Pro-Trump Protestors Break Into The Capitol Building To Disrupt Biden's Certification Process
President Donald Trump refuses to stop pushing his baseless claims of massive voter fraud and come to terms with the fact that he lost the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. While a considerable number of people from the opposite, as well as his own party, are opposing the president's doomed-to-fail efforts to overturn the election results, some of his supporters swarmed the Capitol building in a bid to block the president-elect's certification process.
Even after a Pro-Trump mob entered the US Capitol, which led to an immediate evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence and other lawmakers, and claimed one person's life, Trump continues pushing his conspiracy theories claiming the election was stolen from him. Taking to his Twitter account, Trump posted a video message, wherein he reiterated his dubious claims of the Democrats stealing the election from him.
In the now-deleted tweet, Trump said everyone, including the other side, knows that it was a landslide election. Towards the end of the tweet, he urged his supporters to go home, noting that they need to follow law and order and have peace. Admitting that they love them, Trump asked his supporters to go home in peace.
The chaos started during a Wednesday rally demanding the Congress to reverse the presidential election results. After the protestors stormed the Capitol building, Trump himself spoke. Reporters present at the scene, as well as multiple photos and videos, show officers drawing their guns on protestors as members of Congress hide under their seats.
DC Police confirmed that one woman, identified as Ashli Babbitt, died after being shot, The Washington Post reported. Babbitt, an Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, tweeted the day before being shot that nothing will stop them, and even if they try, the "storm" will be descending upon D.C. in less than 24, hinting at the upcoming protest.
Members of Congress were safely evacuated and taken to an undisclosed location, where they were informed around 5:30 pm ET that that building has finally been secured. The Pentagon had to deploy its 1,100 members of D.C. National Guard to control the mob.
Trump initially refused to send in the National Guard, much to the frustration of aides. The order to deploy the troops was eventually placed by Vice President Mike Pence rather than the president, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Although the protestors failed to topple the government permanently, they temporarily disrupted the certification process. As a result, Biden was unable to complete one of the final steps before taking office later this month.