Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, which houses the Congress, firing shots inside the building as the legislature was preparing to seal the election of Joe Biden as the next President and Kamala Harris as the Vice President.
In a direct assault on the democratic process, the mobs rampaged through the Capitol, entering the Senate floor and breaking into offices of Congress members.
The protesters, who had heard a stirring declaration from Trump that he would "never concede" his defeat to Biden, rushed to the Capitol waving Trump banners and national flags.
The following violence is allegedly the outcome of Trump's address to his supporters. In the video he said that that he "loved" them, and called them "very special".
Now going by the media reports, Members of President Donald Trump's cabinet have been discussing use of the 25th Amendment to the constitution to declare him unfit for office after the president encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol and many of them ran wild inside the seat of legislative power.
Interestingly, this provision has never been used for the removal of a president against his will and faces extraordinary burdens to take effect.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats wrote Pence (US Vice President) urging him to invoke the amendment. ‘Even in his video announcement this afternoon, President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is still unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election,' they wrote.
'President Trump’s willingness to incite violence and social unrest to overturn the election results by force clearly meet this standard,’ they wrote. ‘so too are his recent tweets, which Twitter has since deleted, saying the election was “stolen” and that today’s riots “are the things and events that happen.”
WITH INPUTS FROM IANS