Rabid Trump fans break into Congress and stop election certification session
For months, Trump and the right-wing propaganda network have been howling and screaming about how dangerous the “antifa” and Black Lives Matter protesters are and how much of a threat they pose to public safety — but once again, we’re shown that it’s the Trumpers who resort to violence at the drop of a hat.
As the counting of the Electoral College ballots and the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory began, a mob of Trump supporters charged up the Capitol steps and began clashing with police officers.
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them pic.twitter.com/VVdTUwV5YN
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) January 6, 2021
The MAGA terrorists succeeded in breaking through the police barricades and eventually forced their way into the Capitol building itself, putting a stop to the Senate debate and triggering shelter-in-place protocols for all the lawmakers inside.
WATCH: Rioters break windows to enter U.S. Capitol building pic.twitter.com/n9FYMZYvD0
— BNO News (@BNONews) January 6, 2021
WATCH: Trump supporters attempting to break a door inside the U.S. Capitol pic.twitter.com/kSvbHJmf7b
— BNO News (@BNONews) January 6, 2021
They're inside. pic.twitter.com/AxceUWwHqI
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) January 6, 2021
A guy on a megaphone outside the besieged Capitol just shouted "The president invited us here! Were not leaving!" Another man said, "Democrats! We have you surrounded."
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) January 6, 2021
BREAKING: Clashes reported inside the U.S. Capitol building pic.twitter.com/2twyZAD6wJ
— BNO News (@BNONews) January 6, 2021
Capitol police were forced to evacuate the United States Senate and all its Senators in order to protect them from the mob.
They're slamming on the doors. Everyone has gas masks. I can see some flashes outside the chambers.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 6, 2021
VIDEO: Security with guns drawn in the US Capitol Building. – @MEPFullerpic.twitter.com/PjkcRBHdWA
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) January 6, 2021
UPDATE: Me & several other reporters we’re locked inside the Senate chamber w/ full Senate body shortly after 2pm. Pence was evacuated before we were locked in
At 2:29pm police on Senate floor shouted: “SHOTS FIRED. MOVE AWAY FROM THE DOORS”
At 2:31pm everyone was evacuated
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) January 6, 2021
NEWS: Some senators were quietly joking among themselves that everyone who is in favor of defunding the police should step out of the chamber. Now senators are EVACUATING. Police say tear gas has been dispursed in the Capitol rotunda.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 6, 2021
Members now evacuating the House chamber.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 6, 2021
UPDATE: Vice President Mike Pence has been evacuated from the Capitol – CNN
— BNO News (@BNONews) January 6, 2021
This was seemingly inevitable after all the energy that Trump and his allies have spent riling up his supporters, inciting violence, and painting himself as the victim of a conspiracy when in reality it is Trump himself who is attempting to subvert our democracy and orchestrate the world’s dumbest coup in broad daylight.
While the Trumpers say they are here to fight to uphold the Constitution, they are idiot pawns in a naked power grab by a would-be despot and have no respect for the rule of law or the institutions our nation was founded on.
But let’s call this what this is: the president of the United States incited a mob to sack the Capitol in order to steal an election for him.
THIS IS AN ONGOING STORY THAT WILL BE UPDATED AS NEW INFORMATION EMERGES.