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January 7, 2021

During Wednesday’s Election College voting, members of Congress including Northland Representative Elise Stefanik were evacuated from the House of Representatives. This was supported by a mob of rioting Donald Trump and flooded into the Capitol to protest Joe Biden’s defeat of Te The election of Lampe.

She said in an email at 3:10 pm that Stefanik and her staff were safe, and she also condemned the mob's behavior.

She wrote: "But any form of violence is absolutely unacceptable and anti-American. We pray that all colleagues on both sides of the aisle, their staff, and all Americans are safe.

Stefanik continued.

Stefanik plans to oppose voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan on the grounds that these states are suspected of election violations, including law changes and voter fraud. However, due to the violence, the Congress is still in adjournment as of 6:30 pm. Once the building is deemed safe, it plans to return to the meeting. If they meet again, legislators are likely to meet all night.

Representative Elise Stefanik delivered a speech for the Republican National Convention outside the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC on the evening of August 26 (video screenshot)

Stefanik subsequently wrote in a tweet.

Stefanik said in a later statement,

Stefanick did not answer a question asking whether she thought the incident was Trump's fault.

Break in

There were hundreds of people outside, and Trump-supporting mobs forced them into the Capitol, toppled police, trampled on roadblocks, and broke windows to enter the building.

Not long ago, many people attended a rally. Trump urged them to march into the Capitol and said:

They broke into the Senate.

Security forces in the Chamber of Deputies fired at the protesters, who broke glass on the barricade door.

According to reports, lawmakers were told to wear gas masks because of reports of tear gas proliferation.

Some thugs wore helmets, held clubs and backpacks.

They sprayed fire extinguishers, covered the stairwell with heavy smoke, and then shouted loudly,

They climbed onto the scaffolding and hit the window. They waved the flag of Trump, the flag of the United States and the flag of the alliance.

Some people ransacked the Capitol, stole objects the size of a podium, searched on the table and took photos of members’ computers.

One was photographed sitting in the office chair of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with her feet on the table.

Outside, Trump supporters chanted,

What Trump often said is-they stepped on the equipment of the TV crew.

A woman in the Capitol was shot in the neck during the battle. She was lifted up and bleeding on the stretcher. She later died in the hospital.

A noose and scaffolding were erected near the Capitol on the other side of the reflecting pool.

The Congressional Police have no effective role in stopping violations of the Congress Chamber and are seriously underrepresented.

Consultant's suspicion

Alex DeGrasse, a senior adviser to Stefanik, tweeted several tweets, claiming that Antifa protesters (disguised as Trump supporters) had violated the building. He later withdrew and cancelled some of these forwardings.

A deleted retweet mistook the tattoos on the protesters' hands for hammer and sickle tattoos. It is actually a symbol in the video game "Shame"

Another tweet depicts a man with tattoos and is accompanied by an image of him standing next to a neo-Nazi and 2017 organizer

Matthew Heimbach’s rally, falsely identifying both as

DeGrasse's comment on this photo is

Stefanik's office did not respond to a request for comment on DeGrasse's forwarding. If she thought it was Trump's supporter or Antifa broke into the Capitol, she did not respond to a request for comment.

DeGrasse changed his messaging later in the day, calling the incident

And said a photo of a man in the building with the Union flag

Local reaction

Responses to corporate news on Facebook have been mixed.

Stuart Nichols wrote.

Michael Kovastacch wrote.

Jennifer Zahn (Jennifer Zahn) wrote.

Linda Vaillancourt Yaworski wrote on Facebook.

State Senators Dan Stec, R-Queensbury and Congressman Billy Jones (D-Chateaugay Lake) attended the afternoon press conference in Albany on the first day of the legislative session.

Stec wrote Enterprise in the text.

Jones said the actions of the demonstrators were

Sad, shameful and pathetic. "

Jones said. "It is a shameful day for our democracy.

Jones said.

Jones continued.

When asked how people compare the incident with the "Black Life Issues" protests earlier this year, Jones said that he believes that robbery and violence are wrong under any circumstances.

He said.

Trump's response

Trump posted a video telling people to go home, but in it he also said that his supporters were there because the election was

Trump said in a video message posted to his Twitter account.

Trump tweeted at 3:13pm,

He gave a speech in Oval Park a few miles from Capitol Hill as early as three hours ago. He said he would

election.

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