1:10 p.m. ET January 6, 2021
As he ends rally, Trump calls for supporters to 'walk down Pennsylvania Avenue'
While Congress begins the process of affirming President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win, President Donald Trump encourages his supporters to protest at the US Capitol.
Despite promising he would join them, Trump retreated to the White House in his SUV and watched on television as the violence unfolded on Capitol Hill.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong,” he said at his rally on the Ellipse.
As he was concluding, Trump again claimed he would join his supporters as they marched to the Capitol. "We’ll walk down Pennsylvania Avenue,” he said.
2:24 p.m. ET
Trump criticizes Mike Pence as rioters breach Capitol
Trump calls out his vice president on Twitter, as rioters breach the Capitol and before Pence could be safely evacuated. Some of the pro-Trump rioters are heard screaming "Where's Mike Pence” and chanting "Hang Mike Pence" — upset that he is performing his constitutional duty to certify the election results.
In a tweet that is no longer available because Twitter suspended his account, Trump writes:
"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"
Order descended into chaos January 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill. As a joint session of the newly sworn in 117th Congress began to count the 2020 electoral votes, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Several chaotic hours of lockdown ensued, leaving five people dead.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/01/politics/us-capitol-siege/