Violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S.
Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning
attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the
nation’s democracy and keep President-elect Joe Biden from replacing
Trump in the White House.

One woman was confirmed to have been shot and killed. The National Guard
and state and federal police were called in for control, and rare
evening curfews were declared in Washington and nearby Virginia suburbs.

The protesters were egged on for weeks by Trump, who since the November
presidential election had launched a barrage of false attacks on the
integrity of the results. While rallying his supporters outside the
White House Wednesday morning, he urged them to march to the Capitol.
But later — hours after they fought police and breached the building —
he told them in a video that although they were "very special people�
and he backed their cause, they should “go home in peace.�

Other than a few tweets and that minute-long video, Trump was largely
disengaged from the occupation of a main seat of the nation’s
government. It was Vice President Mike Pence, not Trump, who spoke with
senior defense leaders about calling up the National Guard.

President-elect Biden, two weeks away from being inaugurated, had
declared in Wilmington, Delawa "I call on President Trump to go on
national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution
and demand an end to this siege,�

Biden said that democracy was "under unprecedented assault," a sentiment
echoed by many in Congress, including some Republicans.

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