Bill Clinton also condemned the riots in and around the Washington Capitol. Chief of Staff Melania Trump resigned with immediate effect.

After nearly four hours of disruption, the United States Legislature building, which was besieged by protesters supporting outgoing President Donald Trump, was declared safe, allowing the verification of electoral votes to continue Wednesday night. , local time.

A police spokesman confirmed that the woman who was shot in the chest during the violent intrusion had lost her life. An investigation into the case has been launched.

Two suspected explosives were found near the site, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Vice President Mike Pence later condemned the violence, which he said could never lead to victory or call for the work to continue.

Former Republican President George W. Bush also condemned what happened.

It was a repulsive and heartbreaking sight. In this way, the electoral results are being questioned in the banana republics, not in our democratic country ”.

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Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a former presidential candidate, said the violence was the result of “the offended pride of a selfish man and the anger of people he deliberately misinformed.”

Former Democratic President Barack Obama put it that way

“This day will be a great disgrace and shame in the history of the country,” and the violence was incited by the current president with his “baseless lies” about the election result.

Former President Bill Clinton made a similar statement, saying that Trump had “lit” the fire of an unprecedented move.

Stephanie Grisham, First Lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff, announced her immediate resignation due to the unrest.

Parallel to the events in Washington, Trump supporters demonstrated in several other cities in the United States, such as Atlanta and Salem.

Riots broke out on Wednesday after Donald Trump said he was unwilling to step down from power. The president asked Vice President Mike Pence, who chaired the election verification session, to reject the electoral votes of certain states, thus reversing the election result. Pence rejected this, prompting the tens of thousands of Trump supporters to go to the Capitol, where the crowd erupted, where the crowd parted. There were several acts of violence on Capitol Hill. Vice President Pence was evacuated from the building and MPs were protected by police officers with weapons in hand.

Donald Trump sent a video message to protesters hours after the outbreak of violence, but several community platforms found it dangerous, which could further stir spirits. The Internet portals of Facebook and YouTube removed the video uploaded by Trump asking his followers to leave the Capitol because they believed it contained false claims about the purity of the election.

The footage was still available on Twitter, but soon after, the microblogging provider also made the video inaccessible, then suspended Donald Trump from his account for a time, and also imposed a perpetual ban. Soon after, Facebook ordered a 24-hour ban.



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Attack on the Capitol, Attack on Democracy - Enlarge Photo Gallery



Péter Máté
Getting closer

It is no coincidence that while the simply fanatical or deliberately fanatical Trump believers stormed the Legislature Building after the sitting US President failed to cover up, several people used only one term: a coup attempt. The images in our compilation captured one of the worst days of American democracy.

Facebook declared an emergency, removed Trump video



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Technology

Facebook considers the events that took place in Washington on Wednesday night to be extraordinary and extremely dangerous. That is why he removed from the community page a video of the resignation of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, which could only be oil on fire. YouTube chimed in, followed by Twitter.