Here is what has happened. US president Donald Trump asserted for months, without evidence, that he could not be defeated in a fair election. He duly attributed his defeat to a rigged election. Four in five Republicans still agree. The president pressured officials to overturn their states’ votes. Having failed, he sought to bully his vice-president and Congress into rejecting the electoral votes submitted by the states. He incited an assault on the Capitol, in order to pressure Congress into doing so. Some 147 members of Congress, including eight senators, voted to reject the states’ votes.
先梳理一下之前所发生的事件。数月来，美国总统唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)在没有证据的情况下坚称，他不可能在一场公平的选举中被击败。他果然将自己的失败归因于选举舞弊。五分之四的共和党人仍相信这一点。这位总统向官员们施压，要求他们推翻所在州的投票结果。失败后，他又试图胁迫副总统和国会拒绝各州提交的选举人票。为了向国会施压，逼国会就范，他煽动了对国会大厦的攻击。大约147名国会议员，包括8名参议员，投票反对各州的选举人票。