As violent Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, forcing a lockdown Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden called on President Donald Trump to address the nation and urge peace.
"I call on President Trump to go on national television now, to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege,” Biden said.
President-elect Biden addresses the nation: https://t.co/BXM3SZK25R The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 6, 2021
“It’s not a protest – it's insurrection,” Biden said.
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January 08, 2021 Celebrities were shocked on Jan. 6 after a group of people waving Trump flags broke into the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. during the counting of U.S. president-elect
Just after noon, Donald Trump held a rally in which he falsely stated he had actually won the 2020 U.S. election, and encouraged supporters to head to the Capitol building, where Joe s win was to be certified by lawmakers. According to
The New York Times, around 2:15 p.m., the counting of Electoral College votes in the Capitol building stopped as the security was breached by a group of Trump supporters, who overwhelmed Capitol police and stormed the building, smashing windows and eventually making their way into the Senate chamber. When there, they jumped all over seats and even occupied the dias chair, shouting that Trump had won the election. Lawmakers were inside at the time and sheltered in place.
US President-elect Joe Biden called upon President Trump to go on national television immediately to call for a stop to the violence that erupted today in the US Capitol as a joint session of Congress attempted to certify the results of the 2020 US Presidential Election.