CNN even called them “thugs”

Inside the U.S. Congress on January 6, 2021 to protest election fraud

The U.S. Congress convened in a joint session on January 6, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding over the certification of the election results to confirm the next president. After the results in Arizona were contested, the House and Senate held separate debates. Shortly after, a large number of Trump supporters came to Congress to protest, some of whom entered the interior of the Capitol, causing the process of counting electoral votes for the debate to be suspended. Trump tweeted asking supporters to stand with police. Senator Ted Cruz, who supports Trump, tweeted to advise the protesters not to confront the police.

So far, the scene outside Congress remains crowded, but peaceful, with no violence and no police in sight. However, some reporters inside Congress tweeted reports that police are dispersing protesters inside Congress, that there are clashes, that police officers have fired shots, and that people are being resuscitated for injuries. There were also reports that some of those who stormed the Capitol had tattoos that looked like scythes and axes and were probably left-wingers.

Shortly after the start of the 6th session, Republican Arizona U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar stood up and said he was against counting Arizona’s electoral votes, to a mixture of boos and applause. The House and Senate then debated for two hours each. A similar process will take place in the six or seven contested states, and is expected to be extended to seven days.

The incumbent President Trump’s supporters came to Washington on the 6th to try to express their position to Congress against election fraud and save the U.S. democratic electoral system, but they lacked enough votes in the House and Senate to support it.

Before the joint session of Congress, President Trump told cheering supporters on the Oval Lawn near the White House that he would never admit to losing the 2020 presidential election to Democratic rival Joe Biden, and again accused the election of massive fraud.

Trump also said there were “hundreds of thousands” of people involved in the event. “We will stop the theft (of the election),” he said. “We will never give up, we will never admit defeat.”

Central News Agency reported that authorities deployed thousands of law enforcement officers around Washington to stand guard as fierce clashes erupted today between supporters of President Trump and police, with the Capitol on lockdown and lawmakers trapped inside. CNN footage shows Trump supporters marching through the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

There are reports that President Trump has ordered the National Guard to be sent to Congress. It was also noted that the CNN report referred to the Trump supporters who stormed Congress as a “mob,” but many in the U.S. media avoided using the word “mob” for a long time during the vandalism that occurred during the “Black Lives Matter” movement last year. The word “mob” was avoided for a long time.