Hundreds of pro-President Donald Trump protesters invaded the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday in an insurrectionary climate, interrupting the session of Congress that was to confirm Joe Biden's victory.
In a series of tweets, Donald Trump asked his supporters to steer clear of the violence, before finally asking them, in a short video, to "go home".
For his part, Joe Biden called the intrusion into The Capitol "an unprecedented attack" against American democracy. He called on Donald Trump to speak "immediately" on television to demand "the end of the siege" of the Capitol and denounce this "insurgency".