Capitol riots - live: Trump says rioters ‘defiled the seat of democracy’ in new Twitter video
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Donald Trump says his supporters who stormed the Capitol Building “defiled the seat of democracy” in a new Twitter video.
The outgoing president condemned the violence unleashed by his supporters that left four people dead and promised a “seamless transition of power."
Earlier Joe Biden branded the Trump rioters as “domestic terrorists" as the identities of the four people killed during the violence in Washington DC were revealed.
Metro City police confirmed that Benjamin Phillips, 50, of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, died of a medical emergency along with Kevin Greeson, 55, of Alabama and Rosanne Boylan, 34, of Georgia.
Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, 35, of San Diego, California, was shot and killed at the US Capitol building.
The attack at the heart of US democracy by far-right groups including the Proud Boys, who boasted of causing “absolute terror”, has received international condemnation, while former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have directly blamed Donald Trump’s incendiary and baseless claims of election fraud for the violent scenes.
Mr Trump was suspended from Twitter after he described protesters as “very special”, told them “we love you” and repeated his false assertions over the election in a video message meant to calm the situation. He has since been indefinitely banned from Facebook and Instagram.
