Avlon: ‘The Emperor Nero Infamously Fiddled While Watching Rome Burn, Donald Trump Watched TV’

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AVLON: “The Emperor Nero infamously fiddled while watching Rome burn. Donald Trump watched TV. That’s one of the highlights from the first night of the January 6th Committee hearings. The ex-president never called any government official to stop the violence on Capitol Hill. Mike Pence did that. Instead, Trump leaned back and enjoyed the show, aiming something to approve of the mob’s calls to kill his own VP. That’s a surreal definition of the dereliction of duty. We also learned that for weeks, key members of Trump’s team were telling him he lost the election.”