Storm the Capitol in Washington 2021

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Participants in the storm in front of the Capitol in Washington

The storming of the Capitol in Washington, DC on the afternoon of January 6, 2021 was a violent attack by supporters of incumbent US President Donald Trump on Congress , the United States Parliament . Their goal was to prevent the formal confirmation of the result of the 2020 presidential election won by Trump's rival candidate Joe Biden . The rioters broke into the parliament building and interrupted the joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives for several hours. Seven people were killed and many injured as a result of the events. As the most important political consequence, the House of Representatives voted on January 13, 2021 for inciting a riot to open a second impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump .

The acts of violence, which some observers regard as an attempted coup d'état by Trump, were preceded by a protest meeting of tens of thousands of his supporters. They had gathered near the White House for the so-called Save America March . The president called on his supporters to move to the Capitol to induce Congress to revoke the vote of the Electoral College that was unfavorable to him . As a result, numerous demonstrators broke the police barriers shortly after 2:00 p.m., pushed onto the exterior stairs of the Capitol and finally gained access to the building. The MPs and Vice President Mike Pence were either brought to safety or barricaded themselves. Rioters broke into the Senate meeting room and MP's offices. They attacked police officers, wreaked havoc, and stole computers and other items. The US Capitol Police and the Mayor of Washington, DC , Muriel Bowser , invited by the US Department of Defense to support the National Guard at. Their use was finally approved by Vice President Pence after Trump refused to give the order. The police arrested around 50 rioters on site. At around 5:40 p.m., the police declared the building complex as secured again. Mayor Bowser imposed a curfew on the US capital for the time being . Congress continued its session that evening and confirmed Biden's election victory early in the morning of January 7th .

prehistory

Donald Trump had already claimed in the course of the 2016 presidential election that his then opponent Hillary Clinton had received millions of illegally cast votes. However, a commission set up by his own government to examine the election results found no evidence of this. Before the 2020 election, Trump made similar accusations against his competitor Joe Biden and the Democratic Party : They were allegedly planning massive electoral fraud by manipulating postal votes, and this was the only way to deprive him, Trump, of his election victory at all.

In April of the 2020 election year, Lansing , the capital of Michigan , saw similar scenes as later in Washington DC. President Trump called on his followers via Twitter to "liberate" several states whose Democratic governors opposed his request to relax measures to protect against the corona pandemic . Armed far-right militias temporarily occupied the Michigan State Capitol . In early October, the FBI arrested several people allegedly plotting to kidnap the state governor Gretchen Whitmer . When Trump was asked about his attitude towards violent right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys during the election campaign in a television duel with Joe Biden , he said, addressed to the 'Proud Boys', “ Stand back and stand by ” (German: “Hold back and hold back you ready ”). Governor Whitmer and others saw this as an encouragement to such groups.

At a press conference in the White House at the end of September 2020, six weeks before the presidential election, Trump refused to promise a peaceful transfer of power in the event of his defeat, as has always existed since the USA was founded.

Lawsuits against the election result

After the November 3, 2020 election, Trump categorically refused to recognize Joe Biden's victory . Before the storming of the Capitol, he and his advisors had written around two hundred posts on social networks in which they accused their opponents of “electoral fraud” without providing any reliable evidence. According to The Wall Street Journal , these posts were retweeted 3.5 million times and 9 million times marked with "Likes". Networks like One America News Network , Newsmax, and the Fox News Channel also spread these conspiracy fantasies .

A team led by Trump's longtime attorney Rudy Giuliani challenged the results in the particularly highly competitive swing states of Arizona , Georgia , Michigan , Nevada , Pennsylvania and Wisconsin . In addition, other allies of Trump took action against the election results, so that ultimately more than 60 lawsuits came together.

Unlike Trump himself - and as a result also part of the public - the lawyers did not claim that there had been concrete, massive electoral fraud. Rather, they accused governors, interior ministers and courts in the swing states of unlawfully changing the voting rules and thereby violating Article II of the constitution . This stipulates that only the state parliaments can determine how the electors are appointed. Some plaintiffs submitted statistical analyzes intended to show that Biden's victory was virtually impossible or that a large number of people who were not eligible to vote had taken part in the vote. These analyzes have been criticized by statisticians: they are unscientific and the claims based on them are easy to refute. Most notably, attorney Sidney Powell, a former Texas federal attorney who even Trump's legal team eventually had to distance themselves from, spread conspiracy theories about the election. She alleged that Smartmatic voting machines, which were used in some states, were used by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to rig elections in his home country. The software used for this has also falsified the result of the presidential election. Also, the company Dominion Voting Systems was affected by these problems.

Many of the alleged experts and witnesses who mobilized the Trump campaign and its supporters have been dismissed in the courts as unqualified or implausible. All the allegations of electoral fraud proved untenable. As of January 6, 2021, the courts, including the Supreme Court , had dismissed 61 of 62 complaints filed, most of them for procedural reasons, such as lack of standing . Trump and his supporters described the latter as "cowardly". The judges allegedly refused to even hear the complaints. That, too, was not true: Trump's supporters clearly failed in those cases in which their lawsuits were admitted. Attorney General William Barr said on December 1 that his department had found no evidence of large-scale election fraud in an investigation.

For his part, the Democrats accused Trump of manipulating the election results in his favor. On January 2, the president and his advisors spoke on the phone with Georgia Home Secretary Brad Raffensperger , a Republican, for about an hour . They urged him several times to retrospectively change the negative election result in the state in his favor. Literally, Trump said, "All I want is this: I only want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state." Raffensperger refused to comply and made the phone call public . Other Republican politicians such as Jim Jordan and Newt Gingrich , however, supported Trump's untruthful statements about an allegedly stolen election with identical allegations. Much of his supporters in the Republican Party also believed the claims made by Trump and his lawyers. On November 14, 2020, thousands of Trump supporters contested the official election results at the so-called Million MAGA March , and on December 12, 2020 they demonstrated side by side with right-wing extremists at various pro-Trump rallies.

Plans to prevent Congressional confirmation of the result

On December 14, members of the electoral college met in their state capitals to cast their votes for president and vice president. As expected, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris received 306 votes each, and Donald Trump and Mike Pence each received 232 votes. The certificates of the votes were then sent to the Congress. Trump nevertheless refused to admit his defeat and announced that he would continue to fight the result. In contrast, many Republican politicians congratulated Joe Biden on his victory, including Mitch McConnell , the Senate majority leader .

Parts of the Republican Party, however, then approved the plan to appeal against the swing states' votes at the joint session of Congress on January 6th, at which the constitution counts electoral votes. The Electoral Count Act , which regulates the counting of votes, makes this possible. The law, which was passed in the wake of the highly controversial presidential election of 1876 , provides that any member of Congress can appeal against a state's vote. If this objection is supported by both a senator and a member of the House of Representatives, both chambers debate it for up to two hours and then vote on the objection. The last time this happened was in 2005, when Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones , both Democrats, appealed the Ohio votes for allegedly electoral suppression . If both the Senate and the House of Representatives approve an objection, the votes in question will not be counted.

The idea of ​​taking advantage of this opportunity was first suggested by Alabama MP Mo Brooks , who is known for having controversial positions. Brooks sought support in the Senate, but the Republican leadership was critical of his move. Senator John Cornyn called the plan "hopeless". Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also tried to avert a vote. Still, several senators, most notably the newly elected Tommy Tuberville from Alabama, were considered possible supporters. On December 30th, Josh Hawley of Missouri agreed to support the appeal, so there would be a debate. As a result of Hawley's statement, an increasing number of Republicans supported the project, mostly members of the House of Representatives. On January 2, eleven Republican senators, including Ted Cruz , announced that they would withhold certification of votes unless a commission to investigate the election was set up, similar to what happened in 1876. Both Republicans and Democrats called this proposal unrealistic.

President Trump, on the other hand, supported the move and called on the Republican Party to do the same. He threatened those Republicans who refused to support their inner-party opponents in their next primaries and thus end their political careers. In addition, before the formal counting of the electoral vote, Trump repeatedly called on Vice President Pence not to allow votes from the embattled swing states. Since the Vice President is also President of the Senate according to the US Constitution, Pence was responsible for leading the decisive congressional session. However, he rejected the President's request with reference to his oath of office. This prevents him from "unilaterally claiming the authority to decide which votes should be counted and which not." His refusal now also made Pence, who until then had unreservedly supported the president, the target of Trump's verbal attacks and the Wrath of his followers.

Events on January 6th

Demonstration and speech by Trump

Containers with the election papers in Congress

On January 6, Congress was scheduled to count the votes of the Electoral College to confirm the election of President-elect Joe Biden. Under regular circumstances this would have been a purely formal, solemn act. But as planned by Trump and his supporters, several senators had appealed against the confirmation, which was now being debated. As a result, the meeting had dragged on for several hours and was still going on as the demonstrators made their way to the Capitol.

Some time before that, Trump supporters had planned another demonstration in Washington under the slogan Save America . Trump himself had declared January 6, 2021 the day of the decision. On December 19, 2020, he asked his followers via Twitter : “ Be there, will be wild! ”(German:“ Be there, it's going to be wild! ”), A phrase that he repeated in his address on the day of the riots. Trump spoke to the several thousand demonstrators in The Ellipse park at around 12:00 p.m. , including Christian groups like Jericho March with shofar horns and members of the right-wing extremist Proud Boys militia . He again took up conspiracy theories about an alleged manipulation of the election and appealed to the demonstrators to “never give in” and “fight like hell” to “bring our country back”. He also repeated his request to Mike Pence to reject the votes from the contested states. In his speech, his legal advisor Rudy Giuliani went so far as to call for a " single battle trial ". Donald Trump Jr. , the president's son, threatened the US MPs with the words "we can get you". In the previous weeks he had already called for an “ all-out war ” over the election result.

The President himself continued:

“Our country has enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is about. To use a favorite phrase that actually comes from all of you: We're going to stop the theft. Today I'm going to share just some of the evidence to show we won this election, and we won it landslide. This wasn't a close choice. I sometimes say jokingly - but it's no fun - that I have participated in two elections. I won both and the second I won a lot more than the first. […] Almost 75 million people voted for our campaign; that is by far the highest result that an incumbent president has ever received in our country's history, twelve million votes more than four years earlier. [...] We have reached 75 million and they say we have lost. We didn't lose. [...] By the way: does anyone think Joe [Biden] had 80 million votes? Does anyone believe that? He had 80 million computer votes. It's a shame. There has never been anything like it. It's a shame. You could take third world countries. Just check it out, check out third world countries. Their elections are more honest than what we have seen. It's a shame. It's a shame. When you look at you last night, they all run around like chickens with their heads cut off. Nobody knows what the hell is going on. There has not been something like that before. We will not allow them to silence your voices. We will not allow it. I will not allow it. "

He ended his speech with the words:

"So we're going [...] down Pennsylvania Avenue - I love Pennsylvania Avenue - and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to [...] try to help our Republicans - the weak, the strong - don't need any help from us - we're going to try to give them the pride and strength they need to take back our country. "

Contrary to his announcement that he would accompany the protesters to the Capitol, Trump drove back to the White House after the speech .

Storming of the parliament building

Rioters storm the stairs of the Capitol at around 2:15 p.m.
Rioters on the stairs of the Capitol

According to Trump's request, some of the demonstrators streamed to the Capitol and began to storm it from around 2:00 p.m. The attackers were conservative Trump supporters and, to a large extent, activists of the US radical right who had prepared for violence. They broke the police barriers and forced their way into the closed building, including breaking windows. At 2:13 p.m. the ongoing meeting was interrupted and the plenary hall evacuated. Numerous attackers penetrated into the Senate chamber. One sat in the chair of the Senate President and shouted, “Trump won this election.” The demonstrators also broke into the office of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. They also occupied the boardroom of the House of Representatives. Several congressmen flee inside the building and barricaded themselves in rooms. At 2:30 p.m., the US Capitol Police urged the US government for assistance from other federal forces and the National Guard.

Video from the House of Representatives meeting room during the storming

Outside the Capitol, protesters attacked journalists trying to cover the session of Congress. Therefore, among other things, a live broadcast of the daily topics with the correspondent Claudia Buckenmaier was interrupted for security reasons. A team from ZDF and teams from n-tv and RTL were also harassed by demonstrators and their equipment was partially destroyed.

Video shows the violent mob inside the Capitol loudly calling for the Vice President to be hanged as a "traitor." On the west side of the Capitol grounds , strangers had previously erected a gallows and hangman's noose .

In his TV address, Joe Biden, as Trump's elected successor, demanded that he, who is still incumbent president, call on his supporters to end the "siege". Shortly afterwards, at 4:17 p.m., Trump published a video in which he reiterated his unsubstantiated claim that he had been cheated out of winning the election and praised the rioters. He said that they were “great patriots” and “very special”, that he “loved” them, but that they should go home peacefully now. As a result, several social media platforms blocked his accounts. At around 4:30 p.m., White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany announced that the president had now cleared the use of federal forces in the Capitol. At around 5:40 pm, the rioters were pushed back and the building was once again considered "secured". The security forces seized several pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails around the building and in front of the party headquarters of Democrats and Republicans . There were controlled demolitions by a defusing squad .

The city of Washington imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The Mayoress of Washington, DC and the US Capitol Police requested National Guard assistance from the US Department of Defense. Since Washington, DC is federal territory, only the US government can decide on the use of federal forces there. According to media reports, President Trump initially refused to send support. It was only after Vice President Mike Pence (R), who was trapped in the Capitol, intervened, that the government approved the use of support troops at the state-owned Capitol. The United States Secretary of the Army (comparable to a Secretary of State responsible for the US Army) Ryan D. McCarthy later announced that all 1100 members of the National Guard were mobilized from Washington, DC to support the local authorities. Members of several federal authorities are also on duty at the Capitol to bring the situation under control. Regardless of this, the governors of the neighboring states decided to quickly send their own forces. The governors of Virginia , Ralph Northam ( Democrats ), and Maryland , Larry Hogan ( Republicans ), sent the National Guard to their states and members of the Virginia State Police and the Maryland State Police , to end the violence. Similarly, the governor said New Jersey , Phil Murphy (Democrat) to send a contingent of his forces to Washington, DC. However, all governors could only use their powers after the long-pending clearance by the US government in Washington, DC.

Suspension of the parliamentary session

The moment when the session of Parliament was suspended

The riots inside the Capitol interrupted the formal recognition of the results of the 2020 presidential election. According to Senator Jeff Merkley (Democrats), the ballots , the state results reports , were saved at the last minute by Senate officials. Vice President Mike Pence was in the house during the Capitol occupation. He was taken to a safe room by security forces.

The session of the Senate and the House of Representatives continued at 8 p.m. local time. The Senate and House of Representatives rejected the requested appeals against the election results in the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania . The rejection came in the Senate by a clear majority of 93 to 6 votes in the case of Arizona, and 92 to 7 votes for Pennsylvania. This confirmed the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by Senate Chairman Vice President Mike Pence.

Fatalities and injuries

The killed policeman Brian D. Sicknick

Two police officers and five Trump supporters were killed in connection with the protests and riots. Brian Sicknick , a Capitol Police officer, was so badly injured with a fire extinguisher by a previously unknown perpetrator that he later collapsed in his department's office and was taken to a hospital, where he eventually died.

Ashli ​​Babbitt, a 35-year-old Trump supporter and Air Force veteran of California , was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she climbed through a broken window inside the Capitol to break into the congressional boardroom. Despite receiving immediate medical attention, she later succumbed to her injuries in hospital. Two other Trump supporters died of a heart attack and a stroke . A fourth person, a woman, was trampled to death.

A total of 56 police officers were injured, two of whom were hospitalized.

Three days after the Capitol storm, two people committed suicide in the context of the events: A 53-year-old Trump supporter, a portfolio manager who was briefly detained and reported, shot himself in the chest. A 51-year-old police officer, a member of the US Capitol Police, also committed suicide.

Property damage

Seven historically significant works of art were damaged, including a marble statue depicting Thomas Jefferson (3rd President) and portraits of James Madison (4th President) and John Quincy Adams (6th President). The artwork has been sent to the Smithsonian Institution for damage assessment and restoration . Other statues, wall paintings, historic benches and original window shutters also suffered various types of damage, mainly from residues of pepper spray , tear gas and fire extinguishing agents .

Flags, signs and other items left across the Capitol by rioters have been collected and, along with the damaged nameplate , kept as historical artifacts for the House and Senate collections by the Office of Nancy Pelosi , Speaker of the House .

Perpetrator

Jake Angeli at a protest in Peoria, Arizona on October 25, 2020

A large number of Trump supporters of various stripes involved in the rioting had attended the event in Ellipse Park that morning and had followed Trump's request to "go to the Capitol".

Members of the Proud Boys during the march to the Capitol

Those involved included militants from the alt-right movement and the Patriot Movement ; some intruders wore caps from the US President-led MAGA movement and waved Confederate flags and the Gadsden flag . The Proud Boys , a violent group of white racists and supporters of QAnon , a network of right-wing extremist conspiracy theorists, are also said to have been involved . According to National Public Radio , some of the Proud Boys are said to have chanted “Storm the Capitol” and “ 1776 !”. An essential connecting element between the various groups is the ideology of white supremacy .

Some celebrities were also among the rioters. According to published photo material, the musicians Jon Schaffer from Iced Earth and Ariel Pink were involved in the riots. Another participant was the Olympic swimming champion Klete Keller .

Some attendees carried cable ties (including a former Air Force officer ) and asked where Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were. This was interpreted as a possible indication that hostage-taking was planned. A man was also arrested who was carrying eleven ready-to-use Molotov cocktails filled with "self-made napalm " and three firearms, including a Colt M4 carbine , in his vehicle .

Medial were known, among other things Jake Angeli , who calls himself "QAnon Shaman" and was seen with a naked, tattooed torso painted face and a fur cap with bison horns, and Richard Barnett, who entered the office of Nancy Pelosi, the feet on their And later bragged about it to a New York Times reporter . Since the rioters recorded or streamed their action on numerous videos and photos, various people could be identified. For some people, participation resulted in termination of their employment. Adam Johnson, 36, from Florida, who stole Nancy Pelosi's lectern, was arrested on January 8, as was West Virginia Republican MP Derrick Evans , who subsequently resigned from office on January 9.

Among those arrested, a left-wing activist, the 26-year-old John Sullivan, as followers of the movement was also at least Black Lives Matter has called and in July 2020 for involvement in riots in Provo ( Utah had been charged).

Political and legal consequences

Trump's behavior prior to the storming of the Capitol led to a second impeachment case against the president and to numerous resignations in his circle. At the same time, law enforcement agencies were investigating people who were involved in the storm.

Impeachment initiatives

As early as the late afternoon of January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence was called on from several sides to act in accordance with the 25th Amendment to the Constitution , i.e. to declare the President incapacitated by a cabinet decision and to take his place. Former Republican Defense Secretary William Cohen and Democratic Congressmen Charlie Crist , Ted Lieu and Seth Moulton , as well as the National Association of Manufacturers , an association of Republican entrepreneurs, spoke out in favor of this .

Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar began formulating a second impeachment motion against Donald Trump while the Capitol was being vacated. From their own party, Congressmen David Cicilline , Ayanna Pressley , Mark Takano, and Tim Ryan also advocated such a process or the removal under the 25th Amendment. Ryan commented: "They are trying to steal the election - with violence, insurrection and a coup." House spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi also said the president was "disturbed and dangerous" and that he was urgently needed for his conduct during the To hold unrest accountable.

Leading members of Trump's own Republican party also turned against him. So called Phil Scott , the Governor of the State of Vermont , the resignation or impeachment of the president. On January 12, the day before the vote to initiate impeachment in the House of Representatives, several Republican MPs publicly declared their support for the project. The first to speak out was John Katko , who feared serious damage to the future of democracy should Trump get away with unpunished as the cause of a riot. Liz Cheney , the third senior Republican in the House of Representatives, said she would vote for impeachment on grounds of conscience. Other Republican supporters of impeachment were Adam Kinzinger , Fred Upton and Jaime Herrera Beutler .

On January 13, 2021, the House of Representatives voted 232 to 197 in favor of the initiation of impeachment proceedings. The charge is incitement to riot. Supporters include all Democratic but also ten Republican MPs. Trump is the first president in the history of the United States to face an impeachment procedure for the second time.

Resignations

Immediately after the storm on the Capitol, some employees of Trump and the First Lady as well as other officials decided to resign immediately:

Further resignations were announced in the following days:

Prosecution

69 people were arrested on January 6th. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Metropolitan Police of Washington, DC issued a call seeking witnesses to identify violent individuals in the riot. The Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department posted numerous mug shots and offered a reward of up to $ 1,000 for clues leading to arrests.

Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen announced a large number of charges in the matter on January 7th. That same day, the first two people were charged at the federal level. The executive chief attorney for Washington, DC, also spoke of over 40 indictments from the Department of Justice at the local level. Investigations against Donald Trump were not ruled out either.

On January 9, 2021, the media reported further arrests of people who had been identified from photo and video material. United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, said he would use all of his agency's resources to identify, seize, and prosecute those involved in the storming crimes follow. It would also investigate why the Capitol Police had arrested so few intruders. The US Department of Justice said 13 people are being investigated, including for unauthorized entry into a non-public building and violent intrusion and misconduct on the Capitol grounds. The FBI Federal Police published photos of the events and called on the public to provide information to identify the people on them.

On January 8, Adam Johnson, 36, from Parrish, Florida, and Richard Barnett, 60, were arrested in Bentonville, Arkansas . Johnson had himself photographed pulling the lectern of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, behind him. Barnett was seen in photos in Pelosi's office with his feet on a desk. Jake Angeli, previously known as a conspiracy theorist by the nickname Q Shaman (alluding to promoting QAnon conspiracy theories ), was arrested on January 9th. He had been photographed in the Capitol with a bare chest, red, white, and blue make-up, a headgear made of fur and horns, and a six-foot-long spear adorned with a US flag. Also on January 9th, Doug Jensen was arrested in Iowa . He was seen on a high-profile video recorded by a Huffpost journalist when he was the first in a group of people to forcibly enter the Capitol, ignoring instructions from a police officer, and then chasing him up a flight of stairs. Jensen himself had published a picture of himself on his Twitter account during the act.

Another member of Parliament from West Virginia , Derrick Evans , was arrested for involvement in the storming . Evans resigned from his mandate on January 9, after he was released against an assurance that he would comply with court summons (recognition bond) .

By January 15, 2021, more than 200 criminal proceedings had been initiated and, according to the FBI, more than 100 suspected perpetrators had been arrested.

Reactions

Numerous top politicians from both parties, including Vice President Mike Pence , Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney , condemned the riot; some of them described the events as attempted " rebellion" , " insurrection ", " coup " and "domestic terrorism ".

On the evening of January 7, 2021, Trump himself condemned the storming of the Capitol and said in a video message: "Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and chaos." It was now time for "healing and reconciliation". Lawbreakers would have to be punished. He concentrates "now on ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transfer of power". With the video, Trump returned to Twitter for a short time , where his account was temporarily blocked from January 8, 2021 after his first statements about the events. Facebook and Instagram want to block Trump at least until the handover.

In the USA

politics

The Republican MP Adam Kinzinger calls for the removal of Trump by means of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution

Republican Senator Mitt Romney described in a press release published on the evening of January 6, 2021, the events as “an uprising instigated by the President of the United States”. Those MPs who continue to support its "dangerous game by objecting to the results of a lawful democratic election will forever be seen as accomplices in an unprecedented attack on our democracy". As the cause, he named "the hurt pride of a selfish person and the indignation of his followers, whom he had deliberately deceived over the last two months".

All living former Presidents of the United States spoke up on what happened. Barack Obama described them as "shame and disgrace" for the United States, instigated by the incumbent president, who continued to spread unsubstantiated lies about the outcome of the legal election. George W. Bush was appalled by the reckless behavior of some leaders since the election and the lack of respect that had been shown to institutions, traditions and law enforcement that day. Bill Clinton condemned the attack on the Capitol, the Constitution and the country as fueled by policies that for four years have deliberately disseminated misinformation, instilled distrust of the political system and pitted Americans against each other. Jimmy Carter spoke of a "national tragedy".

House Democratic Spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi turned to United Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley a short time later , fearing that a “confused” and “unstable president” might order military operations or retrieve nuclear codes to carry out a nuclear strike . General Mark A. Milley then assured her that Trump's power over the nuclear warheads was now limited and that appropriate security measures would prevent them from being shot down.

Contrary to the custom of not commenting on current politics , the General Staff of the US Forces condemned the storming of the Capitol in a statement dated January 12, 2021.

Arnold Schwarzenegger , Republican Governor of California from 2003 to 2011 , compared the storming of the Capitol in a video message with the Reichspogromnacht of November 1938 in Germany and Austria. He held Donald Trump directly responsible for the incidents and called him “the worst president of all time”.

The former Republican representative of the House of Representatives , Joe Scarborough , also called for the immediate arrest of President Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani as their instigating rhetoric have contributed significantly to storm the Capitol.

Video message from Trump deleted on various platforms
Trump's statement on the storm while it was still in progress

Some Republican MPs in the House of Representatives, such as Mo Brooks (Alabama), Matt Gaetz (Florida) and Paul Gosar (Arizona), as well as the right-wing conservative cable channels One America News Network and Newsmax TV, claimed that the attack was instigated by anti- fascist activists . They cited, among other things, a report by The Washington Times , which is considered extremely conservative , according to which facial recognition software had identified anti-fascist activists among the demonstrators. The newspaper later withdrew the article. Right-wing activists also picked up and spread the story. References to alleged masterminds from the Antifa scene have been raised in social media for violent acts from the right-wing scene, for example after the attempted kidnapping of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer . The FBI said two days later that there was no evidence of antifa involvement.

media

Because of three tweets complained about by the social media platform Twitter , which Donald Trump had posted about the events, his Twitter account @realDonaldTrump was initially blocked for at least twelve hours. In these tweets, Trump had shown understanding for the rioters and declared that the current unrest arose because the “ holy landslide victory” had been “meanly stolen” from him and his supporters in the election. He called the demonstrators “great patriots” and called on them to go home now “in love and peace” and never forget this day. Shortly afterwards, the platforms Facebook and Instagram announced that Trump's account would be banned for 24 hours. The video in which Trump commented on what was going on, repeating his allegations about election fraud and with the words "I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace ”, was deleted from YouTube after it had been deleted on Twitter and Facebook . On January 8, Twitter blocked the president's account indefinitely to "prevent further incitement to violence". The blocks on Facebook and Instagram have been extended to at least January 20th.

The Fox News Channel , which had reported for a long time in the spirit of Trump, also distanced itself from him: The co-host of the morning show Fox & Friends , Brian Kilmeade , called Trump's behavior "terrible". It cost the Republicans a majority in the Senate. Trump's legal team have "no evidence" of election fraud.

Several American television stations report that Trump's own cabinet was discussing his dismissal.

The storming of the Capitol was celebrated in the media of the extreme right and forums of the militia movement . The ADL's Center on Extremism documented their reactions via networks such as MeWe , Parler , various militia forums , Twitter and, above all, Telegram . Many users on militia forums assumed an imminent war for which one should be prepared. One user wrote in the Oath Keepers' secure chat : “I think the war has started. The only way we can get justice for ourselves and protect the Constitution is if we start fighting back. ”There was further discussion about storming DC and taking over the mass media.

As a result of the riots, Twitter deleted the user accounts of 70,000 conspiracy theorists, especially supporters of the right-wing extremist QAnon movement. In addition, several postings from attorney L. Lin Wood on Parler were deleted, in which he had requested, among other things, the provision of "a firing squad " for Vice President Pence. Wood had previously been one of the lawyers supporting Trump's claims during the trial over the election result. Since Parler did not promptly delete numerous similarly violent postings, Google , Apple and Amazon reacted promptly by removing the platform from the offer in their respective app stores .

International reactions

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was shocked. The EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell described the events as an "unprecedented attack on US democracy, its institutions and the rule of law".

The Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney made US President Donald Trump responsible for the unrest surrounding the Capitol in Washington. "We have to call this what it is: a deliberate attack on democracy by an incumbent president and his supporters who are trying to overthrow a free and fair election!"

The Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was also shocked by the pictures in Washington and described them as an “attack on democracy”. A peaceful and orderly transfer of power must be ensured.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the event had shown “how vulnerable even the oldest and most powerful democracy in the world is. These scenes that we have seen are the result of lies and more lies, of divisions and contempt for democracy, of hatred and agitation - also from the very highest level. ” Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the images of the storming of the Capitol made her“ angry and sad ”, and she regrets very much“ that President Trump has not admitted his defeat since November and again not yesterday. Doubts about the outcome of the election were raised. ”This laid the foundation for the riots. Even Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed dismay at the events, calling them "oppressive" and "appalling" and said this was "clearly something that you experience when populists get power." The Constitutional protection chief of Thuringia Stephan J. Kramer made a comparison on the occupation of the stairs of the Reichstag by opponents of the Corona measures in August 2020. After the riot in Washington, the President of the German Bundestag , Wolfgang Schäuble , announced the examination of possible consequences for the security concept of the German Bundestag . Despite the public rejection of such plans by Vice-Presidents Claudia Roth and Wolfgang Kubicki , Schäuble promptly increased the presence of police officers at the German Bundestag in front of the Reichstag building . The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed horror at the scenes in the US capital and blamed Trump for the riots. "Insurgent words turn into violent acts," he commented on the events. Norbert Röttgen , Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag , saw the Republican Party at a crossroads. You must now choose between democracy and Trump. In a report to the Foreign Office in Berlin, the German Embassy in Washington drew the picture of a “government in disintegration”.

The French president Emmanuel Macron reiterated in a video message France's solidarity with the American people. He rated the events in Washington as an "attack on democracy".

The Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir also spoke of an "attack on democracy". Iceland's Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson said the "appalling and unacceptable" attack will not strain US-Iceland relations, which are deeply rooted and not dependent on individual politicians.

Scientists' interpretations

The historian Timothy Snyder , who warned of the fascist tendencies of a Trump presidency in his work “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Resistance” in 2017, sees the cause of the events in Washington primarily as the fact that the president succeeded to destroy a common understanding of truth, without which no democracy could exist. He sees Trump as the president of the post-truth, the post-truth era. In his essay “The American Abyss” for the New York Times , he writes: “Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump was our post-truth president. When we give up the truth, we give power to those who have the wealth and charisma to create a spectacle in their place. Without agreeing on some basic facts, citizens cannot form the civil society that would allow them to defend themselves. When we lose the institutions that produce facts that are relevant to us, we tend to wallow in attractive abstractions and fictions. The truth is particularly difficult to defend when there isn't much of it, and the Trump era - like the era of Vladimir Putin in Russia - is one of the demise of the local news. Social media is not a substitute: it overloads the mental habits with which we seek emotional stimulation and comfort, which means we lose the distinction between what feels true and what is actually true. ”
Snyder cautions Politicians like Senators Ted Cruz from Texas and Josh Hawley from Missouri , who are still willing to break the rules in order to come to power themselves: “Trump's attempted coup of 2020/21 is, like other failed coup attempts, a warning to those who care about the rule of law and a lesson for those who don't. His pre-fascism revealed a possibility for American politics. For a coup in 2024 to work, the violators need something Trump never really had: an angry minority willing to organize nationwide violence and combine an election with intimidation. Four years of reinforcing a big lie could bring them just that. To claim that the other side stole an election is to promise to steal one yourself. And to claim that the other side deserves to be punished. "

Political scientist and former US Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich also sees the events as a veritable coup attempt by Trump, for which he and his supporters should be held accountable. Reich demands inter alia Jail sentences for the President himself, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley were due to resign. But Reich also blames Fox News and social media: "For four years, Twitter , Facebook and Youtube functioned as Trump's loudspeakers and amplified every one of his lies and hate speech."

American constitutional lawyer Russell Miller reports that even before the Capitol uprising, there were reports of an inner circle in the White House discussing extreme strategies so that Trump could stay in power after January 20. The proclamation of martial law actually appears to have been one of those desperate plans.

The German historian Wolfram Siemann also believes that the outgoing US President Donald Trump expected “parliament to be completely incapable of acting” in order to become master of the military executive. He recognizes a simple power-political calculation behind his actions: He wanted to provoke a bloodbath that would have given him the opportunity to declare a state of emergency and to stay in office with the help of the military.

The historian Manisha Sinha drew parallels between the situation and the Wilmington uprising (1898).

Johannes Thimm , deputy head of the America research group at the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP), emphasized "both the number and intensity of conviction" of Trump supporters and accused the responsible police authorities of failure. It is "possible that this was now a wake-up call" and Trump was "so discredited" that it would reduce "his influence in the future". In addition, Thimm recalled a precedent for attacks on a parliament in the USA at the end of April 2020, when gunmen had gained access to the parliament of the state of Michigan to protest against the corona lockdown in tumultuous scenes ; you could already see “which people you are dealing with”. Dealing with the events at the Capitol could, according to Thimm, also put Biden into a dilemma: on the one hand, he would have to “use criminal prosecution to enforce the rule of law”, on the other hand, “this naturally gives Trump supporters the impression that political opponents are persecuting Biden “Would.

The historian Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson summed up that "the US-American republic was actually the first in the world in which there has been a tradition of peaceful change of power for more than 200 years". That Trump has "now ruined".

According to political scientist Torben Lütjen , it was “the day when Donald Trump's fantasy world collided with reality”. The terror threat of extremist militias and underground groups is much more obvious to him than a coup. Most in Trump's party had "held the bar" since 2016 because the party base had done that too. It is to be feared that "at the moment the Republicans are all shocked, but the events are then blamed on individual perpetrators and in a few weeks you will return to the same polarizing course that existed before".

Criticism of the protection concept and procedures of the federal authorities

After the storm, violent criticism of the protection concept, mistakes in the preparation and the actions of security authorities were loud, in addition to the media and politicians from both parties. Although several MPs had held talks in advance with those responsible because of the violent announcements by right-wing militias, the hundreds of protesting and rampaging Trump supporters faced only a few police officers. The technical protective measures, among others. through barricades at the capitol were insufficient.

One of the questions asked was how it was possible that demonstrators were able to storm the Capitol using simple means such as flagpoles and protective shields, even though the demonstration plans had been announced weeks before the storming. Robert McCartney of the Washington Post pointed out information from Washington Metropolitan Magazine that Internet forums of the Patriot Movement had called for a storming of the Capitol weeks before the demonstration, but that the police of the Capitol and the City of Washington did not seem to know about it. It was also criticized that the authorities were very reluctant to take action against the insurgents, even after the storm had begun. Even those who had penetrated into the building were hardly arrested; instead, the security authorities only escorted them out of the building. In total, only 14 arrests were made during the occupation, which made it much more difficult to identify the rioters and prosecute them. The reluctance to make arrests was justified by the insufficient number of security forces.

The media pointed out that there was no concept to keep the demonstrators away, nor that mounted police officers and police dogs were used. Videos also surfaced on social media suggesting USCP Capitol Police officers fraternizing with rioting Trump supporters. For example, a video that shows a police officer posing for a selfie with an intruder received a lot of attention . Investigations into more than a dozen Capitol Police officers have been opened on suspicion of aiding and abetting or inappropriately supporting the demonstration, and several have been suspended.

The media compared the cautious actions of the police and security authorities against the predominantly white insurgents with the action against the demonstrations of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, which were mainly carried out by African Americans . These predominantly peaceful demonstrations were partly suppressed with massive state violence. Against this background, sharp criticism was voiced regarding preferential treatment of whites by the police and authorities. Author Roxane Gay commented that black protesters "would lie dead in front of the Capitol" while the rioters faced little resistance on January 6th. During the protests against police violence, soldiers in combat suits were used to protect property and street patrols with armored vehicles were carried out; some attack helicopters circled over the demonstrations.

At the same time, observers pointed out that the federal government under Trump had quickly sent federal officials during the riots after George Floyd's death and even approved the use of the National Guard. Since the Capitol had supporters of Trump, the support came too hesitantly and too late. Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said that large numbers of federal forces had been sent to the Black Lives Matter protests without a request from the city, but that her request for support from the Department of Defense had long gone unanswered.

The responsible security authorities, above all the US Capitol Police , were heavily criticized. Only the US federal government can decide on the deployment of the National Guard of Washington, DC, since it is federal territory . The DC National Guard was deployed in small numbers to assist with traffic control that day. Army State Secretary Ryan McCarthy, responsible for the National Guard, said the deployment of the National Guard had been delayed because the request from the federal Capitol Police had also been submitted and the inquiries had to be coordinated.

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