President Donald Trump is yet again on the stands for impeachment as House Democrats are getting ready to vote today, one week following the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters. On January 11th, Democrats officially introduced articles of impeachment and Trump was charged with the incitement of riots. Moreover, in the impeachment article, there was also pointers regarding Trump’s consistent claims pertaining to massive voter fraud in the elections as well as a recent phone call that he made to Georgia’s secretary of state, urging him to look for adequate voted to make him win.
On January 6th, Raphael Warnock made history in America, as several outlets had forecasted that his would be victorious in Georgia’s Senate elections, making him the state’s first Black senator. Moreover, this makes Warnock the 11th Black senator in the history of United States.
America witnessed pro-Trump demonstrators storm into the Capitol, claiming election fraud. They got into clashes with cops and broke glass floors; attacked cops and killed other protestors. All of this was responded with tear gas and pepper spray. On the other hand, BLM activists were attacked with rubber bullets on more occasions than one. Peaceful protestors were attacked with tear gas and pepper spray, and many were put in jails. This has made people wonder what the result would be if Black people were the ones storming the U.S. Capitol.
For 12 hours, Donald Trump was suspended from using his Twitter account as the company cited “risk of violence.” On Wednesday, violence erupted in Washington D.C. and Trump was the one who continued to incite it by lying about the elections. Initially, Twitter added disclaimers to his tweets such as they were in “claim of election fraud” and that users can’t reply, retweet, or like the tweets “due to a risk of violence.”
On January 6th, the United States of America witnessed a tragedy. During what was supposed to be the certification of Joe Biden’s general election win by the Congress, thousands of supporters of Trump entered the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to stage demonstrations. They even vandalized several offices of government officials, engaged in lootings, and shouted that Trump had won the election. Several media houses have reported that four people died in this commotion.
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