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The American capital, Washington, witnessed today, when supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the Congress and besieged the representatives inside the Capitol building amid an armed confrontation with the police protecting the building, puts the image of the alleged American democracy in front of the mirror of reality that became clear with Trump's refusal to recognize the recent presidential elections and the victory of Democrat Joe Biden In which.
The images reported by the international media from the evacuation of the floor in the hall of the US House of Representatives after the protesters entered it and the protester sat on the seat of the President of the Senate and the deputies were transferred in the basements of the side to a safe place and a woman was shot in addition to the injury of a number of officers in the Capitol Building that shook the image that has always been American administrations have marketed them to the world for decades as the custodians of democracy and freedom in the world.
In front of those scenes and in an attempt to dispel suspicions about democracy, Trump dropped the last mulberry paper on it by instructing his supporters to protest against the congressional meeting today to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential elections. The leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Senator Mitch McConnell, was forced to stab the outgoing president in the back, blaming him for every responsibility. Those events, where he said that Congress had not witnessed such a situation in history ... in light of the president's claim that the elections were stolen while the judiciary refuses to do so, affirming his rejection of Trump's claims that following them would lead to the destruction of “America's democracy,” as quoted by Fox News of America.
Trump has become a criminal in the White House, according to the description of Democratic Representative William Baskrell, who in his tweet considered today's actions a "coup" attempt that is written as failure and said: “We are witnessing an attempted coup with the encouragement of the White House criminal ... but the attempt is doomed to failure,” which was confirmed by Representative Diana Digetti tweeted a similar one, saying: “This is not a demonstration, it is an attempted coup“ condemning ”the chaos planned by our president.
And after the US Department of Homeland Security requested sending additional federal agents to the Capitol building, which includes the Senate and the House of Representatives, to help control violence, and Muriel Bawazir, Mayor of the American capital, Washington, imposed a curfew in the capital, starting at 6 pm local time, and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the guard The patriot intervened to evacuate and secure the building from President Trump's supporters who rejected Biden's victory, and the latter came out in the last hours to confirm in a press conference that American democracy is under an unprecedented attack.
Biden said, according to Reuters: “At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented attack and an assault on freedom,” noting that the scenes in the Congress building reach the point of incitement and should stop immediately, calling on Trump to “be up to the responsibility and appear directly on the air and ask his supporters An end to the congressional blockade “because work during the next four years after it has happened will be to restore democracy.
Protesters supporting President Trump broke through the security barriers surrounding the Capitol building and occupied the inauguration of President-elect Biden, where Congress suspended discussion of the election results.
Maher Othman