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President-elect Joe Biden is calling the violent group that descended on the U.S. Capitol “domestic terrorists” and laying the blame for the violence squarely at President Donald Trump’s feet.
During remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday, Biden says people should not call the hundreds of Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol protesters. Rather, he says, they are “a riotous mob insurrectionists, domestic terrorists.” Biden said Trump is guilty of “trying to use a mob to silence the voices of nearly 160 million Americans” who voted in November.
Biden says the president has “made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of claw clear in everything he has done” and unleashed an “all-out attack” on the country’s democratic institutions that ultimately led to the violence Wednesday.
Aides consider resignations, removal options as Trump rages against perceived betrayals
Philip Rucker, , Josh Dawsey, Shane Harris and Ashley Parker, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was ensconced in the White House residence Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, raging about perceived betrayals, as an array of top aides weighed resigning and some senior administration officials began conversations about invoking the 25th Amendment - an extraordinary measure that would remove the president before Trump s term expires on Jan. 20.
By Rudy TakalaJan 7th, 2021, 11:12 am
The White House on Thursday pulled its nomination of Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Chad Wolf to become the department’s permanent secretary after he condemned violence in the nation’s Capitol.
“What transpired yesterday was tragic and sickening,” Wolf said in a morning statement. “While I have consistently condemned political violence on both sides of the aisle, specifically violence directed at law enforcement, we now see some supporters of the president using violence as a means to achieve political ends. This is unacceptable. These violent actions are unconscionable, and I implore the president and all elected officials to strongly condemn the violence that took place yesterday.”
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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Thursday she would leave office on January 11.
In the day since violent protesters breached the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were in the process of certifying the results of the presidential election, many Trump administration officials, including a number of Cabinet secretaries, have condemned the violence and a few officials have resigned.
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said on Wednesday the mob assault was “an intolerable attack on a fundamental institution of our democracy.” In another statement early on Thursday, he said the Justice Department “is committed to ensuring that those responsible for this attack on our government and the rule of law face the full consequences of their actions.” He said the department would bring charges against some of the perpetrators on Thursday and more in the da