from noring in Washington last week.”
Guard troops and 3,000 to 4,000 Washington during the inaugura- The governor added that the
law enforcement officers from tion and who issued a late-night state still will have ample security
across the country who will be order on Monday closing indoor with 1,000 Guardsmen deployed
deputized to enforce laws in the dining and museums to make the to the District.
District for the inauguration, offi- city less hospitable to tourists, said In Virginia, law enforcement
cials said. The city also is deploy- Tuesday that she also will consider officials briefed members of the
ing all of its 3,700 police officers. mandating closures or restric- General Assembly about security
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser tions on hotels. issues on Tuesday afternoon
(D) and Virginia Gov. Ralph D.C. officials also are negotiat- ahead of the legislative session
Northam (D) met with troops ing with the National Park Service getting underway on Wednesday.
from the Virginia National Guard over the city’s request that the Authorities said they had few
on Tuesday who will remain sta- Park Service not issue permits for specific security concerns about
tioned in Washington through the mass gatherings on federal land the session itself, but that they
inauguration, giving the city the this week or next. remain on heightened alert in the
ROBB HILL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
feel of an armed camp. Both Bowser and Northam days leading up to the presidential
“I just want you all to know that blamed President Trump, whose Members of the New York National Guard at the U.S. Capitol Building on Tuesday. Up to 15,000 inauguration. A particular focus is
we’re very proud of you,” Northam supporters stormed the Capitol Guardsmen and 3,000 to 4,000 law enforcement officers from across the country will be in D.C. a large pro-gun caravan scheduled
said to a group of 50 troops before after his false claims that he had to swarm Richmond streets on
meeting with National Guard won the election, for the level of entire city,” Hogan said during a Organizations including the for potential threats” on and Monday, said Brian Moran, the
leaders separately. “We all know threat. news conference in Annapolis. Proud Boys, Three Percenters, around Inauguration Day by state’s secretary for public safety.
what happened here on Wednes- “The president’s comments, his Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) Oath Keepers and Boogaloo Boys working with other federal agen- “The intel suggests that we
day — an armed insurrection in continued lies that he has been said Capitol Police briefed House have indicated plans to come to cies to evaluate threats. need to be prepared for protests
the cradle of democracy.” telling about the fact that the elec- Democrats on Monday night the District. “We are maintaining a height- through the weekend and through
“It’s our job to defend democra- tion was stolen — they hear this about credible threats targeting Some event listings for the days ened presence throughout Inau- possibly inauguration,” Moran
cy,” he told them. over and over again, and that’s Democrats on Inauguration Day ahead of the inauguration are guration and are prepared to ad- said Tuesday in an interview.
The preparations were under- what they believe. What the presi- and the days leading up to it. One mentioning delivering “justice” dress any criminal activity or safe- “We’re going to prepare for a week-
way the day before a heightened dent has created is literally a tin- included a call for “4,000 armed for Ashli Babbitt, a rioter and Air ty and security concerns,” Sgt. long effort to be sure everyone is
period of security begins that will derbox,” Northam said. patriots” to encircle the Capitol to Force veteran who was fatally shot Roselyn Norment said in an email safe here in the commonwealth.”
run through the inauguration on Bowser added: “What we saw prevent Democrats from entering, by police during the insurrection Tuesday. In Richmond, Capitol Square is
Jan. 20. The designation allows last Wednesday clearly incited a including by using violence, while last week. Police forces outside the city are going to be closed off and no per-
federal agencies, including the riot. But it didn’t start last other extremists threatened to kill A new symbol, a flag bearing the pitching in, with Prince George’s mits are being honored for dem-
FBI and Secret Service, to secure Wednesday. It’s been building for Democrats, he said. outline of a woman’s face juxta- police and Virginia State Police onstrations there, according to the
certain areas that may be targets many months.” “If you weren’t worried or too posed with the Capitol building among those sending officers to Department of General Services.
for violence. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) worried going into that security and four stars that far-right the nation’s capital. [email protected]
But even before Joe Biden is said the District could be subject briefing, you certainly left the se- groups say represent the four “pa- But the concerns are not limit- [email protected]
sworn in as president, the FBI has to even tighter restrictions, in- curity briefing very worried,” Con- triots” who died during the Capi- ed to the District. [email protected]
warned of protests by armed cluding Metro closures and shut- nolly said. tol siege, is being shared in far- In Maryland, the state’s Capitol [email protected]
right-wing groups in the District downs. Calls for a “Million Militia right chat groups and channels Police are coordinating with An- [email protected]
and state capitals across the coun- “There are ongoing discussions March” on Inauguration Day have with the message, “They can’t kill napolis, Anne Arundel County
try on Sunday and other days that about securing the nation’s capi- for weeks proliferated in online us all.” and Maryland State police forces Meagan Flynn, Emily Davies, Dan
have prompted additional wor- tal, not just the immediate site chat groups used by the far right, The U.S. Park Police on Tuesday to defend the State House complex Morse, Katie Mettler and Rachel
ries. around the Capitol itself, but the including Parler and Telegram. said the agency was “monitoring from any threats this weekend. Weiner contributed to this report.

School systems hope vaccine will lend clarity to reopening

SCHOOLS FROM B1 “Both of those are significantly turn students to school buildings. gion have made and changed its teachers and administrators to School system officials said
above the thresholds that the With reopening efforts so var- plans multiple times. return over the next month. they will do more to provide tutor-
Emails to school officials have board set in December,” said Der- ied, it has been hard on parents For now, most students in Prince George’s County in ing and outreach, and that the
poured in, citing research, mental ek Turner, chief of engagement, and school employees who strug- Northern Virginia are scheduled Maryland, which has been all-on- system will offer more support
health fallout, learning loss, the innovation and operations. gle with child-care needs and fi- to begin the second semester en- line since the school year began, is during Wednesday virtual check-
needs of students in special educa- But some are hoping that vac- nancial uncertainty, they said. tirely online. Neither Loudoun sticking with virtual learning un- ins. The changes follow several
tion and a range of potential con- cine distribution will bring signifi- Coming together to make the County’s school system, with til further notice, a spokeswoman adjustments made for the second
sequences for teachers and fami- cant change. In late January, the case were more than 10 unions or 82,000 students, nor Fairfax said. Officials hope that some marking period.
lies. Some messages have been first teachers and other front-line associations — in Virginia, Mary- County’s, with 186,000 students, form of in-person learning may School system data shows fail-
angry. Others have been fearful or school employees are scheduled to land and D.C. — representing has committed to a firm return resume before the school year’s ure rates in math and English
worried. get their first doses of the vaccine. more than 48,000 public school date. end in the state’s second-largest jumped as much as sixfold during
“I know there is going to be “I do wholeheartedly believe educators, they said. They includ- In Alexandria, the school sys- school system. the first quarter for some of Mont-
anger and frustration,” said board that vaccination is the path for- ed the teachers union in Mont- tem of 16,000 on Monday delayed At Tuesday’s meeting in Mont- gomery County’s most vulnerable
member Patricia O’Neill (Dis- ward to a normal existence,” gomery County. by a week the return of a group of gomery, officials outlined a set of students.
trict 3). “We are talking about one O’Neill said. “We live in one of the most kindergartners through second- changes aimed at helping strug- More than 36 percent of ninth-
year. But it’s a very, very difficult Smith said the school board populous regions of America,” the graders with disabilities. Because gling students in middle and high graders from low-income families,
situation.” would meet Feb. 23 to determine groups said in a statement. “The of climbing infection rates, the school. for example, failed the first mark-
On Tuesday, the two-week aver- whether the March opening is fea- lack of a coordinated plan among children are not expected to re- Students will be allowed to des- ing period in English. That com-
age number of new cases per sible. The second semester begins the many school districts in the turn until Jan. 26. ignate up to two courses for pass- pares with fewer than 6 percent
100,000 residents in Montgomery Feb. 1. region is creating instability and In Arlington, 230 children with fail grades in the second semester last year, when the same students
County was 44, with a test positivi- Montgomery’s discussion Tues- unnecessary anxiety for parents, disabilities have been learning in- rather than letter grades. They took English in eighth grade.
ty rate of 7.5 percent. Montgom- day came as teachers unions children, and school employees in person since November, but it is also can lighten their course load [email protected]
ery’s targets for reopening are un- across the Washington region the Washington DC metro area.” unclear when other students will — opting to take a class during the
der 15 cases per 100,000 and below called for school systems to come Since the school year began in be back. The school system, which summer or another time in the Hannah Natanson contributed to this
5 percent. up with a regionwide plan to re- August, school systems in the re- enrolls 23,000, has asked some of future. report.

MARYLAND

Hogan calls GOP delegate a ‘QAnon conspiracy theorist’ after Pence tweet
BY OVETTA WIGGINS whether an ethics investigation Hogan, a longtime critic of dence Tuesday that Hogan had In recent years, the House of a charged word to describe the
AND ERIN COX has been launched. President Trump, has blamed the endorsed Cox. He said it was possi- Delegates has taken different for- vice president. “To me, Mike
Cox did not return calls Tues- president for inciting the riot at ble Cox could have been part of a mal actions when it wants to issue Pence acted like a patriot,” he said.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Tues- day. the Capitol, in which a Capitol large batch of blanket candidate sanctions against members for In the past week, Cox has re-
day that a Republican state del- An apologetic letter he wrote to Police officer and a protester were endorsements by the governor. their behavior. In 2019, lawmakers corded a video on his Facebook
egate who called Vice President the leaders of the Joint Commit- killed. Cox, on the other hand, is a “If we did, it’s officially rescind- censured Del. Mary Ann Lisanti page in which he denounced the
Pence a traitor during last week’s tee on Legislative Ethics, ob- devout defender of the president. ed,” Mayer said. “The governor (D-Harford), who is White, for us- mob violence at the Capitol but
breach of the U.S. Capitol was a tained by The Washington Post, Asked about Cox on Tuesday, never knew he was endorsing ing the n-word to describe a major- continued to raise questions
“QAnon conspiracy theorist.” seeks to explain what the delegate Hogan said he was embarrassed him.” ity-Black legislative district. The about election fraud and defend-
Hogan told reporters the Gen- calls “my poor choice of words” in by fellow Republicans who fought Cox is an avowed opponent of same year, it also issued a formal ed efforts to challenge the results.
eral Assembly may seek to cen- the tweet. against certifying the results of mask requirements and pandem- reprimand of Del. Jay Jalisi (D-Bal- His Twitter account has been de-
sure or take other formal action “At no time was I calling his the presidential election. “He is ic-related shutdowns. In his pri- timore County), who was accused leted.
against first-term Del. Daniel L. action ‘treason’ or ‘sedition’ which not the kind of person I would vate legal practice, he has repre- of berating and emotionally abus- The video said Cox’s group trav-
Cox (R-Frederick), who organized are legal terms of art,” the email vote to put in the legislature or sented clients suing government ing his legislative staff. eled to Washington from Freder-
buses to the #stopthesteal rally said. “I intended the verbiage to support in any way — for any- officials over those policies. Senate Minority Whip Michael ick and were on the Mall but never
and tweeted “Mike Pence is a convey a betrayal of us his voters thing,” Hogan said. “I know he filed suit against us J. Hough (R-Frederick) said he made it to the Capitol “and of
traitor” as rioters stormed the and a deep disappointment.” The governor said he did not multiple times, [he’s] a QAnon was not aware of any action that course did not participate in any
Capitol. Cox wrote that he drafted the know Cox personally, although conspiracy theorist who says crazy the House might be considering violence.”
The legislature could consider tweet aboard a bus leaving the city photos posted on Cox’s Facebook things every day,” Hogan said on against Cox. He said that al- At the news conference, Hogan
disciplinary action when it re- and was unaware of the deadly page show Hogan posing with Cox Tuesday. “He called me a commu- though he “strongly disagrees” reaffirmed his commitment to the
turns to Annapolis on Wednesday violence unfolding at the Capitol. in 2018, with a written endorse- nist Chinese spy for China. He with Cox’s tweet about Pence, he Republican Party, saying he “does
for its 90-day session. Such delib- “I had no realization of the gravity ment attributed to the governor called the vice president a traitor. questioned whether formal ac- not want to leave the party to
erations are confidential, howev- of the situation at the moment below. He was down there gathering peo- tion from the legislature was nec- those who took a hostile takeover
er, and a spokeswoman for House and with my very small twitter Doug Mayer, who was Hogan’s ple at the Capitol. I don’t even essary. of the party four years ago.”
Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D- following had no intent to stir up deputy campaign manager in know what makes him think this Hough said he thinks Cox [email protected]
Baltimore County) declined to say anything,” he wrote. 2018, said he could find no evi- way.” needs to apologize for using such [email protected]

VIRGINIA THE REGION

Sheri≠’s deputy dies of covid amid jail outbreak A two-face Tuesday: Warm or cold?
BY M ARTIN W EIL remained above freezing every
BY J USTIN J OUVENAL The sheriff ’s office announced Ceisler declined to say how a friend, said Cameron left be- minute of every other January
Friday that 19 deputies and 13 many deputies have been quar- hind two children and his wife. Some days, such as Tuesday, day except for Saturday, when it
A veteran Fairfax County Sher- inmates had been sickened at antined because of the outbreak, “Butch was the type of guy seem to defy being easily catego- settled exactly on the freezing
iff ’s Office deputy has died of the jail, the largest outbreak at but said it has not affected the who’d always welcome you over rized and exemplify the many point at 32 degrees.
covid-19 amid an outbreak of the the facility — which houses near- ability to provide security at the to his home,” Sargent wrote in a faces and facets of any single day. Tuesday’s claim to be warm
coronavirus at the county jail ly 575 inmates — since the pan- jail or the courthouse. message to The Washington Post. Each way of seeing Tuesday, rests on the afternoon high of 49.
that has sickened more than 30 demic began last year. To date, 31 Cameron, who worked as a He was a “very warm person and whether as cold or as warm, has That made the day the third-
guards and inmates in recent inmates and 66 staff members deputy for 16 years, “served with a great father and stepfather.” something to be said for it. warmest of January so far.
days, authorities said. have tested positive for the coro- valor and distinction,” but his The sheriff ’s office has taken a On one hand, we may call At 49 degrees, Tuesday’s high
The Fairfax County Sheriff ’s navirus since March 2020, ac- family asked that other details range of measures to stop the Tuesday as cold a day as we have was exceeded only twice this
Office declined to say whether cording to the sheriff ’s office. about his service not be released, spread of the coronavirus behind had in Washington all year, with a month: on Jan. 2, when it was 58,
the death of Frederick “Butch” Andrea Ceisler, a spokeswom- including how he may have con- bars, including additional clean- low temperature of 29 degrees. and on Sunday, when it was 50.
Cameron, 51, was directly related an for the sheriff ’s office, said tracted the coronavirus, Ceisler ing and isolating inmates who So Tuesday did its part, per- So to dwell on the morning
to the current wave of cases at officials do not know the source said. are suspected of having covid-19 haps, to uphold the reputation of cold seemed unfair to the after-
the jail, but a spokeswoman of the outbreak but that the Cameron was honored by the when they arrive at the jail. January as our coldest month. noon’s sunny benevolence. That
described his death as in the Fairfax County Health Depart- Fairfax County Chamber of Com- Fairfax County prosecutors Besides Tuesday, the month’s only helped provide warmth six de-
“line of duty.” Sheriff ’s deputies ment was contacted immedi- merce in 2010 for helping rescue have also moved to release some other 29-degree reading was grees above our rightful expecta-
guard the jail and the courthouse ately to perform contact tracing motorists from a fiery crash on inmates early. made Monday. tion, the Jan. 12 norm of 43.
in Fairfax County. at the facility. Interstate 66. John F. Sargent III, [email protected] Otherwise, the mercury has [email protected]

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DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE

BARNETT EVANS GORDON
SARA ANN BARNETT (AGE 75) JERROLD GORDON

obituaries Of Alexandria, Virginia passed on Sunday, Jan-

uary 10, 2021, at Leewood Health Center in
Annandale, Virginia. Born June 6, 1945, in
Bethesda, Maryland, she was the daughter
of the late Willie Ray Barnett and the late
NORMAN ANDRE EVANS
Norman Andre Evans beloved son, brother,
and friend, left his temporary earthly home
on December 29, 2020 to join his father and
family in his permanent home in Heaven.
The W.M. of Samuel Gompers-
Benjamin Franklin #45 hereby-
Calls an On-Line Emergent Com-
munication for our departed
brother: Wednesday, January 13,
Edyth Priddy Barnett Lobban. She is survived Memorial Services will be held at J.B. 11 a.m. Services at King David
by her cousin, Marie Priddy Dean (Harry Dean) Jenkins Funeral Home, 7474 Landover Memorial Gardens.
of Leesville, South Carolina. Private interment Road, Landover, MD, on January 14, 2021 Burt S. Levy, W.M.
will be in Mt. Comfort, Alexandria, Virginia on from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Friday, January 15, 2021.
GOUGH
BLUM
MARCIA FAYE BLUM (Age 73)
Of Montgomery County, Maryland, passed,
after an extended illness, on Monday, January
FOLKER
11, 2021, at Ballenger Creek Center in Fred-
erick, Maryland. Born on June 19, 1947, she
was the daughter of the late Nathaniel and
Miriam (nee Bolgla) Blum. She was preceded
in death by her brother, Michael Blum. Marcia
graduated from Montgomery College with an
AA degree in 1995. She retired from Bechtel
Power Corp. Marcia loved animals and raised
championship Cocker Spaniels. Her favorite
pastimes were home shopping, knitting, cro-
cheting, and Sudoku. She is survived by a
brother, Bruce Blum and his wife, Annette,
of Frederick; and by dear friends, Henrietta
Wright, Deborah Yoder, and Linda Fogarty.
Graveside services will be held at Resthaven GERALD GOUGH "JERRY"
Memorial Gardens in Frederick. Please go to Beloved father, Gerald Gough, 89, of Roseville,
the Stauffer Funeral Home website for more California, passed peacefully on the morning of
information. January 1, 2021.
www.StaufferFuneralHome.com
Jerry, as he was commonly known, was born
in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on August 12, 1931.
A graduate of the Theatre Department at the
ANNELIES FOLKER University of Maryland. Jerry met his wife
On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, Annelies Folker Kathrine Moore when they played the lead
passed away at the age of 87. She is survived roles in “Picnic." Jerry and Kathrine remained
by her sister, Lucia Kaune in Germany, her married until her death in 2009.
daughters, Denise Patton, Janelle Schutt (John),
Kathleen Herman (Lee); her many grandchil- Early in his career, Jerry taught history, govern-
dren, great-grandchildren, and friends. A funer- ment, and politics classes at Highpoint High
al mass will be held at St. Michael Church, in School in Beltsville, Maryland; and served as
Annandale, VA at 10 a.m. on Thursday, January a legislative staffer for the Maryland General
21, 2021 followed by burial at Fairfax Memorial Assembly.
Park Cemetery.
Jerry was elected Mayor Pro Tempore of Green-
JOHN DOMINIS/LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES belt, Maryland; and spent the remainder of his
long career in public service as a Government
The Loud family gathers at matriarch Pat Loud’s apartment in 1973. The PBS documentary series “An Relations Officer for the Washington Metropol-
itan Transit Authority (Metro).
American Family” turned the Louds into stars of a new genre: reality TV.
DEATH NOTICE Occasionally Jerry appeared in films, commer-
cials and television shows as an actor. Jerry

PAT LOUD, 94 CHORNESKY GOLD was a member of SAG-AFTRA, serving on the

board of the San Francisco-Northern California
SELMA R. GOLD Local.
On January 10, 2021 Selma R. Gold, beloved

‘American Family’ mother mother of Neal Gold; loving grandmother of Jerry was a member of SS. Peter & Paul Catholic
Harris and Matthew Gold. Services and inter- Church in Rocklin, California, where he sang in
ment private. In lieu of flowers contributions the choir.
may be made to the National Dance Institute
(www.nationaldance.org) in her memory. He is survived by daughters Maureen Decombe
and Sally Wedemeyer, sons Michael and James
Gough, grandsons Elias and Jerry Gough, and

was a reality TV pioneer When the

many nieces and nephews.

A memorial mass will be held at a future date.

HOLLAND
BY E MILY L ANGER need arises, KENNETH HOLLAND
On Sunday, January 10, 2021,
KENNETH HOLLAND of Silver
Pat Loud, a California house-
wife who became known to mil-
let families Spring, MD. Beloved husband
of Sara Rosen Holland. Devoted
father of Jeffrey (Francis Bar-
MARY CATHERINE CHORNESKY
lions of television viewers in the
1970s as the matriarch of “An
(Age 93)
Of Washington, DC passed suddenly on Decem-
find you in the bosa) and Steven (Shirley) Hol-
land. Dear brother of Stanley (Cese) Hol-
land. Loving grandfather of Paul and Rachel
American Family,” a PBS docu-
mentary series that was by turns
ber 5, 2020.

Mary was born in Birmingham, England to

Mary O’Hara Vyse and Fred Vyse. As a young
Funeral Services Holland. Funeral services private. Memorial
contributions may be made to the Parkin-
son's Foundation, www.parkinson.org or
to The Michael J. Fox Foundation,
celebrated and blamed for usher-
ing in the era of reality TV with its
frank depiction of her private life,
girl, she survived the German bombing blitz in
WWII. She excelled in school and was certified
by the London School of Apothecaries in 1945.
Directory. www.michaeljfox.org. Arrangements
entrusted to TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNER-
AL HOME, 202-541-1001.

died Jan. 10 at her home in Los Mary met George Chornesky, a US Army medic,
at the end of WWII, at the University of Birming-
Angeles. She was 94.
Her family announced her
ham. George was stationed in Birmingham for
medical Classes. They fell in love and wrote
To be seen in the HONIG
death in a Facebook post that did to each other every day. George was accepted
to the University of Geneva in Switzerland,
Funeral Services LOUIS HONIG
Louis Honig of Rockville, MD,
not cite a specific cause. Medical School. On his way there, he stopped
in England to wed Mary. They both became Directory, please call passed away on Monday, Jan-
uary 11, 2021 at the age of
Created by television producer fluent French speakers. 95. Beloved husband of Cecelia
Craig Gilbert, “An American Fam- paid Death Notices Honig; devoted father of Gail
Mary and George returned to the United States, Honig O'Neal (Michael), Stuart
ily” was a sensation when it aired where George interned at Massachusetts Gen-
eral Hospital. They then settled in Washington,
at 202-334-4122. Honig (Sherry) and Robin Rabi-
over 12 one-hour installments in DC.
nowitz (Warren); loving grandfather of
Megan Nicely (Brian) and Elaine Rabinowitz;
1973. Decades before the Kar- and great-grandfather of Aidan Nicely.
Mary had a zest for life and was passionate Funeral services will be private. In lieu
dashians became famous for be- about children, ideas, art and culture which she
DAVID LIVINGSTON/GETTY IMAGES of flowers, donations may be made to a
ing famous, or the Gosselins of shared with her children. She was immersed charity of choice. Services entrusted to
in projects at their schools, always attending Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg
“Jon & Kate Plus 8” announced From left, Mrs. Loud, actress Diane Lane and Bill Loud attend the special events and volunteering, or participat- Funeral Care.
their divorce, Mrs. Loud and her premiere of HBO’s “Cinema Verite” in Hollywood in 2011. The film ing as a Girl Scout leader. She later became a
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certified tutor and helped scores of children to
then-husband, Bill Loud, allowed dramatized the making of “An American Family.” graduate high school. Mary loved reading and
a camera crew to film their daily
lives with their five children for she was “probably drunk” at the . . . That maybe seems silly to even
started the Chevy Chase Great Books. As a
certified pharmacist, she assisted a generation O'BRIEN
of children who lined up for sugar cubes for
300 hours over seven months in time it occurred.) have to point out, but that was protection from polio. She was a master bridge DOLORES J. O'BRIEN
player.
1971. An enduring legacy of the show different from a lot of what we saw August 20, 1929 - January 9, 2021
Mary is survived by her beloved husband of Dolores Joan O’Brien, 91, of Annapolis, died prominent roles in numerous musicals,
“We asked the kids, and they all was its sympathetic presentation on television.” 76 years, Dr. George Chornesky; her children peacefully on the morning of January 9, 2021, including Annie in “Miss Hannigan’s School
agreed,” she told the New York of Lance Loud, who, by coming He continued, “Compare Pat Adam Chornesky, Danielle Chornesky, Alexia at Anne Arundel Medical Center. for Girls” and Rizzo in a Grease parody called
Levite, and Elizabeth Chornesky; her grand- “Crisco,” all to great acclaim. Rehearsals
Times in 2013. “It seemed like a out, became one of the first openly Loud to Edith Bunker” of Norman children Michael Chornesky, Benjamine Wahle, Dolores was born on August 20, 1929, in and performances consumed the entire fall
fun thing to do.” gay people to appear on televi- Lear’s sitcom “All in the Family,” Hannah Levite and Ian Wahle; her sister Patricia Washington, DC. A first-generation Irish season, but it brought her great joy.
King and brother Laurence Vyse. American, she was the daughter of Patrick
At the time, many American sion. Years later he contracted which was early in its run when Cannon, a native of County Mayo, Ireland, Dolores was an accomplished storyteller and
viewers still turned on the televi- HIV and, over his mother’s initial American TV viewers met Mrs. Services will be held at the Jesus the Good and Lydia Augusta Cannon, of Baltimore, even her story’s villains were always given
Shephard Catholic Church, 1601 W Mt Harmo- who died during World War II, when Dolores their humanity. She really could see the
sion expecting the idyllic presen- objections, invited a camera crew Loud. “Edith Bunker kind of did ny Rd., Owings, MD 20736, on January 15 at was 15; and the granddaughter of prominent good in people. Dolores loved to travel. She
tations of family life that they had to film “Lance Loud!: A Death in as she was told, stifled herself 11 a.m. for family and friends. Face masks and Washington saloon keeper and distiller, visited Ireland twice, Rome, and many beau-
social distancing will be required. No gathering Patrick Cannon, Sr. tiful places across America. She loved wine,
reliably found in sitcoms such as an American Family,” a TV docu- when she was ordered to do so. I to pay respects prior to service. chocolate, Irish Coffee and ice cream. And
Dolores was a very proud native of Brook- yet she was always very tiny.
“The Adventures of Ozzie and mentary that aired on PBS in don’t think Pat Loud would have Contributions in memory of Mary Catherine land, in NE Washington, DC, and a graduate
Harriet” and “The Dick Van Dyke 2003, two years after he died of responded to the request to stifle Chornesky may be directed to Saint Jude’s of St Anthony’s High School, from which she Dolores is survived by two daughters, Janet
Hospital for children Memorial Gift Fund. maintained many lifelong friendships. O’Brien Lynn of Mt Airy, MD, and Patricia
Show,” both of which ended in hepatitis C. herself nearly as docilely.” O’Brien of Annapolis, and two sons, Tommy
1966. Even “The Brady Bunch,” When the original show was Patricia Claire Russell was born www.leefuneralhomes.com In 1947, Dolores married the love of her O’Brien of Pompano Beach, FL, and Jim
life, Bobby O’Brien, who passed away in O’Brien (Terri), of Oakland, CA; three grand-
which ran from 1969 to 1974, man- broadcast, some viewers pointed in Eugene, Ore., on Oct. 4, 1926. 1992, after 45 years of marriage. With Bobby, children, four great-grandchildren; and
aged to find tidy solutions to the to the Louds as an example of the She had known her future hus- she shared a profound love of family, a scores of nieces and nephews who loved
problems presented by the meld- dysfunction of the American fam- band since she was 6 and married When the deep Catholic faith, an enthusiasm for the
Washington Football Team, and, amazingly, a
birthday.
her dearly. To many of them, she was simply
Dory. As well as her husband Bobby, she
was preceded in death by a brother, Patrick
ing of two families. ily, even as others found a degree him in 1950, two years after re-
“An American Family” was of solidarity, even solace, in the ceiving a bachelor’s degree from need arises, After raising her four children, Dolores went
Cannon of Rockville, sisters Ruth Dean of
Mt Ranier, MD, and Sister Francis Augusta
something else entirely. Filmed in
a cinema verité style, it followed
story of an imperfect couple.
“It’s about how you and I and
Stanford University, where she
studied world history and English let families to work for the Prince George’s County Early
Childhood Programs, working under her dear
friend, the late Judy Hoyer.
Cannon, OSB, of Elizabeth NJ, as well as
her grandson, Kristopher Owens, of Mt. Airy.

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through events both ordinary and
everyone in this room and every-
one in this country is fumbling
literature.
After her divorce, Mrs. Loud
find you in the In 1994, Dolores settled happily in Heritage
Harbor, Annapolis, where so many of her
There will be a viewing at Kalas Funeral
Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road, Edge-
water, MD, on Sunday, January 17, 2021,
monumental, among them a wild-
fire that menaced their house,
around trying to make sense out
of their lives,” Gilbert once told
worked as a literary agent in New
York and lived for a period in Bath,
Funeral Services Brookland friends were her neighbors,
including her beloved sisters-in-law, Helen
O’Brien, Carol O’Brien and Rose O’Brien.
from 3 to 6 p.m. A funeral mass will be
held on Monday, January 18, 2021, at 10:30
a.m., at St John Neumann Catholic Church,
Mrs. Loud’s decision to divorce Mrs. Loud when she confronted England, before returning to the Directory. After her retirement, Dolores took to the
stage. She loved to sing and had a voice that
620 N. Bestgate Road., Annapolis. Due to
the Covid-19 pandemic, the funeral will also
be livestreamed online at
her philandering husband, and him about his purpose. United States to care for Lance
was rich and deep. Under the guidance of https://vmeo.com/event/78413. The family
the revelation that their oldest The show came to attract during his illness. On Lance’s re- To be seen in the the impresario of Heritage Harbor, her sister- is planning to have a memorial mass and
son, Lance, was gay. 10 million viewers a week, a figure quest, she reconciled with her in-law Mary Ellen O’Brien, she performed celebration of Dolores’s life in late summer.
Funeral Services
At the time, the anthropologist that Mrs. Loud said she found former husband and resided with
Margaret Mead declared the doc- shocking. After it aired, she told him until his death in 2018. Survi- Directory, please call
umentary-style genre “as new and broadcaster Dick Cavett that it vors include their children Mi- paid Death Notices at SORZANO
significant as the invention of dra- had made her family “look like a chele, Delilah, Kevin and Grant. 202-334-4122. enrolled at Georgetown University earning
ma or the novel.” Nearly four dec- bunch of freaks and monsters. . . . The Louds appeared in the 1983 a degree in international affairs and then a
PhD in political philosophy from Georgetown.
ades after the program aired, We’ve lost dignity, been humiliat- HBO special “An American Family He became a US citizen in 1972, one of the
Washington Post television critic ed, and our honor is in question.” Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Lat- proudest days of his life.
Hank Stuever wrote that it “re- Robert Thompson, a professor er” and were depicted in the 2011 DEATH NOTICE For 18 years, he was an Associate Professor
mains one of television’s most of television and popular culture HBO movie “Cinema Verite,” a of Government at Georgetown University,
specializing in political theory. José also
memorable and emotionally con- at Syracuse University, offered an- dramatization of the making of COASTON served as US Peace Corps Director in Colom-
bia, South America which during his tenure
flicted events.” other interpretation of how Mrs. “An American Family” in which became the second largest Peace Corps
CHARLES COASTON
Gilbert, who died in April, told Loud was presented. She was “a Diane Lane played Mrs. Loud, Passed January 5, 2021 went program in the world. In 1981, President
home to be with the Lord. He Reagan appointed him US Ambassador to
the Times that he encountered no modern, empowered American Tim Robbins played her husband the United Nations as US Representative
leaves to mourn his passing, his
shortage of subjects willing to woman,” he said in an interview and James Gandolfini played Gil- father, Charles Coaston (Car- to the United Nations Economic and Social
olyn); mother, Lillie Old; sib- Council and then as Deputy Permanent Rep-
participate in his project to docu- after her death. “She was unhappy bert. ling, Glenn Peace and Carla resentative, Ambassador Extraordinary and
ment the everyday life and strug- about things, she acted on that In 2013, the Times interviewed Betts, and host of relatives and Plenipotentiary. Ambassador Sorzano served
friends. Family and friends are welcomed on for five years. In 1987, he was appointed
gles of an American family. He unhappiness, she communicated. Mrs. Loud alongside Carole Friday, January 15, 2021 from 2 p.m. to 3 AMBASSADOR, JOSÉ S. SORZANO to the National Security Council as Special
selected the Louds, he said, be- Radziwill, a star of a modern reali- p.m. Private service immediately following at Assistant to the President (Ronald Reagan)
Briscoe-Tonic Funeral Home, 2294 Old Wash- José Silverio Sorzano, 80, of Arlington, Vir- and Senior Director for Latin American Affairs
cause they were an “attractive ty TV show, Bravo’s “The Real ington Road, Waldorf, MD 20601. ginia, and Levels, West Virginia, died Decem- serving for almost two years. After leaving
couple” with “attractive” children. Housewives of New York City.” www.briscoe-tonicfuneralhome.com ber 29, 2020, at Virginia Hospital Center, government service, he was the President
of the Cuban American National Foundation,
They were “not ‘the’ American Pat Loud was “a Mrs. Loud remarked that she had
COUCHOUD
Arlington, Virginia.
a nonprofit organization dedicated to pro-
moting a free, independent, and democratic
family,” he emphasized — there often mulled what her life would He was the son of the late José Silverio
Sorzano y deCardenas and Matilde Sanchez Cuba, after which he established his own
being nothing of the sort — but modern, empowered have been like if she had not SYLVIA SARI COUCHOUD "SISSY"
Sylvia Sari Couchoud "Sissy", 80, of Upper
Montoulieu Sorzano. He was born and raised
in Havana and came to the United States in
international consulting firm specializing in
joint ventures between US and foreign firms.
“simply ‘an’ American family.” agreed to go on television in the Marlboro, Maryland, passed away on Saturday, 1960, fleeing communist Cuba.
The Louds lived a comfortable American woman. early 1970s. January 9, 2021.
Born May 10, 1940, in Washington DC, she Ambassador Sorzano was a university pro-
He is survived by his wife of 53 years,
Shannon Hogan Sorzano of Arlington, VA,
lifestyle in a stylish home, with “I would have been up in that was the daughter of the late Winfred “W.S.” fessor, diplomat, presidential adviser, and and Levels, WV; their daughter Julia Matilde
three cars and a pool, as viewers She was unhappy house, and my kids would have all Luck and Frances H. Luck. The Helbert/Luck
families are from Timberville, VA, where Sylvia
international businessman. He served on
several government boards and commis-
Sutula (David) of Fairfax, VA; their son José
S. Sorzano, Jr. (Tracy) of Palm City, FL; and
came to know. There was little gone, and I would have the empty lived with her grandmother, Helen Helbert, for sions and was a long-standing member of the three grandchildren, Shannon Kay Sutula,
they did not come to know, it about things, she nest syndrome. So I beat them to a short period of time as a child.
Sylvia is survived by her husband of 61 years,
MasTec Inc. board of directors. He received
numerous scholarships, fellowships, honors,
José S. Sorzano III, and Jacob Donald Sorzano.
Also surviving are his three sisters, Maria
seemed, as the show developed. it. I got out of there before they Louis Couchoud, two sons, David Couchoud and awards throughout his life. Matilde Menocal (Jorge), Gloria Monge, and
When Mrs. Loud tires of her hus- acted on that did,” she said. and wife Kathy of Huntingtown, MD, and Don-
ald Couchoud of Upper Marlboro, MD; a brother He always described his life as The American
Georgina Binkins (Martin), and numerous
cousins, nieces, and nephews.
band’s adultery, she matter-of- Radziwill noted a degree of iro- Michael Luck (late wife Bonnie) of Fort Wash- Story. He came to the US at the age of 20,
factly asks him to leave, telling unhappiness . . . ” ny in the observation. ington, MD, and sister Sharon Tully and hus-
band Joe of Parrish, FL.
with his basketball shoes (he was on the
Cuban national championship team) and five
A funeral mass will be held at St John the
Beloved Catholic Church in McLean, VA, on
him that he could “take the Jag.” “In a way, the show probably She is preceded in death by her brothers James dollars. His first job was mopping floors in Saturday, January 16 at 12 p.m. Burial will be
Robert Thompson, professor of Luck, Steven Luck, and Alan Luck. the Key Bridge Marriott kitchen where he in the Hogan family plot in Holy Sepulchre
(Mrs. Loud later said that she allowed you to live your more Sylvia will be laid to rest at the Timberville was provided a free meal and an opportunity Cemetery in NJ. Memorial donations may
television and popular culture be made to Center for a Free Cuba, Cuba-
was coerced into filming the con- authentic life,” she said. Cemetery, 145 Church Street (Rt. 617), Tim- to learn English. In order to understand
berville, VA, on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at what had happened to his birth country he center.org; or Helping Hands, 24 W Main St,
versation with her husband — a “Absolutely,” Mrs. Loud replied. 11 a.m. Romney, WV 26757.
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LEIDERMAN RYAN BULLOCK FORD JACKSON WILLIAMS
MAX LEIDERMAN (Age 103) JOHN JAMES RYAN "Jack" (Age 79)
Passed away on Monday, January Of Somersworth, NH, formerly of Potomac,
11, 2021 of Covid-19, at the age of MD and Hilton Head, SC passed away on
103. Born in Washington, DC, Max January 11, 2021. He was born in Rochester,
earned accounting degrees from NY.
Southeastern University, followed The son of the late John William and Esther
by a long career as a public Bunting Ryan, he graduated from St. Bernard
accountant and tax consultant in Preparatory School in Cullman, AL and received
Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD. He his BA from the University of Alabama.
was a longtime volunteer broadcaster for the He was a sales manager at several high-tech
Metropolitan Washington Ear and an avid base- computer companies. A member of Congres-
ball fan, organizing charter buses to Baltimore sional Country Club, he was an avid golfer,
Orioles games during their championship years tennis player and photographer.
when there was no team in Washington. He He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Jane
loved music and entertained many on guitar Taylor Ryan; his daughter, Carolyn and son-in-
and harmonica. He is survived by his sons, law Eric Decker, of Dover, NH; his son, John
Stuart, Harvey (Wendy), and Jack Leiderman Ryan, Jr. of San Diego, CA; three grandchildren:
(Vicki McMullen); grandsons Aaron (Niki) and Kayla Ryan, James Decker, Ted Decker; his
Jared (Emily); greatgrandchildren Hazel and sister, Sister Veronica (Suzanne) Ryan of Cull-
Tovah. Private graveside services at Ohev man, AL.
Sholom Cemetery, Washington, DC. Memorial In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
service planned when safe to gather. Arrange- to the Alzheimer's Association. Burial will be MARION MARJORIE DUNLOP BULLOCK WILLIAM EUGENE FORD REV. DR. CHARLES BERNARD JACKSON Reverend RONALD CORNELIUS
ments by Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home, LLC private. Born on July 8, 1929 in Washington, DC to the Entered into eternal rest on Friday, January 1, "BUDDY" WILLIAMS
under Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of late Mason Dunlop and Marie Johnson Dunlop. 2021. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy J. Pastor, St. John Baptist Church Peacefully departed this earth on December
Greater Washington Contract.
SIEGEL The third of four children, Marion attended
Washington DC public schools and graduated
Ford; three daughters, Lorraine Ford "Gwin,"
Sondra White and Tiffany Grant (Kelvin); three
of Marshall Heights, Inc.
Peacefully with his wife, Katherine L., by his
14, 2020. Ronald was born on March 12, 1951
as the eldest of three sons to Rev. Eli Williams
from Dunbar Senior School, Class of 1947. sons: Michael McClure (Jacquie), Dwayne Ford side on Saturday, January 2, 2021. Visitation and Estelle Williamson. Ronald was raised in
MARGOT KOPSIDAS SIEGEL Within months of graduation from high school, "Pete" and Abdul Ford (Malika); nine grand- Friday, January 15, from 3 to 7 p.m. at St. Arlington and served his country in the U.S.
Margot Kopsidas Siegel, wife, mother and Marion went to work for the U.S. Bureau children: Kennisha Ford, Kristina Asifo, Alexus Navy.
John Baptist Church, 5228 Call Place, SE and
MAHONEY grandmother died, December 24, 2020. Known
as "Bunny" to friends and family, she was a
of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC
where she spent her working career. She
Ford, Raven Ford, Nadia Grant and Karina
Grant, Aadam Ford, Hassan Ford, Ayyuwb
Saturday, January 16, from 10 - 11 a.m. at
House of Praise, 5110 Nannie Helen Burroughs
Ronald dedicated his life to God in service for
over five decades. He answered the call to
master in the kitchen, a maestro hostess and a retired from the Bureau in the late 1970’s. Ford; three great grandchildren: William Gra- the ministry at 17, was ordained in 1973, and
person who easily developed friendships from Ave. NE followed by the Home Going Celebra-
It was during her time in school and work ham, Kassidy Asifo, and Kinnidy Asifo; a host of tion 11 a.m. Apostle Stephen E. Young, Sr., pastored churches in Virginia throughout his
conversations among strangers. where Marion would meet her “lifelong” other relatives and friends. Mr. Ford will lie in life.
Raised in Washington, DC to become a wife Pastor. Bishop James L. Martin, Sr., Officiant.
friends, Margaret Braxton, and Lucy Bell. state at First Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church, Private interment Ft. Lincoln Cemetery. Virtual Ronald is survived by his loving wife, Cindy;
and homemaker, she moved to Chicago, IL in Marion met and married, William “Ben” Bullock 602 N St., NW on Friday, January 15 from 10 daughter, Tory; and brother, Anthony; as well
1958. Sixteen years later, she was a divorced, information:
in 1953. To this union were born four children, until service at 11 a.m. Interment at Lincoln www.washingtonandsonsfuneralhome.com as a host of family and friends.
single parent of two small boys and the owner Vanessa, Ralph, Gail, and Brian. Memorial Cemetery. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the family will
of a battered 1968 yellow Chevrolet Corvair. A quiet and soft-spoken person, Marion was www.stewartfuneralhome.com hold a memorial service for Ronald at a later
Leveraging her volunteer experience, she family focused. She was very thoughtful, date.
carved out a successful 13-year career in public always thinking of others. No matter the occa-
relations serving as primary spokesperson for
Cook County Hospital and the Illinois Com-
sion, Marion always ensured a card was sent
to family and friends.
KLEMKO
merce Commission. She also authored a book
on Greek cuisine and moonlighted as a cooking
instructor.
Over the years, Marion enjoyed spending time
with her mother, aunt Thelma, her children, GARCIA
extended family, and friends. Her favorite activ-
She married architect Lloyd Siegel in 1987 and ities were playing cards (Bid Whist), going to
moved back to Washington, DC to be close Bingo, playing the slot machines at the casinos,
to family. Her compassion for others led her and cooking big Sunday dinners for family.
to charitable work, including as a member
of Philoptochos, the philanthropic arm of the
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and
In her later years, her ideal Sundays were spent
enjoying dinner followed by playing cards with
her children. It was during those times, that
ATTENTION!
as president of Salvation Army’s Women’s “quiet” Marion showed her competitive side
G. DANIEL MAHONEY Auxiliary of Washington, DC, 1994 to 1995. – the volume in her voice rising to challenge
On Saturday, January 9, 2021 after a coura-
geous battle. Born July 24, 1964 in New York
She and her husband were avid travelers.
Inspired by a tiny icon spotted in the Vatican,
for 9 years, beginning in 2000, she was instru-
certain plays, something that drew laughs from
all. Sunday family dinners were a great time of PAID DEATH
City to the late Philip T. and Margot (nee Lyons)
Mahoney. Moved to Maryland in 1988 and lived
in Bethesda. Graduated from the University of
mental in the Pan Orthodox Icon Exhibit at the
Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox
food, fun, and fellowship for all.
Marion departed this life peacefully on Sat-
urday, January 9, 2021. She was preceded
NOTICES
Maryland and had a long and distinguished
career as an accountant and an executive
Church. On behalf of the church, forceful but
always gracious, she borrowed and cajoled
Christian orthodox icons, many centuries old,
in death by her parents: Mason Dunlop and
Marie Johnson Dunlop; husband, William “Ben” SYSTEM
working in the Defense Industry. Loved his
family more than anything.
Beloved husband of Tracey Hausch Mahoney;
from private collections, embassies and other
churches.
Bullock; and siblings – Amanda “Sis” Dunlop,
Theodore Dunlop, and Clarence Dunlop.
Left to cherish her memories are daughters - ALEXANDER ROBERT KLEMKO
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devoted and proud father of Conor Patrick,
Sean Daniel and Margaret James; cherished
She is survived by her husband Lloyd Siegel;
her sons, Stephen and Christopher Phillips, and
Vanessa B. Johnson of Washington, DC and Gail
M. Bullock of Woodbridge, VA; sons - Ralph M.
Of Silver Spring, MD, died on Saturday,
January 9, 2021, at MedStar Montgomery
&
grandson Alexander Phillips.
brother of Dianne Ayers. Also survived by a
large extended family, and numerous loving
friends and colleagues.
A private funeral service will be held Friday,
January 15. In lieu of flowers, contributions can
Bullock of Oxon Hill, MD, and Brian B. Bullock
(Alyse) of Upper Marlboro, MD; grandchildren
– Yvette C. Bullock, Antwan Bullock, Brianna
MERVYN J. GARCIA
Peacefully passed January 8, 2021, age 78,
Medical Center. He was 74. He was born on
August 10, 1946 in Heidelberg, Germany. He MLK HOLIDAY
attended Groveton High School in Virginia
Because of COVID restrictions, a celebration
of his life will be held at a later date. Private
be made to the Salvation Army or St. Sofia’s
Greek Orthodox Church, 2815 36th Street,
Bullock, Christopher Shungu, Aliyah Bullock,
and Brian “BJ” Bullock; great grandson – Quen-
of Clinton Maryland. Born January 10, 1942.
He is survived by wife Judy Carrera-Garcia and received a BA in business from The
George Washington University. In 1987 he
HOURS
interment will be held at All Souls Cemetery, N.W., Washington, DC 20007. ton T. Bullock; and nephew – Kevin Dunlop. and children Sharon, Suzette, Stephen. Service
attended by family and close friends due to married Dr. Lisa Bradley and together they
Germantown. Her celebration of life will be held at Freeman's had three children, Robert, Jordan and
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made
to The Wounded Warrior Project. WASHINGTON Funeral Home on January 14, 2021. COVID restrictions. Mass will be held at St.
Francis Xavier Church, located at 2800 Penn- Cross. A high school thespian and a daily
reader of The Washington Post, Alex
Saturday,
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January 14, 2021, at 11 a.m. -12 p.m. Live aspired at an early age to become a writer, January 16, 2021
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can Legion Post 19 mourn the loss
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of our Member Lee Washington, ever they want,” he said. In 1980, he
Jr. on January 1, 2021. Our deep- started an office moving company, Moving
est sympathy is extended to his Masters, providing relocation and storage
services to commercial and government
Sunday,
MARTIN family. A wake will be held on
Thursday, January 14, 2021 from entities in the greater Washington area (“It’s
your move; call the Masters.”). Headstrong
January 17, 2021
10 a.m. until time of service 11 a.m. at R.N.
JOHN WESLEY MARTIN Hortons Funeral Home, 600 Kennedy Street. DOUGLASS and uncompromising when it came to his
aspirations, Alex left the windows of his
11 a.m. ~ 3 p.m.
On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at his home in NW, Washington, DC. Interment Harmony
Hampton, Virginia. He worked on the culinary Memorial Park. apartment open through several Maryland
team at Hyatt Regency Crystal City for more winters in the early days of Moving Masters,
than 20 years. Preceded in death by his dear Murphy L. Hackett, Cmdr. to steel himself “physically and emotional- Monday,
wife Mary, he leaves his children Shea (Sheila)
and Ashley, daughter-in-law Jane, two sisters,
Joseph P. Venable, Sr., Chaplain. ly” for the challenges of starting a business,
he said. The Maryland-based company has January 18, 2021
and a host of relatives and friends. Close
friends and family may call at the chapel of WIGGINS provided jobs for hundreds of men and
women and continues to operate today.
11 a.m. ~ 3 p.m.
Greene Funeral Home, 814 Franklin Street, Alex served in the U.S. Navy aboard a supply
Alexandria, Virginia 22314 on Saturday, January PATRICIA JONES WIGGINS ship during the Vietnam War and was a
16 from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. Graveside service Entered into eternal rest on Tues- dedicated student of history in general and
the Civil War in particular. His sons have
&
and interment at Mount Comfort Cemetery to day, January 5, 2021. Beloved wife
follow at 12:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, family of the late John Wesley Wiggins. fond memories of shooting cap guns and
is asking for plants and prayers that the Dallas She is survived by four sons, Garry eating hardtack while attending Civil War
Cowboys win next year’s Super Bowl. Wiggins (Kathy), Johnny Wiggins, re-enactments in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Tuesday,
Maryland. Alex considered Lisa his “partner
Marlin Wiggins (Sabrina) and Glen
Wiggins (Allison); 10 grandchildren, Kierra, in crime,” and she his, rarely passing up the January 19, 2021
Kalena, Kayla, Sydney, John Wesley, Allyssa,
Gianna, MyKeyia, MiYanna and Monee'; six DEATH NOTICE spontaneous weekend jaunt. He served as
chairman of the Maryland Motor Trucking 11 a.m. ~ 3 p.m.
McCALLUM great-grandchildren; aunt, Bernice Turner;
brother, Bruce Jones (Brenda); sisters, Laurene GRIMES
Association from 2008 to 2009 and won
the organization’s Man of the Year award
Cayou and Jennifer Choctaw; sister-in-law, Car- in 2015. Alex is survived by his wife and
sons, his brother, Donald, and his cherished
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olyn Jones; and a host of other relatives and JOHN FREDERICK DOUGLASS
friends. She was preceded in death by parents, September 25, 1925 - January 9, 2021 mother- and brother-in-law, Barbara and 1 p.m.
Lawrence and Nancy Jones; and brother, Leland. Alex was predeceased by his moth-
Born in Washington, DC on September 25, er, Antonia. A limited funeral service will be
Lawrence Jones. Private funeral service will be 1925 to Bertha and Harry Douglass. He was
held on Friday, January 15, 2021 at HODGES & held at Money and King Funeral Home on
EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME, 3910 Silver Hill Rd.,
predeceased by his parents and an older
brother William Thomas. John grew up in
Thursday, January 14, 2021. His body will PLEASE NOTE
travel from there to a crematory in a Moving
Suitland, MD. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Washington, DC where he attended McKinley Masters semi-trailer truck. Memorial dona- NO SELF - SERVE
Tech High School. He was recognized early tions may be made in Alex’s name to the
WILSON on for his artistic abilities and was offered a
scholarship to an art school. The Washington
St. Christopher Truckers Development and
Post proclaimed him “Boy of the Year” when he
Relief Fund (www.truckersfund.org) NO EXCEPTIONS
INGRID MARGARET WILSON was about 10 years old. John attended Trinity
On Wednesday, December 30, College and joined the Navy in 1943 to use
2020, Ingrid Margaret Wilson of his talents in photography. He was the first To place a notice,
Washington, DC entered into
eternal rest. Loving sister of
photographer on an aircraft carrier to cover
the invasion of Japan. He was stationed in NELSON-PARETTA call:
Juanita Koffie-Lart, Sybil Okinawa and was set to follow the bombers
Tabron, Phyllis Johnson, Ger- into Japan….but the war was over the next
day. After the war, he used the G.I. Bill to attend
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Hudson; and a host of other relatives and George Washington University and studied Art 800-627-1150
MICHAEL PAUL McCALLUM at the Corkran Gallery; this is where he met
Michael Paul McCallum departed this life at
friends. Family will receive friends on Fri-
day, January 15 at 2 p.m. until the time his wife of 65 years, Jacquelyn Leatherbury MARY HELEN GRIMES Ext. 4-4122
the Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical of funeral service at 3 p.m. at Wiseman of Shady Side. He was quite a catch, voted On Saturday afternoon, January 2, 2021, Mary [email protected]
Center, on Sunday, December 27, 2020. Funeral Chapel, 7531 Old Alexandria Ferry the best-looking man on campus. They spent Helen (Tate) Grimes of Alexandria, Virginia
Road, Clinton, Maryland 20735. Interment early summers in Florida - both as waterski passed away at Mt. Vernon Hospital with
Michael was employed by the State of Mary- private. instructors in Boca Raton, and they performed all of the love and support of her family.
land Board of Parole and Probation until his www.wisemanfuneralhome.net at the famous Weeki Wachee tourist attraction. Born in Rutherford County, North Carolina
retirement. The viewing will be held on January He also swam with Namu, one of the first killer on July 26, 1933 to James Roscoe Tate and
14, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Stewart whales in captivity. After college, John and Martha Elizabeth Hamrick. She is survived
Funeral Home, 4001 Benning Road NE, Wash-
ington, DC 20019. YOUNG Jackie settled in Jackie’s hometown in Shady
Side, MD. John was a man of many talents
by her daughters, Lisa, Lauren (Armand), and
son David (Valerie), grandchildren, Cameron,
and had a great sense of humor: At one time, Matthew (Victoria), Taylor, John Stone (Emiline),
FLORENCE LORETTA YOUNG (Age 90) he had a trash disposal business, and when Leanna and Jacob, and great-grandchildren,
Florence Lorretta Young passed away in her people would ask how’s business, he would Roman, and Sienna. DEATH NOTICES
sleep January 3, 2021. The widow of Donald say “picking up!” He also had a garage where MONDAY- FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
MYERS Warren Young, Florence had travelled the
world with her husband during his time in
he salvaged cars. John had a wonderful singing
voice and played stand-up bass. John and
Helen graduated from Anacostia High School
in 1951 and soon began her career on capital
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the U.S. Air Force before becoming a counselor Jackie were the artistic talent behind Parrish hill, serving as the personal receptionist for the 202-334-4122
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She is survived by her children, Juanita and On January 6, 2021 Lynn passed on to be 800-627-1150 ext 4-4122
of Leatherbury Point Marina at Woods Wharf States for both William Rogers and Robert
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Olga; grandchildren, Issac, Louis, and Nicholas; cancellation stamp for the postal service in child, Helen enjoyed some years of being a grew up in North Dakota with parents John
and nieces and nephews Anthony, Brenda, EMAIL:
1988, commemorating the 100th anniversary homemaker and concentrated on raising her and Marjorie Nelson. She is survived by her [email protected]
Charlene, Daryl, Chris, and Miles. Her cremat- of the naming of the quaint peninsula, Shady three children. With her children in HS and brother, Jim and her much loved step-children,
ed remains will be buried at Arlington National Side, he now called home. John and Jackie college, she then restarted her career by Oscar (Becky), Tom (Stephanie), Deb, Louie; Email and faxes MUST include
Cemetery beside her husband. collaborated on many art projects, including working as an administrative assistant at Fort and grandchildren Thom, Alyssa Angie, Matt name, home address & home phone #
www.stricklandfuneralservices.com the famous Peterson’s Guidebooks for fish, Hunt High School, Allis Chalmers, and Texaco’s and Nick. Lynn earned a BA from Jamestown of the responsible billing party.
birds, and shells, including a coloring book. Washington headquarters. College and MA from Denver University before Fax & email deadline - 3 p.m. daily
Visitors to BWI Airport in Baltimore may have joining the Immigration and Naturalization Phone-In deadline
DEATH NOTICE seen their highly acclaimed project – the giant, Although her heart was always open to all Service where she had a distinguished 26 year 4 p.m. M-F
3 p.m. Sa-Su
three-dimensional stained-glass blue crab she met, her greatest passion was always her career. She became the first female Special
sculpture. Through all of it, John created an family and spending time with her children, Agent in her division as well as the Officer
ABEL extensive library of art including book illustra- grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Helen in Charge of the INS office in Rome. She
endowed a scholarship at Jamestown College
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tions, sculptures, and beautiful original art. was a long time member of Plymouth Haven
John is survived by his wife Jackie; he will Baptist Church and her wonderful Fort Hunt for Native American students in honor of
be sorely missed by his many friends and Community. her parents. A true lover of the Arts and an MONDAY-SATURDAY
activist on behalf of animals. She donated Black & White
acquaintances all over the world. Relatives and 1" - $150 (text only)
friends may call at the Hardesty Funeral Home, In light of the ongoing pandemic, the intern- a large amount of time in volunteer efforts 2" - $340 (text only)
JUANITA L. MYERS (Age 99) P.A., 905 Galesville Road, Galesville, MD 20765 ment will remain private and a Memorial Ser- for the community in support of ECHO, Trap- 3" - $490
Our beloved mother and grandmother transi- on Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. A graveside vice celebrating her life will be planned for Spay-Release programs, the Christian Mission 4" - $535
tioned, Friday, January 1, 2021. Viewing will be service will be held on Thursday January 14, May of this year. In lieu of flowers please Society and her local Choral Group. Services 5" - $678
held on Friday, January 15, 2021; 11 a.m. to 12 2021 at 2 p.m. at the Woodfield Cemetery, send donations to Plymouth Haven Baptist and Interment will be at Arlington National ------
p.m.; Berean Baptist Church, 924 Madison St. Galesville, MD. Online condolences may be Church, 8600 Plymouth Road, Alexandria, VA. Cemetery at a time to be determined. In lieu SUNDAY
NW. placed at www.hardestyfuneralhome.com www.plymouthhaven.org of flowers donations may be made to Best Black & White
Friends Animal Sanctuary. 1"- $179 (text only)
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commanded VA-105, NAS Cecil Field and
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STEPHEN DAVID NEWMAN $179 each additional inch Sunday
Of Alexandria, Virginia, died Jan- He served on Boards of Navy-Marine Corps --------------------
uary 10, 2021. Beloved husband Relief Society, American Red Cross and St. MONDAY-SATURDAY
of Barbara Brenman for 48 years; LEONARD I. ABEL Johns Country Day School. Color
brother of Gerald Newman (Judy). Leonard I. Abel, 96, of Chevy Chase, MD, 3" - $628
Preceded in death by his late died peacefully at his home on January In between Jacksonville tours, Kirk attended 4" - $676
sister Shirley Lustig (Milton) and 8, 2021. Leonard was born on October the Naval War College in Newport, RI. He 5" - $826
his late brother Harold (Mimi). Also 12,1924 in Washington, DC. He was the served twice in Europe: with NATO in the NL, ------
survived by his many nieces and nephews, second youngest of six children. He was and in London, UK. He earned three master’s SUNDAY
grand nieces and grand nephews, and great- degrees, most recently an EMBA from JU. Color
raised in Georgetown on M Street above 3" - $665
grands, all of whom miss him already. A private the family store, graduated from Western 4" - $760
service was held at Agudas Achim Cemetery. High School, and went on to the University After Navy retirement in 2001, he managed
Adult Degree and Aviation programs at JU. 5" - $926
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made of Pennsylvania. College was interrupted by
to a charity of your choice. World War II where he and his four brothers Later, he worked as Operations Manager 6"+ for ALL color notices
all served. Following the war, he returned for a family-owned company before retiring $249 each additional inch wkday
to graduate from the University of Penn- to a life of volunteer service. He was an $277 each additional inch Sunday
sylvania. While attending the University active member of the civic leadership group,
he met Helen Shapiro, whom he later Meninak. For 10 years, he directed the volun- Notices with photos begin at 3"
married in 1952. Leonard is survived by KIRK THOMAS LEWIS teer teams counting Red Kettle contributions (All photos add 2" to your notice.)
PAIDAKOVICH his wife, three children, Jack (Meryl), Joy
(Matt Morley), and Susan (Jim Dreggors), six
CAPT U.S. NAVY (RET.) for NE FL Salvation Army. In 2016, Meninak
awarded him the prestigious Gladys Harris ALL NOTICES MUST BE PREPAID
grandchildren: Alex Abel, Brooke Abel, Eric Memorial Award for this work. Salvation SYLVESTER FRANCIS VERRY, JR.
JOHN P. PAIDAKOVICH (Age 96) CAPT Kirk Thomas Lewis, USN (Ret), 72, Army honored him that same year. "BUZZ" MEMORIAL PLAQUES:
Morley, Andrew Morley, Caroline Thomoff, fell asleep Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at All notices over 2" include
Passed away peacefully on December 31, and Evan Thomoff, as well as two great- March 25, 1951 – January 8, 2021
Community Hospice, Jacksonville, FL,five CAPT Lewis is survived by his wife, Lora complimentary memorial plaque
2020. Formerly of Nemacolin, PA, John grandchildren: Emily and Jacob Kasel. The Buzz Verry, 69, passed due to complications of
and his family resided in Cabin John, MD days after his terminal cancer diagnosis. Lianne Lewis of Washington, DC; daughter, Covid-19 pneumonia. He was born to Sylvester
first half of his working career was spent at Additional plaques start at $26 each
for over 50 years. John attended the St. Giant Food. The next phase of his working Jaime Lynn Cooper (Ryan) Ashburn, VA; and Mary Verry in Hiller, PA. He was happily and may be ordered.
Bartholomew’s Catholic Church in Bethes- He was born into a military aviation family in granddaughters, Charlotte, Hannah, and married for 43 years to his dear wife Sherry
life was as a partner in Richmarr Construc- post-war Japan in 1948. During his formative
da, MD, was a member of the UMW union tion, building thousands of houses and Riley. He was predeceased by his parents, and together they raised six beautiful children. All Paid Death Notices
and was a lifelong Pittsburgh Steelers fan. years, he lived in Texas, New York, Germany, Lt Col George T Lewis, USAF (Ret.) and Helen Buzz was an dedicated educator and coun- appear on our website through
developing many commercial properties. Michigan and Madison, WI. In June 1966,
John was proud of his military service with Leonard loved to travel, play cards, was R Lewis, and two brothers, Geoffrey S Lewis, selor. He loved his Catholic Faith and was www.legacy.com
the Merchant Marines and the U.S. Army. he graduated from Madison’s LaFollette HS. and Bradley R Lewis (Ruth). He also leaves a member of Our Lady’s Missionaries of the
an avid, but admittedly bad golfer, and a In January 1970, he graduated from the
After his military service, John worked for die-hard Washington sports fan. He was a niece, Morgan Tribbey (Stuart), a nephew, Eucharist. He was an avid golfer and passionate LEGACY.COM
the United States Postal Service for over 20 University of Wisconsin and was commis- Brandon Lewis, and numerous cousins. Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Included in all death notices
dedicated to the city of Washington and sioned via NROTC. Optional for In Memoriams
years. His family and friends will miss him its Jewish community. Leonard worked tire- He will be remembered and missed by his
greatly. Survivors include his daughters, lessly for many charitable organizations, Services were held January 11 and 12 at St six children and their spouses, 11 grandchil-
Mary Ann Ruddell and Lucy Seifert; his He next served in Washington, DC, where he Justin Martyr Orthodox Church, Jacksonville, dren, three sisters and many other dear family
including serving as President of the Wash- met his wife, Lora, who was a Retail Buyer PLEASE NOTE:
sister, his brother-in-law, his sister-in-law, ington Hebrew Congregation and of the FL where CAPT Lewis was rendered military members and friends. He was preceded in
his four grandchildren, and his four great- for The Hecht Co. In 1972, they married, and honors and interred at the Church Cemetery. death by his loving parents and brother-in-law.
Charles E. Smith Life Communities. He Lora joined Kirk in TX. Notices must be placed via phone, fax or
grandchildren. John was laid to rest on took great pleasure in being with people In lieu of flowers, donations may be made A public Memorial Mass will be held on email. Photos must be emailed. You can
January 6, 2021, next to his beloved wife, and spending time with his family. In light to NE FL Salvation Army, Navy-Marine Corps Wednesday, January 13, 2021, at 11 a.m. at All no longer place notices, drop off photos
Teresa Bizub Paidakovich. A celebration of the pandemic, a private family service He was designated a Naval Aviator in 1973. Relief Society, Wounded Warrior Project, or St Saints Catholic Church in Manassas, VA. In lieu and make payment in person.
of life for John will be scheduled in the will be held. Donations may be made to The couple moved to California and he was Justin Martyr Church Cemetery Fund. of flowers, please make a donation to the Saint Payment must be made via phone with
future for John’s many friends and family. Washington Hebrew Congregation or deployed to Vietnam aboard USS Coral Sea. Patrick Catholic Church In Memoriam Fund,
John’s full obituary can be found at Charles E. Smith Life Communities. Services During his distinguished Navy career of more Please visit the online Tribute at www.quinn- 9149 Ely’s Ford Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22407
https://www.legacy.com/obituar- entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky than 30 years, he piloted several aircraft shalz.com. Arrangements by Quinn-Shalz, or make a donation to your local food bank.
ies/name/john-paidakovich-obitu- Goldberg Funeral Care. types, predominately the A7-E. In 1976, the 3600 Third Street South, Jacksonville Beach, Online condolences and fond memories of
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The Weather
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Sunny and mild Today Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday OFFICIAL REC ORD
Mostly sunny Partly sunny, Partly sunny Shower Mostly cloudy Partly sunny
Coming off a crisp start, mild Temperatures AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

temperatures will rise nicely with

the sun. And that sunlight will be
plentiful throughout the day, as
highs make it to right about 50.
Winds will be from the southwest, near 10 mph,
with gusts close to 20 mph.
49° 34 ° 54° 35 ° 52° 39 ° 47° 32 ° 42° 31 ° 42° 31 °

FEELS*: 47° FEELS: 53° FEELS: 45° FEELS: 41° FEELS: 38° FEELS: 38°
CHNCE PRECIP: 0% P: 0% P: 25% P: 60% P: 10% P: 25%
WIND: SSW 4–8 mph W: WNW 4–8 mph W: SSE 7–14 mph W: WNW 8–16 mph W: W 7–14 mph W: WNW 6–12 mph
HUMIDITY: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate
F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F
Statistics through 5 p.m. Tuesday

REGIO N NATION Weather map features for noon today.

Reagan Dulles BWI
High 49° 3:00 p.m. 49° 3:34 p.m. 49° 2:20 p.m.
Low 29° 7:05 a.m. 20° 6:40 a.m. 23° 6:14 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
47/33 Normal 43°/28° 42°/24° 41°/24°
47/33 Record high 76° 1890 70° 2018 70° 2020
Hagerstown Record low 3° 1886 –4° 1977 1° 1981
Baltimore
47/32
50/30 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +4.2° yr. to date: +4.2°
47/32
Davis Cape May Precipitation PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST
Washington Annapolis
46/25 49/34 45/35
45/33 OCEAN: 42°

Charlottesville Ocean City

53/34 46/33
OCEAN: 44°
Lexington
51/32
Richmond
53/34 Virginia Beach
54/39 Reagan Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 44°
51/39 Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Total this month 1.12" 1.14" 1.23"
Kitty Hawk
Normal 1.07" 0.99" 1.16"
51/41
OCEAN: 48° Total this year 1.12" 1.14" 1.23"
Normal 1.07" 0.99" 1.16"
Pollen: Low Air Quality: Moderate 0.0" 0.0" 0.0"
Grass Low Dominant cause: Particulates Trace 2.4" 1.6"
Trees Low
Weeds Low UV: Low Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 2 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 7:26 a.m. 5:08 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny. High 42–46. Wind west Moon 8:02 a.m. 5:40 p.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Jan 20 Jan 28 Feb 4 Feb 11
8–16 mph. Tonight, mostly clear. Low 20–31. Wind west Yesterday's National World
First Full Last New
Venus 6:19 a.m. 3:45 p.m.
7–14 mph. Thursday, partly sunny. High 44–48. Wind west High: Tamiami, FL 79° High: Telfer, Australia 113° Mars 11:48 a.m. 1:25 a.m.
Quarter Quarter
<–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Low: Antero Reservoir, CO –38° Low: Ekyuchchyu, Russia –70° Jupiter 8:10 a.m. 6:05 p.m.
10–20 mph. Friday, increasingly cloudy, rain and snow late. for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 8:01 a.m. 5:52 p.m.
High 36–40.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 45/35/pc 40/28/sn Oklahoma City 53/35/s 55/33/s WORLD Today Tomorrow Hong Kong 62/57/pc 64/58/c Rio de Janeiro 84/75/pc 84/74/pc
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly sunny. High 44–51. Wind Detroit 40/31/c 41/33/c Omaha 52/36/pc 43/28/c Islamabad 66/41/s 66/42/pc Riyadh 65/45/s 71/52/pc
southwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, mostly clear. Low 33–39. Albany, NY 34/26/c 36/25/c El Paso 58/33/s 66/33/s Orlando 66/49/sh 67/46/pc Addis Ababa 73/48/pc 75/49/pc Istanbul 47/39/r 42/36/c Rome 53/36/s 57/39/pc
Wind southwest 6–12 mph. Thursday, mostly sunny. High Albuquerque 50/31/s 53/31/pc Fairbanks, AK 3/–8/pc 2/–5/pc Philadelphia 47/33/s 50/34/s Amsterdam 44/33/c 37/29/c Jerusalem 66/44/pc 53/42/t San Salvador 86/65/s 86/67/c
46–55. Wind west 4–8 mph. Friday, mostly sunny. High Anchorage 27/20/sf 29/24/sf Fargo, ND 37/31/c 33/24/sf Phoenix 67/44/s 74/45/s Athens 60/46/pc 55/45/pc Johannesburg 77/59/t 75/59/t Santiago 87/55/pc 86/54/pc
49–56. Wind south 7–14 mph. Atlanta 51/32/c 55/41/s Hartford, CT 39/28/pc 41/26/pc Pittsburgh 42/32/pc 44/31/c Auckland 78/65/pc 77/63/pc Kabul 60/31/s 60/30/pc Sarajevo 33/12/sf 32/17/sn
Austin 63/37/s 69/37/s Honolulu 83/70/pc 82/70/pc Portland, ME 36/23/pc 38/25/c Baghdad 72/52/pc 70/47/c Kingston, Jam. 87/75/pc 87/76/c Seoul 48/17/s 41/26/pc
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly sunny. Wind south Baltimore 50/30/s 52/34/pc Houston 61/40/s 69/41/s Portland, OR 53/38/pc 53/41/pc Bangkok 82/63/pc 87/65/pc Kolkata 76/55/pc 76/52/pc Shanghai 60/36/pc 61/42/c
4–8 knots. Waves a foot or less. Visibility unrestricted. • Lower Billings, MT 54/32/c 40/26/s Indianapolis 45/30/pc 44/30/c Providence, RI 41/30/pc 42/30/pc Beijing 47/21/pc 40/23/pc Lagos 87/74/pc 89/74/s Singapore 82/76/sh 82/76/sh
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Wind south Birmingham 48/31/c 57/41/s Jackson, MS 52/34/s 62/39/s Raleigh, NC 55/36/s 57/33/s Berlin 38/30/sn 35/28/sf Lima 78/69/pc 77/70/pc Stockholm 32/24/sn 26/16/c
6–12 knots. Waves around a foot on the lower Potomac and on the Bismarck, ND 51/31/c 38/22/sf Jacksonville, FL 60/38/pc 63/39/s Reno, NV 60/32/c 58/33/s Bogota 70/46/pc 69/47/pc Lisbon 54/42/s 57/46/s Sydney 84/71/s 85/73/pc
Boise 48/27/sh 42/26/s Kansas City, MO 54/41/s 44/31/c Richmond 53/34/s 56/33/s Brussels 41/35/c 37/30/sn London 46/42/r 45/33/r Taipei City 69/54/s 72/58/s
Chesapeake.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be around
Boston 42/30/pc 43/30/pc Las Vegas 63/45/s 68/43/s Sacramento 64/44/c 64/41/pc Buenos Aires 77/67/s 80/70/s Madrid 46/28/s 52/29/s Tehran 57/41/s 58/41/pc
4.20 feet today, falling to 4.10 Thursday. Flood stage at Little Falls Buffalo 39/35/c 40/35/c Little Rock 55/36/s 57/34/pc St. Louis 53/37/s 50/33/c Cairo 76/54/pc 66/52/s Manila 84/75/pc 84/75/pc Tokyo 51/40/s 56/40/s
is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 34/29/c 35/23/pc Los Angeles 76/51/s 83/57/s St. Thomas, VI 84/75/pc 84/75/pc Caracas 80/68/pc 81/68/pc Mexico City 72/49/c 74/50/c Toronto 38/31/c 39/34/c
Charleston, SC 59/38/pc 62/39/s Louisville 48/32/pc 49/35/pc Salt Lake City 47/26/c 41/22/s Copenhagen 36/31/sf 35/24/pc Montreal 33/28/c 35/24/c Vienna 37/30/pc 33/28/sn
Charleston, WV 47/30/pc 51/33/pc Memphis 49/37/pc 55/36/pc San Diego 71/48/s 79/53/s Dakar 74/67/pc 75/68/pc Moscow 14/3/c 5/3/sn Warsaw 33/28/sf 30/18/sf
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 55/33/pc 55/36/s Miami 78/62/sh 74/59/sh San Francisco 62/50/c 61/48/pc Dublin 53/44/sh 48/34/pc Mumbai 91/74/pc 89/72/pc
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 2:46 a.m. 7:53 a.m. 2:48 p.m. 8:09 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 53/23/pc 31/18/pc Milwaukee 39/32/pc 38/30/c San Juan, PR 84/73/c 85/72/pc Edinburgh 36/34/sn 38/30/r Nairobi 77/58/pc 80/59/s sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
Chicago 43/34/pc 44/30/c Minneapolis 38/30/i 34/26/sf Seattle 50/37/pc 49/41/pc Frankfurt 40/29/c 36/26/c New Delhi 71/45/pc 69/46/pc sn-snow, i-ice
Annapolis 4:30 a.m. 10:49 a.m. 5:54 p.m. none
Cincinnati 45/31/pc 45/35/pc Nashville 51/32/pc 55/37/pc Spokane, WA 42/26/pc 37/26/pc Geneva 41/39/r 42/38/sn Oslo 21/13/sf 15/9/s Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Ocean City 12:53 a.m. 7:22 a.m. 1:53 p.m. 7:37 p.m. Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
Cleveland 43/34/pc 43/35/c New Orleans 56/39/s 67/50/s Syracuse 39/33/c 40/30/c Ham., Bermuda 70/64/sh 69/65/sh Ottawa 32/27/c 35/25/c quality data); National Weather Service
Norfolk 3:02 a.m. 9:32 a.m. 3:55 p.m. 9:49 p.m. Dallas 59/40/s 62/38/s New York City 43/35/s 46/34/pc Tampa 62/52/pc 67/50/pc Helsinki 27/10/sn 12/–4/c Paris 50/46/r 51/37/r * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
Point Lookout 12:38 a.m. 6:36 a.m. 1:41 p.m. 8:40 p.m. Denver 59/30/pc 39/20/s Norfolk 51/39/s 55/38/s Wichita 58/37/s 52/32/pc Ho Chi Minh City 87/70/s 89/71/pc Prague 33/27/sf 32/25/sf measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

VIRGINIA

Ex-Trump appointee to Pentagon seeks GOP nomination for governor

BY A NTONIO O LIVO In a campaign video, de la says cannot understand how a that led to five deaths, including “I heard him say that repeatedly.” private equity firm.
Peña, 65, describes emigrating Mexican immigrant like him can that of a Capitol Police officer. Among other things, de la Peña Democrats seeking their par-
A former Trump appointee to from Mexico as a child, graduat- be a Republican. But de la Peña, who lives in says on his campaign website ty’s nomination are: former gov-
the Pentagon has announced his ing from the University of Iowa The campaign video also Fairfax County, condemned the that he supports making English ernor Terry McAuliffe, Lt. Gov.
intention to run for Virginia through the school’s ROTC pro- shows scenes from last year’s violence in an interview. the state’s official language, end- Justin Fairfax, state Sen. Jennifer
governor, adding to an increas- gram, serving in the Army for racial justice protests, including “We cannot have rule of law if ing coronavirus shutdown orders L. McClellan (Richmond), former
ingly crowded field of Republi- 30 years and being appointed one image of a protester hurling a we allow anybody to break the and ending the ability for locali- delegate Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
cans seeking their party’s nomi- deputy secretary of defense for smoking tear gas canister at po- law,” he said. “Anybody who was ties to override the state’s con- (Prince William) and Del. Lee J.
nation. Western Hemisphere affairs after lice and another of a toppled involved in illegal activities, they cealed-carry gun laws. Carter (Manassas).
Sergio de la Peña, a retired he helped President Trump in his statue, with de la Peña saying need to be prosecuted to the full The other Republicans vying Princess Blanding, the sister of
Army colonel who helped oversee 2016 presidential campaign. that “the American Dream is extent of the law.” for governor are: Del. Kirk Cox a Black man fatally shot by police
military operations in the West- “They always act surprised — under assault.” De la Peña said that Trump (Colonial Heights), who is the in 2018 during a mental health
ern Hemisphere for the Trump how could someone like me sup- The ad does not mention last should not be blamed for inciting former House speaker, state Sen. crisis, declared her run for gover-
administration, announced his port him?” de la Peña says in the week’s events at the Capitol, the riot. Amanda F. Chase (Chesterfield), nor under the newly formed Lib-
bid for the GOP nomination on video about the president, refer- where Trump supporters “I feel the president said to and Glenn Youngkin, a former eration Party.
social media on Monday. ring to “liberal elites” who he stormed the building in a riot have peaceful protests,” he said. executive at the Carlyle Group [email protected]

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Moving into a haunted house

On their third day at work, BY J ADA Y UAN It was her third full day of being a member of Congress and Nikema
congressional freshmen Williams, who was taking over the Georgia seat held by the late Rep. John Lewis, had slept
went through disorientation maybe two hours the night before. She’d celebrated Raphael Warnock’s win in the Georgia
runoff elections that would determine control of the Senate, and was still waiting to see if
the massive voter mobilization effort she’d helped organize would bring a runoff win for
Jon Ossoff as well. ¶ Williams was nervous. Wednesday would be her first moment in the
Rep.-elect Nikema Williams (D-Ga.)
explores the U.S. Capitol in early
spotlight as a sworn-in congresswoman: Republicans were planning to challenge the
December. After being sworn in on certification of Joe Biden’s win in Georgia, and as one of Georgia’s electors, Williams
Jan. 3 to the seat held by the late Rep.
John Lewis, Williams hadn’t even
would be responsible for standing up for the outcome. She knew that the resistance to
learned her way around the Capitol accepting Democratic victories in Georgia — especially those driven by Black voter
when rioters stormed it.
turnout — was part of a long racist history of voter suppression in the South, and she
planned to say so in her speech. ¶ A pro-Trump rally was gathering outside her new office.
Her husband insisted on driving her to work, even though she could easily walk from her
barely furnished new apartment. Given her skin color and her politics, Williams, 42,
worried she might be a target. SEE FRESHMEN ON C2

VOA reassigns A horrifying, ridiculous display of masculinity BOOK WORLD

reporter who A whole taxonomy of In one of the more terrifying images theory that Zip Tie Guy had brought his
Riders of the
asked Pompeo Trumpist right-wing
manhood could be
of last week, a man believed to be
Munchel, wearing dark fatigues and a
mom to the revolution.
In a security camera image from pink sage: A
developed from the face-obscuring black gaiter, climbed earlier that afternoon, a pair of tourists,
questions Internet investigations,
wanted posters and
over a railing in the Senate Gallery. He
wore a Taser holstered to his hip and
believed to be Munchel and mom, left
their Hyatt hotel with matching cups of
western reboot
Monica arrest affidavits now gripped a bunch of zip-tie handcuffs in coffee in hand as if setting off for a long
BY P AUL F ARHI Hesse trickling out in the wake one hand. While his fellow raiders were day at the Smithsonian. In a cellphone BY R ON C HARLES
of last week’s riot at the busy “scratching their balls” in Nancy clip a few hours later, he ushers her up
The director of Voice of America Capitol. En masse, the Pelosi’s office or literally pooping on the the stairs inside the Capitol, one hand It still surprises me that some of my
ordered the reassignment of a report- photos show a conglomeration of weird Capitol’s floors, Zip Tie Guy had the steering her shoulder as they went about favorite novels are westerns. It no
er for the international news organiza- beards, ammo and camo, and a very mien of someone who had breached the their illegal siege. longer surprises me that they’re writ-
tion after she sought to ask questions specific brand of looks-like-somebody- complex with an actual nefarious plan Truly, this is a testament to either a ten by women. The territory once
of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got-a-Bass-Pro-gift-card-for-Christmas involving hostages or worse. mother-son bond or a shared appetite dominated by Zane Grey and Louis
during a VOA-sponsored appearance raging White masculinity. The man suspected of being Zip Tie for militant insurrection (They appear L’Amour has long
on Monday, according to several peo- But you also have the breakout Guy was unmasked over the weekend by to share views: The alleged woman in since been opened
ple who attended the event. alleged criminals representing their own the Internet, then arrested by the FBI: question, Lisa Eisenhart, told the Times up by Paulette Jiles,
Patsy Widakuswara, who covers splintering subcategories: QAnon Munchel, 30, has been charged with of London, “The left has everything: the Mary Doria Russell,
the White House for VOA, was or- Shaman. Hogan’s Heroes. Ski Dad, i.e. an violent entry and disorderly conduct on media, organizations, the government. Molly Gloss and
dered off the beat by Director Robert overly tan man who looked like he Capitol grounds. On Sunday, the FBI We have to organize if we’re going to other women who
Reilly after firing questions at should be teaching the bunny hill class released more images, allegedly of fight back and be heard.”) have cut fresh trails
Pompeo after his speech and a brief but instead appeared to be stealing a Munchel, that had been captured You have to wonder: If Zip Tie Guy in this old genre.
Q&A session conducted by Reilly. lectern. Another man wearing a throughout the day of Jan. 6. and Munchel are indeed the same The latest foray
Pompeo, who had spoken about sweatshirt reading — God help us, find In several, he was accompanied by a person, as the FBI alleges, where did he comes from Anna
“American exceptionalism” and criti- out what company makes this and shut graying 57-year-old woman. And this is stash her while he was off climbing North, a reporter
cized oppressive regimes in China, it down — “Camp Auschwitz.” the point at which the portrait of railings as part of whatever mission he’d OUTLAWED for Vox. Her new
Iran and elsewhere during his ap- And, Zip Tie Guy. Munchel became fuller, because this is assigned himself ? Perhaps even the By Anna North novel, “Outlawed,”
pearance, ignored Widakuswara’s Which brings us to Eric Munchel. the point at which it became a working SEE HESSE ON C5 Bloomsbury. stirs up the western
questions as he left VOA’s headquar- 261 pp. $26 with a provocative
ters in Washington. blend of alt-history
Reilly, a former VOA director and and feminist con-
conservative writer, was appointed to sciousness. The result is a thrilling tale
head the government-funded agency eerily familiar but utterly transformed.
last month by Michael Pack, who The story opens in late 19th-centu-
since June has headed VOA’s parent BOOK WORLD An enslaved woman’s story of survival and defiance. C3 ry America, though not quite the Old
organization, the U.S. Agency for West we know. In this version of our
Global Media. CAROLYN HAX In a pandemic, masks and distancing are an act of love. C8 past, the Great Flu of the 1830s killed
The White House Correspondents’ 90 percent of the U.S. population,
Association called the decision to snuffing out the Industrial Revolu-
reassign Widakuswara “an assault on KIDSPOST Left, Maasai women join Kenya’s formerly all-male wildlife rangers. C8 tion and the federal government. A
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A baptism by fire don’t believe there was election

fraud.”
For Black freshmen Demo-
crats, who saw the Capitol

for the House’s stormed with the Confederate

flag and Nazi paraphernalia, with
some members of the Capitol Po-
lice under investigation for possi-

newest members bly being sympathetic to the riot-

ers, there seems to have been a
breach of trust — and a need for
accountability.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who
FRESHMEN FROM C1 locked in a room with over 100 rose to prominence as a Black
GOP representatives, many bare- Lives Matter activist, started
That afternoon, with things faced. “So at some point I became drafting her first act of legislation
looking good for Ossoff in Georgia, more fearful of getting covid from while barricaded in her office
another freshman, Rep. Sara Ja- my Republican colleagues than I with her chief of staff: It’s a reso-
cobs (D-Calif.), was going to bring was of experiencing bodily harm lution to set up an ethics board to
champagne, and Williams and her by the terrorists.” (Three Demo- sanction, and possibly expel
staff were looking for cups. Then a cratic lawmakers, Pramila Jaya- members of Congress who are
text alert came in saying that their pal [Wash.], Bonnie Watson Cole- found to have “engaged in insur-
building was on lockdown. Wil- man [N.J.] and Brad Schneider rection or rebellion.” “We could
liams turned on the TV and saw [Ill.], have since been diagnosed not finish out that day without
people running through the Capi- with the coronavirus.) making sure that that happened,”
tol Rotunda flying the Confeder- Jones also immediately started she says.
ate flag. “How that feels as a Black telling everyone who cared to Meanwhile, her Democratic
woman from the South, I don’t listen that they needed to im- colleague, Rep. Jamaal Bowman,
SAUL LOEB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
think I can ever really explain it to peach President Trump. a Black former middle school
anyone,” she says. Fellow freshman Ronny Jack- Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) stands alongside newly sworn-in first-term Republican lawmakers on the principal from the Bronx, says he
Being in a new job is exciting son (R-Tex.), who had served as same Capitol steps on Jan. 4. A couple of days later those steps were overrun by pro-Trump rioters. is drafting legislation calling for a
and unsettling, no matter the President Trump’s chief medical commission to examine the pres-
workplace. There’s a slew of peo- adviser and is known for his glow- ence of white supremacists in the
ple whose names you have to ing 2018 review of the president’s Capitol Police Department. He’s
remember; in the case of House health and “incredibly good moved up his plans to call for
members, there are 60 freshmen genes,” was trapped in that room, reparations for African Ameri-
and 435 members total, each with too. cans. And he plans to demand
their own staffs — many of whom Jackson was at the back of the better protection for the essential
may not know the building or the chamber along with three other workers at the Capitol, like custo-
office politics any better than freshmen Republicans from Tex- dians, who he was horrified to
their bosses do. It might take as — Troy Nehls, Pat Fallon and learn didn’t have safe places to
weeks before you know how to Tony Gonzales — thinking he’d be hide or a secure way to get home,
find the supply closet. Maybe spending the day learning about like members did. “They were left
you’ll go hungry one day because the legislative process. He’d been on their own,” he says, “and who
you don’t know where to get excited just to participate in the knows if one of these crazy people
lunch and can’t work the vending “routine stuff ” of voting and de- would have seen someone Black
machine. Chances are you fell bate that he’s sure is boring to or Brown walking down the street
asleep a little during orientation senior House members. He’s so and just shoot him in the head. I
and missed something impor- new, he says, that he’ll often strike mean, these things happen all the
MICHAEL NOBLE JR. FOR THE WASHINGTON POST MICHAEL B. THOMAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
tant. up conversations with colleagues time.”
“I’m still figuring out the ladies’ without realizing they’re Demo- Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) started Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.), Still, Bowman says he wasn’t
room, for God’s sake,” says Rep. crats. And he spends a lot of time was in lockdown with Colin drafting legislation to sanction who was in her office during the too fazed by the riots; he was far
Marie Newman (D-Ill.), who was asking the floor staff to explain to Allred (D-Tex.), who asked him, lawmakers who “engaged in riot: “I’m still figuring out the from the action. In his previous
in her office when the siege hap- him how “yes” and “no” votes ‘Oh, is this your first coup?” insurrection or rebellion.” ladies’ room, for God’s sake.” job, “Keeping hundreds of kids
pened. Newman and Rep. Ashley work, “because sometimes you safe every single day was my
Hinson (R-Iowa), who voted to think the answer would be a ‘yes,’ number one job description,” he
certify Biden’s win, both say but the ‘yes’ answer is a ‘no’ vote,” said in an interview several days
they’re constantly getting lost in he says. “It gets confusing.” “Rhetoric has real consequences. People’s lives were put at risk after the riot. “When one kid goes
the Capitol’s maze of under- Because there aren’t TVs on the missing and you have to look for
ground tunnels. House floor and information and put in danger and people died.” them for hours outside of the
Normally this kind of first- from the outside was minimal, school, that was more terrifying
Freshman Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.)
week disorientation is no big deal Jackson says no one in there knew to me than what I had to deal with
— except that when avoiding a the makeup of the mob or wheth- the other day.”
violent mob, it might help if er they were armed. They had just Williams, the new representa-
you’ve been in the building longer two or three plainclothes police tive from Georgia, who is also the
than three days and know it a and one uniformed officer in and all three of his kids. He want- has spoken approvingly of building and then the tunnels newly elected president of the
little better than the people hunt- there with them, weapons drawn, ed to tell them he was okay — and QAnon, angered her Democratic while trying to reach her office Democratic caucus’s freshman
ing you down. And such a disturb- guarding the back door that stood also to make sure he talked to colleagues by posting during the building, which was evacuated class, never did get to drink cham-
ing attack might forge a bond between the chamber and the them one last time, he says, “just raid that “The Speaker has been and resettled twice because of pagne with her staff. Instead, they
among freshman members of mob. There was no clear exit, no in case that wasn’t the end of it, in removed from the chambers.” bomb threats, and spent the rest endured a chaotic day made even
Congress — except that many way out, Jackson says. They could case there were people who came Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) of the day locked in a room with more stressful by the fact that
Democrats believe some of their hear the boom of tear gas being into where we had been relocated highlighted Boebert’s lack of dis- the shades drawn, praying that no they were all scarcely familiar
new Republican colleagues were dropped and then loud bangs on and shot me or whatever.” cretion, writing: “We were specif- one with a gun found her and her with routine procedures, let alone
partly responsible for inciting it. the door. Then the door began The failed insurrection did ically instructed by those protect- staff. That night, after voting for emergency ones. When they were
And now, they all have to go buckling and swaying. nothing to move Jackson off his ing us not to tell anyone, includ- certification, she slept in her of- told to go to their safe location,
back to the office with one an- “It was obvious that it was political position that Trump had ing our family, where exactly we fice, fearing Trump supporters Williams realized they hadn’t
other. more than one person out there been cheated. Once the invaders were, for reasons that remain might recognize her at the hotel been told where their safe loca-
and they were throwing them- had been expelled, the Texas obvious.” where she was staying. tion was. She found out from a
ep. Mondaire Jones selves or something into the door freshman went back to the cham- Meanwhile, the tension over “Rhetoric has real consequenc- senior member that information

R (D-N.Y.), who days before

had been sworn in as the
first openly gay Black member of
trying to bust the door open,” says
Jackson.
He and his fellow Texas fresh-
ber and voted against certifying
the electoral college results for
Arizona and Pennsylvania. Of the
mask-wearing has gotten only
more intense as Democratic law-
makers have revealed their covid-
es,” she says. “People’s lives were
put at risk and put in danger and
people died.” Nevertheless, Mace
was being disseminated through
walkie-talkies. “We’re like, ‘What
walkie-talkies?’ ” she says. “I
Congress, was on the House floor men, all of whom had military or four Texas Republican freshmen 19 diagnoses. opposes impeaching the presi- didn’t even know that there were
with about 200 other members law-enforcement backgrounds, who were trapped in that cham- “I want people to understand dent again — another point of walkie-talkies that we were sup-
when the Capitol Police rushed “started dragging the biggest ber and stood their ground with that it’s difficult to think people tension that has obscured any posed to have until one of my
into the chamber and began lock- heaviest furniture we could find” the police, only one, Gonzales, want to work with you in good sense of solidarity in the House staffers came from a senior mem-
ing doors. to barricade the door. Someone voted to certify Joe Biden’s win. faith and in a bipartisan way following the attack. As for pro- ber’s office and asked if we had
He’d been elected by his fellow told members to take off their Jackson condemned the “do- when most of the members of that tecting herself, she had already them.”
Democratic freshmen to be their congressional pins so they would mestic terrorists” who’d stormed party in Congress have put your applied for a concealed-carry li- Finally, about 4 a.m. (her sec-
representative in discussions be less identifiable. Fallon yelled the Capitol, but he doesn’t blame life in great peril,” says Jones. cense in Washington. (Members ond consecutive almost-all-night-
with the party’s leadership. That out for everyone to take off their President Trump or his party for Freshman Rep. Nancy Mace who are licensed to carry con- er), she arrived home, where her
meant he was right in the center ties so the mob couldn’t use them spreading falsehoods about the (R-S.C.), a single mother who cealed firearms in D.C. may do so 5-year-old son was sleeping and
of the action as police instructed to choke them. The Texans started election being rigged. “My think- worked for Trump’s 2016 cam- on the Capitol grounds, though her husband was waiting up. She
everyone to pull out the “escape breaking off legs of furniture to ing was that those two things paign, announced nearly a week not in the House or Senate cham- sat down and cried.
hoods” under their chairs to pro- use as makeshift weapons. were unrelated,” he says, adding before Jan. 6 that she was bucking bers.) She’d been excited for her “I just kept thinking about how
tect them from tear gas and be “Scared isn’t the right word, that he believes — “honestly” — her party and voting to certify the kids to see a presidential inaugu- much at risk my life was in that
prepared to hit the ground if but you could feel things esca- that the way elections in certain election. Someone on Facebook ration — “I don’t care whether it’s moment and how I came here to
there were gunshots. late,” says Gonzales, who served states were conducted was un- threatened to shoot her. Tuesday Republican or Democrat” — but serve my people, and how as a
As they hunkered down in a in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It was constitutional. night before the vote, as Trump no longer feels safe having them Black woman in this country,
secure location, Jones found him- like the barbarians at the gate.” “I think that President Trump supporters rolled into town, she in the city. there’s really is no safe space for
self next to Rep. Colin Allred Suddenly, there were loud pops has done a good job during his says she was “accosted in public The freshmen took different me,” she says. “Even as a member
(D-Tex.). “I remember Colin All- that Gonzales says sounded just term,” he says. “I was proud to be a on H Street, all of it politically lessons from what the whole of Congress in a building that I
red saying to me, ‘Oh, is this your like a small firearm going off and part of the Trump administra- driven.” The imminent Trump ral- thing meant and how it would thought would be one of the saf-
first coup?” glass started flying out of the tion.” ly disturbed her so much that she guide them as they found their est buildings in the world, I still
Jones relays this anecdote with windows. Police officers yelled booked her two kids, 11 and 14, feet in Congress. Jackson and was not safe.” She added, “now I
a laugh, but the situation was “shots fired!” And at that point he riot, and how individuals along with her mother and sister, Mace, though split on certifying don’t know who I can trust.”
perilous — for several reasons.
There was the mob, obviously.
And then there were his Republi-
decided they had to evacuate ev-
eryone out through the Speaker’s
Lobby, which wasn’t secured.
T reacted to it, set a tone for
the new Congress at a time
when everyone is already on edge.
on the first plane back home
Monday morning after her Jan. 3
swearing-in.
Biden, agreed that a new, urgent
legislative priority should be
working in a bipartisan way to
The next day, her fourth in the
new job, she went back to the
office and began looking into hir-
can colleagues who had refused to When they reached a secure Rep. Lauren Boebert, a freshman During the riot Wednesday, create federal election standards ing her own security guards.
wear masks. He spent three hours location, Jackson called his wife Republican from Colorado who Mace got caught in an unfamiliar so, Mace says, “millions of people [email protected]

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‘White Ivy’
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‘The Last American

Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life
‘Outlawed’: Go west, young woman and Improbable Education
of Henry Adams’
David S. Brown begins his calm,
BOOK WORLD FROM C1 And we’re off! meeting. “Flowing around this person’s eloquent biography of Henry Adams,
Even on the run, Ada devotes herself to shoulders and down onto the ground historian and man of letters, with his
decimated nation was in no mood for dispelling the religious explanations of below was a cape made entirely of flow- subject’s own words: “I’ve outlived at
Civil War; the few Black survivors of the infertility and learning the forbidden ers, yellow and orange and blue and least three quite distinct worlds since
plague escaped slavery on their own. And secrets of gynecological medicine. She’s purple, so large and complex that it must 1838.” The young Adams had the greatest
now, some 60 years later, the people particularly skeptical of the conflation of have taken many days and many hands to expectations including that he, like his
remaining in the Dakotas have built a misogyny, racism and quackery that is stitch it all together.” grandfather and great-grandfather,
patriarchal Christian society centered on quickly becoming vogue across the coun- The Kid is a fascinating figure, alter- would occupy the White House. Brown
fertility. try. Though she has only erratic access to nately gentle and messianic, consumed shows how this scion of presidents made
That may sound like “The Handmaid’s scientific literature — and what exists is with the dream of a society in which a philosophy of history out of his failure
Tale” with saddles instead of bonnets, but infected with speculation and supersti- people can love whomever they want, and his distaste for the moneymen and
North is working entirely in her own tion — she’s fearless and determined. “So identify however they feel and raise industrialists whose power waxed as that
JENNY ZHANG
realm. The society she imagines has I began my criminal career,” she confess- children or not. But perpetuating that of the founding families waned. His
developed divergent theological myths Vox reporter es, “with a leaky pen instead of a pistol vision even among the disciples is wife’s suicide in 1885 further deepened
and rites, like the annual “Mothering Anna North’s and books instead of silver for my re- exhausting, especially as the Kid is Adams’s melancholy, causing him to
Monday,” a raucous holiday when men “Outlawed” is a ward.” trying to survive crippling bouts of refer to his subsequent existence as his
and women cross-dress and get wild. fabulous feminist There’s nothing formulaic or dogmatic depression. “posthumous life.” Adams became
What’s most unsettling, though, is how reimagining of about North’s approach, but she has With her budding medical skills, Ada increasingly ironical in his observations
similar so much remains to the position the Old West. cleverly repurposed the worn elements of is welcomed into this bank-robbing, fem- on the impotence of individuals set
women long endured in America’s actual 19th-century mythology to explore the inist commune, which allows North to against the relentless movement of
history. In “Outlawed,” marriages are position of childless women. The shame explore the nonconformist, queer and history — a progress toward chaos, as he
celebrated for their fecundity, and moth- and sorrow these young women suffer in gender-fluid lives of brave and hunted saw it. Along the way, Brown shows how
ers of lots of children enjoy considerable the 1890s is not so different from what people on the outskirts of society. “I did Adams’s loves, friendships and
social power. But with medical science women trying to get pregnant — or end a not understand how any of them had animosities made up a discrete little
stuck in its earliest stages, wives bear the pregnancy — endure in our own suppos- become what they appeared to be now: current in a fast-changing society.
full blame for infertility. Although popu- edly enlightened era. strong, high-spirited, masters of their Jacques Roy’s narration is beautifully
lar opinion is in flux between biology and Ada has heard tales of criminal men various crafts,” she says. “It made my paced, unhurried and deftly altered to
magic, miscarriages are widely believed shooting their way across the Badlands, heart lift to think of it — perhaps I would distinguish narrative from quotation.
to be the work of witches. And as in old but the real outlaws in this society are not be green forever.” (Simon & Schuster, Unabridged, 14
Salem, that fear brings down hellish women who are unwilling or unable to be Indeed, she catches on quick, and soon hours)
punishments on women who are diffi- mothers. Knowing this, Ada keeps run- she’s riding guns-ablazing into harrow-
cult, smart or barren. ning — pursued by a sheriff who will ing, often deadly escapades. In North’s
The narrator of “Outlawed” is Ada, the never give up. She finally falls in with the galloping prose, it’s a fantastically cin-
plucky daughter of a divorced mother Hole in the Wall Gang, a kind of sapphic ematic adventure that turns the sexual
who works as a local midwife. Ada is iteration of the Jesse James gang. “These politics of the Old West inside out. But if
guileless and candid with a natural story- VERY DANGEROUS CRIMINALS,” a this is a legendary story, it’s a legend with
telling manner that’s immediately engag- wanted poster warns, “are known to its own idiosyncratic and highly satisfy-
ing. At 17, she feels lucky to be married to harbor among them WITCHES and peo- ing ending. I won’t say anything more —
a handsome young man who adores her. ple of MIXED BREED, and to engage in except that these women, as you might
But as the months wear on and she UNNATURAL BEHAVIOR and DRESS.” expect, don’t ride off into the sunset.
doesn’t get pregnant, her situation grows They’re led by a magnetic figure called They get down to work. ‘The River Within’
more tenuous — then downright danger- the Kid, who rejects male and female [email protected] Karen Powell’s first novel introduces
ous. When tragedy strikes her town, Ada pronouns. “I saw a handsome, dark- us to the little Yorkshire village of
decides to light out for the territory skinned person dressed in a top hat and Ron Charles writes about books for The Starome in the summer of 1955 where
before grieving families start building tails like the mayor of Fairchild wore on Washington Post and hosts the body of Danny Masters, apprentice
gallows and looking for a scapegoat. festival days,” Ada says at their first TotallyHipVideoBookReview.com. carpenter, has just been found drowned
in the river. Accident, suicide — or what?
We learn that Danny had been smitten
with Lennie Fairweather. Lennie, alas,
did not reciprocate Danny’s affections
but is in love with Alexander, another of
the ruinous yearnings that mark the

An enslaved woman becomes her own savior novel. Because this is doomy Yorkshire
of old, an atmosphere of jealousy,
passion and madness pervades the story.
It would be too much for our sunny
BY E LLEN M ORTON fear Lapier, a dread she suffers for the acts of defiance. Sometimes small and souls to bear, except for the great
rest of her time on his compound, known mundane, sometimes dangerous and pleasure it gives us to piece together
Through the eyes of a character with as “the Devil’s Half Acre.” overt, it is these acts that most illuminate Powell’s puzzle of a plot: The story zips
uncommon access and compassion, Sad- Before her arrival at the jail, Pheby’s Pheby’s particular care and resourceful- around in time visiting scenes from one
eqa Johnson’s novel “The Yellow Wife” perspective feels naive and unspecific. ness. “It was time for me to become my or another character’s life, before haring
evokes a vision of one woman’s tenacious Despite being warned against conceiv- own savior,” she realizes. “My days as a off to attend to another. Narrator Helen
survival of antebellum cruelty and objec- ing a baby while she is enslaved, Pheby girl were gone. Now I had to think like a MacFarlane’s good, strong voice;
tification. has a tryst with a lover and later won- woman.” She marshals her means to do commanding manner; and deliberate
The daughter of an enslaved healer ders, “How could I be carrying a child?” what she can, always aware that her pace help us keep everything straight in
and seamstress and her White master, She frequently uses her imagination to survival depends on acting the part of a this artfully shuffled narrative.
Pheby Delores Brown grows up in a kind escape her desolation, at one point loving wife to her slave master. When (Dreamscape, Unabridged, 8 hours)
of in-between state. “Problem with being YELLOW WIFE dreaming of her mother: “I coasted off Lapier calls for her, she notes, “I hated [email protected]
high yella,” an enslaved woman tells By Sadeqa again and could not only see Mama, I the way he made my name sound like a
Pheby after her father’s wife slaps her, Johnson could also smell her.” Her mother’s question, when it was most certainly a Katherine A. Powers reviews audiobooks
“that handprint gonna be on your face all Simon & familiar scent clearly moves Pheby, but command.” every month for The Washington Post.
day long.” Though she labors on the Schuster. no description invites the reader to share The high wire Pheby balances on
plantation, her father secretly encourag- 288 pp. $26 the feeling. She relates events as they provides the novel’s keenest tension, but
es her education and assures her she’ll be happen to her but only inconsistently its potential is sometimes lost among
freed on her 18th birthday. anchors them in the details, dialogue or underserved narrative threads and plot
Disregarding that promise, her fa- personal emotions that would give Phe- points that don’t pay off. Ultimately, Literary Calendar
ther’s wife sells her out of spite. Pheby is by’s character texture and singularity. Johnson’s author’s note may be the most FRIDAY | 6 P.M. Jeanne Theoharis, Pam
marched to a faraway slave jail, where As Pheby settles into life under Lapi- fascinating chapter of all: a description Horowitz and Vann R. Newkirk II discuss
her new master, Rubin Lapier, torments er’s brutal surveillance, her point of view of the true stories that inspired the “Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of
her, making her his favored companion, becomes a more essential window to the novel. the Southern Civil Rights Movement”
mistress of his slave auction house and story. She witnesses the jail’s daily opera- [email protected] streamed through P&P Live. politics-
brothel, mother to his children and tions and institutional horrors, and her
prose.com/event.
bearer of his abuse. Pheby soon learns to unique position enables her to engage in Ellen Morton is a writer in Los Angeles.

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A rude awakening for Pompeo declined to answer questions

those who correct others VOICE OF AMERICA FROM C1

Dear Miss send one envelope? the First Amendment” in a state-

Miss Manners: You’ve Putting aside the substance of ment Tuesday morning. VOA’s
Manners said it’s the gift (Miss Manners does not action “is an affront to the very
JUDITH considered rude consider money a proper ideals Secretary of State Pompeo
MARTIN, to correct others’ present), you are right that discussed in his speech Monday,”
NICHOLAS manners. I’ve presents are generally given per wrote Zeke Miller, the organiza-
MARTIN AND always been told household. But the term is not to tion’s president. It “harms the
JACOBINA this, but it leads be understood in a literal way. interests of all Americans who
MARTIN me to this For instance, a child’s parents depend on the free press to learn
question: How are would include him on the list of about the actions of their govern-
others to learn better manners if givers even if he is away at camp. ment and gives comfort to efforts
they’re never corrected when And your mother-in-law, even if to restrict press freedom around
they’re rude? she lives upstairs, will want to the world.”
I realize it can be difficult to send something separate as a Widakuswara had been sched-
do this kindly if one is feeling measure of independence. uled to fly on Air Force One with
insulted by the rudeness. But if it Assuming you and your the president Tuesday as a mem-
can be done nicely, wouldn’t it be brother are adults, the extra ber of the press travel pool. She
helpful to say, “Shelby, do you envelopes and stamps for three told the correspondents group
realize how rude it is when you separate presents will not do Monday night that she would be
do X?” lasting damage to the planet. unable to fulfill the assignment as
I don’t expect you to change a result of her reassignment.
your mind on this point of Dear Miss Manners: I am a lady Pack has ignited several con-
etiquette, but I’m genuinely who works in retail. What is the troversies, lawsuits and whistle-
interested in your thoughts. correct way to react to a man who blower complaints during his
You are correct that if no one’s walks up to me while I am working short tenure, during which he has
manners were ever corrected, we and says, with his eyes full of pity, attempted to reshape VOA and
would all be eating with our “I wouldn’t want your job”? four other international net-
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hands and wiping our mouths on The unsolicited comment works. He has replaced experi-
the tablecloth. always feels condescending, but I enced managers with loyalists
Miss Manners does not dictate can’t exactly point that out to a and has asserted his right to Secretary of State Mike
that no one can correct another customer. Other than asking the influence editorial judgments, Pompeo, at left speaking
person’s manners — only who customer if they need assistance, despite regulations prohibiting Tuesday at the National Press
may do so, and sometimes when. is there something else I’m political influence over news pro- Club, gave an address at the
Parents may correct their own supposed to say? How am I duced by the agencies. headquarters of Voice of
growing children. Teachers may supposed to answer? Widakuswara, who declined to America. After his speech and a
correct students. It depends on what you hope to comment, has been a VOA em- moderated Q&A session,
It may interest you to know accomplish. A cool “May I help ployee since 2003 and has cov- Pompeo was asked questions by
that Miss Manners, who, in her you?” rejects — by not ered the White House since mid- Patsy Widakuswara, who
profession, corrects everyone, acknowledging — the customer’s 2018. covers the White House for
would consider it the height of words, while satisfying the A VOA spokesperson declined VOA, but he did not answer.
rudeness were she to correct a requirements of good manners. to comment. Reilly did not re- She was later reassigned.
friend or acquaintance face-to- Miss Manners thinks this is a spond to an email requesting
face. great deal. If, instead, your goal comment.
is to get into a conversation with Widakuswara’s reassignment
Dear Miss Manners: Because of your boss about your future in — which appears to be punish-
circumstances surrounding the sales, then you may smile and ment for seeking information
coronavirus pandemic, my tell him, “Well, I’m keeping it, so from a prominent newsmaker —
brother, father and I are all living you can’t have it.” carries several layers of irony,
under the same roof. My nephew given the themes of Pompeo’s talk
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is getting married next year; New Miss Manners columns are and the issues surrounding his
whether we will be able to attend posted Monday through Saturday on appearance.
is still unknown. washingtonpost.com/advice. You can A small group of VOA employ- flammatory commentary in the tion session afterward but didn’t Democrat Joe Biden won the
We each received an invitation send questions to Miss Manners at ees filed an anonymous whistle- wake of a mob assault on the U.S. touch on recent events, such as the election in November, Pompeo
to the event. Should we send the her website, missmanners.com. You blower complaint last week as- Capitol. Capitol attack and the State De- echoed President Trump’s false
couple three gifts (most likely can also follow her serting that Pompeo’s appearance “This kind of censorial instinct partment’s re-designation of Cuba claims of victory and said he was
cash or checks), or would it be @RealMissManners. in VOA’s auditorium would pose a is dangerous,” he said. “It’s moral- on Monday as a terrorist state. expecting a “smooth transition to
appropriate to pool together and © 2021, by Judith Martin coronavirus health risk and that ly wrong. And it’s against your No outside journalists were a second Trump administration.”)
orders to carry the speech on mandate. Censorship, wokeness, permitted to attend the event, She received no response from
VOA’s TV channels and live political correctness, it all points and VOA journalists weren’t per- Pompeo.
streams amounted to the promo- in one direction — authoritarian- mitted to ask questions. When VOA deputy director Elizabeth
tion of government “propaganda.” ism, cloaked as moral righteous- several in attendance began to Robbins, who organized
Take The Post for a bike ride During his speech Monday, ness. . . . It’s time that we simply shout questions after the pro- Pompeo’s visit to VOA, later told
Pompeo told a small group of put woke-ism to sleep.” gram finished, a live stream of the Widakuswara she was being reas-
VOA employees, “It is not fake He also said it was wrong to event went dark within seconds. signed. Reilly hired Robbins as
Washington Post podcasts news for you to broadcast that ignore America’s faults. “But this Widakuswara trailed Pompeo his deputy last month from the
go with you everywhere this is the greatest nation in the isn’t the vice of America, focusing as he left the building, shouting State Department, where she had
history of the world and the on everything that’s wrong with after him, “Mr. Secretary, what been a deputy assistant secretary
Politics • History • Culture • More greatest nation that civilization our great nation. . . . It certainly are you doing to repair the U.S. for public affairs.
has ever known.” isn’t the place to give authoritari- reputation around the world? Mr. [email protected]
He also decried censorship an regimes in Beijing or Tehran a Secretary, do you regret saying
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wpost.com/podcasts abroad, comparing it to efforts by platform.” there will be a second Trump Karen DeYoung contributed to this
social media giants to limit in- Reilly conducted a brief ques- administration?” (Days after story.

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MONICA HESSE

Eye-rolling absurdity gave cover to sinister plans that some may have had
HESSE FROM C1 tourists who had accidentally
gotten in line for Insurrection
most devoted sons must Mountain at the Magic Kingdom.
eventually leave their mothers to The image of Zip Tie Guy with
commit the traditional coming- his black fatigues, tactical vest,
of-age ritual of trashing the seat Taser and cuffs was terrifying
of American Democracy in the because of his anonymity and
name of being a patriot. appearance of mercenary
From Tennessee news sources professionalism. Here was a man
— Munchel is from Nashville — who looked as if he had both a
we learned other biographical plan and the knowledge and
details about the suspect: He equipment to execute it. As if
previously worked at Kid Rock’s he’d done this a thousand times.
Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ’n’ The naming of Eric Munchel as a
Roll Steakhouse until he was suspect made Zip Tie Guy
fired a few months ago; he terrifying for a different reason:
worked at another bar before If the authorities are right, he
that. He has deleted his Facebook lived a regular life. The guy who
page, but if you’d gone there used to work at the steakhouse. A
early last week you could have man who could move easily from
seen a photo of him, brandishing doting mama’s boy to terrorizing
an American flag and a shotgun, America’s seat of government —
mouth wide open as if caught not before his morning coffee, of
mid-yawp, standing in front of a course.
TV tray and a flat-screen filled The Capitol riot was the
with President Trump’s face. apotheosis of Trumpism: There
Arrests and charges of the was just enough boobish
Capitol rioters will continue this amateurism and eye-rolling
week. And the more we learn absurdity on the surface to give
about the would-be usurpers, the cover to those tempted to
more they become both dismiss a deadly serious attack
horrifying and ridiculous. The on the American system as some
QAnon Shaman, a.k.a. Jake version of “boys will be boys.”
Angeli, announced in his first Was this a mob of domestic
court appearance that he could terrorists or a confederacy of
not eat jail food because it wasn’t clowns? Or worse, was it both: a
all organic. (The courts have mob doing unconscionable
intervened on his behalf.) things that included men who
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Richard Barnett, a.k.a. the man somehow viewed the whole day
who made a Barcalounger out of as a field trip? Militant bloodlust,
the desk chair of an assistant to commando cosplay, bright-eyed
Nancy Pelosi, told a reporter that tourism and family bonding, all
he was forced to steal a piece of wrapped up together in what
her mail because he accidentally they decided was a fine way to
bled on it. A retired Air Force spend a Wednesday afternoon.
lieutenant colonel named Larry These images will be the
Brock insisted that he was lasting brand of Trumpist
carrying around zip-tie masculinity, inspired and
handcuffs only because he’d applauded by the president
found them on the floor and whose campaign press secretary
thought he might run into a went on television Monday to
police officer to helpfully hand describe Trump as “the most
them over to. masculine person, I think, to
Brandon Fellows, who had ever hold the White House.” For
shown up wearing a knit hat better or worse, this is the brand:
resembling a knight’s helmet and a combination of inchoate fury
fake beard, and who was METRO GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND and utter buffoonery, feeding on
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allegedly photographed smoking one another as they become
a joint in the office of Sen. Jeff Authorities say Eric Munchel, more angry, and more
Merkley (D-Ore.), told above, is Zip Tie Guy, top, part preposterous, and finally, more
Bloomberg News: “I didn’t hurt of the pro-Trump mob that dangerous.
anyone. I didn’t break anything. I stormed the Capitol last week. It was that aspiring
did trespass though, I guess.” He Munchel was charged with insurrectionist, scaling a railing
added that his Bumble dating violent entry and disorderly with all the artifacts of a
profile, now updated with conduct on Capitol grounds. domestic terrorism coup. It was
pictures of himself at the Capitol, Also facing charges is Jake that dude from the steakhouse,
was “blowing up.” Angeli, who authorities say is hanging out with his mom.
They had come vowing to the man at right. [email protected]
overturn the election, but at the
first hint they might experience Monica Hesse is a columnist writing
consequences for their actions, about gender and its impact on
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Smithsonian pairs with PBS for educational science, art and history content
BY P EGGY M C G LONE The partnership emphasizes nian can help us understand, like
each organization’s strengths, race, identity and climate change,”
Education was already a top Kerger said. he said. “And the Smithsonian is
priority for Smithsonian Secre- “We have an infrastructure in really good at crossing disciplines,
tary Lonnie G. Bunch III, but place,” she said, noting that the having education programs that
when covid-19 closed his mu- platform allows teachers to search have art and history and science
seums, he realized that the insti- for specific content and “grab it wedded together. Where better
tution’s rich offerings could meet and use it” in their classrooms, than the Smithsonian to blur
a new demand. He set out to find whether in person or virtually. “A those lines to enrich education?”
partners to help make them acces- lot of the educational content the Material from the Smithsonian
sible to more Americans. Smithsonian has is different. This includes its “Secrets of the Sea”
Enter PBS chief executive Paula is a real collaboration.” interactive programs and videos
Kerger and PBS LearningMedia, PBS LearningMedia aligns its about coral reefs and the scien-
public television’s digital plat- content — including videos, inter- tists who study the ocean ecosys-
form of free, standards-based con- active activities, documents and tems, as well as the National Air
tent for pre-K through 12th grade. lesson plans — to Common Core and Space Museum’s award-win-
Launched 10 years ago, the web- and national and state standards, ning video series “STEM in 30,” a
site has become a valued resource and teachers can search by sub- science program aimed at middle
for millions of students and teach- ject, standards and grade levels. school students. The National
ers. On Tuesday, the Smithsonian Some resources are targeted spe- Museum of African American His-
and PBS announced that the web- cifically to teachers, including tory and Culture’s “Talking About
site will feature some of the insti- how-tos on remote learning and a Race” content will also be fea-
tution’s best digital science, art virtual teachers lounge. Other ma- tured.
and history education content. terial can be used for in-school The website will showcase ma-
“The Smithsonian has so many lessons and extracurricular learn- terial already created by the
resources, but even we don’t have ing. Smithsonian, but the partners en-
broad enough shoulders to do all The Smithsonian has educa- vision new collaborations.
of this,” Bunch said of the partner- tional programs that explore cur- “I hope this is the beginning of a
ship. “The pandemic has given us rent events and an interdisciplin- rich partnership,” Kerger said.
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go. [PBS] gives us a great portal to “I’m committed to the contem- together.” Air and Space Museum. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III says the partnership with PBS’s
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RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ K 10 7 5
♥ AJ65
♦ K 10 6 5
♣9
WEST EAST (D)
♠ 43 ♠ 62
♥ 98742 ♥ K 10
♦3 ♦ AQ9842 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ J8654 ♣ A 10 7
SOUTH
♠ AQJ98
♥ Q3
♦ J7
♣ KQ32

The bidding:
EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH
1♦ 1♠ Pass 2♦
Pass 3♣ Pass 4♠
All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ 3 CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

“S o you and Wendy

are at odds again?” I
asked Cy the Cynic in the club
lounge. Wendy, our feminist,
and Cy, a shameless chauvin-
ist, are constant adversaries.
“I misdefended in the
penny game,” Cy told me,
“and Wendy said it’s like
every man on earth has to
share the same brain.”
Wendy led her single- RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
ton diamond against four
spades, and Cy took the Q-A
and led a third diamond.
South ruffed, drew trumps
and led a club from dummy.
“Whether I took the ace or
ducked, he had 10 tricks,”
the Cynic said. “He could
pitch a heart on dummy’s
high diamond.
“Wendy was mad. She said
I should lead a low diamond LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
at Trick Two. She would ruff
and lead a club, and I could
win and lead another low
diamond. South would have
to ruff, and he wouldn’t get a
heart discard and would lose
a heart for down one.”
“That would have been
an exceptional defense,” I
observed. “Did you have any-
thing to say for yourself?”
“I would have,” Cy growled, HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
“but it wasn’t my turn to use
the brain.”
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ 6 2 ♥ K 10
♦ A Q 9 8 4 2 ♣ A 10 7
Your partner opens one
spade, you bid two diamonds
and he rebids two spades.
What do you say?
ANSWER: In a “two-over-
one” style, where your two BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
diamonds forced to game,
you could bid 2NT, forcing.
That style might gain here
but has drawbacks as well. In
a “Standard” style, bid 3NT
or, if you prefer not to take
the bull by the tail, bid three
clubs to let partner make
another descriptive bid.
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BIRTHDAY | JANUARY 13
Goal-oriented, proud
and autonomous,
security and standing
are important to you.
This year, take a chance on a
project you have doubts about,
as it will be tremendously
successful. Remember that
money isn’t everything. If
single, you meet someone
this year who hasn’t had the
advantages you have, and this
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY is the one. If attached, you are
with your prince or princess.
Virgo is the original princess
and the pea.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Today unexpectedly ushers
in hours of joy and laughter
with different people. Focus
on the future. Determine your
most important priorities.
Affirmations and meditations
are especially valuable.
Observe and listen. Meet
others halfway to resolve
tensions.
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Economics and social
conditions can affect your
profession. Consider external
factors and use them as
guidelines. You are not an
island. There is a strong
awareness of how your destiny
interconnects with the world
around you.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Wanderlust strikes today. A
trip overseas or crosscountry
would be uplifting and
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK fantastic. It’s a shame we are
in the middle of covid-19. Try
visiting places of historical and
spiritual significance instead.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Others make suggestions
about money management.
You may develop a new job
skill or are offered a second
job. Act on it quickly. But
check with your inner psyche
before acting too quickly on
unsolicited advice.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK
You’ll seek different
partnerships and feel like a
relationship has run its course.
There’ll be new schedules at
work and different job skills
needed. Your versatility allows
you to adapt beautifully.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
There can be a new psychic
rapport with pets. There’s
a more progressive daily
routine, and you have good
luck if searching for a job or
using time with the utmost
efficiency. The financial
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK outlook brightens.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
You’ll feel like a child today.
You’ll enjoy gambles and
intriguing risks. Adventurous
leisure activities have appeal.
Regarding love, you’ll seek
a situation that is thrilling
rather than safe and secure.
Business takes a back seat to
social and creative interests.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You’ll be making decisions
about family and private life.
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT You’ll be evaluating your
residence with care and
deciding whether to keep it
or improve it. You learn some
interesting facts about family
members.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
You’ll feel the urge to travel a
bit. A new vehicle, perhaps a
bicycle or Jeep, could seem
to fit your needs. Don’t write
emails or letters or make
phone calls if you’re upset.
Be patient with a neighbor or
sibling. Travel in your mind.
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Today emphasizes
appreciation of possessions.
You can add to a collection or
find a treasure in an antiques
store. Browsing online through
shops is an appealing pastime.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
There’s considerable
excitement today. Don’t cling
to the past. You’re about
to be jolted out of a rut.
Travel is likely. The gambler
and adventurer within you
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS awakens.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Today makes you sympathetic
and helpful, but also more
emotional than usual.
You’ll put changes on hold
and recognize a need for
conformity. Get extra rest
and be patient with yourself.
You take a little longer than
planned for projects.
— Madalyn Aslan
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such as snares and traps, and

gather “intelligence” information
from community members. They
also count animals — from a safe
distance. (The park is home to at
least 50 mammal species, includ-
ing more than 2,000 elephants.)
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Team Lioness takes pride in mission month. The coronavirus pandem-

ic has added new challenges to
their tough profession. Tourists
on safari helped keep poachers
Female rangers fight poaching in Kenya, get training in wildlife conservation away, but the drop in the number
of international visitors has
BY A NDREA S ACHS tribe. Many girls from this ethnic came from a local leader and forced the rangers to step up their
group leave school as early as age women’s rights advocate named guard duties. In addition, the

S
ix days a week, the mem- 10, and those who continue their Kirayian Katamboi, who is fondly women were not allowed to re-
bers of Team Lioness rise education have few job opportuni- known as Mama Esther. (“Mama” Team Lioness helps protect animals that wander out of Amboseli turn home for about four months,
at 5 a.m. and head off to ties after graduation, especially in is used as a term of respect for National Park in Kenya. The eight female rangers belong to the to avoid catching or transmitting
work near Amboseli Na- fields such as wildlife security and older women.) She approached Maasai tribe. Before Team Lioness, only men worked as rangers in the novel coronavirus.
tional Park in Kenya. In conservation. Before Team Lion- the International Fund for Ani- the Olgulului community. “I am always proud of seeing myself But even through the hard
the dry and dusty savannah, the ess, only men worked as rangers in mal Welfare about creating a walking with men in the bush and proud to be the very first female times, their commitment to —
women are rarer than the ele- the Olgulului community. corps of female rangers. ranger from my community,” said Purity Lakara of Team Lioness. and pride in — Team Lioness has
phants, zebra, giraffes and lions “I am always proud of seeing Mama Esther and the organiza- remained strong.
that roam the land. myself walking with men in the tion chose a female representative rangers found suspicious foot- er while patrolling in the commu- “The opportunity to work as a
Team Lioness, which will cel- bush and proud to be the very from each of the eight clans in the prints in the dirt. They followed nity lands,” said Loise Soila Komi- member of Team Lioness has
ebrate its second year of service in first female ranger from my com- Olgulului community and en- them to a piece of meat drying in anto, a former nursery school- brought about respect for women in
February, is an all-female group munity,” said Purity Lakara, who rolled the recruits in an intense a tree and waited for the poacher teacher whose hobbies include the community,” said Komianto, “as
of rangers who help protect the financially supports her six sis- three-week course. During the to return to his prize. They herding livestock. it has shown we can now do what
animals that often wander out of ters, three brothers and 2-year- training, they learned how to nabbed the man, who had illegal- A lot of Team Lioness’s work was once thought of as a man’s job.”
the park and into the surround- old daughter. The job “is impor- track poachers, people who kill or ly killed a giraffe calf, and turned involves spotting potential threats She, like many of her two-legged
ing community. tant in terms of women empower- take wild animals illegally. him over to law enforcement. to the wildlife before it’s too late. “lionesses,” hopes to a pursue a
The eight women, who are 19 to ment and gender equality.” The skill came in handy last “My proudest moment was the During their five-hour shifts, they career in wildlife conservation.
30 years old, belong to the Maasai The idea for Team Lioness July. While out on patrol, the day we caught a bush meat poach- look for signs of illegal hunting, [email protected]

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alleys
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the first pub- to stay home and no belief element to it. There is a hopeless — it’s to recognize that
lished edition DOWN 29 Undecided 39 Abel, 51 Said 63-Across not risk getting virus and there are facts and when all precautions aren’t
of “War and 1 Greet formally, to Adam a second time covid. My dear you’re right. possible, the possible
Peace” 30 Owl’s call
as at the start 41 Throwback 52 Antioxidant-rich husband works in That’s why you’re not “being precautions become all the more
37 They have 31 Catches Carolyn a grocery store but an ass” when you hold your urgent. People who can be
of a sumo some z’s diet berry Hax
their pride match 42 Handmade 53 Downton is faithful about ground — you’re being a hero. A vigilant must be for those who
39 Put a halt to 32 Places for hot mask-wearing. So loving, sensible, rational, brave, can’t. Or won’t.
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40 Is for a few 3 Mutant big cat 44 Gut courses for one
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snack cakes show host with Ibsen 58 “Bali __” mother-in-law wants us to come even weaker weakness in the imagine stacking these bricks on
38 Perfect Portions
43 Nickname of seven Emmys pet food brand 50 Even things 59 AirPod spot to dinner every two weeks or so. I face of her weakness, mean your each other each time we take
two Six Flags 6 “Gran __”: 2008 think she believes God has His heroics are being undermined, such a risk. A stack of zero may
roller coasters Eastwood film hand over us and we are safe. I possibly someday negated, once be impossible, but keeping our
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moon
briefly speaking up and refusing to should cave. That is possible. And it helps.
8 Kissing on come. For one thing, your strength is So keep taking your spread-
49 Many miles the kiss cam, And, really, what difference an important example, a prevention measures, every one
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season service? won’t wear one. She is also deaf ahead of pandemic necessity. your mother-in-law: a newsy
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asked with a old Rome she can’t understand me through for them to maintain their text, Zoom visits with an assist
raised voice, as 12 Put one’s name the mask. My husband, father-in- denial. Exist as counterpressure, from the chat feature?
demonstrated on the line? law, and sister-in-law are no even just through your absence. Impairments compound
in three long help. They have always catered This is a hard ask, and I’m sorry. isolation, so please offer her safe
13 Immortal to her demands. But you get it, and anyone who ways to ease it.
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Wizards’ game against Utah is postponed Interview request starts

BY A VA W ALLACE Washington would not have the
requisite eight players to play
Washington GM search
The Washington Wizards’ Wednesday.
game Wednesday night against Coach Scott Brooks spoke to BY N ICKI J HABVALA than meets the eye.”
the visiting Utah Jazz was post- reporters during a virtual news “There’s so much operational
poned because of the NBA’s health conference around 1 p.m. In the first clear indication that stuff that’s involved as well,” Rive-
and safety protocols surrounding “Throughout the league it’s it plans to hire a general manager, ra said. “There’s a lot to it. This is
the coronavirus pandemic, the happening, and we knew there the Washington Football Team not just picking players and mak-
league announced Tuesday night. was always going to be a possibili- requested to interview Martin ing decisions on contracts or
The postponement was the ty that it might happen with us,” Mayhew, the San Francisco 49ers’ hiring coaches or what have you.
conclusion of a hectic day for the he said. “We have a couple of vice president of player person- It is a big task.”
Wizards. The team announced players in the safety protocol, but nel, for the role, a person knowl- Mayhew, a former defensive
early Tuesday that it was cancel- we canceled practice just so we edgeable about the matter said back drafted by the Buffalo Bills
ing that day’s practice out of “an could be smart about it. We don’t Tuesday. in 1988, spent nine years in the
abundance of caution” after start- know until the next — you know, Despite rampant speculation NFL, including four with Wash-
ing forward Rui Hachimura and today or tomorrow, what that all that Washington would hire a GM ington, winning a Super Bowl
backup center Moe Wagner had means. We’re just going by the this offseason, Coach Ron Rivera XXVI ring in the 1991 season.
entered the league’s protocols SEE WIZARDS ON D7 has declined to confirm it public- After retiring, Mayhew received
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hours later, the league announced It’s still early: The Wizards have Washington’s Moe Wagner, at right next to Russell Westbrook, the Fan in a recent interview that University in 2000, then spent
that, because of contact tracing, time to turn the season around. D7 entered the NBA’s virus protocols along with Rui Hachimura. “there’s more to this position SEE WASHINGTON ON D2

NHL set
to begin,
but virus
looms
Pandemic puts plan
for home arenas and
56 games on thin ice

BY S AMANTHA P ELL

When the Tampa Bay Lightning

lifted the Stanley Cup in late Sep-
tember in Edmonton, there was
an overwhelming sense of pride —
and also a sigh of relief — that the
NHL’s pandemic-delayed 2020
postseason ended with zero posi-
tive coronavirus tests.
The league accomplished that
in a controlled, bubblelike envi-
ronment, but as one season finally
ended, the start of planning for
the next began. The NHL will
open its 2020-21 regular season
with five games Wednesday, about
three months later than normal,
and it will attempt to play a short-
ened, 56-game schedule outside a
bubblelike environment as the
global pandemic continues.
“I labored under the delusion
that . . . we’d be able to take a
breath,” NHL Commissioner Gary
Bettman said Monday on a confer-
ence call with reporters. “When
my plane landed back in the New
GIOVANNI AULETTA/ASSOCIATED PRESS York area the next day after the
World Cup super-G skiers competed Sunday in Austria, but a day later, an event in Switzerland was canceled because of worsening coronavirus numbers in the region. Stanley Cup was presented, the
phone started ringing and we
were back at it again.”

A pandemic’s latest chilling e≠ect Planning for the league’s return

was no easy task. It took lengthy
negotiations between the NHL
and the NHLPA that concluded in
December as well as approval
from Canadian health officials for
With the 2022 Beijing Olympics approaching, winter sports athletes struggle to find competitions, stay in shape teams to play games there. Be-
cause of travel restrictions be-
tween the United States and Cana-
BY R ICK M AESE the escalating coronavirus numbers here and in early-winter competition schedules wrecked. da, the league realigned its divi-
Europe. On Monday, this week’s Alpine skiing Some Olympic hopefuls have been competing in sions for this season, and the
When the coronavirus brought the Olympic World Cup event in Switzerland was canceled recent weeks, but many others have been waiting schedule will consist exclusively
sports world to a grinding halt this past March, the because of the worsening conditions in the region. — training alone or with their teammates, itching of intradivisional play. There will
top winter sports athletes had mostly finished “It’s all uncharted waters,” said Jeff Plush, chief to start testing their mettle with the Winter Games be one division (North) made up
competing for the year. A handful of events were executive of USA Curling. “We’re just trying to just around the corner. solely of Canadian teams, plus
canceled, but the early days of the pandemic navigate it all the best we can. What we know today The top American curlers haven’t slid a stone three American divisions (East,
largely felt like a bullet dodged for the skiers, we know can change next week.” that counted since March. Bobsledders and skel- West and Central).
skaters and snowboarders training for the 2022 While much of the Olympic world’s focus has eton athletes had a 10-month layoff before finally “What’s aspirational is we get
Olympics in Beijing. been on the postponed Tokyo Games and challeng- returning to action last week. Short-track speed- SEE NHL ON D5
But weeks and months passed, and it soon es faced by summer sport athletes, their cold- skaters have seen their international calendar
became clear the virus that ruined spring and weather counterparts saw much of the fall and wiped clean through February. And figure skaters NHL opening night
summer still would be raging as the temperatures will enter this week’s national championship with Penguins at Flyers, 5:30, NBCSN
dropped. And now, just 13 months out from the Among the mob: A five-time Olympic medalist just one event — in October — under their belts.
was part of the group that stormed the Capitol. D7 Blackhawks at Lightning, 8, NBCSN
Beijing Games, Olympic officials are monitoring SEE OLYMPICS ON D6
Blues at Avalanche, 10:30, NBCSN
A fresh start: For Caps’ Laviolette,
just about everything is new. D5

Through all the disruption in college football, it was all domination for Alabama
Almost everything minute, uneven and disjointed: pandemic defined nearly witnessed. But parse through Saban or Bryant? It’s a gripping the game in the bag — it rang up
about this college DeVonta Smith and the Rolex that everything about this season — Alabama’s schedule and its roster. but impossible comparison. D4 621 yards. It has Jones at
football season is the Alabama offense. That’s what conferences started when, On offense, who has been better? quarterback, and he was a
seemed disjointed easy and obvious to say following which games were canceled, Jones might be on to something. half — didn’t become more Heisman finalist who looked like
and uneven, so Monday night’s masterpiece, a moments when it was fair to Smith is the highlight, the wisp preposterous because he suffered one in throwing for 464 yards and
much so that there 52-24 decision that left Ohio State wonder whether any of it was of a wide receiver and Heisman an injury in the third quarter. five touchdowns. It has Najee
Barry was a temptation some combination of smeared worth it, and at what cost. winner whom the Buckeyes found “Heaven knows what he’d have Harris at running back, and he
Svrluga to declare across the turf and blinking at the Through all that, appreciate so confounding to cover they ran done if he’d have played the whole was a Heisman finalist who
participants in the blur that just sailed by. Alabama. everyone from elite cornerbacks game,” said Nick Saban, the coach looked like one in grinding for 79
College Football Playoff But that victory in the College “We set this as a goal to to, um, lumbering middle who won his seventh national yards on the ground and catching
illegitimate. The coronavirus Football Playoff’s national potentially be the greatest team to linebackers at him, all to no avail. title. seven passes for 79 yards, scoring
crippled the country, so it made championship game at Hard ever play,” said Mac Jones, the Whatever ink is spilled praising So add it up. Even as the Tide three times overall.
sense that it would nearly cripple Rock Stadium outside Miami was quarterback. “I think we made a him isn’t enough, and the only downshifted in the fourth quarter “The offense was dynamic,”
a sport that tried to play through a single frame in a season-long valid statement.” shame is that the numbers he — by which time Smith wore a Saban said. “And that’s what
it. movie that’s worth watching — That’s heady stuff, and there’s a rang up — 12 catches for 215 yards heavy bandage on his dislocated made the difference.”
What was never, for one over and over again. The recency bias given what we just and three touchdowns in the first finger and a T-shirt on his back, SEE SVRLUGA ON D4

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Washington requests Hokies hold off Blue Devils in a top-25 showdown

interview with Mayhew VIRGINIA TECH 74,
the opponent’s locker room.
Mike Krzyzewski was coach-
DUKE 67 ing in his second game since
WASHINGTON FROM D1 and one voice alone, and that’s exiting quarantine Saturday af-
going to be the coach’s,” Snyder ter having had close contact with
nine months as an intern in said when introducing Rivera last BY G ENE W ANG a family member who tested
Washington’s personnel depart- January. positive. He missed one game
ment. He went on to work 15 The vision was to create some- The 20th-ranked Virginia last week, an 83-82 win Wednes-
years with the Detroit Lions, ris- thing akin to what Seattle and Tech men’s basketball team day against Boston College.
ing from senior director of foot- New England have: a head coach stormed to a double-digit half- Still, the Blue Devils were
ball administration to assistant in control of the on-field deci- time lead against No. 19 Duke compromised for another game,
general manager and then to GM sions as well as the roster while and then withstood a rally down this time without two reserves.
before moving on to the New York working in unison with a general the stretch before completing a Graduate center Patrick Tapé
Giants as their director of football manager or top personnel execu- 74-67 win Tuesday night at Cas- missed a third consecutive game
operations/special projects. tive to find the right talent. Rivera sell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va. with a sore back, and freshman
The 55-year-old was hired by has final say over Washington’s The Hokies beat a ranked forward Henry Coleman III did
the 49ers in 2017 to be their roster and personnel decisions, opponent for the third time this not travel because of an illness
senior personnel executive, a role and it’s believed the GM will season and won for the sixth unrelated to the virus.
he held for two years before being report to him, not Snyder. time in seven games overall to Duke forward Jalen Johnson
elevated to his current position. Rivera began to retool the remain a game back in the loss also was forecast to miss a fourth
According to multiple reports, front office last year. He promot- column of first place in the ACC. straight game with an ailing foot,
Washington also requested per- ed Kyle Smith, putting him in They also ended a three-game but the Blue Devils’ third-leading
mission to interview Tennessee charge of both college and pro skid against shorthanded Duke, scorer played briefly in the first
Titans vice president of player personnel; he moved Doug Wil- which had its three-game win- half, when Virginia Tech forged a
personnel Ryan Cowden, a liams from personnel to player ning streak snapped. lead that reached as many as 18
37-year-old who was a scout for development; and he hired Rob “We didn’t have our best start, points at 36-18.
the Carolina Panthers when Rive- Rogers to take over the duties of but I knew we would figure it The Hokies continued to apply
ra was their coach. Eric Schaffer, who had been the out,” Virginia Tech Coach Mike pressure during the final min-
Mayhew and Cowden are rep- team’s vice president of football Young said. “I was pleased with utes of the half behind Radford,
MATT GENTRY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
resented by Frank Bauer, who is operations. their patience, their poise and who sank a jumper, collected an
also the agent for Rivera. Although additional changes togetherness. They continued to Tyrece Radford had 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead the No. 20 offensive rebound and scored
When Washington hired Rive- were made to the scouting and share, and I do think that is the Hokies to a win over the 19th-ranked Blue Devils on Tuesday night. and added a three-point play
ra last year, owner Daniel Snyder personnel department, the GM mark of a team that’s been there that bumped the margin to 15
said the front office would be- role was never formally created, and done it and knows what it Virginia Tech at Wake Forest a timeout there. I thought our before Hurt’s three-pointer drew
come coach-centric. but that may soon change. takes to get out games like this Sunday, 6 p.m., ACC Network shot selection was good. I Duke within 46-34 at halftime.
“We’re going to have one voice [email protected] with a win.” thought that Duke made some Eight players scored for Vir-
Tyrece Radford led Virginia emphatic basket was part of a difficult shots.” ginia Tech, underscoring the of-
Tech (10-2, 4-1) with 18 points on 6-0 run after the Blue Devils had Matthew Hurt, the leading fensive balance throughout the
7-for-12 shooting and added a drawn within 68-64 with 2:34 scorer in the ACC, had 20 points, roster. Reserve Jalen Cone had 14
DI G ES T game-high 12 rebounds for his remaining. making 4 of 8 tries from three- points as Virginia Tech held a
first double-double this season. Duke also had closed within point range, and Roach finished 21-6 advantage in bench points.
He also had five assists. 56-55 with 13:12 remaining, but with a game-high 22 for Duke, Virginia Tech also limited the
SOCCER New Jersey Devils. Keve Aluma added 17 points the Hokies countered with Alu- which was saddled with its first Blue Devils to 8-for-29 shooting
He became the league’s first and seven rebounds for the ma — a transfer from Wofford, conference loss while playing from behind the three-point line.
Man. United reaches Black player when he suited up Hokies; he contributed a high- where Young coached before ar- with a diminished roster and Duke entered ranked fourth in
top of Premier League for Boston on Jan. 18, 1958, light-reel defensive play in the riving in Blacksburg last season without an assistant coach be- the ACC in three-point field goal
against Montreal. closing minutes that helped seal — scoring the next five points in cause of an illness not related to percentage (35.2).
Paul Pogba sent Manchester O’Ree, legally blind in one eye, the victory. The forward leaped a row. the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve got the potential to
United to the top of the English played two seasons for the Bruins, to block a shot by Duke’s Jeremy “I saw a level of poise,” Young The pandemic nonetheless make a run for it,” Radford said
Premier League by scoring with a retiring from hockey in 1979. . . . Roach (Paul VI) while keeping said. “I didn’t want to call time- has affected Duke significantly, of winning the ACC champion-
deflected volley in a 1-0 win at The Minnesota Wild signed the ball inbounds at the base- out when Duke (5-3, 3-1) took off with the Blue Devils having ship. “We’ve just to stay level-
Burnley on Tuesday. forward Marcus Foligno to a line. on us in the second half. Part of played just seven games entering minded, levelheaded, not to get a
United came into the match at three-year, $9.3 million contract Moments later, Justyn Mutts that was by design. I wanted to Tuesday. They have had five big head or anything. We’ve just
Turf Moor knowing at least a extension. dunked to give Virginia Tech a see us figure it out and fight games canceled or postponed got to stay humble.”
point would move the team into 73-64 lead with 1:02 to play. The through it. I didn’t want to burn because of virus-related issues in [email protected]
first place for the first time at this WINTER SPORTS
stage of the season since Alex Mikaela Shiffrin won a night
Ferguson was in charge of the slalom in Flachau, Austria, to end
title-winning 2012-13 side. a year-long victory drought in her COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Pogba met a cross from strongest discipline and earn her
Marcus Rashford with a first-
time effort from the edge of the
box that deflected off Burnley
100th World Cup podium.
Shiffrin, who last triumphed in
a slalom in December 2019, held
Terps’ clash Saturday with Nebraska is postponed
defender Matt Lowton and on to her opening-run lead and
through the legs of goalkeeper beat Katharina Liensberger by F ROM NEWS SERVICES Nebraska to play at Maryland. Nebraska. The Cornhuskers (4-8, the Cowboys’ Bryce Williams
Nick Pope in the 71st. It gave 0.19 seconds following a near- AND STAFF REPORTS Some other games around the 0-5) have yet to win a conference stole the ball, drove the length of
United a three-point lead over flawless final run, denying the conference were postponed be- matchup this season and would the floor and dunked as time
Liverpool heading into their Austrian her first career win. The Maryland men’s basket- cause of coronavirus cases within have given Maryland an opportu- expired.
meeting at Anfield on Sunday. ball team’s home game scheduled programs. Penn State hasn’t nity to win back-to-back Big Ten Oklahoma State scored the
“We are exactly where we MISC. for Saturday against Nebraska played since Dec. 30 after four games. game’s final eight points.
belong,” United midfielder Alabama finished the college was postponed, the school an- consecutive games were post- Maryland will now wait longer l MICHIGAN 77, WISCON-
Nemanja Matic said. football season No. 1 in the nounced Tuesday afternoon. poned (vs. Wisconsin, at Ohio to return to play, with its next SIN 54: Mike Smith had 16
Elsewhere, Sheffield United Associated Press top 25 for the Members of Nebraska’s program State, vs. Michigan and vs. Rut- game scheduled for Tuesday at points and six assists, and the
ended the longest winless start to 12th time, extending its record by tested positive for the coronavi- gers). The Big Ten schedules pro- No. 7 Michigan. If there are no seventh-ranked Wolverines (11-0,
a Premier League season by completing the program’s first rus, and the Cornhuskers paused actively included open dates that further adjustments to the sched- 6-0 Big Ten) remained unbeaten
beating visiting Newcastle, 1-0. perfect season since 2009. . . . all team activities Monday. can accommodate makeup ule, the Terps will have eight days with another dominant perform-
Also, Everton won, 2-1, at Running back Markese Stepp Nebraska did not specify how games. But as the number of between games. The break will ance in a rout of the ninth-ranked
Wolverhampton. . . . transferred from Southern many individuals tested positive. missed games grows, as it has for give starting point guard Eric Badgers (10-3, 4-2) in Ann Arbor,
Angel Correa and Saul Niguez California to Nebraska, The school only announced that a school such as Penn State, a Ayala a bit more time to return Mich.
scored as Atlético Madrid strengthening an area of need for there were positive results among team’s schedule will become a bit from a groin injury that kept him l POSTPONEMENTS: The
extended its Spanish league lead the Cornhuskers following last its Tier 1 personnel, which in- chaotic with quick turnarounds from playing against Illinois. Big 12 announced that No. 13
with a 2-0 home victory over week’s departure of Wan’Dale cludes players, coaches and all between matchups. — Emily Giambalvo West Virginia postponed its next
Sevilla. . . . Robinson. . . . staffers who have regular contact Maryland (7-6, 2-5 Big Ten) last two home games because of coro-
AC Milan beat visiting Torino Augusta National Chairman with the team. Nebraska had played Sunday at Illinois, earning Cowboys top No. 6 Jayhawks navirus concerns. . . .
on penalties, 5-4, after a 0-0 draw Fred Ridley said the club intends already postponed its game a needed 66-63 win over the Cade Cunningham scored 18 The SEC postponed Tuesday
to reach the quarterfinals of the to allow a limited number of scheduled for Wednesday against then-No. 12 Fighting Illini. After a points, and Oklahoma State (9-3, night’s game between in-state
Italian Cup, in which it could face spectators for the Masters in April, Illinois, and the team will be grueling two-week stretch with 3-3 Big 12) held off a late rally to rivals No. 10 Tennessee and Van-
Serie A title rival Inter Milan. . . . provided it can be done safely, unable to return to play in time games every three or four days — beat No. 6 Kansas, 75-70, in Still- derbilt because of a combination
Bayer Leverkusen shrugged off given the coronavirus pandemic. for its scheduled trip to College including four opponents cur- water, Okla. of positive coronavirus tests, con-
Jonathan Tah’s sending off to Ridley did not indicate how many Park. rently ranked in the top 15 — the The Jayhawks (10-3, 4-2) tact tracing and quarantining
beat Eintracht Frankfurt, 4-1, in a spectators will be allowed. . . . The Big Ten has not an- Terps finally had a five-day layoff trailed by three in the closing within the Vanderbilt program.
German Cup game. . . . American Sebastian Korda nounced a rescheduled date for before Saturday’s game against seconds and had possession, but — Associated Press
U.S. Soccer is no longer advanced to his first ATP Tour
managing the National Women’s final by beating Cameron Norrie
Soccer League, although some of Britain, 6-3, 7-5, at the Delray
aspects of the partnership
remain, NWSL Commissioner
Lisa Baird said.
Beach (Fla.) Open.
Korda’s opponent in
Wednesday’s final will be No. 4-
Hendriks’s deal may signal thaw in free agent market
seeded Hubert Hurkacz of
HOCKEY Poland, who beat American It hasn’t been top free agents on the market, such as nonguaranteed minor To this point, the offseason
Willie O’Ree, who broke the qualifier Christian Harrison, 7-6 On difficult to find a ranked by projected contract league deals (or worse), for has been dominated by a
NHL’s color barrier, will have his (7-4), 6-4. . . . Baseball baseball owner value, while McCann was 14th. some of them. handful of deep-pocketed
jersey retired by the Boston Right-hander Michael Fulmer DAVE or management And they remain, some five The increasing likelihood of teams (the Mets) and quick-
Bruins. O’Ree, 85, will have his and the Detroit Tigers agreed to a SHEININ type to lament weeks into the signing period, spring training camps opening strike opportunists (the White
No. 22 jersey honored before the one-year, $3.1 million contract. the “biblical” or the only two of the top 15 to on time in mid-February — Sox, San Diego Padres, Atlanta
Bruins’ Feb. 18 game against the — From news services “catastrophic” economic losses have signed. (That’s not which MLB has begun Braves and Kansas City Royals),
the sport faces as a result of the counting pitchers Kevin conveying to its 30 teams, with who have taken advantage of
coronavirus pandemic and its Gausman and Marcus Stroman, the caveat that things could the industry’s economic anxiety
effect on the 2020 season and who effectively gave up free still change based on the — reflected by teams such as
TELEVISION AND RADIO perhaps 2021 as well — a stance agency by accepting their trajectory of the coronavirus the Indians, Chicago Cubs and
NBA that has been used to explain, previous clubs’ qualifying pandemic and the responses of Tampa Bay Rays shedding
7:30 p.m. Brooklyn at New York » ESPN at least in part, the glacial pace offers, and Tomoyuki Sugano, government and health officials payroll, and others, such as the
10 p.m. New Orleans at Los Angeles Clippers » ESPN of this winter’s free agent who chose to remain in Japan.) in Arizona and Florida — has New York Yankees, looking to
NHL market. Commissioner Rob But there are signs the removed some of the stay below the $210 million
5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia » NBC Sports Network Manfred himself has estimated floodgates are about to open. uncertainty regarding the 2021 luxury tax threshold — to pick
8 p.m. Chicago at Tampa Bay » NBC Sports Network 2020 operating losses of $3 Between Hendriks’s signing season that may have up players who might not
10:30 p.m. St. Louis at Colorado » NBC Sports Network billion. and the Cleveland Indians’ contributed to the slow-moving otherwise fall to them.
But the Chicago White Sox trade of shortstop Francisco marketplace. The White Sox alone have
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
signing free agent reliever Liam Lindor to the Mets last week, While MLB may have added Hendriks, starter Lance
2 p.m. Virginia Commonwealth at George Washington » NBC Sports Washington Hendriks on Monday to a four- two of the biggest prizes of this preferred to delay the start of Lynn and outfielder Adam
4:30 p.m. Notre Dame at Virginia » ACC Network, WSBN (630 AM)
6:30 p.m. North Carolina State at Florida State » ACC Network
year, $54 million contract was winter’s talent market are now the season in hopes infection Eaton to a roster that went 35-
7 p.m. Northwestern at Ohio State » Big Ten Network
the latest reminder that a slow off the board, dialing up rates would recede and access 25 (a 95-win pace over 162
7 p.m. Duquesne at Dayton » CBS Sports Network market is not the same thing as pressure on teams to make to vaccines would expand — games) and that retained
7 p.m. Auburn at Georgia » SEC Network a depressed market, and for all their moves for a dwindling thus easing the way for fans to almost everyone else of
7 p.m. Arkansas at LSU » ESPN2 the industry anxiety over supply of difference-makers. return to stadiums in varying significance from 2020 —
8:30 p.m. Louisville at Wake Forest » ACC Network economics, teams are still That’s good news for top free numbers — the players’ union making Tony La Russa’s squad,
8:30 p.m. DePaul at Georgetown » Fox Sports 1, WTEM (980 AM) willing to shell out big money agents such as starting pitcher has made it clear it would fight at this point, the leading
9 p.m. Texas Tech at Texas » ESPN2 for elite talent. Trevor Bauer, center fielder any attempt to do so. The sport contender in the American
9 p.m. Boise State at Wyoming » CBS Sports Network Hendriks’s deal — which George Springer, catcher J.T. has the example of the summer League Central, if not the
9 p.m. Texas A&M at Mississippi State » SEC Network
includes a creative wrinkle, a Realmuto and infielder DJ and fall of 2020 to prove it is entire AL, for 2021.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL $15 million deferred buyout, LeMahieu, all of whom could possible to successfully pull off There is still major business
4 p.m. Ohio State at Iowa » Big Ten Network that could reduce its present- command nine-figure contracts a season amid a pandemic — to be done — and a narrowing
6:30 p.m. St. John’s at DePaul » Fox Sports 1 day value — now stands as the and whose individual values although things are much window for it. Spring training
largest signed this offseason, have only risen based on the worse now nationwide, as the camps are set to begin opening
SOCCER
surpassing the four-year, deals signed by Hendriks and disruptions to other sports Feb. 17. The first exhibition
1 p.m. English Premier League: Brighton at Manchester City » NBC Sports Network
$40.6 million contract the New McCann. have made clear. games are scheduled for Feb.
3 p.m. French Trophée des Champions, final: Paris Saint-Germain at Marseille
» beIN Sports
York Mets gave catcher James However, happy outcomes at In any case, in the coming 27. Opening Day is April 1.
3:15 p.m. English Premier League: Fulham at Tottenham » NBC Sports Network McCann last month. Both were the top of the market won’t weeks, MLB and union officials There is far less uncertainty
5:15 p.m. Copa Libertadores semifinal, second leg: Boca Juniors at Santos significantly higher than most mean lucrative paydays for should agree to rule changes in the sport than there was just
» beIN Sports projections at the start of the everyone; the sport is still for 2021 — most significantly, a couple of weeks ago, but just
7:30 p.m. Copasudamericana semifinal, second leg: Vélez Sarsfield at Lanús winter. facing a glut of available free whether the universal enough to make clear that what
» beIN Sports Hendriks, a 31-year-old who agents — 213 of them as of designated hitter adopted in the 2021 baseball season ends
TENNIS
has been arguably baseball’s Tuesday, according to 2020 will remain in effect — up looking like is still anyone’s
top closer the past two seasons, MLBTradeRumors.com — that which would remove another guess.
3 p.m. ATP: Delray Beach Open, final » Tennis Channel
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PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL

Washington’s year, from unimaginable to unforgettable

BY S AM F ORTIER Nov. 20
Details surfaced of the team’s
It was an extraordinary year minority owners securing a deal
for Washington’s NFL franchise, to sell their shares but Snyder
beginning with the hiring of new blocking it because of a feud with
coach Ron Rivera in early Janu- one minority owner.
ary 2020 and ending with the
team’s surprise run to the post- Nov. 22
season, which concluded with Washington beat Cincinnati,
Saturday’s loss to the Tampa Bay improving its record to 3-7 and
Buccaneers in the first round. sparking a push to the playoffs.
In between there was a name
change, a public fight among Nov. 26
ownership, the completion of Washington thumped Dallas
quarterback Alex Smith’s re- on Thanksgiving, giving the team
markable comeback and much, the lead in the NFC East.
much more.
Here is a timeline of the major Dec. 7
events surrounding the team Washington stunned unde-
since the start of last year. feated Pittsburgh, establishing it-
self as the NFC East favorite.
Jan. 2, 2020 JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST CELESTE SLOMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Washington owner Daniel Sny- Dec. 7

der introduced Ron Rivera as The NFL’s investigation into
head coach, signaling a new era the team’s workplace culture un-
for the franchise after, three days covered a confidential settlement
earlier, firing longtime team later revealed to be a $1.6 million
president Bruce Allen. Snyder payment from the team to a
said Rivera would have full con- woman who accused Snyder of
trol as the team’s “one voice.” sexual harassment.
Feb. 10 Dec. 21
Rivera hired Jennifer King as a Images surfaced of Haskins,
full-year coaching intern, the first who had started at quarterback
woman to coach for the organiza- for an injured Smith the day
tion. before, partying without a mask
following a loss to Seattle. Rivera
March 12 fined Haskins $40,000 and re-
Snyder banned coaches and voked his captaincy but did not
scouts from traveling as concerns release him.
escalated over the coronavirus
pandemic. Dec. 27
Young was named a captain in
April 23 place of Haskins, cementing the
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Washington drafted defensive rookie’s rise to team leadership.
end Chase Young with the No. 2 Clockwise from top left: Ron Rivera was introduced as Washington’s new coach on Jan. 2, 2020. Emily Applegate, a former marketing
pick, positioning the kid from coordinator for the Washington franchise, alleged in a Washington Post investigation that she was routinely harassed by two team Dec. 27
Prince George’s County as a cor- executives throughout her time there in 2014 and 2015. Chase Young (99) was a standout rookie on defense and eventually became a team Washington lost to Carolina in
nerstone of a new era. captain. Dwayne Haskins watched as Alex Smith took reps during training camp Aug. 25, nine days after the veteran was activated. Rivera’s first rematch since the
team fired him a year earlier,
April 25 June 20 July 21 Aug. 17 Sept. 13 fumbling away a chance to clinch
A year-long dispute between Washington retired No. 49, Julie Donaldson was hired as Jason Wright, a 38-year-old Washington earned an upset the NFC East.
franchise legend Trent Williams worn by Bobby Mitchell, the first the team’s senior vice president former NFL running back, was win over the Philadelphia Eagles
and the organization culminated Black player on the last team in of media, making her the highest- hired by Washington as the first in Rivera’s debut, which also fea- Dec. 28
in Washington trading Williams football to integrate. The team ranking female employee in fran- Black president of an NFL team. tured a demonstration of racial Washington released Haskins,
to the San Francisco 49ers for two removed Marshall’s name from chise history. solidarity. ending the 2019 first-round draft
draft picks. the lower seating bowl at FedEx Aug. 20 pick’s brief and tumultuous ten-
Field and renamed it after Mitch- July 23 Rivera announced he had been Oct. 7 ure.
May 14 ell, who died in April. Washington announced it diagnosed with cancer. Rivera benched Haskins, a sur-
Washington’s three minority would play the 2020 season as the prising decision despite the quar- Dec. 29
owners informed Snyder they in- June 24 Washington Football Team. Aug. 26 terback’s uneven play in the first The three minority owners ac-
tended to sell their roughly The team announced it would The Post’s second report on the four weeks. The coach said at the cused Snyder of financial malfea-
40 percent stake in the team, scrub Marshall’s name from all Aug. 7 team’s culture included accusa- time he did it to push for the NFC sance in a court filing, prompting
according to court documents team material. Running back Derrius Guice tions from 25 more women and East title, but it later became a federal judge to later admonish
unsealed later. The bitter dispute was released after he was arrest- detailed sexist rules as well as clear the decision was more Snyder and the minority owners
would mushroom into an unusu- July 3 ed on domestic violence-related lewd videos of cheerleaders pro- about concerns over Haskins’s for their “scorched earth” tactics.
ally public battle for an NFL Washington began a review of charges, including allegedly duced without their consent. Sny- preparation and work ethic.
team. the team’s name, bowing to pres- strangling his girlfriend until she der called the report “a hit job.” Jan. 3
sure from corporate sponsors, was unconscious. Oct. 11 Washington beat Philadelphia
June 5 rebutting Snyder’s long-held as- Aug. 31 Smith played in his first game to clinch the NFC East at 7-9,
After nearly three months of sertions the name would “NEV- Aug. 7 The NFL assumed control of since his devastating injury, com- making it just the third team to
working from home, Washing- ER” change and dividing a weary Snyder filed a lawsuit in India Washington’s investigation into pleting an arduous comeback win a division with a losing rec-
ton’s coaches were allowed to fan base. against an online media compa- its culture. and withstanding a brutal sack ord in a non-strike-shortened
return to the team facility in ny for publishing stories the suit from Los Angeles Rams defensive season. The game was marred by
Ashburn. July 13 said falsely suggested he consort- Sept. 4 tackle Aaron Donald. the Eagles’ controversial quarter-
Washington retired the team’s ed with Jeffrey Epstein, the dis- Likely future Hall of Fame back switch.
June 6 name. graced financier and convicted running back Adrian Peterson Oct. 26
Quarterback Dwayne Haskins sex offender. was released. Rivera completed his cancer Jan. 9
marched in Washington as part July 16 treatments. Washington’s season ended
of mass protests following the The Washington Post pub- Aug. 16 Sept. 4 with a 31-23 loss to the Tampa Bay
killing of George Floyd. lished allegations from 15 women Quarterback Alex Smith was The NFL told Snyder to “back Nov. 15 Buccaneers in the opening round
detailing sexual harassment and activated from the physically un- off ” after the owner’s private Smith started his first game of the playoffs despite an impres-
June 19 verbal abuse by fellow employees able to perform list, allowing him investigators rattled former em- since returning, a defeat at the sive performance from fourth-
On Juneteenth, the day com- during their time working for the to participate at practice. It was a ployees by approaching them at Detroit Lions. string quarterback Taylor Hein-
memorating the end of slavery in franchise. monumental step in his recovery their homes or over the phone. icke, who started in place of an
the United States, the city re- from the compound right leg Nov. 17 injured Smith.
moved a monument to George July 17 fracture he suffered in November Sept. 5 Washington entered intensive [email protected]
Preston Marshall, a prominent Washington hired attorney 2018 that threatened his life, leg Smith was added to the 53- protocols after Matt Ioannidis, a
segregationist and the franchise’s Beth Wilkinson to investigate the and football career. man roster, putting him third in defensive lineman on injured re-
founder, from the grounds of allegations and the team’s work- line at quarterback. serve, tested positive for the coro-
RFK Stadium. place culture. navirus.

There’s a lot to question before the next round of the NFL playo≠s NFL PLAYOFFS
Saturday’s games
Rams at Packers | 4:35, Fox
The age difference Green Bay. If not, whether the Stopping the run isn’t a one of his linemen recovered the Cleveland’s defense should get Ravens at Bills | 8:15, NBC
John among Rams can pull off the upset could strength of the Bills. They ranked loose ball, but it came close to a boost with the expected returns
Clayton Sunday’s games
quarterbacks in depend on Goff’s ability to grip 17th in rushing yards allowed at being a catastrophic turnover. of cornerbacks Denzel Ward and
the divisional and throw the ball in cold 119.6 per game and 26th in yards The Ravens’ defense will cause Kevin Johnson for the divisional Browns at Chiefs | 3:05, CBS
round of the NFL playoffs is weather. The Rams’ defense has per carry with 4.6. The Ravens problems for Allen. It is good at round. But the Browns will Buccaneers at Saints | 6:40, Fox
remarkable. NFC quarterbacks been great, but they will almost are perhaps the best running stopping the run, which will put nonetheless have a hard time
average 36.8 years old. Tom Brady certainly need the offense to play team in the NFL, and they rushed pressure on Allen to make slowing Mahomes and the high- 239 yards with two touchdowns
is 43. Drew Brees is 41. Aaron better than it has over the past for 236 yards in their 20-13 first- challenging throws to get the powered Chiefs attack. and two interceptions in a
Rodgers is 37. Jared Goff is 26. few weeks to hang with the high- round victory over Tennessee. Bills down the field. Their Given the Browns’ formula as a season-opening 34-20 loss; then
They have been to a combined 12 powered Packers. Fueling the victory was coverage is also good, and Marcus run-first team, their chances of 22 for 38 with no touchdowns
Super Bowls. Their combined How will Aaron Rodgers fare Jackson, who led Baltimore back Peters has a knack for making key beating Kansas City are rooted in and three picks in a 38-3 loss in
record in the playoffs is 53-30. against the best defense in from a 10-point deficit to earn his interceptions. Allen will need to building a lead and draining the November. The Saints’ defense is
In the AFC, it’s a different story. football? first playoff win and did a lot of rely heavily on wide receiver clock to limit Mahomes’s one of the best in the league, and
Patrick Mahomes and Baker Rodgers’s first challenge will his damage on the ground. He Stefon Diggs, who had six catches opportunities. That would Brady will have to do a much
Mayfield are 25. Josh Allen and be getting the ball to Davante had 16 carries, compared with 19 for 128 yards and a touchdown in require staving off any late-game better job of attacking it in his
Lamar Jackson are 24. Mayfield, Adams, who is one of the NFL’s for his backs, finishing with 136 Saturday’s victory. comeback efforts by the Chiefs, third attempt.
Jackson and Allen earned their best wide receivers but is likely to yards. The key play was his 48- Can Baker Mayfield keep this who made up big deficits in both Can Drew Brees and the
first playoff victories this past see a lot of man-to-man coverage yard touchdown run in the up? AFC playoff games last season Saints’ offense avoid another
weekend. Even Mahomes, the from Jalen Ramsey, the best cover second quarter that tilted the Cleveland’s offense, for most of before doing the same in their slow start?
reigning Super Bowl MVP, will be cornerback in the sport. In one- momentum in the Ravens’ favor. the season, was based on the ball- Super Bowl victory over the San The first half of the Saints’
starting only his sixth playoff on-one situations against Seattle The Bills have to find a way to control, power-running attack Francisco 49ers. Mahomes’s poise first-round win over Chicago was
game this weekend. star DK Metcalf on Saturday, contain Jackson, who was mostly led by backs Nick Chubb and after his team gets behind is ugly. After an opening-drive
Those eight quarterbacks are Ramsey held him to four catches efficient with his passing in Kareem Hunt. It took pressure off remarkable, so Cleveland’s touchdown, the Saints’ next four
at the center of many of our key and no big plays. Sunday’s win as well. Mayfield, who was also able to defense better be up to the task. possessions netted just 82 yards
questions for the divisional Rodgers also will have to deal Can Josh Allen afford any big benefit from lots of favorable Do the Saints have the book and five first downs, leading to
round, which begins Saturday with a defensive line that mistakes against a good Ravens play-action throws. on Tom Brady? only a 7-3 advantage against an
afternoon at Green Bay: produces a ton of pressure — defense? But for the past month, New Orleans and Tampa Bay overmatched Bears team.
Can Jared Goff or John especially now that it appears Allen, who was the NFL’s Mayfield has played like a Pro will meet for the third time This New Orleans team, in
Wolford generate any offense at star tackle Aaron Donald (ribs) hottest quarterback entering the Bowl pick, including making Sunday, and the Saints won both what is likely Brees’s final season,
frigid Lambeau Field? should be able to play. But the playoffs, earned his first playoff several key plays to ice Sunday regular season meetings handily. is built to win with defense and
Wolford started over Goff in lesser-known players on the Los win Saturday as Buffalo held off night’s win in Pittsburgh. The But Brady has gotten more and an efficient but less-than-
Saturday’s first-round win at Angeles defense are great, too, the Indianapolis Colts. For the Browns will want to control the more comfortable in Coach Bruce explosive offense. The Saints have
Seattle because Goff was just 12 and the unit has the speed at most part, he was excellent, clock Sunday against Kansas Arians’s offense as the season has the edge on the Bucs, but they
days removed from surgery on his linebacker to stop outside throwing for 324 yards and two City’s explosive offense, but any gone on, particularly throwing must get off to a good start to
throwing thumb. Then Wolford running plays and is exceptional touchdowns against a good upset chances are tied to the deep ball, and Antonio Brown avoid having to play from behind.
suffered a stinger in his neck and when shifting to a two-deep zone defense. But he nearly committed Mayfield keeping up his recent has gotten more involved as the [email protected]
Goff had to enter the game, that limits deep throwing the type of huge mistake that he hot streak and making difficult third wide receiver.
struggling to throw at first but opportunities. Rodgers is the has often been guilty of in his throws to match the Chiefs’ Still, the Bucs’ record against John Clayton has covered the NFL for
improving as the game likely league MVP, but he won’t young pro career: In the fourth scoring total. teams with winning records — 2- more than 40 years. During the
progressed. have it easy in this one. quarter, he fumbled after trying Can the Browns’ defense 4 — is concerning. So is Brady’s season, he writes a weekly column for
It’s unclear whether Wolford Can the Bills contain the to get out of a sack. The play withstand a Patrick Mahomes stat line from the two games The Washington Post that publishes
can return for Saturday’s game at Ravens’ running attack? resulted in a 23-yard loss after comeback? against the Saints: 23 for 36 for online Tuesday mornings.

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Rapinoe: Capitol riot ‘showed our true colors’

NFL NOTES

O≠ensive
coordinator Soccer star describes
knew she should speak out again.
And Tuesday, in her first news
conference since the U.S. team
cannot come without justice.”
To Rapinoe, the reason behind
the attempted insurrection was
the Olympics this summer in
Tokyo, Rapinoe has grown more
outspoken and confident off the
game for most of 2020, rehab-
bing injuries and opting out of
the National Women’s Soccer
the violence as a display
is ousted of white supremacy
reported to camp in Orlando on
Saturday, she did not hold back.
“It’s just striking how horrible
clear: “This was about white
supremacy and holding up white
supremacy.”
field. She and fiancee Sue Bird,
the WNBA star, have become
influential beyond athletics. Bird
League’s abbreviated season with
OL Reign (of Tacoma, Wash.)
because of concerns about the

in Seattle BY S TEVEN G OFF

it was, how insane it was, from
the climate in the country being
such that we have our political
She added: “Hopefully the law-
makers have the courage to do
what needs to be done and every-
played a role in WNBA players’
effort to flip Georgia’s two Senate
seats to Democrats last week.
coronavirus.
In her absence, other U.S. play-
ers took leadership roles in pro-
leaders, our chief political leader, day citizens will understand we “I feel it’s my personal respon- testing after the death of George
F ROM NEWS SERVICES A few days before reporting to inciting an actual, real-life, mur- have a part to play. This is a huge sibility to make the world a Floyd, who died during an en-
AND STAFF REPORTS the U.S. women’s national soccer derous insurrection against his stain on the country but hopeful- better place in any way I can,” counter with Minneapolis police,
team last week for the first time own government, against his ly an opportunity for us to move Rapinoe said. and other social justice issues.
The Seattle Seahawks fired of- in 10 months, Megan Rapinoe own people, against his own forward.” The national team has provid- They took knees before games
fensive coordinator Brian Schot- watched from her home in Con- party,” Rapinoe said on a video The photo of a Trump support- ed a platform and inspired and raised their voices.
tenheimer on Tuesday following a necticut as rioters stormed the call with reporters. er returning to the Bay Area from younger players, such as Sophia Holding back tears Tuesday,
season in which the team set sev- U.S. Capitol in Washington. “To see where we’ve come in the mayhem wearing a USWNT Smith, a 20-year-old forward, Rapinoe said she was proud of
eral offensive records but Coach Rapinoe is best known for her these four years has been devas- sweatshirt did not sit well with who was invited to camp ahead her U.S. teammates and fellow
Pete Carroll had clear issues with athletic exploits, winning two tating and also, hopefully, the Rapinoe. of two friendlies against Colom- NWSL players.
how the offense operated. World Cup titles and an Olympic final straw for so many people to “That is not the kind of fan we bia in Orlando. “We are in an incredibly
Seattle announced the move, gold medal. But she has also really understand the reason we will welcome,” she said. “The U.S. “This team is full of heroes,” unique position to represent the
citing “philosophical differences.” become famous for speaking out are here is because we never crest is not to be confused with Smith said. “It’s an honor every United States of America via our
The Seahawks had the highest- against the Trump administra- actually had a reckoning with anything that has to do with single time to step into camp and sport and have such a cross-sec-
scoring team in franchise history, tion, taking a knee during the what our country really is,” she white supremacy, anything that be surrounded by such amazing tion of culture and race and
Russell Wilson threw a career- national anthem and taking said. “This is America. Make no has to do with the Trump admin- players and women who have sexuality and personalities on
high 40 touchdown passes in the leadership roles in causes rang- mistake about it. We showed our istration, anything that has to do done so much for the world of this team,” she said. “This is just
regular season, and wide receiv- ing from social justice to equal true colors.” with that divisive culture. Don’t soccer but also are making an one more area we will continue
ers DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett pay. Rapinoe, 35, continued for sev- bring that bulls--- here.” impact in the world itself in all to shine a light and use our voices
both set club records for receiv- Last week, as she prepared for eral minutes, saying President- As her playing career winds aspects.” in the best way possible.”
ing. her return to the field, Rapinoe elect Joe Biden’s “calls for unity down, perhaps culminating with Rapinoe was away from the [email protected]
Still, the Seahawks regressed
offensively in the second half of
the season, and Wilson and Car-
roll both made comments follow-
ing Seattle’s 30-20 playoff loss to
the Los Angeles Rams that indi-
Is Saban beyond Bryant?
cated concerns with the lack of
adjustments by the offense late in
the season. . . .
The debate is irresistible.
Seattle agreed to a contract
extension with General Manager miami gardens, even that surprised Coach John
John Schneider that will keep him On fla. — While Robinson at the time.
tied to the franchise through the Football comparing one One might counter in Bryant’s
2027 draft. CHUCK sports era to favor that, in 1966, the polls
l BENGALS: Cincinnati quar- another is always finished with this conclusion: 1.
CULPEPPER
terback Joe Burrow expects to irresistible and Notre Dame (9-0-1; no bowl
start running on his surgically always dubious, comparing one game); 2. Michigan State (9-0-1;
repaired left knee next month and college football era to another is no bowl game); 3. Alabama (11-0;
is confident he will be ready to always irresistible and always won Sugar Bowl, 34-7, over
start the 2021 season. cuckoo. Nebraska).
“I’ve always been a fast healer,” So as we gaze earnestly at the Yeah.
Burrow said in a Zoom session chart showing that Nick Saban Far less ambiguity groans from
with reporters. “We’ll see how this has reached seven national Saban’s titles even as the sport
goes when we get closer to the championships to surpass Bear still can’t quell its ambiguity.
season, but I’m very confident I’ll Bryant’s six and rank tops among Saban’s first title (LSU 2003-04)
be ready to go.” college football head coaches, went shared in the two major
The timetable is based on zero there’s a problem with the chart. polls (with Pete Carroll’s USC)
setbacks in the rigorous rehab of The problem is the chart is after one of those seasons when
his knee. The rookie quarterback haywire, a comparison of we never got to see the game we
suffered torn ligaments in a bananas to pomegranates. should have seen. One might
Nov. 22 loss to Washington and Bryant may well have wrested quibble with the selection of
had surgery in early December. seven national titles out of an era Alabama for the ultimate games
l LIONS: Detroit acquired with a Bowl Championship Series in two of his other titles (2011-12
linebacker Shaun Dion Hamilton (1998-2013) and a College in the BCS and 2017-18 in the
off waivers from Washington. Football Playoff (2014-). He did College Football Playoff ). Some
Hamilton started in seven of 46 prove statuesque and statue- have quibbled. Alabama still won KEVIN C. COX/GETTY IMAGES

games over three seasons with worthy at his work, and he did go those games. Nick Saban won his seventh national title Monday night, more than any other college football coach.
Washington. He has 89 career 232-46-9 across 25 Alabama Yet while the greatest college
tackles, 2.5 sacks, two forced fum- seasons. But it’s amazing how we coach of all time is probably some excellence could gain sustenance, Then there’s Saban, who has Saban still thrives about 47
bles, a fumble recovery and one throw around that numeral “six” anonymous straggler at some and that’s where Saban finds his thrived in the time of Twitter, of years after Don James, the Kent
interception. Washington put without thinking of how the six hidden school with some best argument for Bryant: distraction, of “rat poison,” in his State coach who later got one of
him on injured reserve last month happened, and how the origins of appalling financial constraints, “Well, I don’t think anybody ancient terminology. He has those shared and goofy national
with an elbow injury after he the six just go to show that, while the greatest college coach of the really compares to Coach Bryant,” thrived preaching defense, such titles at Washington (1991), called
started three of 14 games during the past gets romanticized, big time is Saban. “Come on, Saban said just after midnight as when his LSU held Oklahoma in a graduating defensive back
the regular season. people in the past had even less man,” Alabama quarterback Mac Tuesday. “In the era that he to 154 yards in the 2004 Sugar with a suggestion.
l RAIDERS: Las Vegas hired sense than people today. Jones said after Monday night’s coached, the era that he won, he Bowl. He has thrived through a “You know, I never really
Gus Bradley as its new defensive In 1964, Bryant got a national trouncing of Ohio State. “Of won a lot of different ways. He time when defenses yielded to wanted to be a coach,” Saban said.
coordinator with the task of turn- championship from two sets of course he is. How could he not won throwing it. He won running schemes and rules and “I think I have to give all the
ing around one of the league’s voters even though his team lost be?” a wishbone. He won it running entertainment, and it’s forever credit for Don James, who was
worst units. the Orange Bowl. In 1973, he got He’s the greatest because he conventional offensive funny that when Alabama won my college coach, calling me in
Coach Jon Gruden decided to one from one set of voters even has proved more, because he has formations. His legacy lasted over the 2015-16 title, 45-40, over one day and saying, ‘I’d like for
bring on the experienced Bradley though his team lost the Sugar gotten to prove more. And a long, long period of time. We all Clemson, he sort of cringed at the you to be a GA,’ and I
to fill the role Paul Guenther had Bowl. In 1978, he got one from because of his adaptability from have to adjust with the times. interview dais when he said, immediately responded that I’m
for the first two-plus seasons on one set of voters even though his the dillydallying football of 2003 Obviously things are a little “They got 40 points,” as if that tired of going to school, I don’t
his staff before being fired in one-loss team got mauled that to the space-age football of 2021. different now. The challenges are offended something in the really want to go to graduate
December. September in Birmingham — by And because of the humility a little bit different with the marrow. school, and I don’t want to be a
Bradley got his start in the NFL the one-loss team that finished embedded in that adaptability. spread offense, the things that Now he just thrived to 13-0 coach, so why would I do
on Gruden’s staffs with Tampa No. 2. All those titles appear And because he doesn’t reel at make it more difficult, I think, to with a celestial offense, and he something like this? He was
Bay from 2006 to 2008 before forever on walls, facades, T-shirts, losing assistants to other schools play good defense in this day and looked contented when saying pretty convincing that it’s
heading to Seattle, where he posters and maybe even ties, even as he always loses assistants age. this: “We’re an okay defensive something I should try.
served as defensive coordinator although that’s getting crowded. to other schools. And because, as “I think Coach Bryant is sort of team, not a great defensive team. “My wife, Terry, had another
for four seasons. Well, the first two happened Jones said, “He recruits well, but in a class of his own in terms of We played well enough, got some year of school, so I really couldn’t
l COLTS: When Anthony Cas- because of a daffy and more importantly develops great what he was able to accomplish, stops. But the offense was go on and do anything else
tonzo first arrived in Indianapolis unexplainable cultural twist: players.” And because a man who what his record is, the longevity dynamic. That’s what made the because she wanted to finish and
in 2011, he figured he would be a Polls back then would award has coached for nine schools and that he had and the tradition he difference.” He’s up there behind we wanted her to finish, and we
short-timer. national championships by three NFL teams and got his first established. If it wasn’t for Coach the postgame microphone had promised our parents that if
He wound up starting at left voting before the bowl games. The title at 52 seems as adventurous Bryant, we would never be able to slinging jargon for which his they let us get married that we’d
tackle for the next decade. last one happened because the as ever at 69. And because of his do what we did. I mean, he’s the younger self might need an both graduate from college.”
The Colts’ longtime offensive other team in question was steadfast standards and his long- one that made Alabama and the interpreter. He’s art-patron Then: “When I did it, I just
line anchor announced his retire- Southern California, thus term battle against human tradition at Alabama a place marveling at his latest offensive absolutely loved it.”
ment, three days after a playoff susceptible to age-old Eastern complacency. where lots of players wanted to coordinator, Steve Sarkisian, who That was quite some meeting
loss at Buffalo and less than two bias, meaning USC barely And because of Bryant. Bryant come. We’ve been able to build on filled the role for a second time back in Kent.
weeks after undergoing season- squeezed to No. 1 in one poll, and created the culture where Saban’s that with great support.” and is now bound for Texas. [email protected]
ending surgery on his right ankle.
l BILLS: Buffalo signed run-
ning back Devonta Freeman to its
practice squad to add veteran BARRY SVRLUGA
depth after placing rookie Zack
Moss on injured reserve.
Freeman is a seventh-year play-
er who was released by the New
Nothing could disrupt Crimson Tide’s domination of college football
York Giants last week.
l BROWNS: As Cleveland anx- SVRLUGA FROM D1 wide receiver. In winning the ever play,” Jones said. “There’s no team. That’s either a Pro Bowl and Patrick Surtain II as a
iously waits for Pro Bowl guard national title, the Tigers ran up other team that will ever play an roster or Mel Kiper’s Big Board. cornerback who scares people
Joel Bitonio and top cornerback Put aside the pandemic. That 568.9 yards and 48.4 points per SEC schedule like that again.” These players haven’t taken an away from throwing at him, and
Denzel Ward to return from the all makes for the best offense game. Those are stunning, Need more evidence of total NFL snap, but couldn’t this it’s not hard to envision a time in
covid-19 reserve list and join its college football has seen since . . . record-setting numbers. They offensive domination? Take this Alabama team nearly match that the future when you look at that
playoff run, the team lost their since . . . well, since LSU last year. seemed an offense for a last quantification: Alabama group? Saban has coached two list and say, “Wait, they were all
replacements to injuries. Yes, some of this is a generation. played 52 quarters this season. It Crimson Tide running backs who on the same college team?”
The Browns placed guard Mi- generational development, the The answer, from 2020 scored in 50 of them. won the Heisman — Mark Ingram For Saban, that’s really what
chael Dunn and cornerback Rob- imprint of an era. College offenses Alabama: 541.6 yards and 48.5 “We had a mission,” Smith said. and Derrick Henry. It’s possible this was about: the team. In
ert Jackson on injured reserve, now spread defenses as if they’re points per game, the latter an SEC “Everybody wanted to end things Harris is better than either was in November, Saban tested positive
losing two players who started the last spoonful of peanut butter record. It’s worth pointing out, the right way. We just all came to Tuscaloosa. for the coronavirus and missed
Sunday’s playoff win at Pitts- at the bottom of the jar, yet too, that LSU had on its schedule work every day and put in the Since Julio Jones was selected the Tide’s rivalry game against
burgh while Bitonio and Ward somehow has to be enough to Northwestern State and Utah work, and we got the result that sixth in the 2011 NFL draft, Auburn. Alabama had a three-
remain sidelined with the virus. cover an entire slice. Saban is a State, nonconference pushovers we wanted.” Alabama has had five wide week gap between games because
Dunn injured his calf during defensive coach by trade, but even that are the kind of staple So among the teams that receivers who were first-round the virus disrupted programs
the fourth quarter of Sunday’s he understood that the path to his appetizers — and stat-padders — played 12 games and the teams picks — including Henry Ruggs throughout the SEC. Yet in
48-37 first-round win, and Jack- sixth title in Tuscaloosa wasn’t by that make up a typical college that played eight, there was no III and Jerry Jeudy just last year. January, when the most unusual
son suffered a hamstring injury. putting eight men in the box on football schedule. comparison, in 2020, to Alabama. As a college player, Smith tops of seasons still left the most
— Associated Press defense. It’s taking the nation’s Yet 2020 Alabama had no such Turn, then, to history. Maybe the them all — more catches made, Alabama of goals within sight, his
l PACKERS: A veteran line- most talented offensive players — cupcake, because in the midst of 2001 Miami Hurricanes. Yes, they more yards gained, more jaws to players made history.
man is on the verge of landing a and then creating mismatches the pandemic, the SEC decided to won the national title. But get a the floor. And had Jaylen Waddle “I think there’s quite a bit to
spot in the history books. with defenses. play only the SEC. Therefore, the load of this roster. not suffered an ankle injury in write about when it comes to the
Jared Veldheer, an offensive “I think ball has changed,” entirety of Alabama’s The running backs: Clinton late October, defenses couldn’t legacy of a team,” he said.
tackle who played for the Colts on Saban said. “It’s a little more nonconference schedule: Notre Portis, Willis McGahee, Frank have focused on Smith — and Keep writing about, keep
Saturday, signed with Green Bay, wide-open, a little more spread. Dame and Ohio State, both in the Gore and Najeh Davenport. The whiffed anyway — but would have reading about, keep appreciating
and if he plays in the Packers’ This team has adapted, and we’ve CFP. Neither could stay within top wide receiver: Andre had to further spread their this Alabama offense. It might be
playoff game Saturday against the changed with it.” two scores — which merely puts Johnson. The tight end: Jeremy resources, because Waddle could a generation — or a year — until
Los Angeles Rams, he would be- Last year, that change was them in a club with 12 of the Shockey. Bryant McKinnie still go in the first round. we see another like it.
come the first player in NFL his- represented by LSU’s Joe Burrow Tide’s 13 opponents. The Tide’s protected the quarterback. The Throw in Alex Leatherwood as [email protected]
tory to play for two different at quarterback, Clyde Edwards- average margin of victory against defense was led by Ed Reed at a first-round tackle, Christian
teams in the same postseason. Helaire as a do-everything back that slate: 29 points. safety and Jonathan Vilma at Barmore as a defensive lineman For more by Barry Svrluga, visit
— Cindy Boren and Justin Jefferson as a 111-catch “I think we’re the best team to linebacker. That’s not a college who manhandled the Buckeyes, washingtonpost.com/svrluga.

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hockey

New season, challenges for Laviolette

BY S AMANTHA P ELL three separate areas — the video because you prep for the game, perience was the packed and row-
room, the coaches’ office and the then you make some adjustments dy rink he became accustomed to
When Peter Laviolette walks dressing room — to go over video and then you [often] will get to during 51/2 seasons with the Nash-
into Buffalo’s KeyBank Center on streamed to all three rooms. It’s prep again [to face] the same ville Predators. Most of his players
Thursday night, it will be his first not an ideal situation for a team team, so you are doing a lot of the and assistants got to experience
time behind the bench during the learning a new coach’s system. same stuff. It is going to be inter- the 2020 postseason, held without
coronavirus pandemic. There “I think it loses a bit of its pop esting how everyone handles it.” fans in the NHL’s bubblelike hub
won’t be any fans in the stands, no . . . when you try to go over things,” The Capitals open the season cities of Toronto and Edmonton,
energy that builds from the mo- Laviolette said. “And then I’m with back-to-back games at the but the Predators let Laviolette go
ment the doors open to puck drop thinking of things as I’m running Sabres, then travel to Pittsburgh in January, so that is just one more
to the final blare of the horn. this meeting — I’m using this for two games against the rival adjustment for him to make.
It will be a brand new experi- laser, and I’m wondering if they Penguins before their home open- “That’s all I know. . . . It’s not
ence for Laviolette, but it won’t be can see the laser on the camera er Jan. 22 — against Buffalo again. like that in an empty rink? I was
his only first. Thursday also is the that is being projected onto the Local restrictions on public gath- told it was awesome,” he quipped.
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start of a new chapter for the TV and I’m talking about a differ- erings will prevent Washington Laviolette has named Ilya Sam-
Washington Capitals, with Lavio- ent board.” from allowing fans at Capital One sonov and Vitek Vanecek his goal- Peter Laviolette will coach his first game behind the Capitals’ bench
lette coaching his first game for Those adjustments eventually Arena, and MacLellan does not tending tandem, but there isn’t a Thursday night in Buffalo after a pandemic-altered offseason.
the team. The 56-game pandemic- became routine, and Laviolette expect that to change in the near concrete plan for how many
shortened schedule is just one of knows he isn’t alone in this strug- future. games each will play. Instead, it Samsonov, 23, has just 26 wouldn’t be concerned if the regu-
many changes to adapt to, and the gle — but it’s amplified with his “I don’t anticipate that happen- will be performance-based early games of NHL experience — all lar season begins without a new
longtime NHL coach is right in recent arrival and a training camp ing for a while, depending on how on, and Laviolette is expecting gained last season while backing deal; as of Tuesday, that seems to
the middle of planning for a sea- that was shortened to 10 days. the vaccine here evolves for some both netminders to fight to get up Braden Holtby — and Vanecek, be the case for the team, too.
son filled with uncertainty. Add a schedule that has each team people and the progress and the time between the pipes. 25, has yet to make his NHL debut. “It’s right where it was a week
“I guess we’re prepared for any- in the newly formed East Division virus [affecting] everybody,” he “Once you get a body of work “The dream coming closer and ago,” MacLellan said of contract
thing,” he said Tuesday during an playing one another eight times, said. “I think it is up to local areas, underneath you, you can evaluate closer,” Vanecek said of making negotiations. “We want him to
interview with The Washington and you can expect tempers to but I think they toned it back in and then make determinations the team after spending the past finish here, and I think he wants
Post. “Anything could happen.” flare early and often. the NHL. . . . I don’t have an an- from there,” Laviolette said. “I five seasons in the minors. “I need to finish here, too. I think both
Even the way Laviolette inter- “It’s going to be intense, and I swer. I think as soon as it calms think we’ve got to play some to do the second step now and be sides will accomplish that even-
acts with players in the team’s think it’s going to be hard for down, they want to have fans back games before it goes too far down good in the goal.” tually. Everybody is comfortable.”
practice facility has changed. In- everybody,” Capitals General in the building.” that road. We’ve got to let the guys Note: Alex Ovechkin is about to [email protected]
stead of being able to talk to all 23 Manager Brian MacLellan said. Laviolette isn’t sure what to play and see where they’re at and start the final year of his 13-year,
of them in one room when going “. . . Preparation will probably be a expect from coaching in an arena perform and then make deci- $124 million contract. Last week, Capitals at Sabres
over video, the team has to head to little more like a playoff series without fans; his most recent ex- sions.” the Capitals’ captain said he Tomorrow, 7 p.m., NBCSW

As NHL gets started with unusual division setup, coronavirus looms ominously
NHL FROM D1 training camp because of coronavi- vaccines if that option surfaces lat- albeit a limited number. To offset tempts. To help prepare teams and mother will be happy, I think.”
rus concerns. The Dallas Stars took er in the year. that financial shortcoming, the players for what’s ahead, there are The risk associated with playing
through the season, we have an the biggest hit, with their practice Instead, the league is focused on league found other ways to bring in 213 pages of health and safety pro- this season compared with the set-
on-ice terrific season, great play- facility shut down for four days its safety protocols. Players and revenue, including selling naming tocols for them to follow. up for last year’s postseason is
offs, we present the Stanley Cup, after six players and two staff mem- other club personnel were tested rights to its divisions for the first The rules when teams are away clearly greater. How the league
and the world is back to normal for bers returned positive coronavirus daily during training camp and time. Additionally, teams can sell from home will be one of the big- handles outbreaks and teams shut-
the ’21-’22 season,” Bettman said. results Friday. The Stars resumed will continue to be for the first four ads on helmets. Multiple teams gest changes. While on the road, ting down their facilities during
“Anything beyond that would be practice Tuesday, but their first weeks of the season. After that, the have agreements in place, includ- players cannot “patronize or enter the season has yet to be deter-
great.” three games have been postponed. league will reevaluate to see ing the Washington Capitals, who internal venues other than the des- mined.
The plan is for all teams to play On Tuesday, the NHL an- whether clubs should test every have Capital One branding on their ignated hotel, the practice facility “We’re going to have to be in a
in their home arenas, rather than nounced that 27 players other day. helmets. or the game arena,” the protocols position to understand and ad-
in a bubblelike environment as in leaguewide tested positive during The NHL is also dealing with “Let me make something really note. Each city will have a hotel dress situations as they occur,” Bet-
Toronto and Edmonton for last training camp, including 17 among financial issues. Bettman said, clear: We’re coming back to play designated for visiting clubs, and tman said. “Having a series of just
year’s postseason. The only team the Stars. The league said most of without providing financial de- this season because we think it’s players will not have roommates hard and fast rules in this environ-
without access to its home rink is the players are asymptomatic and tails, that the league is set to lose important for the game, because on the road. ment I’m not sure is going to be —
the San Jose Sharks, who held all of them “are currently recover- billions by staging a shortened sea- our fans and our players want us to, Off-ice protocols include coach- actually, I’m pretty sure it’s not
training camp in Scottsdale, Ariz., ing without complication.” son largely without fans. Gate rev- and it may give people — particu- es being required to wear masks at going to be the best approach. I
because of restrictions on gather- NHL deputy commissioner Bill enue generated at games accounts larly those that are back in isola- all times — including on the bench think for us, if we get confronted
ings in California’s Santa Clara Daly said Monday that the league for roughly 50 percent of what the tion or where there are curfews — a — unless they are on the ice. with a variety of situations that we
County. The Sharks will play their has no expectation of having wide- league brings in. sense of normalcy and something “It’ll probably be good for me,” wish hadn’t occurred, we want to
first eight games on the road. spread vaccination in the league As of Tuesday, the Stars, Florida to do,” Bettman said. Capitals Coach Peter Laviolette be in the best situation at that time,
Other speed bumps heading during the season. Additionally, he Panthers and Arizona Coyotes are As the season progresses, coro- said of wearing a mask on the not hypothetically, to deal with
into the season include four teams said the league would not be the only teams that will start the navirus issues will be at the fore- bench. “Nobody will see what’s them.”
undergoing brief shutdowns in “jumping the line” to secure those season with fans in attendance, front of everything the NHL at- coming out of my mouth, so my [email protected]

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SC O REB O A RD
Winter sports schedules
PR O F O O TBAL L PRO B A SKETB A L L C O L L EGE BAS K ETBALL shredded by coronavirus
NFL playoffs NBA Spurs 112, Thunder 102 NCAA men
FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE SAN ANTONIO ................... 26 25 29 32 — 112 EAST OLYMPICS FROM D1 But in the scenario we’re in, we’re
SATURDAY’S RESULTS OKLAHOMA CITY ............... 26 17 30 29 — 102 Boston College 84, Miami 62 thankful for the opportunities we
ATLANTIC W L Pct GB St. John’s 69, Butler 57
Tampa Bay 31, at Washington 23
Boston............................................7 3 .700 — SAN ANTONIO: Johnson 6-11 6-7 18, Lyles 2-6 1-2 6, When the coronavirus rapidly are getting.”
at Buffalo 27, Indianapolis 24 SOUTH
Philadelphia ...................................8 4 .667 — Aldridge 6-16 0-0 13, Murray 6-13 4-4 16, Walker IV 7-15
Los Angeles Rams 30, at Seattle 20 Florida 72, Mississippi 63 shuttered the sports world, offi- Other winter athletes are in a
Brooklyn .........................................6 6 .500 2 7-7 24, Vassell 0-5 2-2 2, Gay 5-11 0-0 12, Poeltl 2-3 0-0 4,
SUNDAY’S RESULTS New York........................................5 6 .455 21/2 Mills 7-15 0-0 17. Totals 41-95 20-22 112. Virginia Tech 74, Duke 67
Baltimore 20, at Tennessee 13 Toronto ..........................................2 8 .200 5 MIDWEST
cials with the U.S. Ski and Snow- holding pattern. In non-pandem-
OKLAHOMA CITY: Bazley 4-14 2-2 12, Dort 4-11 1-2 12,
at New Orleans 21, Chicago 9
Horford 5-13 0-0 10, Gilgeous-Alexander 7-10 6-9 20, Hill Ball State 88, Bowling Green 64 board Association (USSA) rushed ic times, the curling calendar
Cleveland 48, at Pittsburgh 37 SOUTHEAST W L Pct GB Buffalo 85, Western Michigan 69
Orlando...........................................6 5 .545 —
3-4 6-6 12, Jackson 2-4 0-0 5, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Roby 1-3
Kent State 94, Central Michigan 85
to get nearly 90 people home from would have kicked into gear back
DIVISIONAL ROUND 2-2 4, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Muscala 1-4 0-0 3, Pokusevski
SATURDAY’S GAMES Charlotte ........................................6 5 .545 —
1/
2-6 0-0 4, Diallo 5-9 6-6 16, Maledon 2-5 0-2 4. Totals Michigan 77, Wisconsin 54 Europe in less than a day. And in September. But the fall events
Atlanta ...........................................5 5 .500 2 36-83 23-29 102. Northern Illinois 67, Akron 65
Los Angeles Rams at Green Bay (-61/2), 4:35 (Fox) Miami .............................................4 5 .444 1 Ohio 78, Miami (Ohio) 61 while they knew they were were lost, and the national cham-
Baltimore at Buffalo (-1), 8:15 (NBC) Three-point Goals: San Antonio 10-35 (Walker IV 3-7,
Washington ...................................3 8 .273 3
Mills 3-10, Gay 2-6, Lyles 1-3, Aldridge 1-4, Johnson 0-2,
Toledo 96, Eastern Michigan 63 months from their next live event, pionships pushed to May. Many
SUNDAY’S GAMES SOUTHWEST
Cleveland at Kansas City (-41/2), 3:05 (CBS) CENTRAL W L Pct GB
Vassell 0-2), Oklahoma City 7-26 (Dort 3-6, Bazley 2-7,
Oklahoma 82, Texas Chrisitan 46
most were quick to realize the curling centers in the country still
Jackson 1-2, Muscala 1-3, Maledon 0-2, Horford 0-4).
Tampa Bay at New Orleans (-4), 6:40 (Fox) Milwaukee .....................................7 4 .636 —
1/
Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: San Antonio 46 (Aldridge Oklahoma State 75, Kansas 70 virus wasn’t only jeopardizing the haven’t opened to the public, and
x-Indiana ........................................6 4 .600 2
10), Oklahoma City 52 (Gilgeous-Alexander 9). Assists:
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Cleveland........................................5 7 .417 21/
2
San Antonio 26 (Murray 7), Oklahoma City 18 (Hill 5).
WEST Olympic dreams of Tokyo hope- the U.S. athletes had to get special
SUNDAY, JAN. 24 Chicago...........................................4 7 .364 3 UNLV 95, Saint Katherine 34
NFC Detroit............................................2 8 .200 41/2
Total Fouls: San Antonio 20, Oklahoma City 20. fuls. exemptions to resume their train-
Los Angeles-Green Bay winner vs. Tampa Bay-New WESTERN CONFERENCE
“We weren’t completely un- ing. The world championships are
Orleans winner Kings 127, Pacers 122 No. 20 Virginia Tech 74, scathed,” said Troy Taylor, USSA’s the next scheduled event on the
AFC SOUTHWEST W L Pct GB
Baltimore-Buffalo winner vs. Cleveland-Kansas City Dallas .............................................5 4 .556 — Late Monday No. 19 Duke 67 high-performance director, “but calendar — late March in Switzer-
winner San Antonio ...................................6 5 .545 —
INDIANA ............................. 30 34 29 29 — 122 Duke ................................................ 34 33 — 67 compared to the summer sports, land for the women and early
New Orleans ..................................4 5 .444 1 Virginia Tech ................................... 46 28 — 74
SUPER BOWL LV Memphis ........................................4 6 .400 11/2 SACRAMENTO ................... 30 35 32 30 — 127 we were pretty lucky.” April in Calgary for the men.
SUNDAY, FEB. 7 — IN TAMPA Houston..........................................3 6 .333 2 DUKE MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
TBD, 6:30
INDIANA: J.Holiday 3-8 0-0 8, Sabonis 12-21 4-4 28,
Brakefield 27 2-4 0-0 0-3 0 3 4
Even while event schedules re- “You just kind of compete
Turner 2-7 1-2 6, Brogdon 9-18 2-2 24, Oladipo 8-20 3-4
NORTHWEST W L Pct GB 21, McDermott 8-10 2-2 21, Sampson 1-2 0-0 2, Hurt 38 8-16 0-2 0-11 0 3 20 mained either in flux or in doubt, against yourselves, against your
Utah................................................7 4 .636 — A.Holiday 1-6 2-2 4, Sumner 3-5 1-2 8. Totals 47-97 Goldwire 32 0-5 1-2 1-3 6 4 1
Portland .........................................6 4 .600 1/
2 15-18 122. Roach 34 6-14 8-8 1-2 1 4 22 winter sports organizers had own teams,” Plush said. “It’s not
COL L E GE F O O TBA L L Oklahoma City................................5 5 .500 11/2 Steward 35 5-13 2-2 1-3 2 2 14 some decisions to make. With nothing. It’s good. But it’s not the
SACRAMENTO: Bagley III 4-7 0-0 8, Barnes 10-14 8-8 30, Moore 15 2-6 0-1 3-5 0 2 4
Denver............................................5 6 .455 2
Minnesota......................................3 7 .300 31/2
Holmes 6-11 3-4 16, Fox 7-19 5-7 21, Hield 6-11 0-0 18, Baker 13 0-0 0-0 0-2 1 1 0 gyms and training facilities closed same. You can’t replicate the ten-
Robinson III 3-7 0-0 7, Whiteside 4-4 0-0 8, Haliburton Johnson 4 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 2
NCAA bowl games 4-8 1-2 12, Joseph 3-3 1-2 7. Totals 47-84 18-23 127. Williams 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
in the spring, they had to help sion that comes with something
PACIFIC W L Pct GB
FRIDAY, JAN. 1 L.A. Lakers .....................................9 3 .750 — Three-point Goals: Indiana 13-39 (Brogdon 4-10, McDer- TOTALS 200 24-60 11-15 6-29 11 20 67 support their athletes’ offseason actually being on the line.”
PEACH BOWL — IN ATLANTA L.A. Clippers...................................7 4 .636 11/2 mott 3-5, J.Holiday 2-4, Oladipo 2-11, Sumner 1-2, training. For sliding sports, where The shuffling impacts athletes’
No. 9 Georgia 24, No. 8 Cincinnati 21 Turner 1-4, A.Holiday 0-2), Sacramento 15-32 (Hield Percentages: FG .400, FT .733. 3-Point Goals: 8-29, .276
Phoenix ..........................................7 4 .636 11/2 (Hurt 4-8, Roach 2-7, Steward 2-8, Brakefield 0-2,
CITRUS BOWL — IN ORLANDO x-Golden State...............................6 4 .600 2 6-11, Haliburton 3-6, Barnes 2-3, Fox 2-6, Robinson III
Goldwire 0-2, Moore 0-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team
speed and power are key, that preparedness but also affects
Sacramento....................................5 6 .455 31/2 1-3, Bagley III 0-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Indiana
No. 14 Northwestern 35, Auburn 19 37 (Sabonis 11), Sacramento 44 (Holmes 10). Assists: Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Baker 3, Hurt 2). meant athletes working out in Olympic qualifying. Several
Indiana 26 (Brogdon 9), Sacramento 29 (Fox 9). Total Turnovers: 11 (Goldwire 3, Roach 3, Hurt 2, Steward 2,
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF x-Late game
Fouls: Indiana 21, Sacramento 17. Brakefield). Steals: 6 (Goldwire 4, Hurt, Steward). basements or even pushing cars sports rely on world rankings and
SEMIFINAL GAME 1 MONDAY’S RESULTS Technical Fouls: Roach, 15:00 second outside. Officials with USA Bob- an accumulation of points earned
ROSE BOWL — IN ARLINGTON, TEX.
at Washington 128, Phoenix 107 VIRGINIA TECH MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS sled/Skeleton got creative. They at different events to determine
No. 1 Alabama 31, No. 4 Notre Dame 14
Memphis 101, at Cleveland 91 Aluma 35 7-15 3-4 1-7 1 1 17
SEMIFINAL GAME 2 Milwaukee 121, at Orlando 99 HO C KEY Mutts 30 4-5 0-3 0-5 3 3 9 typically use the summer months who makes the national team.
SUGAR BOWL — IN NEW ORLEANS Alleyne 26 2-7 2-2 0-2 2 2 7
No. 3 Ohio State 49, No. 2 Clemson 28
at Charlotte 109, New York 88
Bede 19 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 3 2
to recruit new athletes. Rather Fewer events could mean fewer
at Atlanta 112, Philadelphia 94
SATURDAY, JAN. 2 at Portland 112, Toronto 111 NHL Radford 33 7-12 4-7 4-12 5 3 18 than hosting in-person tryouts, opportunities to earn a spot in
Cattoor 24 2-4 0-0 0-1 3 1 5
GATOR BOWL — IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA. at Sacramento 127, Indiana 122 MONDAY’S RESULTS Cone 20 4-9 3-3 0-1 1 2 14
the organization staged a virtual Beijing.
Kentucky 23, No. 23 North Carolina State 21 New Orleans at Dallas, ppd. (virus) No games scheduled N'Guessan 11 1-1 0-0 0-3 0 1 2 combine, soliciting videos and “The hope is to be able to shift
OUTBACK BOWL — IN TAMPA TUESDAY’S RESULTS Maddox 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Mississippi 26, No. 11 Indiana 20
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
TOTALS 200 28-56 12-19 5-32 16 16 74
reaching out to potential compet- and push back events to later in
Utah 117, at Cleveland 87 No games scheduled
FIESTA BOWL — IN GLENDALE, ARIZ. at Brooklyn 122, Denver 116 Percentages: FG .500, FT .632. 3-Point Goals: 6-14, .429
itors. the season and still allow for a
No. 10 Iowa State 34, No. 25 Oregon 17 at Philadelphia 137, Miami 134 (OT) REGULAR SEASON BEGINS (Cone 3-5, Mutts 1-1, Alleyne 1-2, Cattoor 1-2, Bede 0-1, “We’ve always been working significant amount of competi-
ORANGE BOWL — IN MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. L.A. Lakers 117, at Houston 100 WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Maddox 0-1, Aluma 0-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Team
No. 5 Texas A&M 41, No. 13 North Carolina 27 San Antonio 112, at Oklahoma City 102 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:30 Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Bede 2, Alleyne,
through Plans A, B, C and D,” said tion to take place,” said Jeremy
MONDAY’S RESULT
Indiana at Golden State, Late Montreal at Toronto, 7 Aluma, Radford). Turnovers: 10 (Radford 3, Cone 2, Aron McGuire, chief executive of Forster, USSA’s director of snow-
Boston at Chicago, ppd. (virus) Chicago at Tampa Bay, 8 Mutts 2, Bede, Cattoor, N’Guessan). Steals: 3 (Aluma,
CFP CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Vancouver at Edmonton, 10 Cattoor, Cone). Technical Fouls: Radford, 15:00 second. USA Bobsled/Skeleton. “We al- boarding and freeskiing.
IN MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. WEDNESDAY’S GAMES St. Louis at Colorado, 10:30 A: 250 (10,052). ways had the sense that this sea- The U.S. luge athletes skipped
No. 1 Alabama 52, No. 3 Ohio State 34 Utah at Washington, ppd. (virus)
Dallas at Charlotte, 7 THURSDAY’S GAMES son was going to be impacted in the European events this past fall
Milwaukee at Detroit, 7 Washington at Buffalo, 7 Oklahoma State 75, some way, so we were putting but rejoined the World Cup cir-
Brooklyn at New York, 7:30 Boston at New Jersey, 7
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 8 N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 7 No. 6 Kansas 70 several plans together.” cuit this month in Germany. The
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Carolina at Detroit, 7:30 And while these athletes com- tour is competing without specta-
Memphis at Minnesota, 8 Kansas (10-3)
Atlanta at Phoenix, 9 Calgary at Winnipeg, 8 McCormack 10-18 4-4 24, Wilson 2-7 0-0 4, Agbaji 4-12
No. 1 Alabama 52, New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 10 Columbus at Nashville, 8 2-2 14, Braun 3-7 0-0 7, Garrett 6-12 0-0 12, Thompson pete in cold, wintry conditions, tors, using charter flights to travel
No. 3 Ohio State 24 Portland at Sacramento, 10 San Jose at Arizona, 9 0-3 2-2 2, Enaruna 2-2 0-0 4, Lightfoot 1-1 1-1 3, D.Harris summer is a key training time for to events and requiring weekly
Vancouver at Edmonton, 9 0-0 0-0 0, Grant-Foster 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-62 9-9 70.
Late Monday Orlando at Boston, ppd. (virus)
Anaheim at Vegas, 10
Oklahoma State (9-3) many of the snow sports. Ski and tests. Similarly, many freestyle
THURSDAY’S GAMES Moncrieffe 2-5 2-2 6, Anderson 5-6 3-3 14, Cunningham snowboard teams typically send skiers and snowboarders are in
OHIO STATE ............................. 7 10 7 0 — 24 Minnesota at Los Angeles, 10 6-12 3-4 18, Likekele 3-8 3-5 10, B.Williams 5-9 4-5 17,
Charlotte at Toronto, 7:30
ALABAMA ................................ 7 28 10 7 — 52
Miami at Philadelphia, 7:30
Dallas at Florida, ppd. (virus) Walker 3-11 1-1 8, Ka.Boone 1-3 0-0 2, Ke.Boone 0-1 0-0 100 or so people to the Southern Europe right now and have start-
0, Kouma 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-55 16-20 75.
FIRST QUARTER Houston at San Antonio, 8:30 FRIDAY’S GAMES Halftime: Oklahoma State 46-35. Three-point goals: Kan- Hemisphere — Chile, Argentina, ed competing, but they also are
Golden State at Denver, 10 Washington at Buffalo, 7 sas 5-21 (Agbaji 4-9, Braun 1-4, Thompson 0-1, Garrett
BAMA: N.Harris 1 run (Reichard kick), 8:07.
Chicago at Tampa Bay, 7 0-3, Wilson 0-4), Oklahoma State 9-21 (Cunningham 3-6,
New Zealand — to take advantage looking forward to the X Games
OSU: Teague 8 run (Seibert kick), 4:55. Indiana at Portland, 10
Dallas at Florida, ppd. (virus) B.Williams 3-7, Likekele 1-1, Anderson 1-2, Walker 1-4, of fresh snow. But USSA officials later this month in Aspen, Colo.,
SECOND QUARTER FRIDAY’S GAMES Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7 Ke.Boone 0-1). Rebounds: Kansas 30 (McCormack 12),
Washington at Detroit, 7 Oklahoma State 29 (Walker 10). Assists: Kansas 9
quickly realized traveling abroad which will be closed to the public
BAMA: D.Smith 5 pass from Mac.Jones (Reichard kick), Toronto at Ottawa, 7
14:53. Dallas at Milwaukee, 7:30 St. Louis at Colorado, 9 (Wilson, Garrett 3), Oklahoma State 15 (Likekele 6). Total wasn’t prudent and had to sort for the first time.
New York at Cleveland, 7:30 fouls: Kansas 16, Oklahoma State 14. A: 3,350 (13,611).
OSU: Teague 4 run (Seibert kick), 11:43.
Orlando at Boston, 7:30 SATURDAY’S GAMES out domestic options. They ended “These are some of the most
BAMA: N.Harris 26 pass from Mac.Jones (Reichard
kick), 9:00. Chicago at Oklahoma City, 8 Boston at New Jersey, 1 up at Timberline Lodge ski area at adaptable athletes in any sport —
OSU: FG Seibert 23, 5:21. Memphis at Minnesota, 8 San Jose at Arizona, 4 No. 7 Michigan 77, Mt. Hood in Oregon, the only how they compete, the way they
BAMA: D.Smith 5 pass from Mac.Jones (Reichard kick), Atlanta at Utah, 9 N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 7
3:19. Golden State at Phoenix, 9 Carolina at Detroit, 7 No. 9 Wisconsin 54 place in the country that offers compete, the creativity,” Forster
BAMA: D.Smith 42 pass from Mac.Jones (Reichard kick),
1:48.
L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 10 Toronto at Ottawa, 7 Wisconsin (10-3)
Ford 2-8 1-1 6, Potter 5-11 0-0 12, Reuvers 2-9 0-0 4,
year-round skiing. said. “This certainly is going to
New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10 Montreal at Edmonton, 7
THIRD QUARTER Columbus at Nashville, 8 Davison 1-8 0-1 2, Trice 7-13 2-2 20, Jon.Davis 0-6 0-0 0, “We were able to accomplish a put that to the test, but I’ve been
SATURDAY’S GAMES Minnesota at Los Angeles, 9 Wahl 1-4 2-2 5, Anderson 1-3 0-0 3, Jor.Davis 1-3 0-0 2,
lot of stuff. We were able to priori- so impressed by what I’ve seen
BAMA: FG Reichard 20, 7:47. Houston at San Antonio, 5 Crowl 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-65 5-6 54.
Vancouver at Calgary, 10
OSU: Wilson 20 pass from Fields (Seibert kick), 6:45.
Orlando at Brooklyn, 6 Anaheim at Vegas, 10
Michigan (11-0) tize off-snow conditioning, rehab- from them since this all started.”
BAMA: Bolden 5 pass from Mac.Jones (Reichard kick), Livers 5-11 0-0 13, Dickinson 5-10 2-2 12, Brooks 2-5 0-0
2:52. Charlotte at Toronto, 7:30 5, Smith 6-9 2-2 16, Wagner 7-10 0-0 15, Brown 3-6 0-0 7, bing,” said Taylor, who works with Taylor says USSA officials are
Detroit at Miami, 8 Johns 1-2 0-0 3, A.Davis 2-4 0-0 4, Faulds 0-2 0-0 0,
FOURTH QUARTER Philadelphia at Memphis, 8 Howard 0-1 0-0 0, Jackson 1-1 0-0 2, Nunez 0-0 0-0 0,
athletes competing in seven snow acutely aware that athletes might
BAMA: N.Harris 1 run (Reichard kick), 13:15. Indiana at Phoenix, 9 TENNI S Williams 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-62 4-4 77. sports. “It was still less than we’d feel especially isolated this season
Attendance: 14,926. Atlanta at Portland, 10 Halftime: Michigan 40-23. Three-point goals: Wisconsin
9-28 (Trice 4-7, Potter 2-5, Wahl 1-1, Anderson 1-2, Ford be able to achieve in a normal — living far from home without
Ohio State Alabama SUNDAY’S GAMES
First Downs ..................................... 19 33 ATP 1-4, Jon.Davis 0-1, Jor.Davis 0-2, Davison 0-3, Reuvers summer. But everyone had a com- the option of socializing as much
Cleveland at Washington, 2 0-3), Michigan 9-16 (Livers 3-5, Smith 2-3, Johns 1-1,
Rushes-Yards ........................... 29-147 38-157 DELRAY BEACH OPEN promised summer compared to with teammates and coaches.
New York at Boston, 1 Brooks 1-2, Wagner 1-2, Brown 1-3). Rebounds: Wiscon-
Passing .......................................... 194 464
Chicago at Dallas, 3 At Delray Beach Stadium & Tennis Center sin 28 (Potter, Wahl 6), Michigan 41 (Wagner 10). what we’d ideally do.” They have a sports psychologist
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 17-33-0 36-45-0
Philadelphia at Oklahoma City, 7 In Delray Beach, Fla. Assists: Wisconsin 8 (Anderson 3), Michigan 13 (Smith
Return Yards ...................................... 3 31
Punts-Avg. ................................. 5-42.8 2-38.0 Utah at Denver, 8
Purse: $349,530 6). Total fouls: Wisconsin 6, Michigan 9. A: 74 (12,707). US Speedskating hosted one available for virtual sessions and
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 0-0 1-1 New Orleans at Sacramento, 9 event for long-track skaters in have been organizing larger Zoom
Penalties-Yards ............................ 4-29 6-44 Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 10 SINGLES — SEMIFINALS
Time Of Possession .................... 22:34 37:26 Hubert Hurkacz (4), Poland, def. Christian Harrison,
Boston College 84, Miami 62 October, but the International meetings as well, including a re-
PASSING United States, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4; Sebastian Korda, United Miami (5-5) Skating Union scrapped its fall cent group discussion on “The
States, vs. Cameron Norrie, Britain, 6-3, 7-5. Cross 0-4 0-0 0, Brooks 4-7 6-6 14, Beverly 5-8 0-0 10,
Ohio State: Fields 17-33-0-194. Alabama: Mac.Jones Jazz 117, Cavaliers 87 Timberlake 5-8 2-4 12, Wong 3-9 0-0 6, Olaniyi 5-11 2-4 14, World Cup races and then US Weight of Gold,” the HBO docu-
36-45-0-464. DOUBLES — SEMIFINALS
UTAH .................................. 22 27 38 30 — 117 Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuador, and Ariel Behar, Uruguay, def.
Walker 2-4 2-4 6, Herenton 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 24-53 12-18 62. Speedskating canceled its nation- mentary that explores the mental
RUSHING Boston College (2-9)
CLEVELAND ....................... 18 18 23 28 — 87 Mackenzie McDonald and Tommy Paul, United States, Felder 3-8 2-2 10, Mitchell 4-7 1-3 12, Heath 9-19 2-2 25, al championships last month af- health challenges many Olympi-
Ohio State: Fields 6-67, Teague 15-65, Crowley 6-14, 6-1, 5-7, 10-1; Ryan Harrison and Christian Harrison, Kelly 10-16 0-1 27, Langford 2-7 1-2 6, Williams 0-2 0-0 0,
Sermon 1-2, (Team) 1-(minus 1). Alabama: N.Harris UTAH: Bogdanovic 6-10 4-4 20, O’Neale 2-5 0-0 5, Gobert United States, def. Andres Molteni, Argentina, and Hugo Karnik 2-4 0-0 4, Kenny 0-0 0-0 0, Vander Baan 0-0 0-0 0.
ter a coronavirus outbreak among ans face.
22-79, Bri.Robinson 10-69, Mac.Jones 4-11, (Team) 2-7 0-2 4, Conley 4-10 1-2 12, Mitchell 9-15 4-4 27, Nys, Monaco, 6-2, 6-2. Totals 30-63 6-10 84. athletes. Two North American- While some events require or
2-(minus 2). Azubuike 0-0 0-0 0, Brantley 0-1 0-0 0, Favors 1-2 0-0 2, Halftime: Boston College 44-34. Three-point goals:
Hughes 2-4 0-0 6, Niang 6-11 0-0 14, Oni 2-4 0-0 6, Miami 2-16 (Olaniyi 2-4, Beverly 0-1, Herenton 0-2, based bobsled and skeleton offer coronavirus testing, U.S.
RECEIVING Clarkson 8-14 0-0 21, Harrison 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 42-84
WTA Cross 0-4, Wong 0-5), Boston College 18-35 (Kelly 7-12, events moved overseas, and the Olympic organizers know many
Ohio State: Olave 8-69, Wilson 3-50, Smith-Njigba 2-20, 9-12 117. Heath 5-9, Mitchell 3-4, Felder 2-4, Langford 1-4,
Ruckert 1-36, J.Williams 1-14, Crowley 1-4, Teague 1-1. CLEVELAND: Nance Jr. 2-11 1-2 6, Osman 7-15 3-3 17, ABU DHABI OPEN Williams 0-2). Rebounds: Miami 34 (Timberlake 8), U.S. team opted to skip the four of the biggest risks for those com-
Alabama: D.Smith 12-215, Metchie 8-81, N.Harris 7-79, McGee 4-8 0-0 8, Dotson 5-11 0-2 11, Okoro 4-13 1-2 11, At Zayed Sports City International Tennis Centre Boston College 33 (Felder 8). Assists: Miami 8 (Wong 3),
Waddle 3-34, Bolden 3-16, J.Billingsley 2-27, X.Williams Stevens 4-8 1-2 9, Maker 3-5 3-3 9, Wade 2-6 0-0 6, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Boston College 16 (Heath, Kelly 4). Total fouls: Miami
European events at the end of last peting abroad can be found away
1-12. Bolden 0-1 0-0 0, Ferrell 4-12 0-0 10. Totals 35-90 9-14 Purse: $565,530 10, Boston College 15. year, preferring athletes mini- from the competition venue. Ath-
87. Surface: Hard-Outdoor
mize travel and time on the road. letes are urged to socialize in-
Three-point Goals: Utah 24-45 (Mitchell 5-7, Clarkson SINGLES — SEMIFINALS
NCAA FOOTBALL AP TOP 25 5-9, Bogdanovic 4-6, Conley 3-6, Hughes 2-4, Niang 2-4, Aryna Sabalenka (4), Belarus, def. (9) Maria Sakkari,
Oklahoma 82, The figure skating calendar doors only with roommates and
The top 25 teams in the Associated Press college Oni 2-4, O’Neale 1-4), Cleveland 8-31 (Ferrell 2-5, Wade Greece, 6-3, 6-2; Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, def. Texas Christian 46 also was shuffled, and top U.S. to maintain a safe distance from
football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2-5, Okoro 2-6, Dotson 1-3, Nance Jr. 1-5, Osman 0-6). Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, 7-6 (10-8), 6-4.
records through Monday, total points based on 25 points Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Utah 48 (Gobert 10), TCU (9-5) skaters have competed just once teammates and coaches outdoors.
Cleveland 40 (McGee 9). Assists: Utah 26 (Conley 5), DOUBLES — SEMIFINALS Easley 2-5 0-2 5, Samuel 4-7 0-4 8, Fuller 0-5 2-2 2, Miles
for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place
Cleveland 23 (Osman 6). Total Fouls: Utah 16, Cleveland Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara (5), Japan, def. Sofia 3-7 1-3 8, Nembhard 4-14 1-2 10, LeDee 3-5 1-2 7, Todd — at the Skate America event in Taylor says USSA has conducted
vote, and previous ranking:
13. A: 1,944 (19,432) Kenin/Ajla Tomljanovic 6-4, 6-1; Hayley Carter, United 0-2 0-0 0, O’Bannon 1-4 0-0 2, Pearson 1-2 0-0 3, Lampkin October. The national champion- 5,000 coronavirus tests thus far
RECORD PTS PVS States, and Luisa Stefani (8), Brazil, def. Laura Siege- 0-0 1-2 1, Frank 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 18-52 6-17 46.
1. Alabama (61) 13-0 1525 1 mund, Germany, and Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 7-5, 1-6, Oklahoma (7-4) ships get underway this week and and returned fewer than 25 posi-
2. Ohio State 7-1 1463 3 10-8. Kuath 3-8 2-2 9, Harkless 2-6 0-0 6, Harmon 9-16 0-0 22, were relocated from San Jose to tive cases. The vast majority, he
3. Clemson 10-2 1378 2 Nets 122, Nuggets 116 Reaves 4-9 2-2 11, Williams 4-8 2-2 10, Gibson 4-10 0-0
4. Texas A&M 9-1 1324 5 11, Iwuakor 4-5 0-0 8, Phipps 1-3 0-0 3, Issanza 0-1 0-0 0, Las Vegas. The event will take said, stemmed from home situa-
5. Notre Dame 10-2 1279 4 DENVER .............................. 35 35 20 26 — 116 Garang 0-1 0-0 0, Seacat 0-0 0-0 0, Streller 0-0 0-0 0,
6. Oklahoma 9-2 1243 8 BROOKLYN ......................... 27 27 36 32 — 122 TRA NSA C TI O NS Casey 1-2 0-0 2, O’Garro 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-69 6-6 82. place in a bubble environment tions, not from athletes compet-
7. Georgia 8-2 1144 11 Halftime: Oklahoma 34-22. Three-point goals: TCU 4-19 with no spectators. The world ing on the road.
8. Cincinnati 9-1 1074 6 DENVER: Bol 2-3 0-0 5, Millsap 3-3 2-2 10, Jokic 8-17 6-6 (Miles 1-2, Pearson 1-2, Easley 1-4, Nembhard 1-4,
9. Iowa State 9-3 1035 12 23, Barton 8-14 0-0 22, Murray 9-20 0-2 20, Dozier 2-9 MLB Fuller 0-2, Todd 0-2, O’Bannon 0-3), Oklahoma 12-27 championships are still slated for Mental conditioning has been a
10. Northwestern 7-2 893 15 0-1 4, Hartenstein 1-3 1-3 3, Ja.Green 3-7 1-2 9, (Harmon 4-7, Gibson 3-6, Harkless 2-4, Kuath 1-2,
11. Brigham Young 11-1 862 13 Campazzo 2-5 0-0 6, Hampton 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 6-7 0-0 Toronto Blue Jays: Agreed to terms with RHP A.J. Cole
Phipps 1-3, Reaves 1-3, Garang 0-1, Williams 0-1).
March in Stockholm. key component of training for
14. Totals 44-88 10-16 116. to a minor league contract.
12. Indiana 6-2 773 7 Rebounds: TCU 33 (Miles 9), Oklahoma 38 (Kuath 7). As infection numbers grow, several sports, especially in the
13. Florida 8-4 764 10 BROOKLYN: Durant 12-18 6-7 34, Je.Green 3-5 0-0 8, NBA Assists: TCU 7 (Nembhard, Todd 2), Oklahoma 20
14. Coastal Carolina 11-1 725 9 Allen 3-6 0-1 6, Brown 8-11 0-0 16, J.Harris 6-9 0-0 15, (Reaves 6). Total fouls: TCU 9, Oklahoma 16. A: 1,921 most winter sports that have re- absence of live competition. Plush
NBA: Fined F Markieff Morris from the LA Lakers and C (11,562).
15. Louisiana Lafayette 10-1 664 16 Luwawu-Cabarrot 3-6 2-4 11, Prince 3-6 0-0 7, LeVert DeMarcus Cousins from Houston for their roles in an sumed their competitive sched- said American curlers have
16. Iowa 6-2 581 17 8-15 2-3 20, Shamet 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 48-79 10-15 122. altercation on Jan. 10. ules have done so cautiously. leaned on a variety of exercises
17. Liberty 10-1 576 23
18. North Carolina 8-4 532 14 Three-point Goals: Denver 18-37 (Barton 6-8, Millsap
2-2, Morris 2-3, Campazzo 2-5, Ja.Green 2-5, Murray 2-5,
NFL NCAA women Sports officials have created strict and psychology tools to work on
19. Texas 7-3 485 20
20. Oklahoma State 8-3 417 26 Bol 1-2, Jokic 1-4, Dozier 0-3), Brooklyn 16-32 (Durant Baltimore Ravens: Signed C Greg Mancz and OT Jordan SOUTH protocols that provide guidance mental sharpness and visualiza-
21. Southern California 5-1 306 21 4-7, J.Harris 3-5, Luwawu-Cabarrot 3-5, Je.Green 2-3, Mills to the practice squad. Designate CB Davontae
LeVert 2-5, Prince 1-4, Brown 0-2). Fouled Out: None. Harris to return from injured reserve. Alabama State 69, Mississippi Valley State 45 for American athletes both in and tion. One hope is that the adversi-
22. Miami 8-3 284 18 Alcorn State 61, Grambling State 58
23. Ball State 7-1 183 31 Rebounds: Denver 32 (Jokic 8), Brooklyn 41 (Durant 9). Buffalo Bills: Placed RB Zack Moss on injured reserve.
24. San Jose State 7-1 80 19 Assists: Denver 28 (Jokic 11), Brooklyn 31 (Durant 13). Promoted OL Jordan Devey to the active roster. Signed out of competition, and many ty and flexibility prompted by the
25. Buffalo 6-1 51 28 Total Fouls: Denver 18, Brooklyn 18. RB Devonta Freeman to the practice squad. sports — such as the World Cup pandemic yield dividends when
Cleveland Browns: Placed G Michael Dunn and CB Robert
Others receiving votes: Appalachian State 41, Tulsa 35, Jackson on injured reserve. Placed CB A.J. Green on the NCAA WOMEN’S TOP 25 biathlon races in Europe — are the athletes find themselves un-
Army 24, Oregon 21, Texas Tech 21, Memphis 12, Texas practice squad/injured reserve list. Signed CB Donovan
Christian 12, Alabama Birmingham 10, Washington 10, Olumba.
COACHES POLL being contested with no fans in der the bright Olympic lights.
North Carolina State 7, Nevada 7, Wisconsin 3, West 76ers 137, Heat 134 (OT) Detroit Lions: Claimed LB Shaun Dion Hamilton from The USA Today Sports top 25 women’s basketball poll, attendance. “No one wants to go through
Virginia 1, Marshall 1. Washington waivers. with first-place votes received, team’s records through
MIAMI ............................ 25 38 32 25 14 — 134
Green Bay Packers: Signed T Jared Veldheer from the Monday, total points based on 25 for first place through Taylor estimates that 80 per- this,” Plush said, “but I think
PHILADELPHIA .............. 28 27 41 24 17 — 137
Indianapolis practice squad. Placed G Simon Stepaniak one point for 25th and ranking in last week’s poll: cent of the U.S. ski and snowboard they’ll be better for having gone
MIAMI: Olynyk 6-12 0-0 15, Robinson 8-18 4-5 26, on injured reserve.
NCAA FOOTBALL TOP 25 Achiuwa 7-10 3-4 17, Herro 12-26 7-8 34, Vincent 9-20 Indianapolis Colts: Announced T Anthony Castonzo RECORD PTS PVS teams have been able to compete through it. Maybe the things they
retired after ten seasons. Signed OT Jake Benzinger, CB 1. Stanford (31) 10-0 799 1
COACHES POLL 2-3 24, Iguodala 3-10 0-0 7, Silva 0-1 3-4 3, Strus 3-7 0-0
Anthony Chesley and OT Elijah Nkansah to reserve/fu- 2. Louisville (1) 10-0 761 2 at least once thus far. thought stressed them out before
8. Totals 48-104 19-24 134.
The top 25 coaches poll, with first-place votes in tures contracts for the 2021 season. 3. North Carolina State 10-0 731 3 “From that side, we feel good,” don’t feel as impactful down the
parentheses, final records, total points based on 25 PHILADELPHIA: Green 10-25 0-0 29, Scott 6-16 0-0 16, Kansas City Chiefs: Signed QB Anthony Gordon to a 4. South Carolina 8-1 697 4
points for first place through one point for 25th, and Embiid 16-23 13-13 45, Maxey 7-18 1-3 16, Simmons 2-2 reserve/futures contract for the 2021 season. 5. Connecticut 7-0 658 5 he said. “It’s all relative. We’d love road.”
1-2 5, Howard 4-4 2-4 10, Joe 4-10 1-1 13, Mathias 1-4 Los Angeles Rams: Release LB Jachai Polite from the 6. Baylor 8-1 628 6
previous ranking:
0-2 3. Totals 50-102 18-25 137. practice squad. 7. Texas A&M (1) 12-0 606 7 there to be more competitions. [email protected]
RECORD PTS PVS Three-point Goals: Miami 19-56 (Robinson 6-14, Vincent Miami Dolphins: Signed RB Jordan Scarlett to a reserve/ 8. UCLA 7-2 563 9
1. Alabama (60) 13-0 1500 1 4-12, Herro 3-9, Olynyk 3-9, Strus 2-6, Iguodala 1-6), futures contract for the 2021 season. 9. Maryland 9-1 523 12
2. Ohio State 7-1 1432 3 Philadelphia 19-55 (Green 9-21, Joe 4-10, Scott 4-12, New York Giants: Signed LB Cale Garrett to a reserve/fu- 10. Oregon 9-2 488 11
3. Clemson 10-2 1349 2 Mathias 1-3, Maxey 1-6, Embiid 0-3). Fouled Out: Miami tures contract for the 2021 season. 11. Kentucky 9-3 448 8
4. Texas A&M 9-1 1317 5 1 (Silva), Philadelphia 2 (Maxey, Simmons). Rebounds: Pittsburgh Steelers: Waived RB Trey Edmunds from 12. Michigan 9-0 446 14
5. Notre Dame 10-2 1247 4 Miami 46 (Achiuwa 13), Philadelphia 52 (Embiid 16). injured reserve. 13. Arizona 8-2 415 10
6. Oklahoma 9-2 12 7 Assists: Miami 27 (Iguodala 7), Philadelphia 32 (Sim- Seattle Seahawks: Signed GM John Schneider on a 14. Mississippi State 8-2 397 15
7. Georgia 8-2 1219 9 mons 12). Total Fouls: Miami 21, Philadelphia 21. contract extension through the 2027 draft. 15. Ohio State 6-0 349 16
8. Cincinnati 9-1 1031 6 Washington Football Team: Signed DE Daniel Wise, DB 16. Arkansas 10-4 289 13
9. Iowa State 9-3 997 12 DeMarkus Acy and DB Torry McTyer to reserve/futures 17. South Florida 9-1 254 19
10. Northwestern 7-2 919 13 contracts for the 2021 season. 18. Indiana 7-3 240 18
11. Brigham Young 11-1 796 15 Lakers 117, Rockets 100 19. Gonzaga 10-2 197 21
12. Florida 8-4 766 10 NHL 20. Texas 8-2 170 17
13. Indiana 6-2 762 8 L.A. LAKERS ....................... 35 36 26 20 — 117 Buffalo Sabres: Assigned Fs Andrew Oglevie and Arttu 21. Syracuse 5-1 154 20
14. Coastal Carolina 11-1 649 11 HOUSTON ........................... 14 34 23 29 — 100 Ruotsalainen, Ds Jacob Bryson and Mattias Samuelson 22. DePaul 6-3 136 22
15. Iowa 6-2 606 16 to Rocheseter (AHL). 23. Northwestern 6-2 116 23
16. Louisiana Lafayette 10-1 596 17 L.A. LAKERS: Davis 7-8 4-4 19, James 10-20 2-4 26, Carolina Hurricanes: Claimed G Anton Forsberg from 24. Tennessee 8-1 63 32
17. North Carolina 8-4 538 14 Gasol 2-6 0-0 5, Caldwell-Pope 5-9 0-0 14, Schroder 6-9 waivers. Waived G Alex Nedeljkovic. Traded D Maxime 25. Missouri State 4-2 61 25
18. Liberty 10-1 476 23 0-0 14, Kuzma 4-6 2-3 11, McKinnie 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 2-4 Lajoie to Ottawa for C Clark Bishop.
19. Oklahoma State 8-3 456 21 2-2 7, Harrell 4-8 6-8 14, Caruso 0-4 0-0 0, Cook 1-2 1-2 3, Dropped out: No. 24 Michigan State (8-2).
Detroit Red Wings: Assigned Fs Riley Barber, Kyle Others receiving votes: South Dakota State (9-2) 49,
20. Texas 7-3 402 24 Horton-Tucker 1-8 2-4 4. Totals 42-84 19-27 117. Criscuolo, Turner Taro Hirose, Chase Pearson, Evgeny
21. Southern California 5-1 400 19 Georgia (10-1) 41, Washington State (7-1) 40, Iowa
HOUSTON: Nwaba 0-0 0-0 0, Tucker 0-1 0-0 0, Wood 8-18 Svechnikov and Dominic Turgeon, Ds Joe Hicketts, Brian (8-2) 25, Florida State (4-1) 15, Michigan State (8-2) 14,
22. Miami 8-3 275 18 Lashoff and Dylan McIlrath and G Kaden Fulcher to
0-0 18, Harden 5-16 5-5 16, Wall 4-11 2-3 10, Brown 1-7 IUPUI (8-1) 7, West Virginia (8-2) 6, Clemson (8-4) 5,
23. Ball State 7-1 157 NR Grand Rapids (AHL).
0-0 2, Caboclo 1-1 1-2 3, Martin Jr. 0-2 0-0 0, Tate 4-9 1-1 Dayton (5-1) 4, Florida Gulf Coast (7-2) 2, Wake Forest
24. San Jose State 7-1 100 20 Montreal Canadians: Assigned RW Jordan Weal, LWs
9, Cousins 5-9 1-1 13, Gordon 5-10 0-0 13, Jones 1-4 2-4 (6-3) 1, Delaware (7-1) 1, Arizona State (7-3) 1.
25. Buffalo 6-1 51 NR Lukas Vejdemo and Joel Teasdale, Gs Cayden Primeau,
5, McLemore 4-9 0-0 11. Totals 38-97 12-16 100.
Dropped out: No. 22 North Carolina State (8-4) Michael McNiven and Vasili Demchenko, Ds Xavier
Three-point Goals: L.A. Lakers 14-32 (Caldwell-Pope 4-5, Ouellet, Gustav Olofsson and Otto Leskinen, LWs Jake
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin (4-3) 38, Oregon (4-3) James 4-9, Schroder 2-2, Kuzma 1-2, Morris 1-2, Gasol
36, North Carolina State (8-4) 35, Army (9-3) 34, Tulsa Lucchini and Brandon Baddock, Cs Laurent Dauphin and
1-4, Caruso 0-2, Horton-Tucker 0-4), Houston 12-40 Joseph Blandisi and RW Alex Belzile to Laval (AHL). HI G H S CH OOLS
(6-3) 30, Appalachian State (9-3) 30, Nevada (7-2) 17, (McLemore 3-6, Gordon 3-8, Cousins 2-4, Wood 2-5,
Auburn (6-5) 17, Memphis (8-3) 14, Utah (3-2) 11, Designated RWs Corey Perry and Michael Frolik, LW
Jones 1-3, Harden 1-6, Tate 0-2, Brown 0-3). Fouled Out: Ryan Poehling, D Cale Fleury and G Charlie Lindgren for
Mississippi (5-5) 10, West Virginia (6-4) 7, Southern None. Rebounds: L.A. Lakers 55 (Kuzma 11), Houston 42 JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Methodist (7-3) 7, Missouri (5-5) 6, Colorado (4-2) 6, assignment taxi squad. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
(Cousins 10). Assists: L.A. Lakers 26 (Gasol, James 5), New Jersey Devils: Claimed G Eric Comrie from waivers.
Boise State (5-2) 6, Alabama Birmingham (6-3) 4, Houston 23 (Harden 6). Total Fouls: L.A. Lakers 18, VIRGINIA A Swiss Army soldier in Wengen closes the area normally reserved
Washington (3-1) 2, Marshall (7-3) 2, Kentucky (5-6) 1. Signed C Cam Darcy to minor league contract at
Houston 19. A: 3,221 (18,500) Binghamton (AHL). Thomas Jefferson 54, Lewis 48 for spectators before a World Cup skiing event early this month.

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Ex-Olympic swimmer
among mob at Capitol
amid a mob of Trump support-
ers and law enforcement officers
Keller was identified pushing against each other.
by his Team USA jacket The jacket Keller was appar-
ently wearing at the Capitol —
in footage of rampage with “USA” printed across the
back and an Olympic patch on
the front — does not appear to
BY R ICK M AESE be one from his Olympic days
but rather one worn by Team
Klete Keller, a five-time Olym- USA members who competed at
pic medalist and former team- the 2018 Winter Games in
mate of Michael Phelps, was PyeongChang, South Korea.
among the throng of President “We were not aware of this
Trump supporters who stormed and cannot confirm its accura-
the U.S. Capitol last week, ac- cy,” a spokeswoman for USA
cording to video footage posted Swimming said in an email
online. Monday. “We respect private
Keller, a decorated swimmer individuals’ and groups’ rights
who represented the United to peacefully protest but in no
States at the Summer Olympics way condone the actions taken
in 2000, 2004 and 2008, is seen by those at the Capitol last
towering over other Trump sup- week.”
porters inside the U.S. Capitol Keller has deleted his social
Rotunda wearing a Team USA media accounts, where he re-
jacket. The video was taken by portedly espoused pro-Trump
Townhall reporter Julio Rosas, views.
and Keller’s participation was He had apparently been
first reported Monday by Swim- working for commercial real
Swam, a popular swimming estate firm Hoff & Leigh in
website. Colorado Springs, but his name
Keller, 38, has made no public and biography were removed
WILL NEWTON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
comments about his presence at from the company’s website late
the Capitol. He did not return Monday. The company said in a Bradley Beal, above, missed a game because of contact tracing. Now Rui Hachimura and Moe Wagner are in the NBA’s virus protocols.
phone messages or emails seek- statement Tuesday that Keller
ing comment Monday, and his had resigned from his position.
telephone was no longer accept-
ing messages Tuesday.
Since the video surfaced,
Keller was a top American
swimmer for nearly a decade. He
anchored the U.S. 4x200-meter
Wizards’ game with Jazz postponed by virus issues
many people have alerted the freestyle relay at the 2004
FBI and law enforcement on Games in Athens, where he WIZARDS FROM D1 have not tested positive — which WIZ ARD S ’ N E X T T HREE ton; and the day after his team
social media to Keller’s apparent memorably beat Australian Ian would result in immediate isola- was in Washington, a Heat player
participation in the riot, which Thorpe to the wall and won gold NBA’s safety and protocol rules. tion for an extended period — at Detroit Pistons returned an inconclusive test and
resulted in five deaths, includ- for Phelps and his American . . . We canceled practice just to be Brooks mentioned the several contact tracing hobbled Miami.
ing that of a U.S. Capitol Police teammates. Keller helped the on the side of safety with every- reasons that players could be Friday 7 NBCSW+ When the Wizards canceled
officer. U.S. team defend that Olympic thing.” placed in the league’s protocols. practice Tuesday morning, the
Standing 6-foot-6 and wear- title four years later in Beijing, Brooks learned Tuesday morn- Inconclusive test results, expo- vs. Cleveland Cavaliers NBA had already postponed two
ing a familiar Olympic jacket, and he also won two Olympic ing that Hachimura and Wagner sure to an outside party who has Sunday 2 NBCSW
games this week — one in Dallas
Keller was easy to identify for bronze medals and a silver dur- had been placed in the league’s tested positive and contact trac- on Monday between the Maver-
many swimmers, coaches and ing his decorated racing career. coronavirus protocols. Danny ing are reasons players around vs. Cleveland Cavaliers icks and the New Orleans Peli-
officials who had competed with He trained and competed un- Medina, who heads Monumental the league have been ruled ineli- cans, and another in Chicago on
and against him over the years, der some of the sport’s most Basketball’s athlete care and per- gible to play. Monday 2 NBCSW Tuesday between the Bulls and
two of whom told The Washing- successful coaches, including formance department, made the Star guard Bradley Beal missed Celtics.
ton Post they recognized the Dave Salo at USC and later Bob decision to cancel practice. Washington’s loss to the Miami Radio: WFED (1500 AM) Shortly after Brooks spoke, the
maskless Keller in the footage. Bowman and Jon Urbanchek at As of Tuesday, the Wizards had Heat on Saturday after being league canceled a third Celtics
In the video, he can be seen in Michigan. not shut down their practice facil- pulled off the court an hour be- guidelines, but the concerns sur- game in a row, this one Wednes-
the Rotunda, at one point locked [email protected] ity; some teams — most recently fore tip-off because of contact rounding the Wizards are not day against the Orlando Magic.
the Dallas Mavericks — have done tracing, but he returned for Mon- surprising. Sunday’s game was called off be-
so in the wake of multiple positive day’s win over Phoenix. When In the past eight days, Kevin cause of contact tracing issues
tests. Beal entered the health and safety Durant entered quarantine one within Miami’s organization, and
NBA ROUNDUP “As a league, as a team, as a protocols Saturday, he was the day after Washington played at the following two were postponed
coach, we always try to plan out as only player ruled ineligible to Brooklyn; the 76ers had a positive because Boston is short on play-

League institutes tighter much as we can, but right now it’s

day-to-day,” Brooks said.
Asked if the team’s “day-to-
play, unlike in Hachimura and
Wagner’s case Tuesday.
Beal was the team’s first brush
case the day after the Wizards
played in Philadelphia; the Celt-
ics had a positive case the day
ers. Celtics guard Jayson Tatum
also tested positive over the week-
end.

protocols for coronavirus day” status means the two players with the league’s coronavirus after the Wizards played in Bos- [email protected]

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AND STAFF REPORTS
players to wear masks on the
bench before they checked into
games and to wear proximity sen-
It’s still far too early to rush to judgment on this team
Faced with a rise in positive sors that track their contacts in the
coronavirus tests among players case of a positive test. Despite The torrent of bad
that has led to five postponed those changes, the NBA has post- On the news that flooded
games since Sunday, the NBA in- poned five games this week, in- NBA the Washington
stituted significantly stricter cluding three involving the Celt- BEN Wizards over the
health and safety protocols as it ics, because teams were unable to GOLLIVER past week was
seeks to continue playing through reach a minimum benchmark of making it harder
the pandemic. eight active players. and harder to picture kernels of
In the latest round of measures, The new protocols would sim- hope.
which were discussed with the plify the NBA’s investigations of Washington’s porous defense
National Basketball Players Asso- players who are caught on camera has conceded 121.3 points per
ciation this week, the NBA is in- in public settings. Houston Rock- game; that’s the most by any team
structing players to restrict all ets star James Harden was fined since the 1990-91 Denver
nonessential activities during $50,000 in December for appear- Nuggets. Russell Westbrook shot
homestands and to remain in ing at a social gathering without just 37.8 percent from the field
their hotels while on road trips. wearing a mask. The NBA is also while averaging 5.3 turnovers per
Players will be expected to avoid investigating a video of Brooklyn game before a bothersome quad
public settings other than playing Nets star Kyrie Irving attending a sidelined him for a week. And the
games and attending practices, large indoor gathering without a Wizards already have lost starting
and they will no longer be allowed mask that surfaced Monday. Ir- center Thomas Bryant to a
to eat at approved restaurants or ving has not appeared in the Nets’ season-ending ACL injury.
host personal guests at their hotel past four games. Meanwhile, Bradley Beal’s
rooms, as they had been under the After a perfect health track rec- league-leading scoring exploits
league’s initial health protocols. ord in last year’s bubble, numer- are going to waste, prompting
The new rules require players to ous players have been isolated or NBA Twitter to launch into its
wear masks on the bench and in quarantined recently because of 3,876th round of trade rumors
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the locker room, while coaches positive tests or recent exposure, after his career-high 60 points
and other team staffers must wear including Nets star Kevin Durant, were squandered in a loss to Wizards forward Davis Bertans said Monday’s win over Phoenix “definitely boosted the morale.”
their masks “at all times during Tatum, Beal, Denver Nuggets for- Philadelphia. Beal even quipped
games.” Philadelphia 76ers Coach ward Michael Porter Jr. and at that the Wizards, who entered play-in round for the ninth and Brooks lamented the limited their ability to execute when
Doc Rivers was fined $10,000 for least four members of the Dallas Tuesday’s action a half-game out 10th seeds in each conference practice time amid the condensed Westbrook is out, as they did
repeatedly lowering his mask dur- Mavericks. The Wizards were of the Eastern Conference means the Wizards will have 72-game schedule, and it might Monday. Westbrook, the 2017
ing games this month. forced to cancel practice Tuesday basement, “can’t guard a parked something to play for in the take another three weeks, or even MVP, remains a triple-double
The NBA is also seeking to limit after two players were placed in car” after a loss to Boston. coming months despite their longer, for the standings to start machine, but his absences
contact between opposing players the health protocol, and their But Washington’s surprising early health woes. There are shaking out. shouldn’t be viewed as
in an attempt to reduce spread game Wednesday against the Utah 128-107 win over the Phoenix plenty of other bad teams in the But staying alive isn’t the same dealbreakers. Houston was 8-7
from team to team. Players from Jazz was postponed. Suns on Monday was a reminder East’s lottery mix, and most of thing as building momentum, without him last season, and the
opposing teams will be prohibited [email protected] that this season, of all seasons, them lack a star of Beal’s caliber. and the Wizards still have plenty Oklahoma City Thunder went 5-4
from embracing and making requires maximum patience. The Taking the long view is of work to do. They have to fix without him in 2018-19. Every
close-contact encounters before Embiid powers Philadelphia Suns entered with the West’s especially appropriate in a season their atrocious defense. Brooks’s night that Westbrook is out is an
and after games. Washington Wiz- Joel Embiid had 45 points and second-best record but managed that has seen stars miss extended rotation is filled with minus opportunity for Hachimura, Raul
ards star Bradley Beal was forced 16 rebounds, Dakota Mathias’s only 15 points in the first quarter time because of positive defenders who lack physicality, Neto, Deni Avdija and Garrison
to quarantine this week after em- only basket of the game was a against the Wizards, who were coronavirus tests and contact experience or both, and Mathews to be more involved in
bracing Boston Celtics star Jayson go-ahead three-pointer with 26 without Bryant and Westbrook. tracing. Beal was held out of a loss Washington must develop better the offense. Westbrook’s DNPs
Tatum, who later tested positive, seconds left, and the 76ers beat the Beal continued his effortless to the Miami Heat on Saturday discipline and togetherness. also give Beal, who is a far more
after a game. visiting Miami Heat, 137-134, in scoring surge, finishing with 34 amid contact tracing, but he said Robin Lopez steps in for Bryant at efficient offensive threat than his
Pregame team meetings in the overtime on Tuesday night. points and nine assists to lead six after he returned Monday that he center, which should provide new backcourt partner, a chance
locker room will be limited to 10 Danny Green matched the Wizards in double figures. At a has continued to test negative. added defensive stability to open to enjoy as many touches and
minutes, and masks are required 76ers’ record with nine three- moment when the shorthanded “You just have to stay positive,” games, but Brooks will be forced shots as he can handle.
for all attendees. All other team pointers and had 29 points. Tyler Wizards had plenty of reasons to he said when asked about the to deploy small-ball second units Make no mistake: If this season
meetings must be held in a socially Herro scored 34 points for Miami. crack, they turned in what Coach impact of the coronavirus that will struggle to defend the ends with another forgettable
distanced manner. l NETS 122, NUGGETS 116: Scott Brooks called “our best and protocols. “It can get annoying. paint and rebound. lottery trip, there could be major
During flights between mar- In New York, Durant had 34 most complete game of the We’re trying to keep the game For Washington to move up the consequences, given Beal’s
kets, teams must use a new seating points, 13 assists and nine re- season.” safe. It’s kind of overwhelming at standings, Westbrook must play desirability as a trade target and
chart procedure “so that players bounds as Brooklyn rallied from Davis Bertans, who erupted times. I was a little [angry about] better as he gets used to his new Brooks’s lame-duck contract
whose assigned seats are closest to 18 down to beat Denver. with six three-pointers against not playing last game.” teammates. The nine-time all- status. But rushing to judgment
each other on the bench for games l LAKERS 117, ROCKETS the Suns after a slow start to the The Wizards canceled practice star’s most productive stretches on either front would do more
are also closest to each other on 100: LeBron James scored 26 season, said the unexpected win Tuesday after Rui Hachimura and for the Houston Rockets last harm than good with so much
the team plane.” points, Anthony Davis added 19 “definitely boosted the morale.” It Moritz Wagner entered the NBA’s season came when he played in basketball left to play and so
These rules would go into effect points and 10 rebounds, and Los should also help clarify the health and safety protocols, then center-less lineups, and Bryant’s many health-related hurdles left
for two weeks, at minimum, as the Angeles won in Houston. Wizards’ lot in life after a the league announced injury could create opportunities for the NBA to climb.
NBA tries to make it through Janu- l SPURS 112, THUNDER 102: frustrating start: Beal’s presence Wednesday’s game against the to surround Westbrook with “Tonight was the first time we
ary, which has seen coronavirus Lonnie Walker IV scored 24 points gives them a chance to be Utah Jazz had been postponed. unconventional looks that create guarded the right way, with
case counts and deaths reach new and San Antonio committed only competitive most nights, Bertans Given the night-to-night better attacking opportunities intensity, focus and some IQ,”
highs nationally. The NBA said four turnovers to finish a five- hasn’t yet hit his stride, and there unpredictability tied to the virus and driving lanes. If Westbrook Beal said Monday, choosing to
this weekend it had no plans to game trip with four wins. are enough complementary protocols, which have led to five continues to take more than half focus on short-term improvement
pause its season, which began l JAZZ 117, CAVALIERS 87: scoring threats to take advantage postponed games since Sunday, of his shot attempts from outside rather than longer-term
Dec. 22, because of positive tests. Donovan Mitchell had 27 points, when a superior opponent comes all 30 teams should feel as though 16 feet, Washington’s offense will questions. “Maybe we can move
In recent weeks, the NBA ad- and Utah won in Cleveland. out flat. they are still in the playoff mix never reach its full potential. up from the parked cars now.”
justed its protocols to require — Associated Press What’s more, the addition of a after nearly three weeks of action. The Wizards must also trust [email protected]

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE REAL PROPERTY 4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2 4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY Washington, DC 20015 Washington, DC 20015
3341 CHESTER GROVE RD., UNIT B 5809 GABRIEL DUVALL CT.
7205 Donnell Place, Unit A2 202-223-7900 202-223-7900
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20774 GLENN DALE, MD 20769 District Heights, Maryland 20747
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Rosevelt Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Sade Aina
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
Elzie, Jr. dated August 13, 2013 and recorded in Liber 35367, folio 250 a/k/a Sade Soyemi and Biodun E. Aina dated June 6, 2008 and recorded in
LOCATED IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND OF REAL PROPERTY OF REAL PROPERTY
among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default having Liber 29794, folio 226 among the Land Records of Prince George's County,
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred on 9420 2nd Street 8507 Main Street
auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main St., will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Holly Hill Condominium, by the Maryland Contract Lien Act, Laurel, MD 20723 Ellicott City, MD 21043
Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located
on Main St.), on Annotated Code of Maryland, Real Property Section 14-201 et ACCOUNT ID NO. 06-424074
JANUARY 19, 2021 AT 11:01 AM
seq., for enforcement of condominium liens and as set forth in ACCOUNT ID NO. 02-211009
JANUARY 19, 2021 AT 11:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings
the Declaration and Bylaws of Holly Hill Condominium, whereby Under a power of sale contained in a certain Purchase Money Under a power of sale contained in a certain Second Deed of
and improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
described as Unit B in building 7, in the second Addition to Westphalia improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more Holly Hill Condominium has caused liens to be filed among Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement Trust, Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement from Troy
Woods, Condominium and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust. Tax ID #06-0627216.
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #14-3628112.
the Land Records of Prince George's County, Maryland, and from Troy M. Samuels, as grantor, to Jeffrey Levin and Joel S. M. Samuels, as grantor, to Jeffrey Levin and Joel S. Aronson, as
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of recorded in Book 41190, Page 368 and Book 41190, Page Aronson, as trustees, dated June 7, 2017 and recorded on June trustees, dated November 4, 2020 and recorded on June 29,
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. 371; the undersigned, for the purpose of foreclosure and at the 29, 2017 in Book 17672 at Page 420 among the Land Records 2016 in Book 16950 at Page 216 among the Land Records of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $130,000 in the form of certified check, of Howard County, Maryland, with an original principal balance
request of the party secured thereby, will offer for sale at public Howard County, Maryland, with an original principal balance of
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within auction pursuant to CASE NO.CAEF19-35208 in the front of the of $340,500.00, default having occurred under the terms $49,000.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof,
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY LOCATED thereof, and pursuant to a Deed of Appointment of Substitute and pursuant to a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds AT 14735 MAIN STREET, UPPER MARLBORO, MARYLAND Trustees dated November 3, 2020 and recorded on November 5, dated November 3, 2020 and recorded on November 13, 2020
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
20772 on 2020 in Book 19891 at Page 377 among the Land Records of in Book 19916 at Page 204 among the Land Records of Howard
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be Howard County, Maryland appointing Jason A. Pardo and Russell County, Maryland appointing Jason A. Pardo and Russell S.
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE January 14, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. S. Drazin (collectively, "Trustee") as substitute trustees under the
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including Drazin(collectively,â Trusteeâ )assubstitutetrusteesunder
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private Condominium Unit No. 7205-A-2 in Holly Hill Condominium Deed of Trust, Trustee will sell at public auction at the front the Deed of Trust, Trustee will sell at public auction at the front
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, (hereinafter called the "Condominium") established by Holly entrance of the Circuit Court for Howard County, located at 8360 entrance of the Circuit Court for Howard County, located at 8360
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be Hill Associates, under the provisions of Title II of the Real Court Avenue, Ellicott City, MD 21043, on Court Avenue, Ellicott City, MD 21043, on
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all Property Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended JANUARY 21, 2021 AT 12:00 PM
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining by a Condominium Declaration dated March 8, 1982 and JANUARY 21, 2021 AT 12:05 PM
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or recorded March 10, 1982, among the Land Records for Prince ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND ANY IMPROVE- ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND ANY IMPROVE-
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale. George's County, Maryland, in Liber 5511, Folio 827, and by MENTS THEREON situated in Howard County, Maryland, com- MENTS THEREON situated in Howard County, Maryland, com-
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the the Condominium Plat (consisting of six sheets), recorded on monly known as 9420 2nd Street, Laurel, MD 20723, and monly known as 8507 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD 21043, and
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of March 10, 1982, among the Land Records for Prince George's more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust, as well as more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust, as well as
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all County, Maryland in Condominium Plat Book NLP 112 at pages ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY encumbered by the Deed of Trust ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY encumbered by the Deed of Trust
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
74-79 inclusive. THE IMPROVEMENTS thereon being known (collectively, "Property"). (collectively, "Property").
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross as 7205 Donnell Place Unit A2, District Heights, MD 20747. The Property will be sold in an "AS IS" condition and subject The Property will be sold in an "AS IS" condition and subject
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the TOGETHER WITH all the rights, privileges and appurtenances to recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, agreements, and to recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, agreements, and
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of incident to said Unit as contained in the aforesaid Condominium senior liens, if any, and with no warranty of any kind (except as senior liens, if any, with no warranty of any kind (except as
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser Declaration. The Condominium Declaration allocates to the Con- required by the Deed of Trust). required by the Deed of Trust).
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus dominium Unit an undivided interest (stated as a percentage) TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 by cashier's check
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
in the common elements of the Condominium. The Percentage In addition to the forgoing, the property further is being
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured will be required of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. sold subject to the following deed of trust:
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Interest of the Condominium Unit is set forth in Exhibit C to theThe balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash or certified
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees' file number 75443. Condominium Declaration. funds within ten (10) days of final ratification of the sale by 1. Deed of Trust in the original principal balance of
Trustees' file number 70295. $588,000.00 dated June 2, 2016 and recorded on June 29,
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees The property will be sold in "AS IS" condition, without the Circuit Court for Howard County. Interest to be paid on
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. warranty, either expressed or implied with respect to the nature the unpaid purchase money at the rate set forth in the debt 2016 in Book 16950 at Page 187 among the Land Records
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Dec 30, Jan 6 & Jan 13 12330741 subject to all other encumbrances, deeds of trust, mortgages, the date of settlement. Secured Party, if a bidder, shall not be TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 by cashier's check
Dec 30, Jan 6 & Jan 13 12330743
856 MARYLAND covenants, conditions, liens, taxes, restrictions, easements, required to post a deposit or to pay interest. will be required of the purchaser at the time and place of sale.
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Excavation, Clearing, Stream Defendant(s) Knoxsville, MD 21758 AUCTION resale of the property and in the event settlement is delayed (including attorneys' fees and full commission on the gross sale purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, Trustee may
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Notice, unless cause to the con-
(minimum bid accepted). of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be borne by deposit. Purchaser shall pay all attorneys' fees and costs, and of defaulting purchaser. Purchaser hereby consents to entry of
Grouting, and various other Notice is hereby given this 29th day trary be shown, provided a copy
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the purchaser. The secured party herein, if a bidder, shall not all other damages of any kind or nature, incurred by Trustee such resale Order without further notice. Defaulting purchaser
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Newspaper published in this Coun-
be required to post a deposit. Adjustment of all taxes, public and the secured party, and their respective agents, employees, shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting
Rentals, Sales charges, and special or regular assessments will be made as of
at [email protected] or 678- Maryland, that the sale of 410 Main
260-0545. Street, Unit 16, Laurel, MD 20707
ty, once in each of three (3) suc- successors and assigns, in connection with any such default. from any resale of the Property, and the deposit shall be
made and reported, will be ratified
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021 . SECTION E EZ EE

Zero proof
can be good
all year long
When I started
Spirits writing about
M. CARRIE drinks, the
ALLAN products geared
toward consumers
who wanted a
cocktail without the booze were
virtually nonexistent. Such drinks
had to be ordered from creative
bartenders or mixed at home with
juices and tea and soda and spices
and herbs.
Then about six years ago,
Seedlip, which bills itself as the
world’s first nonalcoholic
distilled spirit, crashed onto the
scene, providing an option for
bars to expand sophisticated
mixed-drink options for those
not consuming alcohol.
Now it seems every week
brings a new contender in the
zero-proof spirit and cocktail
world, some bottles promising
boozeless stand-ins for gin,
bourbon and tequila, others
offering whole new frontiers of
mysterious brews.
Many of these offerings are
cloaked in marketing verbiage
that mixes the branding of health
food (Natural! Organic! Vegan!
Gluten-free! Farm-to-bottle!)
with that of the booze industry
(sexy relaxed party-time
feelings!) in fascinating ways.
Some of these drinks are also
coming closer to the ready-to-
drink experience people like in
wine and beer. As the author of
the terrific “Good Drinks:
Alcohol-Free Recipes for When
You’re Not Drinking for
Whatever Reason,” Julia
Bainbridge has spent a lot of
hours testing recipes for booze-
free concoctions, but “for people
who don’t want to roll up their
sleeves and steep a bunch of
citrus peels with tea and various
spices to get a base ingredient
that they then mix with
something else, it’s great to have
more products that you can
really lean on,” she says.
And sometimes, even the
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A diplomat
who creates
quite a stew
Gumbo is much more
than a metaphor for
U.N. ambassador pick
BY A NN M ALONEY

Anyone who has served a big

pot of gumbo to family and
friends knows exactly what Linda
Thomas-Greenfield means when
she refers to “gumbo diplomacy.”
She captured national attention
when she used the term on Nov. 24,
when accepting President-elect Joe
Biden’s nomi-
nation to be U.S.
ambassador to
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the United Na-
tions. Her
point: that you
can’t help but
warm toward
someone who
Linda has labored We need comfort. We need nourishment.
Thomas- over the fra-

We need soup.
Greenfield grant, dark
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brown soup and
is now ladling it into a bowl for you.
lItalian Wedding
Thomas-Greenfield, a 35-year
Soup E8
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veteran of the Foreign Service,
explained how she would invite
Peanut Butter
her counterparts in countries
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such as Nigeria into her home to BY A ARON H UTCHERSON
cook and eat together: “I put a
Chicken and Rice
hough the start of 2021 certainly looks and feels different from Januarys Soup E8

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Cajun spin on it. … It was my way
of breaking down barriers, con-
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to see each other on a human taking the time to reset mentally, emotionally and physically. l Loaded Baked
level. A bit of lagniappe is what we Potato Soup E2
say in Louisiana.”
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Still, like many who make gum- certainly help with the last in terms of what we put into our bodies and how that Instant Pot Soup E2
bo regularly, she faced a hurdle l Split Pea Soup
when The Washington Post asked
might make us feel. So to start the year, we’ve developed three nourishing soup With Leeks and Dill
her to share her recipe. “I don’t recipes for anyone who is in need of such dishes. E3
have one,” said Thomas-Green-
field, who is awaiting a Senate
For Olga Massov, that looks like a fragrant, restorative chicken-and-rice soup;
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confirmation hearing that could G. Daniela Galarza shared a version of Italian wedding soup; and I developed a OUR CHAT
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recipe for an easy farro-and-kale soup with peanut butter and a hint of spice. Ask us anything
about soup today
eleine Albright, Andrew Young Each brings all of the warmth, comfort and flavor you might desire this time of at noon at
and Susan E. Rice. “I’ve never
cooked gumbo from a recipe. I
year without leaving you feeling weighed down and ready for a nap immediately washingtonpost.com
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learned it from watching.” after eating. So if you are looking for a recipe or three to help kick things off on the
The career diplomat is used to
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Load a soup bowl with potato comfort

I am not crazy for weeknight, I’ll conjure potato little sour cream and cheese.
soup like some soup, because it is so easy and Ladle the soup into bowls and
people. They luscious. A loaded baked potato top it with crumbled bacon, more
could eat it every soup is one of my favorites. This grated cheese and a sprinkling of
day, long for it and one-pot version, which I adapted chives or scallions.
rave about the from Eating Well — because it’s I used reduced fat sour cream
Ann latest soup recipe January and so, of course, I am and found it hit the mark. I also
Maloney they’ve thinking about eating healthier used no-salt broth. You may want
DINNER IN discovered. For — comes together in about 40 to add 1/4 teaspoon of salt after
MINUTES me, other than minutes. tasting, but remember, you are
gumbo, which I’ll It’s simple. You fry a couple of going to crumble bacon on top,
eat any day, any slices of bacon. Set that aside. so maybe hold off until after that
time, soup is a seasonal thing, an Then fry a little onion and garlic first taste. Also, this recipe calls
occasional dish, and the occasion in the bacon fat. Next, dice the for a half-cup of cheese, which
is usually because it’s cold potatoes and add them and broth didn’t seem like enough to me,
outside. to the pot, then simmer until but I found it plenty cheesy,
When the temperature dips tender. because you sprinkle a little on
and I cannot seem to warm my You can make a chunky soup top of each bowl just before
toes, the one thing that usually by removing and mashing half of serving and get melty bites as
takes the chill off is a bowl of hot the potatoes and then returning you dig in.
soup. If there is no gumbo tucked them to the pot. Or, if you prefer If you’re vegetarian, this recipe
away in the freezer that I can a smooth soup, use an immersion is easy to adapt. Use vegetable
thaw, I’m apt to slurp a bowl of blender to puree the potatoes in broth in place of the chicken and
wonton soup or a dig into some the pan; or, transfer the potato make yourself a batch of
variation of chicken soup with mixture, in batches, if necessary, mushroom bacon to sprinkle on
rice or noodles. to a blender and puree. top.
Or, if I’m making it myself on a To add creaminess, stir in a [email protected]

potatoes and broth and bring to

Loaded Baked Potato Soup a boil. Reduce the heat to medi-
4 servings (about 6 1/2 cups) um-low to maintain a simmer.
To make a vegetarian version of this soup, omit the bacon or use Cook until the potatoes are ten-
mushroom bacon and swap in a vegetable broth. (Find our recipes for der, about 15 minutes.
Mushroom “Bacon” and Scrappy Vegetable Broth in our Recipe Finder l Using a slotted spoon, transfer
at washingtonpost.com/recipes.) about half the potatoes to a bowl
Leftovers can be refrigerated for up to 3 days. and mash until almost smooth
Recipe adapted from Eatingwell.com. but still a little chunky. Return
the potatoes to the pan along
Ingredients taste (optional) with the sour cream, 1/4 cup
l 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive l 14
/ cup snipped fresh chives or (about 1 ounce) of the cheese
oil finely chopped scallion greens, and the pepper.
l 2 slices bacon for serving l Cook, stirring, until the cheese
l 1/2 cup (2 ounces) chopped is melted and the soup is heated
white or yellow onion Steps through, about 2 minutes. Taste
l 2 large garlic cloves, minced or l Set a paper towel-lined plate or and adjust seasoning, adding
grated, about 1 tablespoon a rack near the stove. In a large salt and more pepper, if needed.
l 11/2 pounds russet potatoes (2 to saucepan over medium heat, l Ladle the soup into bowls.
3 medium), peeled and diced add the oil and heat until shim- Crumble the bacon and sprinkle
l 4 cups no-salt chicken or mering. Add the bacon and it over the soup, along with the
vegetable broth cook, turning occasionally, until remaining cheese and the chives
l 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream crisp, 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer to or scallion greens, and serve.
l 1/2 cup (21/4 ounces) shredded the prepared plate to drain, Nutrition | Per serving: 449 calories, 15 g
extra-sharp cheddar cheese, leaving the oil and bacon drip- protein, 34 g carbohydrates, 29 g fat, 7 g
divided pings in the pan. saturated fat, 54 mg cholesterol, 316 mg
sodium, 4 g dietary fiber, 2 g sugar
l 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground l Add the onion to the pan and
Recipe tested by Ann Maloney; email
black pepper, or to taste cook, stirring, until starting to questions to [email protected]
l 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, or to soften, about 3 minutes. Add the
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Any Vegetable Instant Pot Soup

4 to 6 servings (makes 7 to 8 cups)
This recipe was tested using a 6-quart Instant Pot; the volume and
amount of liquid are enough for it to work in an 8-quart model, but
you’ll want to halve it for a 3-quart model.
The soup can be refrigerated for up to 1 week and frozen for up to 6
months. Thaw and reheat gently on the stove top.
From food editor Joe Yonan.

Ingredients l Divide the soup among serving

l 2 pounds vegetable or bowls, add about 1/3 cup of the
combination of vegetables of garnishes of your choice to each
your choice (see VARIATIONS) bowl, grind black pepper on top
l 1 (13-ounce) can coconut milk and serve hot.
l 11/2 cups water
l 1/2 medium yellow onion, Variations
chopped (about 5 ounces; 1 cup) Here are some possibilities for
l 4 garlic cloves, smashed vegetables and garnishes that
l 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, work well with them:
plus more to taste
l 2-inch piece ginger, peeled and Double Celery
chopped l 11/2 pounds celery root, peeled
l 1 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus and cut into 1-inch chunks
more to taste l 8 ounces (5 to 6 ribs) celery, cut
l Freshly ground black pepper into 1-inch chunks
(for serving) l Garnish: Chopped celery and
l About 11/2 to 2 cups assorted leaves, toasted baguette crou-
garnishes of your choice (see tons
VARIATIONS)
Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts
Steps l 11/4 pounds broccoli, trimmed
l In an Instant Pot, combine the and cut into 1-inch chunks (stem
vegetables, coconut milk, water, cut into 1/4-inch slices)
onion, garlic, lime juice, ginger l 12 ounces Brussels sprouts
and salt. Close the lid. Make sure l Garnish: Shredded Brussels
the steam valve is sealed. Select sprouts and whole leaves;
PRESSURE (HIGH) and set to roasted chickpeas
10 minutes. (It takes about 10
minutes for the appliance to Beet Carrot
come to pressure before cooking l 11/4 pounds beets, scrubbed but
begins.) not peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch
l Release the pressure manually chunks
TOM MCCORKLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; FOOD STYLING BY LISA CHERKASKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST by moving the pressure-release l 12 ounces carrots, scrubbed but
handle to “Venting,” covering not peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch

A velvety soup, using any veg you have on hand your hand with a towel or hot
pad. Never put your hands or
face near the vent when it’s
chunks
l Garnish: Thinly sliced beet
greens plus any whole small
releasing steam. leaves; finely chopped carrots;
One of the big noon every weekday was: Where Instead, I turn to whatever raw saw off chunks into irregular l Use an immersion (stick) blend- drizzle of coconut milk
misconceptions of am I getting takeout? vegetable I have around, which croutons. Or if I’m thinking er to puree the soup until
our year of I wasn’t alone: More people this time of year includes ahead, I use some of the base smooth. (Alternately, you can Winter Squash
pandemic cooking purchased lunch out of the house cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels vegetable — grating some raw puree the soup in batches in a l 2 pounds acorn, butternut or
has been the idea than any other meal in 2018, sprouts, carrots, beets, winter carrot or beet before putting the blender: To prevent splatters, be other winter squash, peeled,
that those of us according to the Bureau of Labor squash and potatoes (white and rest in the pot for the soup, for careful to not fill it more than seeded and cut into 1-inch
Joe Yonan working from Statistics. We won’t know how sweet). instance, or thinly slicing carrot halfway, remove the center ring chunks
WEEKNIGHT home would have 2020 fared in this survey for My add-ins varied at first, but I tops or beet greens. I roast the from the lid, and hold a kitchen l Garnish: Pumpkin seeds, cilan-
VEGETARIAN more time and another couple of years, but it soon settled on a formula, using seeds I pull out of a butternut or towel over the lid as you blend.) tro or parsley, chopped roasted
flexibility to seems obvious that one of the coconut milk and water, plus a acorn squash, turning them Reheat if needed by returning red pepper
babysit our biggest changes in home cooking little lime juice, garlic, onion and crispy and browned in about the the soup to the Instant Pot and Ingredients are too variable for a meaningful
sourdough, our braises, our has revolved around lunch. ginger. About 20 minutes later time it takes the soup to cook. heating on SAUTE. Taste, and analysis.
soups and stews. Now that I’m cooking lunch or (10 minutes for the pot to come to My Instant Pot soup strategy — add more salt and/or lime juice Recipe tested by Joe Yonan; email questions
On the weekends, maybe — but eating leftovers almost seven pressure and another 10 to cook), which I hope might become if needed. to [email protected]
only for those of us without days a week, I’ve been looking for I blend the contents into a rich, yours, too — lets me cook fairly
young children underfoot. strategies to help me pull aromatic puree and start mindlessly, as the formula is so
During the week, in between something together for my scouring for garnishes. easy to remember, while the
Zoom meetings? Sure, I can husband and me that’s quick, As I’ve written before, even varying vegetables and garnishes
preheat my oven or put a pot on satisfying, plus relatively light when pureed soups are as full of keep the soups interesting. Plus, I
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Perhaps the biggest change has from our backyard garden. Then tiresome to eat. So I chop up At lunch, with the clock Amanda Soto • Designer: Elizabeth Hart • Photo editor:
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Leeks and dill add some

pizazz to split pea soup
This soup isn’t fresh dill coming together to
supposed to excite elevate it from merely practical to
me, but it does. It’s delightfully tasty, aromatic, even
pea soup, after all, elegant. (You could substitute
typically a onion and/or parsley or thyme, if
metaphor for drab need be.)
Ellie and boring. While I don’t expect everyone to be
Krieger it might not have quite as tickled about it as I am —
NOURISH the outright I realize I’m on the far end of the
glamour of other bell curve of soup enthusiasts.
soups, I am But I am pretty sure that anyone
enamored with it nonetheless. who tries this recipe will come to
I love that it’s a warming, appreciate pea soup in a whole
filling, meal-in-a-bowl — as cozy new way.
as the softest flannel PJs — made
with few steps and minimal [email protected]
chopping. I also appreciate how
incredibly nutrient-rich and Krieger is a registered dietitian,
economical it is. nutritionist and cookbook author who
But this particular split pea hosts public television’s “Ellie’s Real
soup really lights me up because Good Food.” Learn more at
of its unique flavor, with leeks and elliekrieger.com.

Split Pea Soup With Leeks and Dill

6 servings (makes about 9 cups)
The soup can be refrigerated for up to 4 days. It will thicken as it sits,
so add broth or water as needed when reheating.
From cookbook author and nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

Ingredients l In a large soup pot over medium

l Several large sprigs fresh dill heat, heat the oil until shimmer-
(about 1/2 medium bunch), plus ing. Add the leek, carrot and
more for optional garnish celery and 1/4 teaspoon each of
l 1 bay leaf the salt and pepper and cook,
l 2 tablespoons olive oil stirring occasionally, until the
l 1 large leek, white and light vegetables have softened, about
green parts only, washed well 5 minutes. Stir in the split peas,
and chopped then add the broth, herb bundle,
l 1 medium carrot (about 2 the remaining 3/4 teaspoon of
ounces), diced salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper
l 2 ribs celery, diced and bring to a boil.
l 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided, l Reduce the heat to low and sim-
plus more to taste mer, partially covered, stirring
l 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground occasionally, until the peas have
black pepper, divided, plus lost their shape and the soup
more to taste looks creamy, about 1 hour and
l 1 pound dried green split peas , 15 minutes. Remove the herb
rinsed and picked over for bundle, taste and season with
stones additional salt and pepper, if
l 8 cups low-sodium chicken or desired. Sprinkle with the
vegetable broth reserved dill, if using.
Nutrition | Per serving: 325 calories, 24 g
Steps protein, 53 g carbohydrates, 9 g fat, 1 g
l Tie the dill, reserving a few
saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 310 mg
sodium, 16 g dietary fiber, 4 g sugar
sprigs for garnish if desired, and
Recipe tested by Olga Massov and Jim
bay leaf together with kitchen Webster; email questions to
twine. [email protected]
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With a big pot of gumbo, nominee has a place at the table for everyone
issue happening in a country.”
GUMBO FROM E1
If she had not become a diplo-
Chicken, Sausage and Shrimp Gumbo
finding ways around obstacles, mat, Thomas-Greenfield said she 10 to 12 servings
however, so she simply walked may have ended up behind a Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who is a Louisiana native and President-
herself through the process, jot- stove, because she comes from a elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to the United
ting down do’s and don’ts, going long line of people who love to Nations, makes her gumbo without using a recipe, but this one is
into detail when she felt it was cook — and eat — good food. adapted from her cooking notes.
essential and loosening the reins “We’re all cooks,” she said of her Crab claws may be available at seafood markets or restaurants.
where she could. While she’s all family in Louisiana. “We all send Creole seasoning and filé powder, which is ground sassafras leaves, are
about flexibility, she does have pictures to each other of the last available at well-stocked grocery stores and online.
strong opinions when it comes to gumbo we made or whatever dish MAKE AHEAD: The “trinity” — onions, bell pepper and celery — can
gumbo: “Do not use tomato paste we’re making.” be chopped and the sausage and chicken can be cooked up to 3 days
or sauce. I hate red gumbos. … When she was 12, the oldest of ahead.
Gumbo should have a nice brown- eight children, she worked as a Leftovers can be refrigerated for up to 4 days; or remove the crab
ish color.” dishwasher for her grandmother, claws, if using, and freeze in airtight containers for up to 3 months.
“Each time I make gumbo, it’s who cooked for a Salvation Army From Thomas-Greenfield.
different,” she said. “No two gum- summer camp, earning $1.25 an
bos are alike, and that goes for hour. Ingredients through, about 8 minutes.
others who make gumbo, as well.” “She cooked three meals (a day) l 3 quarts no-salt-added chicken l In a large, heavy-bottomed pot,
Thomas-Greenfield, 68, has for 500 people. I learned by assist- broth, plus more as needed such as a Dutch oven, over
had plenty of opportunity to share ing her,” Thomas-Greenfield said. l 2 bay leaves medium-high heat, add the oil
her gumbo around the world, in- In her hometown of Baker, La., l 10 to 12 crab legs or claws, and then gradually add the
cluding in Gambia, Kenya, Jamai- her mother was a public school optional flour, stirring constantly with a
ca, Liberia, Pakistan and Switzer- cook and her father a day laborer, l 2 pounds andouille sausage or wooden spoon, until you have a
land. She began working in the and from them, she learned the any smoked sausage, cut beige paste. Reduce the heat to
Foreign Service under President unifying power of food. crosswise into 1/4-inch slices medium and continue cooking
Ronald Reagan, then served as “We were a poor family, but the l 2 pounds boneless, skinless and stirring constantly until the
ambassador to Liberia under one thing we never had an issue chicken breasts (about 2 large), roux is dark chocolate-brown,
President George W. Bush and about was food,” she said. “My cut into 1-inch chunks about 30 minutes, adjusting the
assistant secretary of state for father’s goal in life was that ‘my l 1 tablespoon garlic powder, or temperature up or down as
African affairs under President children will never go to bed hun- more to taste needed.
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Barack Obama. She retired from gry.’ ” FOOD STYLING BY LISA CHERKASKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
l 2 teaspoons Creole seasoning, l (The timing here will vary de-
the State Department in 2017, af- In fact, he often doled out food such as Tony Cachere’s, or more pending on your stove and the
ter the inauguration of President to neighbors and friends, too. Her to taste pan you are using; the most
Trump. mother would cook inside, and in and around Baton Rouge. Her chopped the celery and froze it l 1 tablespoon hot sauce, such as important thing is to not let any
Thomas-Greenfield said she is her father would fire up a home- nomination stirred pride among with the other elements of the Tabasco, or more to taste and portion of the roux scorch, and
eager for the appointment to made barbecue grill in a shady her friends and family back home, “holy trinity,” the Cajun mirepoix for serving to stir constantly until you’ve
Biden’s Cabinet because it will spot across the road from their she said. “They are so extraordi- of onion, celery and bell pepper l 1 cup canola oil, or any neutral reached the desired color. If it
“give me an opportunity to really home they simply called “under narily proud that a girl from the also referred to in her nomination oil burns, throw it out and start
bring back to our foreign policy the tree.” segregated South actually acceptance speech. l 1 cup all-purpose flour over.)
the relationships and the values “We never had a meal where it achieved a position of this impor- These days, Thomas- l 1 large yellow onion (about 10 l Add the onion, celery and bell
that have been so key to our suc- was just us,” Thomas-Greenfield tance.” Greenfield makes a healthier ver- ounces), cut into 1/4-inch dice pepper to the darkened roux,
cess as a country. Those values said. “People would say, ‘The Now gumbo is rote for Thomas- sion of gumbo for her family, (about 2 cups) stir until fully coated and cook
that I think relate to gumbo diplo- Thomases are cooking,’ and they Greenfield. which includes a daughter who l 3 large celery ribs, cut into 1/4- until just softening, 5 to 7 min-
macy are generosity, hospitality, would show up at our house.” “I love browning roux,” she works in the Foreign Service and a inch dice (about 1 cup) utes. Add half the okra and the
its kindness … all of that.” Thomas-Greenfield didn’t con- said. “I can do it really, really son who is an attorney. Her hus- l 1 large green bell pepper, garlic, and cook until the okra
She first heard the phrase sider herself a good cook until she quickly. People watch me brown band, whom she met in Liberia stemmed, seeded and cut into begins to soften, 5 to 10 minutes,
“gumbo diplomacy” from a fellow left home and had to fend for roux and get it the perfect color in while in graduate school, is re- 1/ -inch dice (about 1 cup) stirring as needed and lowering
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Foreign Service officer and real- herself. “I just thought about what 20 minutes, but I never tell people tired from the Foreign Service. l 1 pound okra, sliced, defrosted the heat if it begins to stick. (If
ized that’s what she had been they did, or sometimes I’d call my to do that, because if they do, they She toasts the flour to brown it if frozen the okra was frozen, it will prob-
practicing throughout her career. mother and she, of course, never will burn it. You can’t turn your instead of making an oil-based l 3 garlic cloves, minced or ably soften more quickly.)
“When we were living overseas, had recipes either. It was rote for back on it one second. The badge roux, bakes rather than fries the grated l Increase the heat under the
we had staff who were supporting her. I always found that my stuff of a Louisiana cook is a roux burn, chicken, and microwaves the sau- l 1 (10-ounce) can Rotel brand broth to high, add the roux and
us, but if I had people over to my never tasted as good as hers.” the roux popping up and burning sage and then drains as much fat Tomatoes and Green Chiles, or vegetables to the broth, bring to
house and I really wanted them to She graduated from a segregat- you.” from it as possible. Still, she ad- any small diced tomatoes a boil and boil for about 5 min-
enjoy the meal, I’d cook myself,” ed Northwestern High School in And, because she lived in so mits the old-school recipe she l 2 pounds medium peeled/ utes. Add the sausage and chick-
she said. “I’d make red beans and Zachary in 1970 and was one of a many foreign lands, she’s learned shared with us produces a tastier deveined tail-off shrimp (41 to en with any accumulated juices,
rice, or gumbo, and it was always a few African American women to to make gumbo with what’s avail- pot. 50 count), defrosted if frozen the remaining okra and the
conversation. attend Louisiana State University able. “If I don’t have okra, I don’t When she has time, she likes to l Cooked white rice, for serving tomatoes and boil for another
“It causes people to relax. in the early 1970s. After earning a use okra. When I was overseas in cut up a whole chicken for her l 1/4 cup chopped curly or flat-leaf 5 minutes.
You’re sitting around. You’re talk- master’s in political science from Africa, I never could get celery. If gumbo, like her mother did, so fresh parsley leaves or scallions, l Reduce the heat to low, cover
ing about food. You’ve had this the University of Wisconsin in someone was coming to visit me “she’d know all of the pieces come for serving and let the gumbo simmer, at
really important conversation 1975, she taught at Bucknell Uni- in Nigeria, I’d say, ‘Bring me a from the same bird.” l Filé powder, optional, for least 45 minutes and up to 2
around human rights. Now, versity in Pennsylvania before stalk of celery.’ ” She can whip a gumbo up in a serving (see headnote) hours.
you’re having a conversation joining the Foreign Service in When she was living in Gam- couple of hours, if necessary, but l Taste and adjust seasonings,
about what you put in your gum- 1982. bia, a group of visiting NASA offi- she prefers to let it simmer longer, Steps adding more garlic powder, Cre-
bo and what a roux actually is, but Her parents are deceased, but cials brought her a suitcase full. allowing plenty of time to slip a l In a large stock pot over ole seasoning or hot sauce as
you’re also talking about a certain her brothers and sisters still live That was no problem. She just batch of cornbread in the oven medium-high heat, add the needed. If the gumbo is too
and make the rice. broth, bay leaves and crab, if thick, add more stock or water,
Gumbo is a great example of using, and bring to a simmer. 1/ cup at a time until it reaches
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how great things can come from Decrease the heat to low to keep the desired consistency.
being flexible and resourceful, hot. l About 10 minutes before serv-
she said. l Set a paper towel-lined plate ing, add the shrimp and cook
“People will say ‘I can’t make near the stove. In a large skillet until pink and cooked through,
gumbo because I don’t have filé,’ over medium-high heat, lightly 5 to 10 minutes.
or because I don’t have celery, or ‘I fry the sausage until just l Scoop some rice into bowls and
can’t have this conversation with browned, about 10 minutes. ladle the gumbo on top. Sprinkle
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left in a cabinet that, a decade D.C. and author of “Spirits, Sugar, drinks have failed primarily initially took Seedlip for a booze- London” is suggestive of the drinking Malört that they have
back, might have held a few Water, Bitters: How the Cocktail because they don’t provide the free gin, but it actually has three direction. This was one of the few no idea what hardcore really is.
juniper berries. Conquered the World,” has just contrapuntal sweetness that distinct flavors — Garden 108, base “spirits” I found pretty $33 for a 535-milliliter (18-ounce)
Note, this problem is in no way finished writing his new book, makes, say, a Negroni work. Grove 42 and Spice 94, which drinkable on its own. It has a nice bottle, $65 for two, $170 for six;
unique to the booze-free “Mindful Mixology,” covering The ones I’ve tended to like taste of, respectively, fresh peas/ whiff of juniper on the nose but is drinkghia.com.
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have to taste through a bunch of should be out in time for next some exceptions, as you’ll see in cardamom. They mix nicely with $35 for a 750-milliliter (25-ounce) Lyre’s Aperitif Rosso and
bad bottles to get to the good Dry January). my list below) have tended to be tonic, ginger ales and other bottle; us.salcombegin.com. Italian Orange: Lyre’s makes a
ones,” says Bainbridge. He suggests that skeptical the products that didn’t present sodas. What I’m looking forward range of nonalcoholic spirits, and
No one with sense will try a sip explorers need some perspective themselves as a booze-free to is the launch of Aecorn, a Kin Spritz:This company is several are quite good. My
of some weird Frito-dill-pickle as they taste into this new-ish version of something that nonalcoholic citrusy aperitif going all in on selling the sizzle of favorites are these two. While
whiskey and conclude that all category. Humans were exploring already exists. It’s tough to taste a from the same makers. It’s nonalcoholic drinks. I felt cooler they’re on the sweeter side, they
spirits are bad. But the booze-free putting juniper into wine for bottle that slyly hints at being a already available in Britain but just visiting its website, then make lovely stand-ins for some of
subgroup is still relatively small, centuries before they figured out rum without comparing it to the will arrive in the United States dumber as I tried to grapple with the red Italian bitters and are
and I worry that a few how to make gin, and “when gin original. this spring. $32 for a 700- their pitch of “euphorics,” terrific mixed with soda or tonic
(sometimes fairly pricey) first came out … it wasn’t good,” Which is not to say the original milliliter (24-ounce) bottle, or adaptogens, nootropics and — or with a nonalcoholic gin; $36
disappointments could scare Brown says. “I think with a lot of is inherently better, it’s just what $89 for three; seedlipdrinks.com. botanics that purportedly have for a 700-milliliter (24-ounce)
people away from the category. these nonalcoholic spirits, some set my expectations. With the some social-life-enhancing, bottle, $184 for six; lyres.com.
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dismay I used to experience back procedures to do it. They’re their own thing, I’m more able to nonalcoholic “leisure sodas” (a any alcohol. It reminded me of
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Here are two wines — a white from a great source of quality cabernet
France and a red from Sicily — that sauvignon at prices that don’t
offer great quality at a price that mirror the high cost of Napa and
allows you to stock up and add Sonoma counties farther north.
them to your rotation for casual This is usually warmer-climate
meals and occasions. We also have cabernet, and Glunz is located on
a Spanish tempranillo that’s a the eastern, warmer side of Paso.
home run for Washington baseball The blend of 93 percent cabernet
fans, a Paso Robles cabernet with with petit verdot making up the
a local restaurant connection, and balance, results in a rich, big and
a spicy, earthy lambrusco to pair plush wine. It’s a bit hot at this level
with smoked meats or pizza. of alcohol, but the fruit carries the
— Dave McIntyre day. Local note: The Glunz family is
related by marriage to Geoff Tracy
Dominio del Soto 2016 of Chef Geoff’s restaurant group.
    (Extraordinary) ABV: 15.1 percent.
Ribera del Duero, Spain, $23 Distributed by Salveto: Available in the
Fans of Washington Nationals District at Cafe Deluxe West End, Chef
Geoff’s, Harry’s Reserve Fine Wine & Spirits,
slugger Juan Soto may gravitate to Nina May. Available in Virginia at Ashburn
this wine, but whether you like Wine Shop in Ashburn, Oakton Wine Shop in
baseball or not, this 100-percent Oakton, Balducci’s and the Organic Butcher
in McLean, Puck’s Market in Henrico,
tempranillo knocks it out of the Richmond Wine Station in Richmond, Red
park. Leafy tobacco and blueberry Apron Butcher in Fairfax, Screwtop Wine Bar
& Cheese Shop in Arlington, Sonoma Cellar
flavors dominate, with a savory in Alexandria, the Wine Outlet (Great Falls,
meaty note on the finish. Alcohol by McLean, Vienna), WineStyles (Chantilly,
Montclair).
volume: 14.5 percent.
Imported by Sera Wine Imports, distributed Medici Ermete Arte e Concerto
by M. Touton Selection: Available in the
District at the Bottle Shop, Central Liquors, 2017
Cork & Fork, Downtown Liquors, Rodman’s,     (Excellent/Extraordinary)
Sherry’s Fine Wine & Spirits, SommStock,
Van Ness Wine Liquors. Available in Reggiano Lambrusco, Italy, $24
Maryland at Downtown Crown Wine and Lambrusco, the fizzy red from
Beer in Gaithersburg, Fishpaws Marketplace
in Arnold, Old Farm Liquors in Frederick, northern Italy, is by no means a THE WASHINGTON POST

Petite Cellars in Ellicott City, Wine Source in fashionable wine. But it is an ideal From left, Dominio del Soto 2016, Glunz Family Winery Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, Medici Ermete Arte e Concerto 2017, Villarini Nero
Baltimore, the Winery in Chester. partner for cured or smoked meats, d’Avola 2019, La Marina Cuvée Océane 2019.
such as Italian salumi, French
Glunz Family Winery Cabernet charcuterie, Spanish jamon and
Sauvignon 2017 Imported by Kobrand, distributed by RNDC: Imported by Vinimundi; distributed by Craft Mac Market, Morris Miller Wine & Liquor, and Cheese and Tower Foods in Arlington;
    (Extraordinary)
American barbecue. Dark cherry, a Available in the District at Calvert Woodley, Wine & Spirits: Available in the District at 1 Oasis Gourmet Deli, Rodman’s, Streets Balducci’s (Alexandria, McLean); Basic
hint of wood smoke and a Harry’s Reserve Fine Wine & Spirits, West Dupont Circle Wine and Liquors, Yes! Market & Cafe (various locations). Available Necessities in Nellysford; Foods of All
Paso Robles, Calif., $24 Potomac Wine and Spirits. Available in Organic Market (various locations). Available in Maryland at Amendment 21, Canton Nations in Charlottesville; Lee’s Market and
refreshing spritz highlight this Maryland at Graul’s Market (Lutherville, in Maryland at Canton Crossing Wine + Crossing Wine + Spirits, Wells Discount Unwined (Belleview, Bradlee) in Alexandria;
Fans of big cabs will appreciate this
beauty. Serve slightly chilled. ABV: Towson), Jason’s Wine & Spirits and Pine Spirits in Baltimore, Hops & Vines in Liquors and Wine Source in Baltimore; Locke Store in Millwood; Lokl Gourmet in
wine. Paso Robles, about an hour’s Orchard Liquors in Ellicott City. Odenton, Riverside Liquors in Frederick, Yes! Antietam Spirits in Boonsboro; Bradley Food McLean; Lombardy Market, Kroger (North
11.5 percent.
drive north from San Luis Obispo, is Organic Market in Hyattsville. & Beverage, Capital Beer & Wine and Chesterfield) and Oxford Market in
Georgetown Square Wine and Beer in Richmond; Streets Market & Cafe
GREAT VALUE Bethesda; Cranbrook Liquors and Shawan (Alexandria, Arlington); Vienna Vintner in
Villarini Nero d’Avola 2019 GREAT VALUE Liquors in Cockeysville; Dawson’s Market in Vienna; Whole Foods Market (Fairlakes,
    (Excellent/Extraordinary) La Marina Cuvée Océane 2019 Rockville; Fairgrounds Discount Beverages Greensboro, Pentagon City, Reston, Short
    (Excellent)
in Timonium; Fenwick Beer & Wine, Pump, Tysons).
Sicily, Italy, $13 Hillandale Beer & Wine, Mela Market and
Nero d’avola resembles syrah in its Cotes de Gascogne, France, $12 Snider’s Super Foods in Silver Spring;
Availability information is based on
Finewine.com in Gaithersburg; Franklins
savory bacon and ripe berry Here’s a simple, refreshing white Restaurant, Brewery and General Store in distributor records. Wines might not
flavors, but it tends to be lighter in wine with aromas of wild herbs and Hyattsville; Kenilworth Wine & Spirits in be in stock at every listed store and
flavors of mango and ruby Towson; Lax Wine Spirits & Bistro in
body and texture. This wine from Beltsville; Magothy Wine & Spirits in might be sold at additional stores.
Villarini, made from organic grapes, grapefruit. Great by itself, this is Severna Park; Mills Fine Wine and Spirits in Prices are approximate. Check
also a worthy partner to lighter Annapolis; Old Town Market in Kensington;
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acidity and a nice dry, mildly tannic seafood dishes. ABV: 11 percent. Ronnie’s Fine Wine & Spirits in Forest Hill; availability, or ask a favorite wine
Town Center Market in Riverdale Park; store to order through a distributor.
finish. Try it with hearty pastas or Imported and distributed by Elite Wines: Vineyards Elite in Pikesville; Wine Bin in
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When you have bowl of warm soup, you end up with a warm soul
SOUPS FROM E1
Restorative Chicken and Rice Soup
Restorative Chicken 6 to 8 servings
and Rice Soup MAKE AHEAD: Cook the stock and chicken breasts up to 4 days in
As a Russian immigrant, I grew advance. Refrigerate, separately and tightly covered.
up with a familiar collection of Refrigerate the soup for up to 4 days. If you use glutinous rice, the
Eastern European and Ashkenazi soup may thicken slightly; loosen it with additional broth or water.
Jewish recipes: latkes, sharlotka, Freeze the stock for up to 3 months.
borscht. But it’s the chicken soup, Fish sauce, kombu, Thai basil, glutinous rice, yellow rock sugar or
a.k.a. Jewish penicillin, that I palm sugar and sambal oelek can be purchased at Asian grocery stores
remember most vividly from my or online.
sick days as a child (and I got sick Inspired by “Elizabeth Street Cafe” by Tom Moorman and Larry
a lot). Eating the soup made me McGuire with Julia Turshen (Phaidon, 2017).
feel like I was slowly being
brought back to life. Ingredients drying out. (If using all dark or
A few years ago, I was working l One (4-pound) whole chicken all white meat, remove about a
as an editor at Phaidon, and my l 1 large yellow onion (11 to 14 third to a half of the chicken.)
boss asked me to edit a manu- ounces), unpeeled and halved Set aside until cool enough to
script from Elizabeth Street Cafe, l One (3-inch) piece fresh ginger, handle, then discard the skin
the popular Vietnamese-inspired halved lengthwise and and any remaining bones, and
restaurant in Austin. One of the smashed shred the meat. Transfer the
recipes was a comforting, congee- l 6 whole cloves meat to a lidded container and
like chicken-and-rice breakfast l 4 whole star anise set aside or refrigerate until
soup. Eating it made me feel l One (4-inch) cinnamon stick needed (bring to room tempera-
nourished and restored. I made it l One (8-by-4-inch) piece kombu ture before serving).
over and over, tweaking here and l 1/2 bunch fresh cilantro, tied l While the chicken is cooling,
there, and finally creating my with butcher’s twine, plus more partially cover the pot and con-
own version, an amalgamation of for garnish tinue to gently simmer the
the Eastern European and Asian l 1 tablespoon kosher salt, plus stock. Stir occasionally, skim-
traditions: looser, brothier, but more to taste ming any foam that rises to the
still every bit as aromatic as the l 2 teaspoons black peppercorns top, until the vegetables look
original. l 1 to 2 tablespoons fish sauce, nearly falling apart, 2 to 3
Visually, the soup is a feast for plus more to taste hours. Add more water, as need-
the eyes: bright green leaves of l 1 tablespoon yellow rock sugar, ed, to ensure the chicken and
aromatic Thai basil and cilantro, palm sugar or brown sugar, onions remain submerged.
as well as thin rings of chile, plus more to taste Remove from the heat and let
crunchy mung bean sprouts, l 1 cup (61/2 ounces) glutinous cool until warm. The stock will
bright white slivers of onion and white rice, or your favorite rice be fragrant and a deep, dark
deep red dots of sambal oelek. (see NOTE) golden color.
Fish sauce and brown sugar form l Mung bean sprouts, for serving l Ladle the stock through a large
a strong umami backbone, mak- (optional) cheesecloth-lined fine-mesh
ing you crave another spoonful l Fresh Thai basil leaves, for sieve set over a clean pot or
even before you’ve swallowed serving (may substitute regular large bowl. Rinse out your
your first. At home, we jokingly basil leaves, optional) stockpot and return the stock to
call this soup “the corpse reviver,” l White onion slivers, for serving it. Discard the aromatics and
and for good reason. Whatever (optional) vegetables; separate the chick-
ails you, a bowl of this elixir — l Chile-garlic sauce, such as en thigh and drumstick meat
heady broth, aromatic with gin- sambal oelek, for serving from the bones and shred (dis-
ger, star anise, clove and cinna- (optional) card the skin and bones).
mon, thickened with glutinous l Sriracha, for serving (optional) l Bring the stock back to a lively
rice, and fortified with pieces of l Jalapeño or serrano chile simmer, taste, and season with
chicken — instantly makes you pepper thinly sliced, for 1 tablespoon of the fish sauce
feel revived and nourished. serving (optional) and 2 teaspoons of the sugar.
— Olga Massov l Lime wedges, for serving Stir, wait a few minutes and
(optional) taste again, adding more fish
Italian Wedding Soup sauce and sugar, if needed. Add
Nothing, it seems, about the Steps the rice and cook until the rice is
dish we call Italian wedding soup l Cut the chicken into 8 pieces: 2 tender, about 15 minutes. Add
is straightforward. Not its name, breasts, 2 wings, 2 thighs and 2 the shredded chicken — light
which is an imperfect translation legs; reserve the backbone for and dark meat — to the soup
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of “minestra maritata,” meant to another use such as making and let it warm through, about
refer to the careful marriage of its stock (see NOTES). 2 minutes.
ingredients — not its place on a count the tiny meatballs in each up the dense, meaty broth. I like hand, what is more easily accessi- l Heat a large, heavy skillet such l Ladle the soup into bowls, and,
wedding menu. And not its ingre- bowl, pick around the greens and to serve each bowl topped with ble or what aligns more with your as a cast-iron pan over high heat if using, garnish with cilantro,
dients and preparation, which ask for extra cheese to sprinkle on chopped herbs and lots of grated palate. In the style of Tabitha until smoky. Add the onion and sprouts, basil, onion, sambal
vary widely from region to region top. Mostly, I remember it being a cheese. Brown, it’s your business. ginger, cut/exposed side down, oelek, sriracha, jalapeño or ser-
in Italy. In the United States, it’s warming comfort, as all great — G. Daniela Galarza Back to this particular dish: and dry-roast until both are rano chile, and a squeeze of
best known, and well-loved, as a soups should be. The ingredients listed in the reci- blackened on one side, about lime. Serve with lime wedges on
soup of greens, tiny pasta and This recipe is dedicated to Farro, Kale pe title do the bulk of the work in 7 minutes. A nice char on the the side, if desired.
meatballs, flavorful and fortifying. those memories. There are sev- and Peanut Butter Soup flavoring this soup, while a hand- vegetables will get deeper flavor l NOTES: If you don’t want to cut
As a child, it was a soup my eral steps, but they lead to a I tend to think of recipes more ful of pantry basics, along with a in your stock. Transfer the up the chicken yourself, you can
babysitter, whose family came satisfying soup that can be on the as guidelines than prescriptions. lone jalapeño, round everything charred vegetables to a plate. buy a precut chicken at your
from Southern Italy, made for me table in under an hour. While the While, yes, everything that I pub- out and add a hint of background l Reduce the heat to medium and favorite supermarket or ask
and my brother on cold winter broth simmers with spicy sau- lish should work and taste deli- heat. The result is simple, com- add the cloves, star anise and your butcher to do it.
nights when my parents worked sage, carrots and celery, mix up cious as written, you know your forting and full of nutritious cinnamon. Toast, stirring occa- l Glutinous (sticky) rice contin-
late. I remember helping shape the meatballs, then roast them; tastes better than I do, and you grains and dark, leafy greens. sionally, until fragrant, 2 to ues to thicken if it sits in liquid
the meatballs, tucking the tiny meatballs cook quickly. should make adjustments as you (This soup also happens to be 4 minutes. for an extended period of time.
squishy meat into my cupped When they’re done they go into see fit. Salt and spice are two meat- and dairy-free for anyone l Transfer the charred vegetables It turns brothy soups into thick-
palms. I remember the sound of the soup along with tiny pasta — components that first come to who is looking for vegan recipes.) and toasted aromatics to an er, congee-like ones, which
her chopping crunchy greens and orzo or ditalini or whatever you’d mind in this regard, but this idea And though you might be skepti- 8-quart stockpot. Add the makes them even more sooth-
tender herbs and the smells that like — and lots of chopped leafy extends to the remaining ingredi- cal of putting peanut butter in chicken pieces, kombu, cilan- ing and comforting. If you pre-
filled the kitchen, pungent and greens. Escarole is traditional, ents, where I will try to point out your soup, I’m sure you’ll turn tro, salt and peppercorns. Add fer the soup brothy, you can
rich: garlic and pork and a tickle but kale, spinach, chard, collards ideas for substitutions, as appro- into a believer after your first enough water to cover and loosen it up with a little more
of spice. There would always be or any dark leafy vegetable works priate, that can help you make use spoonful. bring to a boil over high heat, water or broth when reheating;
sausage in the soup, too, but I’d well. Lemon zest and juice perk of whatever you already have on — Aaron Hutcherson then lower the heat to a simmer use a different rice, which will
and cook, skimming off and also soften but not nearly as
discarding any foam that rises much; or cook the rice separate-
to the top, until the chicken ly and add to individual serv-
breasts are firm to the touch, ings of soup.
Italian Wedding Soup about 25 minutes. Nutrition | Per serving (based on 8): 169
6 to 8 servings l Using tongs, transfer the chick- calories, 29 g protein, 6 g carbohydrates, 3
Use fewer greens if you’d like more broth, or more if you want a en breasts to a medium bowl g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 99 mg cholesterol,
437 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 2 g sugar
thicker soup. and cover with a plate or a piece
Recipe tested by Olga Massov; email
Store leftover soup in covered containers in the refrigerator for up to of foil to prevent the meat from questions to [email protected]
4 days.
From staff writer G. Daniela Galarza

Ingredients optional
l 1 teaspoon olive oil l 1 large lemon, zested and
Farro, Kale and Peanut Butter Soup
l 1 (12-ounce) package fully juiced 4 servings (about 6 cups)
cooked Italian-style chicken l Sprigs of dill, for garnish This soup is nutty, a little bitter, and carries a hint of spice — and
sausage, preferably spicy, sliced (optional) happens to be vegan. Should you prefer a more subtle heat, you can
into 1/4-inch rounds remove the ribs and seeds when dicing the pepper.
l 2 large (about 3 ounces) Steps MAKE AHEAD: To shorten the cooking, soak the farro in water
carrots, scrubbed and chopped l In a large Dutch oven or heavy- overnight, skip the initial 20-minute simmer and add the kale with the
l 2 stalks (about 3 ounces) celery, bottomed pot over medium- broth. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 4 days, or freeze for
halved lengthwise and sliced high, add the olive oil and sau- up to 3 months.
(save a few leaves for garnish, if sage and saute, stirring every so From staff writer Aaron Hutcherson.
desired) often, until browned on both
l 10 cups (21/2 quarts) low- sides, 2 to 4 minutes. Increase Ingredients fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add
sodium chicken stock the heat to high and add the l 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive the farro and cook for 2 min-
l 1/4 cup (2 ounces) milk or water carrots, celery and stock. Cover, oil utes, stirring occasionally. Add
l 1 large egg bring to a boil and cook until l 1 medium (7 ounces) yellow the tomato paste and cook, stir-
l 1 slice white bread, hard crusts the carrots and celery are ten- onion, diced ring regularly, for 1 minute.
removed der, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove l 1 jalapeño pepper, diced l Add the vegetable stock, scrap-
l 1 pound ground pork or turkey from heat. l 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus ing up any bits stuck to the
l 1/2 cup (about 1 ounce) grated l Meanwhile, make the meat- more to taste bottom of the pan, and bring to
Parmesan cheese or pecorino balls: Position a rack in the l 1/2 teaspoon ground black a boil, then reduce to a simmer,
Romano cheese, plus more for middle of the oven and preheat pepper, plus more to taste and cook, with the lid slightly
serving it to 425 degrees. l 2 cloves garlic, minced or ajar, for 20 minutes, stirring
l 1/4 (2 ounces) yellow onion, l In a large bowl, add the milk grated once or twice.
grated and egg and whisk lightly. Add l 1 cup farro, rinsed l Add the kale and continue sim-
l 1/4 cup (about 1/2 ounce) the slice of bread and soak for 5 l 2 tablespoons tomato paste mering, stirring once or twice,
chopped Italian parsley, plus minutes. Add the ground pork l 6 cups unsalted or low-sodium until the flavors come together
more for serving or turkey, cheese, onion, pars- vegetable stock, plus more as and the farro and kale are ten-
l 3 cloves garlic, minced ley, garlic, salt and pepper to the and simmer until al dente, 4 to 6 the center — about 3 minutes. desired der but still retain some bite,
l 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus soaked bread and mix with your minutes. Lower the heat to me- l Add half of the lemon juice; l 1 bunch (12 ounces) lacinato/ about 20 minutes more.
more to taste hands until combined. Rinse dium, and stir in the chopped taste the broth, and season with Tuscan kale, stemmed and l Stir in the peanut butter until
l 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground and moisten your hands with greens, red pepper flakes, if additional salt and pepper, if thinly sliced (about 6 cups) fully combined. If you prefer a
black pepper, plus more to cool water and then shape the using, and half of the lemon desired. l 1/4 cup smooth peanut butter thinner soup, add 1/2 to 1 cup
taste mixture into 1- to 2-inch meat- zest; reserve the remaining zest l Serve the soup hot, garnished more stock to reach the desired
l 3/4 cup (21/2 ounces) tiny pasta, balls; you will have 30 to 35 for garnish. with celery leaves, Parmesan, Steps consistency. Taste and add more
such as orzo, stelline pasta, meatballs. Place them, spaced l Using a spatula, scrape the parsley, dill, the remaining lem- l In a large pot over medium salt and pepper, as desired. Let
ditalini or acini di pepe evenly, on a large, rimmed bak- meatballs and any fat and on zest and juice, if desired. heat, add the oil and heat until cool slightly before serving.
l 4 to 6 ounces (4 to 6) shredded ing sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 crispy bits stuck to the pan into Nutrition | Per serving (based on 8): 368 shimmering. Add the onion, Nutrition | Per serving: 429 calories, 16 g
or chopped escarole, kale minutes; meatballs will finish the soup. Increase the heat to calories, 26 g protein, 28 g carbohydrates, jalapeño, salt and pepper and protein, 60 g carbohydrates, 17 g fat, 3 g
(thick ribs removed), chard cooking in the soup. high and cook until the greens 17 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 83 mg cook, stirring occasionally, until saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 757 mg
cholesterol, 851 mg sodium, 2 g dietary sodium, 9 g dietary fiber, 11 g sugar
(ribs removed) or spinach, or a l Return the heat to high under soften and the meatballs are fiber, 3 g sugar the onion starts to soften, about
Recipe tested by Aaron Hutcherson; email
combination the soup. As soon as the broth cooked through — cut into one Recipe tested by Jim Webster ; email 5 minutes. questions to [email protected]
l Pinch red pepper flakes, comes to a boil, stir in the pasta to be sure it’s no longer pink in questions to [email protected] l Add the garlic and cook until

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