BREAKING | Professional-Trump protesters storm US Capitol whereas congress was debating Biden’s victory

Professional-Trump protesters storm the Capitol constructing.

The US Capitol was placed on lockdown on Wednesday as crowds protesting President-elect Joe Biden’s victory breached safety barricades whereas Congress was debating the certification of his electoral win over President Donald Trump, in accordance with Reuters eyewitnesses.

The Senate and the Home, which have been weighing objections to Biden’s victory, abruptly and unexpectedly recessed.

CNN has reported that police have fired tear fuel at protesters. There have additionally been reviews that Vice President Mike Pence was evacuated from the constructing.

Earlier within the day, Trump advised supporters at a rally that he was not accepting defeat to Biden, saying: “You do not concede when there’s theft concerned”.

He additionally blasted Vice President Mike Pence after he refused to intervene within the certification by Congress of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

“Mike Pence did not have the braveness to do what ought to have been carried out to guard our Nation and our Structure,” Trump tweeted. “USA calls for the reality!”

Trump’s assertion got here after Pence, in defiance of the president, stated he wouldn’t cease the certification by Congress of Biden’s victory.

Trump later tweeted after information broke of the protest that protesters should “keep peaceable”.

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