“Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country,” Trump yelled from a stage that had been set up a block from the White House, for a crowd that had gathered on the grassy Ellipse below the national monument.Īs the president was speaking, Pence had, however, jumped ship. Trump singled out his formerly loyal deputy. Those Republicans who failed to overturn the election were “weak” and “pathetic”, allowing Democrats to destroy the country. They had been told, again and again, their nation was at stake, child-trafficking Chinese-run socialists were taking over, and they had to fight harder. Go to the Congress “peacefully and patriotically” he told them, but a matter of minutes later, the barricades outside the Capitol were down and the mob was charging.
He even said he would go with them, but it was just another promise he had no intention of keeping, taking his motorcade instead the hundred yards back to the White House. He told them to march from the White House along the National Mall to the Capitol to “save our democracy”. And we are going to have to fight much harder.”
Less than an hour before the Capitol was breached, Trump had told his supporters: “We want to be so respectful of everybody – bad people. The orange genie, who had been out of the bottle for four years granting the Republicans’ every wish, was not going back in without tearing down the palace walls, turning the party’s own supporters against it. It was the declaration from Pence – who had hitherto been assiduously loyal to the leader – that he would follow the constitution and read out the election result, rather than try to change it, that apparently triggered Trump’s wrath, and set in motion the events that led to the storming of the Capitol.Īs senators were being hustled to safety, a leading member of the latter faction, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is reported to have told a leader of the loyalists, Ted Cruz, “This is what you’ve gotten” – a clumsy, desperate epitaph for the party the Republicans thought they were. The vice-president, Mike Pence, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell and most Republican senators wanted to jump off the Trump train before it reached its last stop, and tried to put an end to the president’s fevered delusion that the presidency would be handed back to him after electoral defeat. A dozen senators and over a hundred representatives were prepared to follow him across the Rubicon and vote against certifying the confirmed results of November’s presidential election. Authorities found pipe bombs outside the offices of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, as well as a cooler with a long gun and molotov cocktail on the Capitol grounds.Ġ4:37 Democratic and Republican senators unite to condemn US Capitol violence – videoĪt the moment the Trumpist mob stormed the Capitol, the Republicans had split into duelling factions. Several police officers were also injured.
WHEN WAS THE RAID ON THE CAPITOL TV
Rioters attacked TV crews outside the building. Three others died in “medical emergencies” throughout the day, authorities said. One woman was shot by the US Capitol police and later died of her injuries, according to the Washington police. Police fired teargas as the rioters pushed inside the gleaming white edifice of the Capitol. A rioter stepped on to the dais and, according to a reporter on the scene, yelled: “Trump won that election.” They found their way into the Senate chamber where minutes earlier the election results were being certified. In the corridors outside, Trumpist rioters were able to roam freely, as they looked for members of Congress they saw as enemies. 04:34 Pro-Trump rioters storm US Capitol during vote on Biden election victory – video report
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