{"id":3717,"date":"2021-01-08T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=3717"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:24:00","slug":"capitol-riots-in-washington-the-gravest-attack-on-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/01\/08\/capitol-riots-in-washington-the-gravest-attack-on-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Riots in Washington the Gravest Attack on American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the results of the US Presidential elections were announced, there has been an attempt by outgoing President Donald Trump to undermine the people\u2019s mandate that declared him the loser and President-Elect Joe Biden as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the battle over Biden\u2019s President-Elect status in the court of law,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> President<\/a> Trump has continued claiming that the 2020 US Presidential race was rigged. This has egged on his supporters, who have held \u2018Stop the Steal\u2019 rallies around the country, to storm the US Capitol demanding an overturn of the results.<\/p>\n<p>A violent mob of Trump supporters with flags and posters charged into the US Capitol on <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\">January<\/a> 6 and tried to keep the electoral college from certifying Biden as the next president of the US, just weeks away from his swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The violence at the US Capitol, which saw the death of a woman from a gunshot inside the national institution, has drawn criticism from all over the world. The attempt at overturning the people\u2019s mandate is being seen as disrespectful of democracy and as an effort to establish an authoritarian government with Trump at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>With violent protestors charging into the US Capitol, the people\u2019s representatives had to go into hiding for protection. The police were unable to control the crowd and what unfolded later was a picture of sheer chaos that was never seen before at an institution of democracy. The mob transformed the center of power and national politics of the US into the national epicenter of anarchy and pandemonium.<\/p>\n<p>A total of four lives were lost during the deplorable incident. The mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_(state)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington<\/a> DC announced the enforcement of a curfew to control the chaos that had been unleashed on the city\u2019s streets by the Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>While his supporters were at it, President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> tried to instigate them further by using his social media handles. He showed his support to the mob by tweeting \u2018I love you\u2019 to them. After his continued tantrums on social media, his account was suspended temporarily by Twitter and indefinitely by Facebook and Instagram. Twitter said the President\u2019s account will be permanently suspended if the tweets instigating the crowd to spread further violence were not removed and if the President did not refrain from threatening its Civic Integrity Policy with his tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The President did eventually urge his supporters to cooperate with the police and law enforcement department in maintaining peace at the US Capitol. But he did so only after the damage was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the results of the US Presidential elections were announced, there has been an attempt by outgoing President Donald Trump to undermine the people\u2019s mandate that declared him the loser and President-Elect Joe Biden as the winner. After losing the battle over Biden\u2019s President-Elect status in the court of law, President Trump has continued claiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}