Calling on President Trump to “fulfill his oath, to defend the Constitution, and demand an end of this siege,” President-Elect Joe Biden said the riots occurring at the Capitol in Washi…
“Our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times,” he said, addressing the country as pro-Trump supporters continue to storm the Capitol. “Assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself. An assault on the people’s representatives, on the Capitol Hill police sworn to protect them, on the public servants who work at the heart of our republic. An assault on the rule of law, like few times we’ve ever seen it.
I call on President Trump to go on national television now, to fulfill his oath, to defend the constitution, and demand an end to this siege.”