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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump’s administration plungeddeeper into crisis on Thursday asmore officials resigned in protest,prominent Republicans brokewith him and Democratic con-gressional leaders threatened toimpeach him for encouraging amob that stormed the Capitol aday earlier.

What was already shaping upas a volatile final stretch to theTrump presidency took on an airof national emergency as theWhite House emptied out andsome Republicans joined SpeakerNancy Pelosi and a cascade ofDemocrats calling for Mr. Trumpto be removed from office withoutwaiting the 12 days until the inau-guration of President-elect Jo-seph R. Biden Jr.

The prospect of actually short-circuiting Mr. Trump’s tenure inits last days appeared remote. De-spite a rupture with Mr. Trump,Vice President Mike Pence pri-vately ruled out invoking the dis-ability clause of the 25th Amend-ment to sideline the president, asmany had urged that he and thecabinet do, according to officials.Democrats suggested they couldmove quickly to impeachment, astep that would have its own logis-tical and political challenges.

But the highly charged debateabout Mr. Trump’s capacity togovern even for less than twoweeks underscored the depth ofanger and anxiety after the inva-sion of the Capitol that forced law-makers to evacuate, halted thecounting of the Electoral Collegevotes for several hours and leftfour people dead.

Ending a day of public silence,Mr. Trump posted a 2½-minutevideo on Twitter on Thursdayevening denouncing the mob at-tack in a way that he had refusedto do a day earlier. Reading from ascript prepared by his staff, he de-clared himself “outraged by theviolence, lawlessness and may-hem” and told those who broke thelaw that “you will pay.”

While he did not give up hisfalse claims of election fraud, he fi-nally conceded defeat. “A new ad-ministration will be inauguratedon Jan. 20,” Mr. Trump acknowl-edged. “My focus now turns to en-suring a smooth, orderly andseamless transition of power. Thismoment calls for healing and rec-onciliation.”

Mr. Trump initially resisted tap-ing the video, agreeing to do itonly after aides pressed him andhe appeared to suddenly realizehe could face legal risk for prod-ding the mob, coming shortly afterthe chief federal prosecutor forWashington left open the possibil-ity of investigating the presidentfor illegally inciting the attack bytelling supporters to march on theCapitol and show strength.

Pat A. Cipollone, the WhiteHouse counsel, had warned Mr.Trump of just that danger onWednesday as aides franticallytried to get the president to inter-vene and publicly call off rioters,which he did only belatedly, reluc-

CALLS GROW TO REMOVE TRUMPAS U.S. OFFICIALS HEAD FOR EXIT

By PETER BAKERand MAGGIE HABERMAN

President FinallyConcedes Loss

in a Video

TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION Trump supporters on Wednesday left broken windows, doors and furniture in the Capitol, as well as a defaced bust of President Zachary Taylor.The damage to the nation was still being assessed by lawmakers, many of whom are saying even two weeks would be too long to let the president remain in office.

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump not only inspired a mob tostorm the Capitol on Wednesday— he also brought the RepublicanParty close to a breaking point.

Having lost the presidency, theHouse and now the Senate on Mr.Trump’s watch, Republicans areso deeply divided that many areinsisting they must fully breakfrom the president to rebound.

Those divisions were in espe-cially sharp relief this week whenscores of House Republicanssided with Mr. Trump in voting toblock certification of the election— in a tally taken after the mobrampaged through the Capitol —while dozens of other House mem-bers and all but eight Republicansenators refused to go along.

Republicans who spent yearsputting off a reckoning with Mr.Trump over his dangerous behav-ior are now confronting a disturb-ing prospect: that Wednesday’sepisode of violence, incited by Mr.Trump’s remarks, could linger fordecades as a stain on the party —much as the Watergate break-inand the Great Depression shad-owed earlier generations of Re-publicans.

“His conduct over the last eightweeks has been injurious to thecountry and incredibly harmful tothe party,” said Chris Christie, theformer governor of New Jerseywho was the first major Republi-can to endorse Mr. Trump.

Mr. Christie said Republicansmust “separate message frommessenger,” because “I don’tthink the messenger can recoverfrom yesterday.”

A small number of Republicanofficials who have been critical of

After the Mob,A ReckoningFor the G.O.P.

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Six days before a raucous rallyof President Trump’s supportersin Washington, RepresentativeMaxine Waters anxiously grilledthe chief of the Capitol Policeabout his preparations for various

scenarios: Were the rooftops se-cured? Would streets be blockedoff? Did he know that violentgroups like the Proud Boys andthe Oath Keepers were vowing tostir up chaos?

Ms. Waters, a California Demo-crat, said each of her concernswas met with a similar responsefrom Chief Steven Sund duringtheir hourlong call: “He assuredme that they have everything un-der control, that they were on topof everything.”

They weren’t. Instead, an angrymob of pro-Trump extremistsswarmed the barricades aroundthe Capitol on Wednesday, spray-ing chemical irritants and wield-ing lead pipes, injuring more than50 officers. They battered doors,

Capitol BreachPuts the PoliceUnder Scrutiny

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Police officers after the Capitolwas cleared on Wednesday.

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This article is by Shaila Dewan,Neil MacFarquhar, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Ali Watkins.

WASHINGTON — With his vic-tory recognized by Congress andhis party set to control both theHouse and Senate, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. moved onThursday to fill out his cabinet,while his aides and allies draftedplans for an ambitious legislativeagenda headlined by $2,000 stim-ulus checks to individual Ameri-cans.

Just hours after the House andSenate confirmed his election andPresident Trump said he wouldpeacefully transfer power, Mr. Bi-den announced Judge Merrick B.Garland as his attorney generaland selected three nominees torun the Labor Department, theCommerce Department and theSmall Business Administration.

The president-elect’s ability topush through key parts of hisagenda and win confirmation ofhis cabinet selections received asignificant lift this week, as Demo-crats picked up two Senate seatsin Georgia, resulting in a 50-50split. Vice President-elect KamalaHarris has the power to cast thetiebreaking vote, which wouldgive Democrats control of thechamber.

As part of what he has pledgedwill be a next round of economic

assistance, Mr. Biden is expectedto move quickly to gain passage of$2,000 stimulus checks — whichwere a big focus in the Georgiaelections — along with expandedunemployment benefits, aid tostate and local governments andadditional relief for small busi-

nesses.But despite Democratic control,

the scope of his ambitions will besomewhat constrained by themoderates in his party, as well as amuch thinner majority than hisparty’s predecessor, PresidentBarack Obama, had.

In the House, Democrats willhave only a 12-seat advantage, po-tentially dampening the multi-tril-lion-dollar ambitions that Mr. Bi-den laid out in the 2020 campaignto expand health care, reduce eco-

With Senate in Control, Biden Solidifies AgendaBy JIM TANKERSLEY

and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Judge Merrick B. Garland is the nominee for attorney general.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

President-Elect Reveals4 More Cabinet Picks

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WASHINGTON — There wereinfamous white nationalists andnoted conspiracy theorists whohave spread dark visions of pe-dophile Satanists running thecountry. Others were more anony-mous, people who had journeyedfrom Indiana and South Carolina

to heed President Trump’s call toshow their support. One person, aWest Virginia lawmaker, had onlybeen elected to office in Novem-ber.

All of them converged onWednesday on the grounds of theU.S. Capitol, where hundreds of ri-oters crashed through barricades,climbed through windows andwalked through doors, wanderingthe hallways with a sense of glee-

ful desecration, because, for a fewbreathtaking hours, they believedthat they had displaced the veryelites they said they hated.

“We wanted to show these poli-

ticians that it’s us who’s in charge,not them,” said a constructionworker from Indianapolis, who is40 and identified himself only asAaron. He declined to give his lastname, saying, “I’m not thatdumb.”

He added: “We’ve got thestrength.”

As the country sifts through theshards of what happened in Wash-

‘It’s Us Who’s in Charge’: A Boiling Desire to Desecrate the CapitolBy SABRINA TAVERNISE

and MATTHEW ROSENBERGSpreading Lawlessness

in the Halls of Power

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SHAKEN Images from the Capitolundercut a pillar of global democ-racy. News Analysis. PAGE A17

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