Democrats Detail Trump Bid to Fuel Supporters' Rage

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Trial Depicts Riot as Intended Result — Security Video Seen for First Time

By NICHOLAS FANDOS WASHINGTON — The House the election was “rigged” against impeachment managers opened him, but stoking the rage of a their prosecution of Donald J. throng of supporters who made it Trump on Wednesday with a me- clear that they would do anything ticulous account of his campaign — including resorting to violence to overturn the election and goad — to help him. supporters to join him, bringing The managers argued that it its most violent spasms to life with warranted that the Senate break never-before-seen security with two centuries of history to footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol make Mr. Trump the first former riot. president to be convicted in an im- Filling the Senate chamber with peachment trial and disqualified the profane screams of the attack- from future office on a single ers, images of police officers being count of “incitement of insurrec- brutalized, and near-miss mo- tion.” ments in which Vice President “Donald Trump surrendered CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT, SENATE TELEVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS; SENATE TELEVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS; SENATE TELEVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS; GETTY IMAGES Mike Pence and lawmakers came his role as commander in chief Video presented at the impeachment trial on Wednesday aimed to show, clockwise from top left, how former President Donald J. steps away from confronting a and became the inciter in chief of a Trump spent months on a message; rioters inside the Capitol; rushing Mike Pence to safety; a Capitol security officer under attack. mob hunting them down, the pros- dangerous insurrection,” Repre- ecutors made an emotional case sentative Jamie Raskin, Demo- that Mr. Trump’s election lies had crat of Maryland and the lead directly endangered the heart of manager, told the senators. They American democracy. watched the footage in silence in Tighten Masks Millions of Coveted Face Coverings Await Buyers They played frantic police radio the same spots where they had calls warning that “we’ve lost the Continued on Page A15 crack the market, despite vows line,” body camera footage show- Or Double Up, ing an officer pummeled with By ANDREW JACOBS Small U.S. Firms Make from both former President Don- ald J. Trump and President Biden poles and fists on the West Front A year into the pandemic, the C.D.C. Warns to “Buy American” and buoy do- of the Capitol, and silent security disposable, virus-filtering N95 N95s, but Suppliers mestic production of essential tape from inside showing Mr. mask remains a coveted piece of Pence, his family and members of medical gear. protective gear. Continuing short- Won’t Take Them the House and Senate racing to These businesses must over- By RONI CARYN RABIN ages have forced doctors and evacuate as the mob closed in, Federal health officials on nurses to reuse their N95s, and or- come the ingrained purchasing chanting: “Hang Mike Pence! Wednesday urged Americans to dinary Americans have scoured gated a nine-month federal ap- habits of hospital systems, medi- Hang Mike Pence!” keep their masks on and take the internet — mostly in vain — to proval process that allows the cal supply distributors and state All of it, the nine Democratic steps to make them fit more get them. masks to be marketed. governments. Many buyers are managers said, was the foresee- snugly — or even to layer a cloth But Luis Arguello Jr. has plenty But demand is so slack that Mr. loath to try the new crop of Ameri- able and intended outcome of Mr. covering over a surgical mask — of N95s for sale — 30 million of Arguello is preparing to lay off can-made masks, which are often Trump’s desperate attempts to saying that new research had them, in fact, which his family-run some of the 1,300 workers he had a bit more expensive than those cling to the presidency. Reaching shown that masks greatly reduce business, DemeTech, manufac- hired to ramp up production. produced in China. Another obsta- back as far as last summer, they SENATE TELEVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS the spread of the coronavirus. tured in its factories in Miami. He “It’s insane that we can’t get cle comes from companies like traced how he spent months culti- Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Recent laboratory experiments simply can’t find buyers. these masks to the people who Facebook and Google, which vating not only the “big lie” that U.S. Virgin Islands at the trial. found that viral transmission After the pandemic exposed a desperately need them,” he said. banned the sale and advertising of could be reduced by 96.5 percent if huge need for protective equip- In one of the more confounding N95 masks in an effort to thwart Americans wore snug surgical ment, and China closed its inven- disconnects between the laws of profiteers from diverting vital masks or a cloth-and-surgical- tory to the world, DemeTech, a supply and demand, many of the medical gear needed by frontline Before the Riot, Chilling Images mask combination. In announcing medical suture maker, dived into nearly two dozen small American medical workers. the findings, Dr. Rochelle P. the mask business. The company companies that recently jumped What’s required, public health Anger Crackled Revive Horrors, Walensky, director of the Centers invested tens of millions of dollars into the business of making N95s experts and industry executives for Disease Control and Preven- in new machinery and then navi- are facing the abyss — unable to Continued on Page A6 tion, pleaded with Americans to On Talk Radio Bolstering Case wear a “well-fitting mask.” “With cases, hospitalizations and deaths still very high, now is This article is by Michael M. Gryn- By PETER BAKER not the time to roll back mask re- baum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson It was ghastly to watch, but that quirements,” she said. “The bot- and Keith Collins. was the point. A rampaging crowd tom line is this: Masks work, and Two days before a mob of threatening death as it hunted the they work when they have a good Trump supporters invaded the vice president and speaker of the fit and are worn correctly.” United States Capitol, upending House. Senators spinning around Masking is now mandatory on the nation’s peaceful transition of midstep to run for their lives. Staff federal property and on domestic power and leaving at least five members barricading themselves and international transportation. people dead, the right-wing radio in an office as attackers pounded Studies conducted in households star Glenn Beck delivered a mes- on the door. Overwhelmed police in Beijing, hair salons in Missouri sage to his flock of 10.5 million lis- officers retreating from rioters, and aboard an aircraft carrier in teners: “It is time to fight.” desperately calling for help. Guam have proved that “any “It is time to rip and claw and It seems safe to assume that mask is better than none,” said Dr. rake,” Mr. Beck said on his Jan. 4 never in American history has John T. Brooks, the chief medical broadcast. “It is time to go to war, such gut-churning video footage officer for Covid response at the as the left went to war four years been shown on the floor of the Sen- C.D.C. and lead author of the agen- ago.” ate, where matters of great weight cy’s new research on masking. A former Fox News host, Mr. have been debated but hardly “Wearing a mask reduces Beck had speculated for weeks brought home in such a visually spread, and in communities that about baseless claims of voter powerful way. The images shown adopt mask-wearing, new infec- fraud in the presidential race. He in former President Donald J. tions go down,” Dr. Brooks said. told listeners that Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial on But while masks reduce the res- Trump had taught conservatives Wednesday were all the more res- piratory droplets and aerosols ex- that “you don’t have to cower any- onant because some of the jurors haled by infected wearers, and more, you don’t have to back down themselves were onscreen. protect uninfected wearers, air when ridiculed into oblivion. You The display of never-before- leaking around the edges of a can fight back.” seen video from Capitol security mask can reduce its effectiveness. Mr. Beck did not lobby for his cameras, along with newly dis- The agency’s new laboratory ex- SCOTT McINTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES listeners to invade the Capitol, closed police dispatch audiotapes, Continued on Page A6 A worker inspecting an N95 mask at DemeTech, a Florida company that made 30 million masks. and a day later he urged marchers brought the mob assault of Jan. 6 in Washington “to really kind of back to life as mere words from channel your inner Martin Luther the House managers prosecuting King,” adding that violence is “just Mr. Trump never could. The terror not who we’ve ever been.” But the of that day felt palpably real all Racing the Clock, a Doctor Gave Out the Vaccine. He Was Fired. language he used on his Jan. 4 over again as senators sitting in show was typical of the ag- judgment of the former president narian. A woman in her 80s with my life.” gressive rhetoric that permeated were forced to relive the first mass By DAN BARRY dementia. A mother with a child 10 Doses, and 6 Hours The matter of Dr. Gokal is play- conservative talk radio in the siege of the Capitol since British who uses a ventilator. ing out as pandemic-weary Amer- The Texas doctor had six hours. weeks before the Capitol siege. invaders ransacked the building icans scour websites and cross Now that a vial of Covid-19 vaccine After midnight, and with just to Find the Patients Talk radio is perhaps the most in 1814. had been opened on this late De- minutes before the vaccine be- state lines chasing rumors, all in influential and under-chronicled The emotions inside and out- cember night, he had to find 10 eli- came unusable, the doctor, Hasan anxious pursuit of a medicine in part of right-wing media, where side the Senate chamber were raw gible people for its remaining Gokal, gave the last dose to his a shun-worthy misdemeanor that short supply. The case opens wide the voices of Mr. Beck, Sean Han- as the sun set on Wednesday doses before the precious medi- wife, who has a pulmonary dis- sent his name and mug shot rock- to interpretation, becoming a nity, Rush Limbaugh and other evening after the House manag- cine expired. In six hours. ease that leaves her short of eting around the globe. study in the learn-as-you-go bio- star hosts waft through the ers sought to use the montage of Scrambling, the doctor made breath. “It was my world coming ethics of the country’s stumbling homes, workplaces and com- wrenching pictures to drive home house calls and directed people to For his actions, Dr. Gokal was down,” Dr. Gokal said in a tele- vaccine rollout. mutes of tens of millions of listen- their case against Mr. Trump. his home outside Houston. Some fired from his government job and phone interview on Friday. “To Late last month, a judge dis- ers. Before the riot, the shows Some current and former sena- were acquaintances; others, then charged with stealing 10 vac- have everything collapse on you. missed the charge as groundless, were often unrestrained forums tors struggled to regain their com- strangers. A bed-bound nonage- cine doses worth a total of $135 — God, it was the lowest moment in Continued on Page A5 Continued on Page A18 Continued on Page A16

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