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Live updates: Biden blames outgoing US President Trump for violence at Capitol
THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jan 08, 2021, 06:15:41 IST
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Live updates: Biden blames outgoing US President Trump for violence at Capitol

A day after Washington DC witnessed unprecedented scenes with the US Capitol being stormed by Donald Trump supporters, President-Elect Joe Biden termed Capitol protests 'one of the darkest days' in American history. Stay with TOI for live updates ---
06:15 (IST) Jan 08

Now the Congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power

Outgoing US President Donald Trump

06:08 (IST) Jan 08
Trump says wants "smooth" transition to Biden administration.
06:01 (IST) Jan 08
Trump says "outraged by the violence" at US Capitol
05:40 (IST) Jan 08
Nancy Pelosi warned that for far right-wing rioters who attacked the Capitol, “justice will be done”.
05:28 (IST) Jan 08
Capitol police chief resigns after pro-Trump attack on US Congress, according to source
04:59 (IST) Jan 08
The head of the US Capitol Police will resign effective Jan 16 following the breach of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob

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04:35 (IST) Jan 08

It is unacceptable and those who broke the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The violence we saw yesterday at US Capitol was appalling, reprehensible and antithetical to the American way

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany

03:57 (IST) Jan 08
Trump condemns protest violence in "strongest possible terms," spokeswoman says.
01:28 (IST) Jan 08
What we witnessed yesterday was not dissent. It was not a disorder. It was not a protest. It was chaos. They weren't protesters. Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists - US President-Elect Joe Biden
01:25 (IST) Jan 08
Biden blames outgoing US President Trump for violence at US Capitol.
"In the past four years, we've had a president who's made his contempt for our democracy, our constitution, the rule of law clear in everything he has done,'' Biden said. "He unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset. And yesterday was the culmination of that unrelenting attack.''
01:07 (IST) Jan 08
Pelosi to seek resignation of Capitol police chief.
01:00 (IST) Jan 08
The 25th Amendment allows for the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unfit for office. The vice president then becomes acting president.
00:59 (IST) Jan 08
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says if President Trump is not removed under the 25th Amendment, Congress may go forward with impeachment proceedings.
00:53 (IST) Jan 08
Pelosi says removing Trump "emergency of highest magnitude".
00:50 (IST) Jan 08
Nancy Pelosi calls for Trump's removal from office: "We are in a very difficult place in our country as long as Donald Trump still sits in the White House."
00:46 (IST) Jan 08
US House speaker Nancy Pelosi says Trump committed 'seditious act', calls for immediate removal of the outgoing President through the 25th Amendment.
00:40 (IST) Jan 08
Biden says anti-racism protesters would have been treated "very differently" by the Police.
No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true. And it's unacceptable
00:30 (IST) Jan 08
The attack was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation, says Biden.
00:28 (IST) Jan 08

Attack on Capitol was result of Trump's unrelenting attack on democracy

US President-Elect Joe Biden

00:25 (IST) Jan 08
Joe Biden addresses the violence at the US Capitol.
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