Tension and violent clashes in the march of supporters of Donald Trump: they entered the Capitol

A situation of extreme tension occurred on Wednesday in the United States for the protest of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump at the entrance to the Capitol. For the demonstration, the Senate suspended the debate of the Electoral College in which the victory of Joe Biden will be confirmed.

Chaos and bullfighting raged for much of the afternoon and at least one person was shot in the assault by pro-Trump protesters in the US Congress, emergency services sources told local Fox.

MSNBC footage showed a woman carried on a stretcher with heavy bleeding and some lawmakers were heard shouting that they had been “heard gunshots”. Members of Capitol Hill security drew weapons in the plenary hall of the House of Representatives.

Several US Congressional office buildings were evacuated as supporters of President Trump they besieged the Capitol to protest against the President’s electoral defeat.

The violence escalated so that Democratic Mayor of the City of Washington, Muriel Elizabeth Bowser, has decreed that the United States capital will rule curfew from 18 this Wednesday (20 in Argentina).

Amid the uproar, as the police tried to disperse tear gas to the protesters, Trump himself called for calm. And he called on his supporters to “stay peaceful”.

“Please support the Capitol Police and law enforcement,” Trump said on Twitter more than an hour after protesters crossed the cordon.

“They are really on our country’s side,” Trump said. “Stay in peace!” He added.

Some protesters took advantage of the structures deployed for the inauguration of President-elect, Democrat Joe Biden – scheduled for January 20 – to climb and approach the steps of Congress.

Police have ordered staff to leave the Cannon Building and other offices that line the Legislative Building in central Washington.

To an extreme extent, the Capitol was closed and an announcement was posted explaining that due to the “external security threat” no one could enter or leave the building. And lawmakers have been instructed to put on gas masks and lie on the ground, according to members of Congress.

According to local media reports, outgoing Vice President Mike Pence, who chaired the joint session, could be seen, run out from the Senate chamber amid the sounds of protesters surrounding the Capitol.

“I just evacuated my Cannon office,” Republican Nancy Mace said in a tweet. “Now we were seeing protesters attacking Capitol Police.” “This is wrong. It is not who we are,” he added.

Violence erupted just hours after Trump addressed his supporters in Washington. that they had met peacefully since morning and called on them to demonstrate against the certification of Biden’s victory in the November 3 election.

Trump then reiterated that I wouldn’t accept Biden’s victory, despite the fact that his complaints of alleged fraud were dismissed by several courts across the country and the Electoral College certified the triumph of the former Democratic president.

Trump culpa a su vice, Mike Pence

As the American capital plunged into violence rarely seen there, Donald Trump shook the waters again and accused his vice president of chaos. for not having seized the power – which the Constitution does not grant him – to revoke the electoral defeat of his rival.

Before the chaos that forced the parliamentary session to be suspended, the Republican president called on his vice president not to certify Biden’s triumph.

“If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. He has the absolute right to do it,” Trump said.

“Mike Pence will have to help us, and if he doesn’t, it will be a sad day for our country,” added the president, who also called Republican lawmakers who planned to confirm Biden as future president as “weak.” .

But Pence rejected the request. The vice president has overturned the White House chief’s statements about his supposed power to revoke the country’s congressional election result, and described as “immoral“That the vice-president has the power to bring this movement to fruition.

“Our founders (from the United States) were very skeptical about the concentration of power and created a republic based on the separation of powers (…) under the Constitution,” Pence said in a statement, noting that “Investing in a vice president with the unilateral authority to decide the outcome of the election would be totally unethical under this conception.”

Trump had been claiming for days that Pence, in his capacity as President of the Senate and, therefore, Master of Ceremonies of the joint session of both legislative chambers, could overturn the election result, something that is not envisaged in electoral legislation from the country.

Source: EFE and AFP