Guns and terror in the U.S. Capitol as a pro-Trump mob tries to reverse its loss

Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate were evacuated after pro-Trump protesters marched through the halls of Congress, forcing both chambers to adjourn deliberations while meeting to determine victory President Joe Biden in November. 3 selections.

One protester took possession of the Senate daisy and shouted, “Trump won that election.” Protesters stopped barricades and went against the police when thousands of them landed on Capitol land.

Video showed protesters smashing windows and police using tarps inside the building. Local media reported that one person was shot and that video showed a person getting wheels from the building on a climber.

Vice President Mike Pence, who presided over a joint session of Congress, had already been removed from the Senate.

The chaotic scenes escalated after Trump, who is about to leave office on Jan. 20, confronted by thousands of protesters, repeated false claims that the election had been stolen from him due to widespread election fraud and irregularities. Lawyers had been debating a last-ditch attempt by pro-Trump lawmakers to challenge the results, an effort that seemed unlikely to succeed.

Critics had called Republican lawmakers ’attempt to attack American democracy and the rule of law and legislative effort.

The two best Democrats in Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, have called on Trump to demand that the protesters leave the Capitol and its grounds immediately.

Capitol Police told lawyers in the House chamber to remove gas masks from being under their seats and prepare to put them on. Officers’ guns were fired at the front door of the house’s room while someone tried to enter the room.

Officers ordered people in the room to fall to the floor for their safety. Several hundred members of the House, staff and the media were evacuated to an undisclosed location and told not to leave.

Election officials of both parties and independent observers have said there was no major fraud in the November 3 contest, which Biden won with more than 7 million votes in the popular national vote.

Weeks have passed since states ended up confirming that Biden, a Democrat, won the election by 306 Electoral College votes to 232. Trump’s outrageous challenges to Biden’s influence have been rejected by courts across the country.

Trump had pressured Pence to throw out election results in states that almost lost the president, even though Pence has no authority to do so.

“Our country has had enough and we will never take it again,” Trump said at the rally.

The testimonial in Congress, usually a formality, was expected to last for several hours as some Republican lawmakers tried to deny some high states, starting with Arizona.

Republicans and Democrats, who were severely divided over that effort, called on both protesters to stand down.

“This is non-American and this has to stop,” Hous said

e Republican President Kevin McCarthy, a Trump ally who supported the Republicans ’effort to challenge the results.

That attempt was unlikely to succeed, as even many Republicans opposed it.

“If this election were reversed by accusations directly from the side he lost, our democracy would fall into the throes of death,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who helped giving Trump some of the greatest feats.

Schumer called the challenges in Congress with Trump alliances a “coup attempt” and said, “Congress does not guarantee election results. The people do.”

Outside the Capitol, members of militia groups and more distant groups, some in body armor, mingled with the crowd.

On Twitter, Trump called on campaigners to remain peaceful.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a nationwide curfew starting at 6pm (2300 GMT).

Pence opposed Trump’s request that he reject state election votes on the same day that Trump’s ally was about to lose its majority in the Senate.

“We will never give up,” Trump previously told thousands of supporters to shout on a grassy field near the White House known as the Ellipse. “We will never surrender. It will not happen. You will not surrender when theft is involved.”

“Mike Pence, I hope you are going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and the good of our country. And if you don’t, I’m going to be very ashamed of you,” said Trump.

In a statement, Pence said he shared concerns about the “integrity” of the election but that it was not right that he should be able to take or reject election votes unilaterally.

The U.S. Constitution does not give the penny the power to turn the election results unilaterally.