{"id":22751,"date":"2021-01-06T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=22751"},"modified":"2021-01-06T22:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:01:23","slug":"us-congress-in-turmoil-as-violent-trump-supporters-breach-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-congress-in-turmoil-as-violent-trump-supporters-breach-building\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress in Turmoil as Violent Trump Supporters Breach Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Violent supporters of US President Donald Trump have breached the Capitol in Washington, as lawmakers met to confirm President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s poll win.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>In dramatic scenes, demonstrators swarmed the building as Congress members were escorted out by police.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A joint session of Congress had been counting and confirming Electoral College votes but has been suspended and forced into recess.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>There are reports of guns drawn in the building and at least one person shot.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A woman was reported to be in a critical condition after receiving a neck injury.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>There has been an armed confrontation at the doors of the House of Representatives. Tear gas has also been used.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Members of Congress have been told to evacuate the building or remain where they are. One congresswoman tweeted that she was staying in her office.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Trump urged people to remain peaceful and respect law enforcement officials.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Vice-President Mike Pence called on the rioters to leave the Capitol immediately, saying the violence and destruction &#8220;must stop now&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Trump&#8217;s spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, tweeted that the National Guard was being deployed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Rioters were seen marching through the building chanting &#8220;We want Trump&#8221; and one was photographed in the Senate president&#8217;s chair.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A citywide curfew has been declared from 18:00 to 06:00 [23:00 to 11:00 GMT] by Washington DC&#8217;s mayor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>There are also reports of protests at state legislatures in Kansas and Georgia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent supporters of US President Donald Trump have breached the Capitol in Washington, as lawmakers met to confirm President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s poll win. In dramatic scenes, demonstrators swarmed the building as Congress members were escorted out by police. A joint session of Congress had been counting and confirming Electoral College votes but has been suspended &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22752,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22751\/revisions\/22752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}