Faced with chaos in Washington, he donned the costume of president who will soon be his.
Joe Biden denounced Wednesday the "insurgency" underway on Capitol Hill, where supporters of Donald Trump sowed disorder during a session devoted to the certification of the presidential results.
“Our democracy is experiencing unprecedented aggression,” he said, calling on the Republican president to go to the cameras to demand “the end of this siege”.
He added: “The scenes of chaos on Capitol Hill don't show the true face of America, which we are.
It is a small number of extremists who do not respect the law.
It's chaos.
The work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy, decency, honor, respect, the rule of law.
Quite simply, simple decency ”.
"Go home," asks Trump
A message that seems to have heard the president at the end of his mandate.
Donald Trump has indeed called on his supporters to "return home" after several hundred of them invaded the seat of Congress.
“We must have peace.
So go home.
I love you, ”he said in a brief video.
“I understand your pain.
I know you are injured, ”he added.
"This election has been stolen from us," he said, reiterating once again accusations of fraud not based on any concrete evidence.
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- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021