Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar provides insight into the U.S. Capitol riots on ‘America’s News HQ.’
There’s been more than a dozen White House resignations since Wednesday, when hundreds of violent, pro-Trump rioters vandalized the halls of Congress, threatened lawmakers and left five dead.
Most of the resignees explicitly blamed their departures on the president’s refusing to accept his election loss and urging a mob to march to the Capitol during Wednesday’s raucous Save America March.
Betsy DeVos
Education Secretary
Previously a staunch Trump supporter, DeVos resigned on Thursday, citing the unconscionable riot that caused widespread destruction at the Capitol a day earlier.
Trump supporters gather at the Save America March in Washington, D.C., one of several events held to protest the formal certification of the 2020 presidential election by Congress. | The Christian Post/Ryan Foley
WASHINGTON Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump braved the cold weather at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., Wednesday as they sought to show their support for the president and protest the certification of the Electoral College votes for the 2020 presidential election.
Trump supporters from across the country waited in line for hours to get into the Save America March, an event hosted by the Women for America First, a pro-Trump group. The event was one of many taking place on Capitol Hill as the results of the 2020 presidential election continue to be plagued by allegations of fraud.
U.S. Capitol Police stand detain protesters outside of the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021, in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Pro-Trump protesters breached the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon as Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers in both chambers were set to count votes from the Electoral College and likely solidify Joe Biden’s election victory.
How security failures enabled Trump mob to storm U.S. Capitol
Joseph Tanfani, John Shiffman, Brad Heath and Mark Hosenball
January 7, 2021, 6:33 AM
(Reuters) - The bloody chaos inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters in what law enforcement officials called a catastrophic failure to prepare.
The siege of the Capitol, home to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, represents one of the gravest security lapses in recent U.S. history, current and former law enforcement officials said, turning one of the most recognizable symbols of American power into a locus of political violence.
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Rabble politics reporter Karl Nerenberg.
“The conversation is not, mostly, about whether or not we will go to the polls this year,” he writes. “Ottawa insiders seem pretty much unanimous on that one. There will be a federal election in 2021. The only point of contention is whether it will be in the spring or the fall.”
As evidence, he cites Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s on-the-record year-end musings, during which he claimed not to be “actively seeking” another go-round on the hustings. Rather, he repeatedly pointed out that “opposition intransigence could, ahem, ‘force’ him to go to the people sooner rather than later,” a warning that prompted “unalloyed bafflement” from New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh.