Biden slams pro-Trump mob as ‘domestic terrorists’ on day after violent siege
WILMINGTON, Delaware — One day after a violent siege on U.S. Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden is calling the group that descended on it “domestic terrorists” and laying the blame for the violence squarely at President Donald Trump’s feet.
During remarks in Delaware on Thursday, Biden says people should not call the hundreds of Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol protesters.
Rather, he says, they are “a riotous mob — insurrectionists, domestic terrorists.”
Biden said Trump is guilty of “trying to use a mob to silence the voices of nearly 160 million Americans” who voted in November.
Biden says the president has “made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of claw clear in everything he has done” and unleashed an “all-out attack” on the country’s democratic institutions that ultimately led to the violence Wednesday.
Congress confirmed Biden as the presidential election winner before dawn Thursday, hours after the mob loyal to Trump stormed the Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn the election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Trump in the White House.
