Donald Trump calls on his supporters who storm the US Capitol to leave, while continuing to make unfounded claims that he won the presidential election against Joe Biden.
“I know your pain, I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt,” Trump says in a tweeted video message.
He adds: “This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people… so go home. We love you. You’re very special.”
Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the Capitol, in what several lawmakers have called a coup attempt. At one point a Trump supporter sat at the platform where Vice President Pence had been minutes earlier.
A protester sits in the Senate Chamber, at the platform where Vice President Pence had been minutes earlier, on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
Lawmakers were evacuated. All 1,100 members of the DC National Guard have been mobilized, and hundreds more security forces are also facing off against the insurrectionists.
As things stand, CNN says, security forces are still “hopelessly outnumbered” by the insurrectionists.
A curfew is due to come into force in DC in about an hour.
Help us report truthfully on social media
As a multimedia journalist, my job is to take the quality, fact-based journalism produced by The Times of Israel newsroom and make it accessible across every platform — from Instagram posts to podcasts to short-form videos.
This is how many, especially young people, consume news these days. But misinformation is rampant on social media. Our team at ToI produces accurate, responsible short-form reporting on Israel and the Jewish world.
If you believe in the importance of factual social media journalism, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to sustain responsible multimedia reporting.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google
