‘No one can tell me that if it had been a group of BLM [protesters] yesterday, that they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true’ — Pres.-elect Joe Biden called out the ‘clear failure to carry out equal justice’ in the attack on the Capitol.
As rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s efforts to send in state police and the National Guard were blocked by the federal government for a full 90 minutes. Now, Hogan – a Republican – is calling for President Trump to resign or be removed from office. Joining these calls is the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump Republican group formed in 2019. Its co-founder Rick Wilson calls the violence “sedition and insurrection,” and speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what’s at stake. Originally aired on January 8, 2021.
Republicans who had echoed President Trump’s false election claims suddenly distanced themselves after a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau levied perhaps his harshest-ever attack on U.S. President Donald Trump, telling Canadians on Friday that Trump, along with other U.S. politicians, “incited” the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election win and leaving four dead. “As shocking, deeply disturbing, and frankly saddening as that event remains, we have also seen this week that democracy is resilient in America, our closest ally and neighbour,” Trudeau said, speaking from the front steps of Rideau Cottage on Friday. “Violence has no place in our societies, and extremists will not succeed in overruling the will of the people.”
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office on Friday called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other political leaders to “disavow the false and dangerous narratives” that incited the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, when a pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol building. Ravina Shamdasani with the UN office added that the organization was “concerned” by the display of “overtly racist symbols” like the Confederate flag and clothing displaying anti-semitic logos during the violent events at the Capitol, and called on “all political leaders to do the same.”
President-elect Joe Biden said President Donald Trump’s decision to skip his inauguration is “one of the few things he and I have ever agreed on.”
President Trump has announced he won’t be attending the inauguration of his successor, Joe Biden, just hours after promising a peaceful transition.