Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.As the walls close in on him, what will Trump do?US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, July 3, 2020, as he travels to view Independence Day fireworks at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)Donald Trump is losing—which is not news. He’s been losing to Joe Biden since the first hypothetical poll was taken pitting the two men against each other. But what has changed is that, by all accounts, Trump now knows .What he...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.As the walls close in on him, what will Trump do?US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, July 3, 2020, as he travels to view Independence Day fireworks at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)Donald Trump is losing—which is not news. He’s been losing to Joe Biden since the first hypothetical poll was taken pitting the two men against each other. But what has changed is that, by all accounts, Trump now knows .What he...WW…

ep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went to recount her experience of the January 6 attack on the Capitol building. In a 90-minute video, AOC described her rising sense of anxiety as protest turned into riot, and a spike of fear as someone started banging on office doors. She and her legislative director hid, and when they heard a man come inside and yell “where is she?,” AOC says she “thought everything was over.”The man said he was a police officer, but she wasn’t sure if she could trust him. He told them to leave, but not where to go, and they moved through the halls, fearful and...…ep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went to recount her experience of the January 6 attack on the Capitol building. In a 90-minute video, AOC described her rising sense of anxiety as protest turned into riot, and a spike of fear as someone started banging on office doors. She and her legislative director hid, and when they heard a man come inside and yell “where is she?,” AOC says she “thought everything was over.”The man said he was a police officer, but she wasn’t sure if she could trust him. He told them to leave, but not where to go, and they moved through the halls, fearful and...WW…

To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:The Deep State is real, but it’s not what you think. The Deep State you worry about is mostly made up; a fiction, a lie, a product of active imaginations, grifter manipulations, and the internet. I’m telling you this now because storming the Capitol building has drawn the attention of the real Deep State — the national security bureaucracy — and it’s important you understand what that means.You attacked America. Maybe you think it was justified — as a response to a stolen election, or a cabal of child-trafficking...…To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:The Deep State is real, but it’s not what you think. The Deep State you worry about is mostly made up; a fiction, a lie, a product of active imaginations, grifter manipulations, and the internet. I’m telling you this now because storming the Capitol building has drawn the attention of the real Deep State — the national security bureaucracy — and it’s important you understand what that means.You attacked America. Maybe you think it was justified — as a response to a stolen election, or a cabal of child-trafficking...WW…