Updated: 4:35 p.m. The U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. was under siege on Wednesday as pro-Trump rioters overwhelmed security, breached the Senate chambers and stalled the planned count of Electoral College votes. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives were rushed to safety.
As night fell on Washington D.C., police ringed the Capitol and appeared to have restored order.
Security broke down at about 2:15 p.m. eastern time. Three hours later rioters continued to occupy Congress. The U.S. National Guard had been activated and there was a dusk to dawn curfew in place.
District 14 U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, who represents the coast, said the day's extraordinary events would not stop the Congress from certifying election results.
“More than 40 years ago, as I lay bleeding from five gunshot wounds on an air strip in the Guyanese jungle not knowing if I would live or die, I swore that if I did survive I would dedicate my life to public service. I thought of that moment today, when the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob of Trump rioters emboldened by the President fomenting a coup d’état," she said in a prepared statement released Wednesday afternoon. "My colleagues and I who were in the Capitol as the rotunda was breached and tear gas filled the air were evacuated to a safe location, where we remain.
"This is a dark day for American democracy," she wrote. Speier called for Trump's removal under provisions of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
Some Republican representatives — even those who supported the president’s erroneous claims of victory in the November election — did not mince words on social media as they struggled to describe what they were seeing from secured locations.
“This is a coup attempt,” said Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger over Twitter.
The mob was not peaceful. Television showed rioters fighting with police. CNN reported that one woman had been shot and at least one policeman injured.
The violence followed an angry screed from President Donald J. Trump, who said he would never concede despite losing the election on Nov. 3. At 4:20 p.m. eastern time he released a brief statement apparently attempting to disperse the crowd, telling them to "go home," but it was a mixed message at best. Later, Twitter suspended the president's social media account.
As the riot continued in and around the Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation. He called unfolding events an “Unprecedented assault, unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times.
“America is so much better than what we are seeing today,” he said.
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No one can point to it. That settles the question:
"I defy any reasonable person to cite where in President Trump's speech he even hinted at causing violence in the massive rally that came out to support him." http://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6
The rally was ruined by a small minority which the adolescent Left is using as an excuse to exact revenge.
Check the timing: Bad actors were rioting even before the speech so how could Trump have caused it?
Should we impeach Biden for the BLM riots? He was silent, passively condoning a summer of ongoing riots that helped him win. If the standard for impeaching a President is blaming him for other people's actions, then yes, Biden must be impeached also.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6
I defy any reasonable person to cite where in President Trump's speech he even hinted at causing violence in the massive rally that came out to support him. He didn't even remotely suggest it. Then he called on everyone to leave after it started.
Blaming Trump for the actions of a few idiots may be obscene but it's SOP for Far Left partisan hacks and cowards, including complicit media outlets that spread the lie without even bothering to read the facts for themselves.
Well, Trump has been saying that unless the elections is reversed that there will never be a fair election in America again. He has told people to fight. He has told people not to accept. He Tweeted about Mike Pence being a coward for not overturning the vote.
"Then he called on everyone to leave after it started."
Not until he repeated the lie they were rioting on behalf of. Not until he told them he loved them. Not until two or more hours after the riot started.
The President is a liar who only cares about himself. The people he Tweeted love for beat a cop with a fire extinguishers. They beat cops with flag poles. The President has said nothing in public about it. He could call into Fox and be on the air calling for calm. He could be out there right now telling people he is ashamed of what happened and begging them not to show up on January 20th.
Quotes from the liar's speech:
"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about." -- Trump
"Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump!" -- Crowd
"I hope so because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All he has to do. This is from the number one or certainly one of the top constitutional lawyers in our country." -- Trump
"Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" -- Trump Rioters
Big deal. Every politician says "we won't take this any more" and "we've had enough" and "I'm fighting for you" and "fight for this," "fight for that."
People believe Mike Pence took the coward's way out by certifying corrupted balloting rather than investigating the thousands of reported irregularities signed under penalty of perjury. Whether or not that happened is beside the point. They believe it and that point of view is valid.
What's not valid is threatening him or anyone. TRUMP did not call for that. Pelosi and her minions are using it as an excuse to kick Trump while he's down and it's 100 shameful and despicable behavior. Such sick people.
Lord of the Flies, anyone?
"They believe it and that point of view is valid."
They believed it because the President and his enablers lied to them: -- https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/01/08/trump-team-withdraws-baseless-vote-fraud-lawsuits-in-georgia/
"People believe Mike Pence took the coward's way out by certifying..."
Nike Pence is a hero. Mike Pence took an oath to the Constitution. So did McConnell. So did McCarthy. So did Barr. They didn't take an oath to Donald Trump. They all know that Biden won the election fair and square.
"I would do anything for love
Anything you've been dreaming of
But I just wont do that" -- Meat Loaf
I called Jackie’s office about Harlan Kelly, the GM of the SFPUC arrested Nov 30 by the Feds. Her office told me to call the Chronicle. The FBI staffers and I had a laugh about that advice. Point is-corruption is not just in DC. Jackie’s staff may have called the Feds as well but crooks are drawn to high salaries and big budgets
"But this year using the pretext of the China virus and the scam of mail-in ballots, Democrats attempted the most brazen and outrageous election theft. There’s never been anything like this. It’s a pure theft in American history, everybody knows it." -- Trump
"We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." -- Trump
"As you know the media is constantly asserted the outrageous lie that there was no evidence of widespread fraud." -- Trump
" Last night was a little bit better because of the fact that we had a lot of eyes watching one specific state, but they cheated like REDACTED anyway." -- Trump
"Look, I’m not happy with the Supreme Court. They love to rule against me. I picked three people. I fought like REDACTED for them, one in particular I fought." -- Trump
"Something’s wrong here. Something’s really wrong. Can’t have happened. And we fight. We fight like REDACTED and if you don’t fight like REDACTED, you’re not going to have a country anymore." -- Trump
Trump is right. We do not have a country any more. It's owned and operated by multinational powers so unfathomably strong even the President couldn't loosen their grip.
Thank you for trying, President Trump.
Rest in Peace, United States of America.
Ashli E. Babbitt, was a true American hero. She served our nation with honor during multiple deployments in wars. Wars her Commander in Chief mocks others for supporting.
Ashlie E. Babbitt believed QAnon was a real thing. Her Commander in Chief noted that QAnon believers like Donald Trump.
Ashlie E. Babbitt frequently retweeted the thoughts of one of her Commander in Chief's Lawyers, L. Lin Wood who has called for the Vice President to be tried and executed for treason.
Ashlie E. Babbitt was told by her Commander in Chief the he was going to march with her, and thousands of others like her, to the the congress. She was told to show courage, She was told to that she HAD to stop what was happening on Capital Hill. She was told that a heinous crime had been committed against the nation she was willing to die for. She was told that the Media, the FBI, the RINOs, the Democrat's, the Courts, George Soros, the Deep State, Pedophile Satanists, and half of the people who call themselves Americans, were conspiring to destroy the nation she was willing to die for. Her Commander in Chief changed his mind and drove home and flipped on the TV.
Ashlie E. Babbitt chose to defy the police. She joined a mob who didn't care if Cops were hurt and many were. She stood by as so called men busted a window of a barricaded door. Behind that door were some very frightened Cops whose job it was to protect the people Americans elect to do the people's business.
The busted out window was too small to crawl through for the so called men who broke it. One or more of so called men lifted Ashlie E. Babbitt so she could get in. Presumably, they, and she, hoped that she could move the barricades and open the doors.
What was she thinking? Was she proud? Was she ecstatic? Was she angry? Did she have visons of glory? Why did she do this? -- https://youtu.be/AZ9oThRuMVs
Ashlie E. Babbitt died for a lie he Commander in Chief told her.
This is odd. I don't recall Clay posting articles denouncing BLM and Antifa riots.
Does Clay know that Antifa laid seige on a Federal building in Portland for over 100 straight days? Does he care? Is this his only recourse as a pissed off Progressive now? To essentially retweet Speier? How utterly flaccid.
Agree. I have been thinking the Dems and CNN thought it was just fine to riot, break stuff, start fires, and destroy federal property.
You are using clichés to inform your thinking.
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Way past time we give that orange-headed traitor the boot out of the White House. Impeach tonight, 25th Amendment ASAP after.
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