Full article Accusing Trump of continuing to fan rage and violence, Mayor Muriel Bowser said persons are dissatisfied with judicial rulings and the findings of State Boards of Elections
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday night extended the public emergency to 15 days, until the day after President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration.
The mayor s latest order followed a citywide curfew from Wednesday night to Thursday morning in response to Capitol chaos earlier in the day.
On Wednesday afternoon, supporters of outgoing Republican President Donald Trump pushed through barriers at the Capitol building, interrupting the certification of the 2020 electoral votes, and forcing a Capitol lockdown.
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ap photo Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, in Washington.
Marshalltown residents watched a mob storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday from the safety of their small central Iowa town. Some of them were at home, some learned about the events later in the day and others talked about it in classrooms.
Marshall County Republicans Chair Reed Riskedahl said watching what was happening in Washington, D.C. was difficult.
“It was an affront to the values of the Republican Party,” Riskedahl said. “We support free speech and vigorous debate of ideas. We also support the Constitutional principal of the peaceful transition of power.”
Many embarrassing questions are being asked about how thousands of Trump supporters – some of them reportedly armed – were able to over-run the seat of American.
U.S. taxpayers will be on the hook for damage from a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday because the building and grounds are not insured, industry sources said.
The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police will resign, according to media reports on Thursday, a day after the federal force charged with protecting Congress was unable to keep supporters of Republican President Donald Trump from storming the building.