Mr. Mattis resigned in late 2018 over differences with Mr. Trump’s policy in Syria.
Mr. Esper, meanwhile, was fired shortly after last November’s election and has quickly become a top Trump critic.
“This afternoon’s assault on the US Capitol was appalling and un-American. This is not how citizens of the world’s greatest and oldest democracy behave,” Mr. Esper said on Twitter. “The perpetrators who committed this illegal act were inspired by partisan misinformation and patently false claims about the election. This must end now for the good of the republic.”
“I commend Congressional leaders for meeting tonight to complete their Constitutional task of counting the electoral college votes that will affirm Joe Biden as the next president of the United States,” he continued in a series of posts on Twitter. “As this transition plays out over the next two weeks, I am confident the U.S. military will stay out of politics, and remain true to its sworn oath to support
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Rouhani said storming of the US Capitol proved failure of the Western . more > By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Iranian leaders said Thursday that President Trump has done irreparable harm to the U.S. and that the storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters a day earlier represented the “annihilation of Western democracy.”
During a speech in Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the incident on Mr. Trump, who has taken a tough stance toward Iran during his four years in office.
Democratic candidates in two Senate races in Georgia upended Republicans, which alongside a small House majority gives Joe Biden higher odds of enacting his agenda.
For some in Georgia, an answer to their prayers
Clyde McGrady, The Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2021
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The Rev. Raphael Warnock, the projected winner of a Senate runoff election in Georgia, will be the first Black senator in the state s history. Warnock is photographed speaking to canvassers at Elizabeth Porter Park in Marietta, Ga. on Jan. 5, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Kevin D. Liles
In early September 1868, two months after Georgia s readmission to the Union, its state legislature expelled almost 30 of its newly elected Black members instead of seating them. Not long afterward, one of the banished members, a man named Philip Joiner, led several hundred Black people and a few White people on a 25-mile march from Albany to Camilla for a political rally. Along the way hundreds of armed White people, led by a local sheriff, opened fire on the parade, killing about a dozen marchers. Joiner and others fled into the woods.
By Allie Gold
Jan 7, 2021
Vice President Pence officially affirmed the election results of President-elect Joe Biden’s win Thursday, after a long night after pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol in an attempted coup.
3:32am, Pence officially cited the results for Biden s victory in Vermont, which put the Democrat votes past 270 electoral votes leading Congress to confirm him as the next president approximately 15 hours after they went into session.
“Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the state of Vermont?” Pence asked. There was only silence. “The announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration as persons elected president and vice president of the United States,” Pence said at 3:41 a.m.