US Congress Certifies Trump Win Four Years After Capitol Riot

Donald Trump’s historic political comeback came to an end on Monday when Congress declared his victory in a remarkable turn from his previous victory four years ago, when a mob he had summoned to Washington stormed the US Capitol.

The president-elect rioted to stop Joe Biden’s defeat after much of his campaign was facing legal action after the insurrection in 2021. His supporters were fueled by his false allegations of voter fraud.

However, after being re-elected in November, Trump, 78, was elected president, which was much smoother, even with a significant winter storm encumbring the country’s capital and a lot of it covered in snow.

“Donald J Trump of the state of Florida, has received 312 votes. After the counting was finished, Kamala D. Harris of California declared to the assembled lawmakers that she had received 226 votes.

The official count “shall be deemed a sufficient declaration” for Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance to take their oaths of office on January 20 according to Harris, who oversaw the certification as part of her vice-presidential duties.

The ceremony dealt the Republican leader’s last blow to efforts to bring charges against him for the riot, which was the culmination of a multi-pronged alleged criminal conspiracy that prosecutors claimed Trump led before dropping all charges after his election.

Trump has pledged to forgive an unspecified number of rioters, calling them “hostages” and saying that they are “hostages” (roughly 900 of whom have admitted federal charges from trespassing and vandalism to assaulting police).

In a Washington Post op-ed, Biden criticized Trump’s allies for downplaying the 2021 conflict and pleaded with Americans to be “proud that our democracy survived this assault.”

He said, “We cannot tolerate a repeat of what occurred four years ago.” “The history of that day has been the subject of an unrelenting effort,” the statement read.

Indiana conservative Mike Pence had Harris’s job — certifying his own defeat alongside Trump — in 2021 when, in a desperate bid to cling to power, the then-president demanded that he reject Biden’s victory.

More than half of House Republicans’ 2021 election results were rejected by lawmakers in both parties on occasion through the certification process.

– ‘ Emotional trauma ‘ –

No Democratic leaders followed the Republican example this time around, and the certification of Trump’s victory was a process that hardly took 30 minutes.

After giving a raucous speech outside the White House early in the day, pleading for supporters to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell,” the former reality TV star was impeached for inciting the 2021 uprising.

The American democracy’s citadel was attacked by protesters who slammed windows, beat police with metal bars and flag poles, and yelled “Hang Mike Pence” at terrified lawmakers.

A rioter was fatally shot by police as she attempted to force her way into the House chamber, along with two others who had suffered from heart attacks and a potential overdose. Four police officers committed suicide subsequently.

Trump had allegedly started the riot after a number of other schemes failed to overturn an election he knew he had lost, according to Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, who has pledged to investigate the House committee that conducted the investigation.

More than 1, 500 people have been charged in the “unprecedented attack on a cornerstone of our system of government,” according to US Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement released by the Justice Department over the course of the previous four years.

With 500 National Guard personnel on standby, the certification became the first national security special event since it begins a two-week countdown to Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

But the federal government and Washington public schools were closed Monday with up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow expected.

In a violent attempt to stifle the peaceful transfer of power, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker at the time of the uprising, said in a statement, “our nation watched in horror as a terrorist mob stormed the Capitol grounds and desecrated our temple of democracy.”

“The insurrection on January 6 left behind physical scars and emotional trauma on members of our congressional community and our country that continue to this day,” said one journalist.

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