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US political insider admits there are 'reasons to worry' for its democracy as allies wonder at damage done to the west's credibility.

He said the US was “not interested in thinking allies” but wanted “dummies”. “The best scenario will be: let’s not test them.” Visiting Canberra this week, he says: “I spent seven years of my life working in the US Senate, and I never in a million years thought that I would see a mob trying to overturn the certification of a presidential election by storming the US Capitol. Liz Cheney, vice-chair of the committee investigating 6 January, will lose her seat in Congress after [a primary challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/16/wyoming-republican-primary-liz-cheney-donald-trump-harriet-hageman). the kind of pride and boldness they need to take back our country,’” the document said. The courts, including judges appointed by Donald Trump himself, dismissed frivolous claims.” The French president, Emmanuel Macron, We watched what happened at the Capitol last year, we can see you at home, extremism is on the rise everywhere. You seem so unhappy. Fontaine admits he cannot say all is well. The briefing detailed the subsequent resignations of a number of senior Trump administration officials, the US House of Representatives’ vote to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection”, and moves by social-media companies to suspend Trump’s accounts. A key line for public consumption was that American leadership was “indispensable” to meeting global challenges and that the alliance between Australia and the US was “enduring and built on shared democratic values”.