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GOP Senator Says He s Never Seen Mike Pence Angrier At Trump
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma shared a conversation with the vice president and quoted Pence as saying: After all the things I’ve done for Trump.
Sen. James Inhofe said he’d “never seen” Vice President Mike Pence as angry as he was at President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president blasted him repeatedly for declining to block the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
Inhofe, Oklahoma’s senior senator, said he’s spent more than five decades in politics and has “known Mike Pence forever.” But he told the Tulsa World on Wednesday night that he’d “never seen Pence as angry as he was today.”
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Biden Calls Capitol Rioters Domestic Terrorists, Blames Trump For Inciting Them
The president-elect also called out what he sees as law enforcement s racist double standard toward protesters.
President-elect Joe Biden condemned Wednesday’s riots at the U.S. Capitol in scathing terms, blaming President Donald Trump for “inciting” his supporters with his false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen.
Speaking on Thursday in an appearance announcing his appointments to lead the Department of Justice, Biden condemned the pro-Trump rioters as “insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorists.”
“They weren’t protesters,” he declared. “Don’t dare call them protesters.”
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Not In The Middle East Or Latin America: The Capitol Storming Was All-American
The reality is the use of violent force and intimidation for political gain has always been part of the U.S. narrative.
Americans and viewers around the globe watched in astonishment as hundreds of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trumpstormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in an effort to derail the joint congressional session in which the 2020 presidential election results were to be formally certified.
Rioters chanting pro-Trump slogans broke through barricades, scaled walls, forcibly entered the legislative chambers and posed behind the empty desks in lawmakers’ offices. While some journalists and staffers were evacuated, others remained trapped in the lockdown, live-tweeting the chaos that unfolded in the nation’s capital. At least four people died and dozens of police officers were injured.
“Something is going on in Washington, D.C.,” she told her students. “Let’s stop.”
Althimer, a history teacher in Chicago who had been teaching a life-skills course at the time, tilted her computer toward her television, letting her students see for themselves: A group of rioters was storming the U.S. Capitol.
The students, who are Black, were confused.
“Is this a KKK rally?” one asked.
“Why is this being allowed to happen?” asked another.
They ultimately landed on one conclusion: Had it been them rioting in D.C., they would have been shot.
On Wednesday, children like their parents bore witness to an unprecedented event in American history when violent rioters, spurred on by President Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol building to disrupt certification of the Electoral College results. Educators, many of them working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, started unpacking the events of the days with their students from behind a computer screen, ee