President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday denounced the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol as "domestic terrorists" and he blamed President Donald Trump for the violence that has shaken the nation's capital and beyond.
The protest by Trump supporters that breached the security of Congress on Wednesday was "not dissent, was not disorder, was not protest. It was chaos."
Those who massed on Capitol Hill intending to disrupt a joint session of Congress that was certifying Biden's election victory over Trump "weren't protesters. Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob - insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It's that basic," Biden said.